NEW: KLM Economy Comfort!
Mar 19, 2016, 12:10 am
#466
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: France
Programs: FB Plat for Life, UAMP, BAEC, Accor ALL Platinum, Marriott silver, Hilton, Meliá silver.
Posts: 3,120
Back to EC then.
Mar 22, 2016, 12:43 am
#468
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,281
Anyway, prices drop as it gets closer to check in, so for those that still want to have 100% guaranteed of these seats (and without any being Plat or higher with FB or SM), they still pay the higher price.
my 2 cents.
Aug 15, 2016, 2:58 pm
#471
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Pagus Bracbatensis, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Programs: DL SPlat, KLM Bump, Privium Plus, GOES
Posts: 2,066
According to their website:
"Per flight: EUR 60-150
Depending on the duration of the flight.
Frequent flyer discounts
Free of cost for:
Travellers on a fully flexible KLM ticket
Flying Blue Platinum and SkyMiles Platinum and Diamond
50% discount for:
Flying Blue Gold members or SkyMiles members
SkyTeam Elite Plus members
25% discount for:
Flying Blue Silver members or SkyMiles members
SkyTeam Elite members (for Economy Comfort seats on Delta Air Lines flights only)
Aug 16, 2016, 12:28 am
#473
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,281
This seems also in line with other programs especially *A where only Elite members of the operating airline gets these seats complimentary or at discount prices.
Aug 16, 2016, 3:43 pm
#474
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Arriving at the gate a few minutes before boarding commenced this afternoon, I was surprised to see over a dozen pax already lined up on the priority side. Most unusual for this particular flight.
When we boarded four pax took seats in EB (of which two picked middle seats, must have been either OpUps or infrequent discounted J leisure flyers) everybody else ahead of me made their way to the back of the plane and took seats in rows well behind the wing, including a couple of middle seats.
Shorthaul EC must have been designed specifically with frequent flyer satisfaction in mind.
Johan
When we boarded four pax took seats in EB (of which two picked middle seats, must have been either OpUps or infrequent discounted J leisure flyers) everybody else ahead of me made their way to the back of the plane and took seats in rows well behind the wing, including a couple of middle seats.
Shorthaul EC must have been designed specifically with frequent flyer satisfaction in mind.
Johan
Aug 16, 2016, 8:34 pm
#475
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Pagus Bracbatensis, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Programs: DL SPlat, KLM Bump, Privium Plus, GOES
Posts: 2,066
Do you have a link? Am surprised DL Elite plus no longer receive discount since FB elites still have access to Delta EC+ seats
Last edited by Grouchy; Aug 16, 2016 at 8:42 pm
Aug 17, 2016, 12:24 am
#476
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: CPT,AMS
Posts: 4,412
Often enough it seems that people don't know where to queue, on a recent CDG-AMS flight, the priority queue was at about the same length as the normal queue which was very unusual, when they started priority boarding only the first 10 pax or so actually went forward, and then there was a 5m gap between the priority boarding sign and the beginning of the queue...
Aug 17, 2016, 2:23 am
#477
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Netherlands
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Which, to be honest, was how I always thought it worked - as a Skyteam Elite Plus via AZ, I have never been offered any discounts on EC.
Here's a screen grab from a post I made in a thread over on the AZ forum just over a year ago:
Free/discounted "Economy Comfort" seating is not an alliance benefit.
Don't confuse this with "Premium Economy" - it's not. Delta and KLM both charge extra for some seats, and they have decided to give a discount to their frequent flyers for these seats. Because they both have a similar offering on board, they eventually decided to give reciprocal rights to each other's status flyers.
Alitalia has no equivalent "Economy Comfort". (Instead, they have a proper, full-on, separate cabin - Premium Economy).
Free baggage is a published alliance benefit - so of course you will obtain free checked baggage on KLM with your Freccia Alata Plus status.
Don't confuse this with "Premium Economy" - it's not. Delta and KLM both charge extra for some seats, and they have decided to give a discount to their frequent flyers for these seats. Because they both have a similar offering on board, they eventually decided to give reciprocal rights to each other's status flyers.
Alitalia has no equivalent "Economy Comfort". (Instead, they have a proper, full-on, separate cabin - Premium Economy).
Free baggage is a published alliance benefit - so of course you will obtain free checked baggage on KLM with your Freccia Alata Plus status.
Aug 17, 2016, 3:44 am
#478
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Most of the pax yesterday were sitting or standing in the waiting area, the line for regular boarding was about as long as the priority one, and seemed to consist mostly or perhaps entirely of a group ofItalians. When priority boarding began, they started to complain loudly to each other, apparently indignant that we were allowed to board first, even though they had been standing in line just as long, if not longer.
Johan
Johan
Aug 17, 2016, 5:51 am
#480
Join Date: Sep 2012
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That's not what KLflyerRalph has said. Only FB and DL elites get the discount.
Which, to be honest, was how I always thought it worked - as a Skyteam Elite Plus via AZ, I have never been offered any discounts on EC.
Here's a screen grab from a post I made in a thread over on the AZ forum just over a year ago:
Which, to be honest, was how I always thought it worked - as a Skyteam Elite Plus via AZ, I have never been offered any discounts on EC.
Here's a screen grab from a post I made in a thread over on the AZ forum just over a year ago: