I find staff on air France, formal, not overly friendly, and french. kLM staff seem relaxed, interactive, and easy-going. But I fly air France too much because they go were I tend to go.
Do others agree ?
Has anyone else noticed that Air India award availability is showing up on Aeroplan, but the same flights are not showing up through LifeMiles?
I actually called LifeMiles customer service and gave them my exact travel dates. They checked and told me there was no award inventory available.
However, when I mentioned that the same Air India flights were showing award availability on Aeroplan, they weren’t able to provide any explanation. They basically just confirmed that they couldn’t see any inventory on their end.
This makes me wonder if there is some issue with LifeMiles’ access/display of Air India inventory, or if Air India is releasing different inventory to Aeroplan vs. LifeMiles.
I’m also not sure the LifeMiles call center agents are fully aware of the issue, since they didn’t seem to have any concrete information beyond saying that they couldn’t see availability.
Has anyone here successfully booked Air India award tickets through LifeMiles recently? Or has anyone noticed the same discrepancy between Aeroplan and LifeMiles?
Would love to hear from anyone who understands how Air India award inventory is being distributed between the two programs.
I fly regularly from AMS to LCY. Normally, I get 10XP for the whole trip. Recently, I noticed that I only collect 4XP (2+2) instead of the regular 10XP (5+5).
Does anyone know what happened? Did they change any rules?
What's strange is that I was recently upgraded to Platinum, so this is the only change on my side.
KLM made some changes recently, I do not see the option to buy SAF credits in order to get XP. Did they remove that option?
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I know the website has always been a mess, but I'm currently dealing with something ridiculous. I'm trying to manage a booking and the modify button redirects me to the Amadeus website. There's no way to actually modify anything there and even the back button just sends me through the same loop and the upgrade page is also crashing when I try to use it.
What makes this particularly frustrating is that these aren't things you can just try again next week. Prices change constantly so if the website doesn't work when you need it, you can literally lose an option or end up paying hundreds more.
Trying to decide between these two options for JFK → ATH:
Option 1: 225K Delta SkyMiles + $120
✈️ Nonstop JFK → ATH
Option 2: 130K Flying Blue miles + $748
✈️ JFK → AMS → ATH, with a brief stopover in AMS
The Flying Blue option saves 95K miles, but costs an additional $628 cash and adds a connection.
Which would you choose, and why? Is saving the 95K miles worth the extra cash and longer journey, or would you take the nonstop Delta flight?
Already re-qualified for Gold and have time until October 31st to reach Platinum. With my upcoming round trips NUE-AMS-JFK and FRA-PVG-TAO, i'll reach 281XP. I will absolutely not buy SAF, since those are work trips and i don't see why i would spend my own money on this. I could either donate miles (i'm sitting on around 300k) or squeeze in a NUE-AMS-BLQ trip (instead of driving 10 hours to Italy) at the end of october which would give me 28XP.
I flew a bit more than usual during the recent months, so qualifying for Platinum again in the future is uncertain and lifetime status probably unrealistic. Except early access to the preferred eco seats, i don't really see another benefit compared to Gold. The second bag and lounge access are important for me, seat selection 72h before departure is usually fine.
So tell me people, are there any valid reasons i should still go for platinum?
Or should i rather just enjoy the 81XP roll over which will make reaching Gold again super easy?
Edit: Getting upgraded for free easier might be one benefit that just came to my mind.
I'm currently Gold, and I have until November to requalify for it. I will need to buy SAF to reach Gold, but I'm considering not requalifying and carrying over the extra XP to make it easier next year. I also don't plan to travel much with AF/KL next year (I only have one trip planned, in Business), so I won't really benefit from Gold.
The point is that I have 2 intercontinental flights in December in Business (75 XP) that will make me requalify for Silver in a month (including the carried over XP). Will this reset my requalification period? That is, instead of remaining Dec 2026 - Nov 2027, will it become Jan - Dec 2027, since I will have already requalified for Silver in December?
The impact is that next year I won't be able to requalify for Gold without the 75 XP, while if the requalification period stays the same, I will be able to requalify for Gold even if I don't fly much (ie reach Silver/100+ by December 2026 and then have until November 2027 to reach 180).
Thanks
When I search on Google, it says that Business Class flights include this service, but I've also found information to the contrary
Fly Now, Pay Later suddenly unavailable on Dutch Flying Blue Gold Card?
Has anyone else experienced this recently?
I have an American Express Flying Blue Gold Card in the Netherlands, and I used to have the option to split eligible transactions through Fly Now, Pay Later. However, the option has suddenly disappeared.
When I try to use it, I get the following message:
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As far as I know, there haven't been any issues with the account or payments, and all statements have been paid on time.
Has anyone with a Dutch Flying Blue Gold Card experienced the same thing? I’m wondering whether this is a temporary issue, a change in eligibility, or something else.
Just looking to understand whether this is an individual issue or something others are experiencing as well.
Does anyone know what happens to the UXP and XP overdraft in my case? I was hoping it’d actually get renewed whet I hit 900 UXP but I guess I need to wait until the end of September
am I the only one that observes the trend of booking classes on asian airlines not earning miles with flying blue? some examples:
I booked some flights with Vietnam Airlines recently within asia. all are connections through either Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh. After booking I found out I got in booking class T. As this booking class isn''t mentioned in the earning scheme I guess I wont get XP nor miles for those flights
earning scheme from flying blue => https://www.flyingblue.com/en/earn/partners/airline-vietnam-airlines
the thing about all this is: during the booking process there is no single indication in which booking class your ticket is gonna be issued. it says the ticket wont earn many miles on their own frequent flyer programm (10%/25%) but there is no hint about the booking class nor that it could not earn miles on others frequent flyer programs.
now I'm looking for flights with Xiamen Airlines. Here at least it says booking class S (see screenshot). But again - even this is not a super saver price this class seems not to earn any miles or XP AND the only option to fly on a class mentioned in the earning scheme is a business class flight which costs 7x the price of eco
also here the earning scheme from flying blue website => https://www.flyingblue.com/de/earn/partners/airline-xiamen-airlines?country=DE
so my questions:
- do you guys experience the same lately and has anyone flown on these airlines in eco recently? did you earn xp/miles?
- or is it just the flyingblue website that is outdated and not updated with new booking classes?
Booked award tickets operated by China Airlines. Found the number on JetBlue website but cannot find matching ticket on China Airlines website given last and first names. Anyone had similar issues?