Flying Blue (Air France & KLM) - Double your Award AND Level Miles for the rest of the year

I have just had the following email: Is it targetted?

Flying Blue wants to help you stay Platinum in 2010. So here is a special boost to make it easier.
2 times easier
Flying Blue offers you DOUBLE the Miles (both Level Miles and
Award Miles) for all your flights* taken with AIR FRANCE, KLM or any SkyTeam partner airline between 15 October and 31 December 2009.
If you reach the Platinum threshold by 31 of December then you will enjoy all the benefits and exclusive services for another year.
So get flying now!
Yours sincerely,

Herbert Verschuren
Director Flying Blue

I have not received it, so I guess it is targeted. Lucky you ^

Haven't received it - but I already requalified and have pretty much left KLM since I did.

Too bad Mr Verschuren didn't specify 'all the benefits and exclusive services' they will provide.

Would this be a sign that too many of us have moved away from KL and that they are trying to get us to fly KL again?

How close are you to requalifying for Plat?

Haven't received it - but I already requalified and have pretty much left KLM since I did.

Too bad Mr Verschuren didn't specify 'all the benefits and exclusive services' they will provide.

Would this be a sign that too many of us have moved away from KL and that they are trying to get us to fly KL again?

How close are you to requalifying for Plat?

8000 short but I have a return booked in C in November LHR to Mauritius....then Im Plat for Life

to be logical with their new policy, it should be targeted to people who are PT since 4,5,6 years, so they can hope to get one year more and getting fly all the next years until they will reach ten. So some stars in the darkness to let them find the right way :) I don't think FB PT members who are in the 9th year will get it ! we bet ?

Obviously that is targeted.

they have not targeted me at 8 years plat ...

Lufthansa is also doing it at the moment, only they are offering it to all in stead of targetting people.

I never got the email but I got the bonus level miles for my last flight.

I have just had the following email: Is it targetted?

Flying Blue wants to help you stay Platinum in 2010. So here is a special boost to make it easier.
2 times easier
Flying Blue offers you DOUBLE the Miles (both Level Miles and
Award Miles) for all your flights* taken with AIR FRANCE, KLM or any SkyTeam partner airline between 15 October and 31 December 2009.
If you reach the Platinum threshold by 31 of December then you will enjoy all the benefits and exclusive services for another year.
So get flying now!
Yours sincerely,

Herbert Verschuren
Director Flying Blue

can you forward the link to see if we can try and take advantage of this offer!

I would appreciate a link as well, I too am in danger of losing the level.

Thank you

8000 short but I have a return booked in C in November LHR to Mauritius....then Im Plat for Life

Thanks for the post Simonsmith.

I wonder the logic of FB: Mr Simonsmith is 8000 miles of reaching Plat and he gets the bonus offer and I am 67.000 miles short of reaching it, and I do not get it.
My idea was to abandon all toghether FB but with such an offer I would probably switch 2 long-hauls from *A to Skyteam, but if this will get me nowhere, I will fly *A where I may get the odd op-up.

Hi All,

I didn't received the email but I've got the bonus on my account !

I also have 5500 miles instead of 3500 for a regular internal flight on the booking system, just try to book a flight and check the earning miles amount on the fare page. I can confirm they double level and award miles but not the special elite bonus.

I started to flight again with AF in June after a 1 year break, from plat to silver :( but in only 4 months I was back in the Gold arena :p and Plat in 6 months !

It clearly means that they want to keep the same number of people in each level, meaning also that the advantages of being plat will continue to decrease from time to time :td: shame, shame....


Tonin,

Received the offer also, with 87 000 status miles so far. Can't really see the point of it, if it's targetted and not just a delay in their mailing system... I also stopped flying them some time ago.

I just received the same email this morning.

FB wants me to stay Gold in 2010. So I'll get double the award and status miles by flying any ST partner from 15th Oct to 31st Dec.

I should have requalified for Gold in the meantime anyway, but the miles don't show on my account yet.

It might (just MIGHT) be an incentive for me to go Platinum for next year. Not really sure it would make any difference though...

I just received the email, there's indeed a slight delay as they said they will help me to reach the gold level but I'm already gold :confused: anyway, a least it's a good news

I am on Ivory status and I was send a similar email:

Flying Blue offers you DOUBLE the Miles (both Level Miles and
Award Miles) for all your flights* taken with AIR FRANCE, KLM or any SkyTeam partner airline between 15 October and 31 December 2009.

As soon as you reach the required number of Level Miles to be Silver, you will be upgraded to Silver status, and can enjoy all the benefits and exclusive services it gives you

But I am not flying KLM etc again this year until March 2010. If I had know about the Double Miles earlier I might have considered booking my November trip to Manila with them but then again I doubt it because I am flying Business Class with Singapore Airlines on the A380 from London and there is no way I am going to miss that not even if they offered 100,000 miles for i flight.

There is no link; you don't have to register

Can somebody confirm if it's targeted or not? I might do a run if it isn't ...

IMHO it's not targeted, follow the booking process on the website and check the earning miles proposal, will show you clearly if you've got the bonus or not, it is not stated that there's a bonus but the amount must be different than usual. For example, a full fare for an internal french flight when you're gold is 2000 status + 1500 elite bonus= 3500, currently 4000 status + 1500 elite bonus=5500. The web site will show you only the total.

Hope it helps,

Tonin

If I follow your reasoning, that should be targeted because when I try to make dummy bookings with Plat, Silver or Ivory accounts, I never manage to get 5500. The maximum I have is 4000 for a r/t, which are 2000 level miles + 2000 award miles for Plat.

That is an interesting information Bodory ! Sounds like it's targeted indeed :td:
As a plat member you should have 6000 miles for a TLS-ORY.

Are you based in France ? There're perhaps special rules depending on the country... (I don't really think so)

If it's targeted, and it sounds like it is, I'm wondering what the trigger is.

Anyway, I'm happy to see my balance growing so quickly without having to hunt miles to reach plat level this year. Should be ok end of november, in only 5 months, from far my new record :)

Tonin

On the AF French site the miles are automatically doubled under "miles earned" even when not signed in. However, this is no proof that you will actually get double miles since the site is so unreliable. Have a flight in C coming up next weekend which would bump me up to Plat if I get double miles. Maybe it just means they'll devalue the award chart even more next year:rolleyes:

Are you based in France ?
Yes. What about you?
There're perhaps special rules depending on the country... (I don't really think so)

You may really think so. FB is known for their targeted promotions, specially in Germany and UK.

France (and Monaco) is also known to be out of these targeted offers.

However, FB has just sent a targeted promotion to France + Monaco members allowing to double their award (award only) miles between CDG and JFK on the new Premium Voyageur by the end of year IIRC.

On the AF site the miles are automatically doubled under "miles earned" even when not signed in.

When not signed in, I have 2000 miles for a r/t ticket ORY-BOD in Y (full fare)

Which AF website do you use?

Also, where is your FB account register?

[QUOTE=bodory;12688883]Yes. What about you?

Yes I am based in FR

I use the french web site (AF) and I'm logged in.

I'm based in the UK and received an offer to help me get to Platinum (I'm currently Gold)...

based in Shanghai : no way to see any double miles apearing when I click on "calculate". And I tried many countries, with and without profile. So it's really targeted;

I would not be surprised if the Life Time Plats are excluded of this mailing ;)

it's looks like the same than last year. Booking flights between France and China, double bonus miles apeared at the end. I believed firstly in some bug, but after several tries it seemed true. I got them. It was during july and august, during the olympic games time. AND I got the email : 4 days before the END of the promotion ... end of august. Is that not GREAT ?

Got it even though I am already re-qualified for Platinum already this year..:rolleyes:

This sounds amazing; the purpose of such promotion is to induce members tofly more to take advantage of the promotion. if everyone gets it without knowing what is the motivation for afkl;
Anyway, I could not see the doubling of miles when booking tickets on both the France and Hong Kong site.

This indeed seems to be targeted.

Ive had 7 flights on Skyteam since 15th Oct, 5 already credited to flying blue - and none have a special bonus over the usual class of service and the 100% elite bonus miles.

Ive been gold or platinum with AF for four years now - and never targeted for a promo. Prior to AF, I was Gold or Platinum with Delta for four years, and constantly targeted with promotions.

Since Ive made Plat already this year, perhaps its time to switch over to Lufhansa, so next year they will give me a targeted email.

Don't know whether is targeted but I got the same email to help me stay Silver (damn company cut-backs).

I apparently am targeted....already have 62K EQM.

I apparently am targeted....already have 62K EQM.

well, then go for Plat again ;) how much longer to LT PE do you have? I moved over to NW/DL this year (while it was still possible). Double on 50% NW is still giving 100% ;)

Do the bonus points post when the flights are credited or at the end of the campaign?

All seven of my flights since Oct 15th have now posted, with no additional bonus credits.

I would not be surprised if the Life Time Plats are excluded of this mailing ;)Nor would I! In any case, I certainly didn't get it.

Johan

I didn't get it either and I would love to be targetted for this since that would most likely get me requalified for Plat without any extra effort.

this really shows how efficient is there marketing group. they are excellent at promoting new features and make you beleave they are improvements when it is obvious they are not.
On the other hand here they do create a special offer to try to catch a bit more pax by the end of the year and at the end they are not even capable to diffuse properly the message;
Result is that people will discover the extra bonus after the fact without even knowing why????

Personnaly I didn't receied any mail or letter to inform me and my last trip did show this extra bonus (nice surpise though it transformed a domestic Q fare with 250 miles into a somehow regulr milage earning)
I am plat 7 years not yet requalified this year, not based in France and when I try to do a dummy booking on my profile I do get the extra bonus to show up

Hi all,

For Typhoon:

The bonus is shown on the balance as "BONUS CAMPAIGN 2009", credited with the flight so if your balance doesn't show the bonus for a flight after the 15th it sounds like you're not targeted :(

Do you think they target by region or country ? Or is it based on FF profile ? A mix of both ?

Tonin

for me it show "EXTRA BONUS 2009"

didn't get the offer and when I look to book a ticket (and am logged in) expected miles don't show anything 'special' (i.e. nothing above the rubbish 25% of nothing rounded down to the lowest possible figure! ;) ) So it seems targeted indeed, which is a shame both for those of us who are not targeted and for FB's PR...

I guess it also seems to confirm the philosophy of AF and KL: 'the less you'll fly with us, the more we'll love you!' :)

And perhaps the reverse...

The less you fly with us, the happier you will be.

didn't get the offer and when I look to book a ticket (and am logged in) expected miles don't show anything 'special' (i.e. nothing above the rubbish 25% of nothing rounded down to the lowest possible figure! ;) ) So it seems targeted indeed, which is a shame both for those of us who are not targeted and for FB's PR...

I guess it also seems to confirm the philosophy of AF and KL: 'the less you'll fly with us, the more we'll love you!' :)

Same here... I haven't received the email and the flights I've taken this week appeared with the regular mileage + the Plat "bonus". I'm 4 flights or 15.000 miles short of Plat this year - but I'll get it with another roundtrip (ie, with segments).

Nice if they would give the plats for life some extra bonus for actually still flying KL AF :)

Nice if they would give the plats for life some extra bonus for actually still flying KL AF :)

No, they want their Plats for life to fly with LH and LX.

this is accurately true. :-:

I did not receive any mail but I was hoping to be targeted after only accumulating 2400 level miles up to the 15th/Oct.
I even thought to switch some coming trips in TATL Biz from *A to Skyteam, to renew Plat.
Today I logged in my FB account and the last 6 flights in Skyteam have yielded 0 points, :td:, so 2*0 = 0. :mad:
FB is hopeless, no need to bother any more.

I did not receive any mail but I was hoping to be targeted after only accumulating 2400 level miles up to the 15th/Oct.
I even thought to switch some coming trips in TATL Biz from *A to Skyteam, to renew Plat.
Today I logged in my FB account and the last 6 flights in Skyteam have yielded 0 points, :td:, so 2*0 = 0. :mad:
FB is hopeless, no need to bother any more.

Earnest question: why do you want to earn Plat if you only fly so little on SkyTeam anyway?! Maybe you should stick to *A. It seems to be a better option for most people, anyway, no?

Earnest question: why do you want to earn Plat if you only fly so little on SkyTeam anyway?! Maybe you should stick to *A. It seems to be a better option for most people, anyway, no?

Thanks for your post nomad1974.

This year I flew 4 times with Skyteam TATL F/Biz burning miles, and aprox 200.000 status miles with *A.
The ideal for me is to keep the status in both alliances but after the 1st/April changes my idea was to drop completely Skyteam.
With the offer mentioned in this Thread I considered to try to renew Plat, but I am afraid it will not be posible if most of my short hauls are 0 miles.

Regards,

I received the email as well and I'm currently Silver based in NL and a bit short to renew status for next year. I have currently 21966 miles and 11 flights. So short of 4 flights and 3034 miles.

I'm thinking of taking a few short hop flights AMS-CDG (which I did this week end already), as due to this year policy my flights to JFK or MNL got me an absolutely ridiculous amount of miles compared to last year. (and less expensive fares). Next year will likely be extremely difficult.

Thanks for your post nomad1974.

This year I flew 4 times with Skyteam TATL F/Biz burning miles, and aprox 200.000 status miles with *A.
The ideal for me is to keep the status in both alliances but after the 1st/April changes my idea was to drop completely Skyteam.
With the offer mentioned in this Thread I considered to try to renew Plat, but I am afraid it will not be posible if most of my short hauls are 0 miles.

Regards,

You're welcome. I was just trying to say that since you only have 2400 Level miles this year, even with the double miles promo you would still need to earn another 33800 in order to reach Platinum for 2010 (assuming your account is outside of France). That's a tall order for 2 months, so you should really think whether it makes sense.

even with the double miles promo you would still need to earn another 33800 in order to reach Platinum for 2010 (assuming your account is outside of France). That's a tall order for 2 months, so you should really think whether it makes sense.

No, finaly not so much : with dm promo 1 return trip in C/J/Z to Asia, w/o : 2 trips.

No, finaly not so much : with dm promo 1 return trip in C/J/Z to Asia, w/o : 2 trips.

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. What I meant was that OP needs 33800 which would turn into 67600 with the 2x promo. He has only earned 2400 miles so far this year (see above).

I didn't get the e-mail but it's offering 2x miles when I do a dummy booking signed on rather than signed.

PLT member with only 10k miles but do have a 12,000+ base mile trip on D class AM fare. I guess since I am not going anywhere near PLT, I might as well not make any plans to get PLT again?

In a burn mode right now (or should be).

I have not received the "email". But I understand that many benefit from the promo without receiving the email.
I do not trust the "gain miles" feature on the booking website, as they often give crazy figures. And that is no guaranteed info, just some unreliable info. More funny: AF website tells me how many miles I earn when I do not log in (treated as regular FB member) but NO indication after I log in as Gold.

So my question is: do anyone know a way to get confirmation that I get the promotion or not. To AF it means getting a couple of biz ticket from Asia.

A couple of questions for those who did NOT receive the promo by email but report seeing 2x miles on dummy bookings

1) When logged in as PLT, af.com always shows 2x miles, but these are award miles (i.e. it includes the PLT 100% bonus). So, in this case, is the site showing "double-double" (i.e., in effect 4x) miles?

2) Does this happen on all routes and/or all fares?

Thanks.

Just got an email from FB offering me Plat renewal at 60K miles instead of usual 70K

Im at 58K now...hmmmmm

nickyboy

Perhaps they are worried about numbers of elites dropping....coupled with erosion of Sky Team and increasing dominance of Star....

Perhaps they are worried about numbers of elites dropping....coupled with erosion of Sky Team and increasing dominance of Star....

I don't think so. The April 1 changes were motivated by a desire to reduce the FF mile liability on the Balance Sheet so offering easier Plat renewal actually goes against this

I suspect it is as simple as trying to get people to fly a bit more with AF/KL in the run up to the end of the year

nickyboy

A couple of questions for those who did NOT receive the promo by email but report seeing 2x miles on dummy bookings

1) When logged in as PLT, af.com always shows 2x miles, but these are award miles (i.e. it includes the PLT 100% bonus). So, in this case, is the site showing "double-double" (i.e., in effect 4x) miles?

2) Does this happen on all routes and/or all fares?

Thanks.

Hi Nomad,

Point 1: when you're plat you've got x2 miles but the elite bonus is not status miles, only award miles, as you said btw... The amount shown on the website just give you the total (award+status miles) but it doesn't show the detail. Basicaly they double the status miles but not the plat elite bonus, so it's not x4 !

An example, for an internal french flight full fare (round trip) for PLAT:

2000 status miles + 2000 award miles (Elite bonus for Plat)= 4000 (only this total is shown)

With the (targeted ?) bonus, same trip for PLAT:

2000 status miles (normal) + 2000 status miles (special bonus) + 2000 (Elite bonus for Plat, as usual)= 6000 miles (only this total is shown)


Point 2

In the email, they say it works on all paying flights offering status and award miles with AF, KLM or any skyteam member company. They also clearly stated that the elite bonus is not doubled.

Hope it helps !

Tonin

I received the email as well and I'm currently Silver based in NL and a bit short to renew status for next year. I have currently 21966 miles and 11 flights. So short of 4 flights and 3034 miles.

I'm thinking of taking a few short hop flights AMS-CDG (which I did this week end already), as due to this year policy my flights to JFK or MNL got me an absolutely ridiculous amount of miles compared to last year. (and less expensive fares). Next year will likely be extremely difficult.

I Received the same email, but to be honest FB lost my business way back in April with all their changes and rules, i have 14000 at the moment and they are now saying to me that if I get 30000 I can requlaify as Gold, is it worth, is it feasible unless I buy two business class tickets from LHR-USA as I am scheduled to go twice, any advice on how to make the difference, plus I have to thinnk about air passenger duty as well from NOV 1

I can confirm it IS targeted. Spoke to FB about something else and they confirmed that my account had not been selected for this because I 'fly too frequently'. I guess they deserve praise for their honesty! :o

I can confirm it IS targeted. Spoke to FB about something else and they confirmed that my account had not been selected for this because I 'fly too frequently'. I guess they deserve praise for their honesty! :o

This is what I suspected; I've just done a flight and did not get any extra bonus.

It does seem rather unfair, somehow, that those who don't fly so much are being rewarded, while those of us who have really earned platinum status (and continue to fly with AFKL) are being disregarded. :(

-- Henry

I can confirm it IS targeted. Spoke to FB about something else and they confirmed that my account had not been selected for this because I 'fly too frequently'. I guess they deserve praise for their honesty! :o

I have not been targeted and so far this year 0 paid flights with AF/KL. They also consider I fly to often. Pity fot them, on other airlines :p

Can also confirm that promotion is targeted, because I did not receive any bonus miles:( Not a big deal, but would have been a nice surprise.

Can also confirm that promotion is targeted, because I did not receive any bonus miles:( Not a big deal, but would have been a nice surprise.

Partner and I both currently have 58k status miles. She received the 60k offer 2 weeks ago. So far I have heard nothing. Perhaps it's a lottery based promo. :confused:

Exraf

The email I got offers me renewed Gold status at 30k instead of 40k. I'll reach it next week with four flights I'm scheduled to take. But there was no word about double miles and double level miles. Can I ask for it? Does anybody know?
Also: my guess is that this is what they came up with to deal with the barrage of complaints since the April rules changes. Reaction in this community has been particularly violent. It would be too stupid of them not to take notice. What do you think?

The email I got offers me renewed Gold status at 30k instead of 40k. I'll reach it next week with four flights I'm scheduled to take. But there was no word about double miles and double level miles. Can I ask for it? Does anybody know?
Also: my guess is that this is what they came up with to deal with the barrage of complaints since the April rules changes. Reaction in this community has been particularly violent. It would be too stupid of them not to take notice. What do you think?

don't be naive !

Partner and I both currently have 58k status miles. She received the 60k offer 2 weeks ago. So far I have heard nothing. Perhaps it's a lottery based promo. :confused:

Exraf

Rang FB to ask why I had not received same offer. Friendly CSA told me that in fact the offer had been sent out to me two weeks prior to partners. Asked if they could confirm/resend. "This is not possible":td:!..."but is in our system so you just need to achieve the " 60K^

FWIW at the time the offer was sent out we were both on 41K.

Exraf

Rang FB to ask why I had not received same offer. Friendly CSA told me that in fact the offer had been sent out to me two weeks prior to partners. Asked if they could confirm/resend. "This is not possible":td:!..."but is in our system so you just need to achieve the " 60K^

FWIW at the time the offer was sent out we were both on 41K.

Exraf

So no problem, then. If it's in their system, it's all that counts. It's not an offer you have to register for, so you should be fine.

I've just noticed a sort of bonus on a flight I did a couple of days ago (but not the outbound at the end of Otober):

Miles x2 UK & IE KLM ... 1,500

These are not level miles, though. Just an ordinary bonus - probably for the month of November, but I haven't heard anything about this promotion.

-- Henry

I've just noticed a sort of bonus on a flight I did a couple of days ago (but not the outbound at the end of Otober):

Miles x2 UK & IE KLM ... 1,500

These are not level miles, though. Just an ordinary bonus - probably for the month of November, but I haven't heard anything about this promotion.

-- Henry

Interesting. I have a flight to Paris on Friday with AF from DUB and will see if any extra miles will be added. I can see your posting shows:

Miles x2 UK & IE KLM ... 1,500

and to my knowledge KLM doesn't fly to DUB (code share on connecting flights as feeders only)... Also, the 1,500 miles is the max one way one can accrue on the DUB-CDG/LCY segment in Y (full paid) or C...

Can't seem to remember I have seen anything about extra bonus miles being awarded on neither KLM nor AF's web sites :confused:

Also, the 1,500 miles is the max one way one can accrue on the DUB-CDG/LCY segment in Y (full paid) or C...

Well spotted, my Good Cupart! I was in C (Z-fare, actually) for BCN-AMS-GLA! :cool: No bonus on the BCN-AMS leg, just the AMS-GLA.

Like you, I think the only KLM flights to the Emerald Isle are code-share with Fungus (not sure about AMS-Belfast, though); let us know if your AF trips get the bonus.

-- Henry

DL, KE flights both posted as double status miles.

So never applied, but my first flights on KLM since the changes in April (HUY-AMS - CAI) have attracted double miles, which almost makes up for the reduction in WBC bonus from 200% to 125% !

Have 170,000 level miles this year, so will carry forward 60,000 or so into 2010/11 once they have knocked off the 115,000 carry over threshold.

Next flights (after this trip) back on EK metal, althought they too have devalued their programme significantly, making them a less attractive proposition.

Have to top up my *A status once more !

I have got it ....ish , but they now are arguing that it is only valid from the 1st of November.. so excluding all my October flights... :mad: i guess a long period off bouncing emails to get this sorted out ! gurrr

Why is this never easy !