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Chase is offering a limited-time 20% bonus when transferring Ultimate Rewards to Flying Blue (Air France/KLM). With the bonus, the transfer rate is 1 point – 1.2 Flying Blue Miles.
The one downfall of Flying Blue is that there are often substantial surcharges, especially with business class awards, but reasonable-ish miles pricing and a 20% bonus will certainly help a bit with the sting.
The Deal
- Chase Ultimate Rewards is offering a 20% transfer bonus when you transfer points to Air France / KLM Flying Blue.
Key Terms
- Ends 9/30/25
Minimum transfer is 1,000 Ultimate Rewards points. - Bonus Miles will be awarded by Flying Blue in your Flying Blue account when your transfer is complete.
Quick Thoughts
This bonus could be useful if you want to take advantage of some Flying Blue awards. Even when the cheapest pricing isn’t available, Flying Blue still often has reasonably priced awards available for just a bit more — and with a transfer bonus, you’d be paying less than sticker price.
Flying Blue partners with all of the major transferable currencies, so it’s very easy to put together enough miles for an award ticket. I’ll personally sit this one out, since I don’t need an award booking right now and I won’t speculatively transfer. However, if you do have your eyes on a flight through Flying Blue, this transfer bonus could be attractive.
Best Uses for Flying Blue Miles
- Air France Flying Blue Promo Rewards. Each month, Air France offers discounted award rates for a number of routes. Sometimes we see economy flights from the US to Europe available for less than 11,000 miles one-way.
- Fly to Israel for the same award price as to Europe. For example, you may see business class flights from the U.S. to Tel Aviv for as low as 60,000 miles one-way.
- Delta economy flights between the US and Hawaii for 17,500 miles one-way. Air France also has great award prices for Delta first class to Hawaii, but Delta rarely releases first class award space on its Hawaii routes.
Things to Know
- Air France awards usually incur taxes and fees.
- Award availability can be hard to find. Acquire Flying Blue miles only if you know that the awards you want are available.
- Flying Blue miles expire 2 years after they are earned. Keeping miles alive beyond two years is… weird:
- As long as you don’t credit any flying activity to your account, you can renew your miles by acquiring more miles through non-flight activity. For example, transferring miles from a transferable points program will renew these miles.
- If you earn miles by crediting flight activity to your account, then all of your miles become flight activity miles and can only be extended by taking an eligible flight (and crediting it to Flying Blue), or by being an elite member, or making a purchase with your Air France / KLM Flying Blue credit card.
- For more details, see: Air France’s Flying Blue miles are easier to extend than I thought
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I transferred 200k yesterday and it went through within about an hour. However the bonus points have not posted yet and it’s been over 24 hours.
Has anyone tried recently a Chase transfer to an established Flying Blue account that fails after being initiated online? Mine failed two times although i had done this many times each year between the same accounts. Had to call chase to initiate the transfer over the phone, the UR points were deducted and it shows as Pending but it never completed and according to Chase terms it could take up to 7 days to complete. It has always been instantaneous for me so far without any issues until yesterday. Looking for more DPs.
Same thing happened to me! I transferred online and it failed the first time, so I called Chase to initiate the transfer. The points were deducted but didn’t show up in my Flying Blue account. After 24 hours I got an email from Chase saying my point transfer failed again, and the points were back to my account. I transferred to Flying Blue many times before and they were instant, not sure what happened this time. Were you able to transfer your points? I’m not sure if I should call Chase or Flying Blue at this point.
Yes, I’ve been trying to transfer from Chase to Air France multiple times in the last three days and it failing every time. Online transfers and over the phone with an agent. Last transfer initiated more that 24h ago and still pending but it will probably fail too later on (since it’s a weekend now). I have done this transfer multiple times before and it has always been completed withing seconds. I have spoken and escalated on both Chase and AF ends but still no resolution. Of course Chase claims that per their terms it can take up to 7 business days to complete but this is just BS excuse. I feel like they screwed up something on their IT side with all the recent changes. My name and flyer number is the same on both ends and has always been. It is very frustrating, since we collect all these points for a specific redemption, and when the time comes – you cannot use them?!?
omg same! I tried it the 3rd time. Tried it on 9/11 failed instantly – got the email that they couldn’t be processed. Tried it again right then through a chase agent – went into pending and just got an email that they failed again. Just did it again myself and that went into pending again!! Glad I am not the only one but this sucks!
Same here! All my 3 attempts to transfer UR points to FB since 9/11 failed with the same email – “your point transfer request couldn’t be processed”. Looks like a wide-spread issue, and I have a little hope they fix it before my Air France award booking hold expires…
There might be some miles amount threshold that triggers the transfer cancellations. I was able to transfer a small amount (15k) to AF last night from my wife’s account and it completed immediately as normal. 12 hours later I’m trying a second much bigger transfer (> 150k) and it went into pending – most probably will fail later again. It looks like a Chase problem to me, although they are not willing to do anything before 7 days expire (which is BS) and point fingers at Flying Blue.
Could be. My transfers were 200K and 100K, have not tried smaller amounts…
We need more DPs on smaller amounts. Then of course, if you try several transfers in a row it risks getting flagged for fraud automatically….
I’m in the same boat. Instant cancellation and refund twice from the app. I hop on the desktop and did a bigger transfer (500k) and it’s still pending (day 4 and counting)
Same! Two failed transfers in recent days. Each took two days for Chase to officially deny it with email and points redepositing. Was a little over 200k. Chase-FB linkage is not new, names match, etc… I moved small amounts to my FB account from other currencies just fine to test that out when Chase failed.
I’m not seeing an end date?
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