r/flyingblue

I have to go to New York twice in the span of 2 weeks but just for one night from Paris.

Booking a one night round-trip is extremely expensive, but a 7 days stay is much cheaper (like half price almost).

I know this practice is forbidden by Air France’s ToS but do they really enforce the fines? Did anyone get caught doing that?

The idea is to buy two round trips that intersect. For example I want to be at New York the 1st and the 10th:
- I buy a round trip PAR-NYC 1st to 11th
- Instead of staying in New York, I buy another NYC-PAR round-trip from 2nd to 10th.

This way it’s like I spent a week in New York, but in reality it’s spent in Paris.

So I'm leaving my job and have one last business trip coming up, Europe to Kuala Lumpur, business class paid by the company.

I'm currently Flying Blue Silver. If I fly KLM via AMS I'll hit Gold (with a total of 36k miles) for sure. The other option is Cathay via Hong Kong. I've already flown business on Singapore, Thai and Swiss, so it's not like I'm new to this. Cathay is always ranked among the best business classes out there and I wonder if it really lives up to that.

The catch: after this I'll be flying maybe one long haul a year, privately. Next year I want to do a bigger trip with my girlfriend (US or Asia, not decided yet), most likely in economy. With Gold I could bring her into the lounges, but we'd have to stick to SkyTeam for that trip. And realistically I won't keep Gold after that. So it basically comes down to: ticking Cathay off the list vs. roughly one year of Gold that mostly pays off on one trip for the two of us.

What would you do? And for those who've flown both, how does CX business compare to KLM? Is it worth it over KLM World Business Class?

Asking if there's an issue with contacting support for Flying Blue. I submitted a question via Whatsapp 72 hours ago and have only had AI responses saying my question is in a queue.

I've called several times using voice and receive the same message. Am I doing something wrong? I'm using the number from the website. (1 800 375-8723).

My issue is a login problem so I can't login to make a support request.