As I mentioned in my post on the new booking engine, one of the improvements seems to be it's easier now to get the Take-off fare-semiflex, which is the cheapest 100% miles tickets and very close to the very cheapest 25% tickets. You can directly choose to go from 25% to 100% Take off fare. This is actually a big improvement, and for me that just flyes economy on my own dime is really good.

I might add that the reason I fly KLM and has been for the last 8 years or so, is because compared to SAS and BA you get easier status and better milage payment at least until they unleashed the 25% miles. This seems to be better now with what I mentioned above. Generally the service is decent to good in economy and Schipol is a good hub compared to the other options. But the result of this might be that we will save up miles for a business award and then do it on another airline within ST (which of course is very good for KLM The calling a running cost for the airline a "tax" on the other should be illegal if it isn't already, so I completely agree on the fuel surcharge issue.

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