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Jan 13, 2024 | 4:22 pm

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Originally Posted by akel

I will be traveling international in business class soon. It will be two segments on Air France, 3000+ miles from US to France and 4000+ miles from France to India
Coming back is on Virgin Atlantic, so similar break up of miles.
From what I saw on this flying blue page, this would net 54 Xps one way and It would make me sky team silver in one roundtrip
Whereas Delta would use my costs $3K plus and would not make me silver
Another such trip would make me skyteam gold with flying blue while I will become delta silver with $6K MQD
Am I calculating this right?
ETA: The simulator told me that the flight would be long2 and long2, so I should be getting 60 XP one way
ETA2: The simulator says that when I connect through LHR, those flights are long1 and long2, so I should get 54 XP while coming back
ETA3: Another such trip will not make me skyteam gold

That needs extra 180 XP, but at least its possible. With Delta and MQD, I have no hope of making gold

Now if I buy the ticket on delta, can I provide my flyingblue number as my Frequent Flyer number and get the XPs on Flying Blue? Or do I have to buy the ticket on air france or KLM?

Thanks!

Remember that each time you pass a threshold with FB your counter resets to zero immediately. So...after hitting silver at 100XPs you reset to zero and your year starts over. So...to get to GOLD you need to 180 new XPs.

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