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Old Apr 26, 2013, 6:01 am
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Freddie Awards for UE/Africa [merged]
Results from the Freddie awards are out and it seems that for Europe, Flying Blue was voted the Airline of the Year award in Europe.. what happened here?http://freddieawards.com/

Also Airline Best Elite program in Europe!

Did all other programs suddenly vanish from Europe during the voting session.. or were the voters all high on weed sponsored by AF-KLM
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Old Apr 26, 2013, 7:05 am
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Flying Blue is not an airline; FB is the IATA code for Bulgaria Air. So Bulgaria Air won airline of the year? Sounds far more plausible!!!
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Old Apr 26, 2013, 9:57 am
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Maybe it should be Bulgaria Air (I've only flown once with them, but it was very pleasant), but Flying Blue actually won the airline program of the year and the elite program of the year. If you read the short summary, they praise the extra award availability for elites... Yeah, right. About time to do so.
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Old Apr 26, 2013, 10:10 am
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What a stupid joke. If they are into second (or is it twenty-seventh?) degree humour, maybe they should also vote Ryanair best luxury airline of the year
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Old Apr 27, 2013, 6:00 am
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I think the problem about the Freddies is that you are rather forced into voting 2nd choices(if i recall correctly) and can't abstain .Therefore by default of sheer size AF-KL is bound to do well whereas the smaller more niche(invariably better) airlines come a cropper .
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Old Apr 29, 2013, 1:59 am
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I cant' be agree with what all of you says, not only I think FB did great effort in 2012 but thanks to their new rule (to be able to roll over you extra level miles) I could maintain as Platinum member...from my point od view this is huge and very customer friendly !
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Old May 6, 2013, 7:33 am
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Freddie Awards for UE/Africa
View on the Freddie's website :
http://freddieawards.com/winners.php

Best Customer Service — SAS - EuroBonus
Best Earning Promotion — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Best Elite Level — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Best Redemption Ability — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Program of the Year — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
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Best Affinity Credit Card — Flying Blue American Express
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Old May 6, 2013, 8:06 am
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Originally Posted by NickoSnow
View on the Freddie's website :
http://freddieawards.com/winners.php

Best Customer Service — SAS - EuroBonus
Best Earning Promotion — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Best Elite Level — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Best Redemption Ability — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Program of the Year — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
…
Best Affinity Credit Card — Flying Blue American Express
Guess that'll make us a bunch of whiners in the eyes of FB management...

Btw, you mention UE (Union Européenne I guess?). This is a bit limmiting, I think the award results apply to the whole of Europe including non EU countries.
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Old May 6, 2013, 8:50 am
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Guess that'll make us a bunch of whiners in the eyes of FB management...
Is there another Flying Blue program that I am (we are) not aware of?
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Old May 10, 2013, 9:44 pm
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Originally Posted by NickoSnow
View on the Freddie's website :
http://freddieawards.com/winners.php

Best Customer Service — SAS - EuroBonus
Best Earning Promotion — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Best Elite Level — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Best Redemption Ability — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
Program of the Year — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
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Best Affinity Credit Card — Flying Blue American Express
I agree for (not earning but redeeming) promotions (Promo Awards)
I mostly agree for redemption ability.

I do not agree for best affinity credit card (poor value for the price), and definitely don't agree for best elite level (Platinum means not much with FB).

Le Club offers great customer service, but FB line is just terrible.
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Old May 11, 2013, 1:47 am
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Originally Posted by NickoSnow
Best Elite Level — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
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Program of the Year — Air France/KLM - Flying Blue
These have to be the most absurd and least funny jokes of the year. Best elite level FB????????????????????? Wow!
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Old Sep 9, 2013, 3:45 am
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FB earned 5 Freddie awards ?
Just noticed this article yesterday in this month's Air France Magazine

FB has earned 5 Freddie awards in April

it's funny because when i read FFP blogs, FB is far from being considered as the best program....



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Old Oct 12, 2013, 4:21 pm
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does anyone know the dates of the Freddie Award Ceremony in 2014 - I believe it is going to be in Seattle in March or April? What dates and where?
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Old Oct 13, 2013, 5:06 am
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Originally Posted by topenga47
does anyone know the dates of the Freddie Award Ceremony in 2014 - I believe it is going to be in Seattle in March or April? What dates and where?
It is STRICTLY forbidden to throw rotten tomatoes at undeserving award winners!
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