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Intro to Flying Blue Promo Rewards
While their scope is limited, Flying Blue Promo Rewards offer an opportunity to seriously save.
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One of the best perks of being a member of Flying Blue, the loyalty program for Air France and KLM, is its regularly published list of Flying Blue Promo Rewards. These Promo Rewards can slash as much as 50% off the regular award ticket prices. They often include both business and economy class and cover various regions, including flights to and from the U.S. and around Europe.
Example Flying Blue Promo Rewards
Here are some examples of the more commonly offered Flying Blue Promo Rewards:
Save 25% on Air France economy class award tickets between Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver and Mexico City to Europe.
Similarly, economy class award tickets on KLM are available for a 25% discount on flights between Europe and Austin, Mexico City and Salt Lake City.
Often, these Rewards stipulate departure and destination airports and are time bound. Typically, you have roughly six months from the date of the promo to actually book and take your flight.
One of the user-friendly benefits of Flying Blue Promo Rewards is that you can book them as one-way tickets. This means it could be easier for you to travel from one city and come back to another, which can be helpful when planning award travel or looking for cheap fares.
This is particularly helpful if you need to reposition from another cheap fare or award ticket you found to Europe. If one of these Promo Rewards syncs up with another affordable ticket, perhaps it will help you complete the puzzle of an award trip you're trying to plan.
You can also consider flying a low-cost airline to get to one of the Promo Rewards departure points, if that can help you travel more affordably within Europe.
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This means that even if you don’t fly Air France or KLM often, you can still boost your balance if you have other rewards points in your travel wallet.
If you choose to transfer Marriott points to Flying Blue, you’ll receive an added bonus. Typically, its points transfer to Flying Blue at a 3:1 ratio, which means for every 3,000 Bonvoy points, you’ll get 1,000 Flying Blue miles. But for every 60,000 points you transfer, Marriott Bonvoy will add a 5,000-mile bonus.
The regularly updated selection of eligible routes for Flying Blue Promo Rewards can help you save miles when flying on Air France or KLM. While the reduced award tickets are available only within a set promotional period, on limited dates and to certain destinations, they can certainly be useful if you plan to visit one of these cities.
This discount program provides a great way to save miles on an upcoming award trip, especially since you can transfer points from another program to fill your Flying Blue balance.
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