Originally Posted by fifty_two

Also the partnership between flyingblue and amex is not good for them in the way that US customers can just spend their money on everything (gas, food, candies, shopping, and so on ...) with an amex (unlike europe where you cant use amex everywhere, so for instance ThePpintGuy would never be able to do the same things in europe , he would just travel all the time with Lowcost carriers), collect a lot of points then transfer it to flying blue and book awards tickets without flying with a skyteam airline before

Therefore its basically a lost of money for them when you compare with european customers who should spend thousands of euros before reaching the same amount of miles in their accounts