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Aug 18, 2011 | 10:53 am

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Originally Posted by florin

Good point! You can qualify for FB elite status fairly easy on segments. Elite status, whether FB or SM, gives you about the same benefits when it comes to intra-EU flights.

SM is very much geared towards US residents. Fare specials, various promos, credit card offers - they are all limited to US-based SM members.

There are some AmEx cards in Europe that earn FB miles. You may want to look into that as well.

AF-KL elite status is a joke to attain/retain. 30 segments for SkyTeam ElitePlus status? And they rather routinely do soft-landings (at least for those in the Swedish market) who don't re-qualify for a given elite status level.

AF-KL's program is a joke in terms of earning miles from economy class flights -- the miles earned are so puny and the redemption costs of flights so expensive that the program may be good for earning/retaining elite status but using the program for flights to get flights makes it a pretty lousy program.

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