Originally Posted by
irishguy28
To be honest, I think that Amex MR transferees are the main customers for Promo Awards now. They've not had to earn Flying Blue miles the hard way, and with no long-standing affiliation with AFKL, they may not even be aware that the redemption amounts have just gone up. But they're still being driven here by the blogs who tell them it's a good deal.
The last 200k miles I've had were because of my expenses on AMEX. I'm well aware of the redemptions amount having gone up. Problem is that I have a FB AMEX and that the French AMEX s*cks big time in terms of redemption with other partners.