Originally Posted by
sehgalanuj
I was offered several fare types in the survey by KLM and AF. In every case, one of AF or KLM always had 0 XP options. There were even situations simulated where KLM offered no XP for any fare type, but AF did (and vice versa as well). I hope this was just an error in the way the survey was built.
Even more confusingly, other airlines (including Emirates and Lufthansa) were shown with identical fares (I really wanted to report them to the competition authorities for obvious price-fixing!) AND also offering XP earning...
(Yes, specifically "XP earning". Which heavily implies that, within the "universe" of this stupid survey, you could book flights on those competitors instead of the AF/KL option and still qualify for status in Flying Blue. If they intended that you would earn an equivalent amount of Tier Points/Miles in the corresponding FFP of the corresponding airline, this was not at all clearly indicated; the reference to the Flying Blue-specific XPs certainly seems to indicate otherwise)
It was a thoroughly ill-designed survey