Thanks folks for confirming the Flex award rules. As someone who collected 2M miles (1 MMer on AAdvantage) and spent 1.5M of them, I am very well aware of how to use the miles for best value.
I do realize that miles have been devalued over the past decade since my flying days ended; but this program is just not useful for US based members.
Originally Posted by
cfischer
yes, all refundable.
For domestic tickets make sure you call FB in Canada to pay only $2.50 per segment. There are reports that the stupid online tool sometimes charges 'other' taxes. You can use Delta.com to figure our avail. and then call FB to get it ticketed.
Well, even when delta.com shows availability the airfrance.us website shows nothing. During the summer I was trying to book some SFO-JFK RT tickets, a route where DL has tons of flights every day. I could get the 40K award for economy (peak summer) on DL, but there was absolutely nothing available for KLM miles. I also called the phone number.
So for all practical purposes those miles were useless even on a trunk route.
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I think the only purpose these miles will serve is to book a vacation 6-12 months in advance where hopefully at least some seats will be available.
They have very few options otherwise.