Jolikiwi1980

yeah, that’s what messed up mine. AMS heavily impacted.

Concerto

I'll be interested to hear how things work out with the request for original routing credit. I got rebooked from AF onto LX a couple of weeks ago, but the whole experience ended up with me getting to where I was going one whole hour earlier. I didn't think to ask for original routing credit, because I got rebooked into a very high economy class bucket and earned quite a lot of miles with M&M for it. And I keep getting reminder emails from something called Air Help, exhorting me to claim EU261 for it. No way am I doing that!

f0zzyNUE

being rerouted on another alliance allows to double dip. you can still request the original route credit and get miles for the segments actually flown in another program.

f0zzyNUE

AF/KL business class BRU/LUX to HKG - from 1240€ - routing via AMS/CDG possible for a few € more.

Xandrios

Indeed, absolutely worth requesting the FB miles. The miles already credited to M&M will remain - there is no way for them to retract those AFAIK.

I've had AF flights ATH-CDG-AMS rebooked on LH in full Y some time ago - resulting in getting a whole bunch of *A miles and also the original FB credit (After requesting it).

Concerto

Oh that's amazing. So just a call or an email, as you wrote above? I actually have the original online boarding passes for the flight(s) that got cancelled (kept them as PDFs). Thanks f0zzyNUE !

glennhaak

Just call in to AF/KL and tell them that due to rerouting you did not receive the credit of XP/Miles of the original booking, they'll ask of which booking and they will probably not even have you send in those boarding passes because they should be able to see it in their system. Takes me literally a 1-minute call each time it happens.

Concerto

Whilst Scandinavia is peppered with destinations Air France doesn't actually fly to, unless codesharing through Amsterdam on KLM, the UK is another matter. The only two pure KLM (and therefore AF codeshare) destinations I can think of are Humberside and Bristol. Other places, such as Cardiff, have direct flights from CDG where AF put their code on a Flybe flight. Obviously, my interest is in transiting both CDG and AMS for the maximum XPs possible. Have I missed anywhere in the UK?

Solevita

NWI, LBA are KL only. Cardiff has both KL codeshares as well as Flybe and CWL-AMS-CDG-XXX is possible, e.g. GOT works as a destination (and the reverse).

Concerto

I had forgotten about LBA and NWI. So we can make the AF codeshare on KL list include:

BRS, HUY, LBA, NWI

It's going to be harder work making a ticket work from CWL, with that Flybe flight and its codeshare possibilities. Right now I am finding Cheapflights the best and easiest option for researching this. There seems to be loads of availablity in and out of HUY in the €530 range, on most dates I want. I'm just delaying a bit to see how the Corona thing develops. I'm looking at the summer in terms of dates, so hopefully Corona will have gone its way by then.

NickB

You forgot MME.

It should also be noted that the xxx-ams-cdg-yyy AF fares also work from GLA even though GLA is served by AF too (I have not checked the other Scottish arirports). They are, however, a tad more expensive (around £100-ish more, IME)

Concerto

MME, Teesside...good one! I didn't know that airport was still in use. I think KLM must have covered every English airport except Blackpool, Carlisle and Exeter!

Maestro Ramen

Indeed, I was just about to say that EMA or DSA weren't covered, but I was wrong as it seems KLM uses Flybe codeshares. According to this article (might be a bit out of date) KLM covers almost double the number of UK cities as BA (which is not a surprise considering BA has all but forsaken service outside of LON)

mikem004

>KLM covers almost double the number of UK cities as BA (which is not a surprise considering BA has all but forsaken service outside of LON)<
For BA, read "London Airways". The FlyerTalk glossary needs to be updated.
For example, KLM fly 3 x daily from LBA.
On most days, BA flies only 1 per day.
Go figure.

Concerto

This was indeed a 1-minute phone call and I got my missing XPs credited, thanks very much!

Just to keep the excitement going, for those who are still interested in this, I am seeing MIL-CDG-AMS-LBA and back for €522 in the summer, which seems an excellent deal for XP. However, the flight arrives in LBA so late (22h) and leaves so early (06h) that you have to reckon with the extra cost of 2 hotel nights, which makes the Humberside deal better because you have the time to drive somewhere you need to be (if you don't need to be in Hull or Grimsby).

I am planning on two trips this summer, one, which will start in the UK, nested inside the other. The other obstacle I have reached, if making one trip to LBA and the other from HUY, is how to deal with one way car rental fees. Looking at the car rental outlets, they seem to charge a lot for one way rentals within the UK and they also have a mileage limit these days.