I’m trying to understand the new system , i travel a lot to Asia in Economy. I mostly buy 600 euros tickets to HK, SIN or MNL. With the new system I’d get as I’m plat 600 x 8 = 4800 miles!
(lol @
Ivory members who will get 1200 miles when 10 years ago they would have gotten around 12 to 14K depending on the destination – yes remember the early 2000’s when everyone was getting 100%).
But I understand right flying blue partners remains unaffected with changes, so I checked my logs, and this year due to availability problems I had to do CDG MNL with Saudi Arabia, I paid the ticket around 550 euros and I obtained 50% of the miles. I earned something like 7000 miles (x2 since I’m platinum).
So let’s say I want to go to MNL on April 1st, I can either go with KLM and based on a 600 euros fare I’ll earn 4800 award miles + 5 XP for CDG AMS + 12 for AMS MNL (return that makes 34 XP)
Or I can obtain around 7000 awards miles from Saudi Arabia (+100% bonus for Plat.) so a total of 14,000 miles and how many XP points will I earn from Saudi Arabia flight?
10 XP for CDG JED and 12 XP for JED MNL 22 x 2 = 44 XP.
Great job AF KLM for making a system that strongly encourage clients to use other airlines than AF-KLM.