What Mike meansis that even though the FD program claims that awards are on a region-region basis this is often not the case due to Revenue Management or some other been counter department at KLM.

For example a colleague of mine wanted to do a Europe-US in business class for this summer.

This should be 80,000 miles for a return.
The AMS-US was available OK but his connecting flights from CPH were not available (on the same booking). The result was that he had to book the AMS-US legs for 80,000 miles and then also then book his CPH-AMS legs in economy for an additional 25,000 miles.

pmcg