Jul 28, 2021, 7:32 am
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Wiki for Mileage/XP Runs
Indicate below your itinerary, availability dates, price and XP. Please only log runs with confirmed fares availability. Feel free to tag yourself if you want to meet fellow FTers.
Eg:
MXP-CDG-AMS-KRK-AMS-CDG-MXP in J, 2021-01-01/02, 570 €, 180 XP
HEL-AMS-LAX-AMS-HEL in J, 2022-08-16/18, 1059 €, 204 XP (@XXXFlyer arriving at 11:50 AM, leaving at 06:00 AM)
Upcoming runs:
MXP-CDG-AMS-KRK in J on 2022/07/21-22, 380€ - 45XP (8,44€/XP) : one way
Past runs:
For future reference, log below your most interesting XP runs:
KRK-AMS-CDG-BCN-AMS-CDG-KRK, 2021-07-22/24, 576 €, 180 XP
ATH-CDG-AMS-KRK-AMS-CDG-ATH in J, 2021-09-18/19, 561€
KRK-AMS-CDG-LIS-CDG-AMS-KRK, 2021-07-22/28, 492 € 180 XP
NTE-CDG-AMS-LIS-CDG-LYS-NTE, 2021-09-25/26, 157 €/42XP
Indicate below your itinerary, availability dates, price and XP. Please only log runs with confirmed fares availability. Feel free to tag yourself if you want to meet fellow FTers.
Eg:
MXP-CDG-AMS-KRK-AMS-CDG-MXP in J, 2021-01-01/02, 570 €, 180 XP
HEL-AMS-LAX-AMS-HEL in J, 2022-08-16/18, 1059 €, 204 XP (@XXXFlyer arriving at 11:50 AM, leaving at 06:00 AM)
Upcoming runs:
MXP-CDG-AMS-KRK in J on 2022/07/21-22, 380€ - 45XP (8,44€/XP) : one way
Past runs:
For future reference, log below your most interesting XP runs:
KRK-AMS-CDG-BCN-AMS-CDG-KRK, 2021-07-22/24, 576 €, 180 XP
ATH-CDG-AMS-KRK-AMS-CDG-ATH in J, 2021-09-18/19, 561€
KRK-AMS-CDG-LIS-CDG-AMS-KRK, 2021-07-22/28, 492 € 180 XP
NTE-CDG-AMS-LIS-CDG-LYS-NTE, 2021-09-25/26, 157 €/42XP
Mileage runs for Flying Blue - best routes?
Feb 25, 2019, 11:59 am
#406
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: HAG
Programs: Der 5* FTL
Posts: 8,017
The discount is 20% and it's been on since last week, so it's not like it's a half-day flash sale.
Too bad it can't be applied on multi-city routings. I meant to use multicity to force AZ to sell me the late FCO-BRU flight as a connection to VLC-FCO. Well I guess it's not that bad to miss the couple of hours in Rome as it would be in the morning anyway.
And at sub-250 for business class it's such a steal. I think if it weren't a two-night trip, I'd just book another one to ensure safe and easy Gold.
Too bad it can't be applied on multi-city routings. I meant to use multicity to force AZ to sell me the late FCO-BRU flight as a connection to VLC-FCO. Well I guess it's not that bad to miss the couple of hours in Rome as it would be in the morning anyway.
And at sub-250 for business class it's such a steal. I think if it weren't a two-night trip, I'd just book another one to ensure safe and easy Gold.
Feb 27, 2019, 3:53 am
#407
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: WAW
Programs: FB plat, M&M FT
Posts: 140
Flew their PE product to AKL a month ago and I'm really, really happy with it / would definitely fly them again.
Mar 6, 2019, 7:06 am
#408
Join Date: Dec 2015
Programs: FB platinum
Posts: 373
I just finished a BRU - FCO - VLC XP run this week-end. It seems that my FB number and the Alitalia system did not agree together, so nothing was credited automatically.
I submitted the 4 retro-claim requests (one per segment) today and got the answers less than one hour later: it seems that someone at FB was feeling extra-generous as I got everything credited twice:
Works for me
I submitted the 4 retro-claim requests (one per segment) today and got the answers less than one hour later: it seems that someone at FB was feeling extra-generous as I got everything credited twice:
Works for me
Mar 6, 2019, 7:10 am
#409
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: VIE/PRG
Programs: FB Platinum, Marriott Platinum Elite
Posts: 1,591
I just finished a BRU - FCO - VLC XP run this week-end. It seems that my FB number and the Alitalia system did not agree together, so nothing was credited automatically.
I submitted the 4 retro-claim requests (one per segment) today and got the answers less than one hour later: it seems that someone at FB was feeling extra-generous as I got everything credited twice:
Works for me
I submitted the 4 retro-claim requests (one per segment) today and got the answers less than one hour later: it seems that someone at FB was feeling extra-generous as I got everything credited twice:
Works for me
Flight flown on Monday.
Mar 7, 2019, 5:37 am
#410
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: HAG
Programs: Der 5* FTL
Posts: 8,017
Hi guys.
By my calculations, including current bookings, I am at 154 XP, which means I am lacking 26XP to renewal (yes, the 1 XP is ever so annoying )
Now, I need to buy a ticket to go home for Easter, and it's either take *A, or a KL-coded OK-opr itinerary that's about 100 EUR more, but gains 20XP. I could combine that with a daytrip/weekend trip for 10XP at ~100EUR if I am flexible, to get over.
But it got me thinking, as the times suck for ST option - would it be possible to instead gain 25-27-30XP for about 200-250 from AMS (or BRU, maybee DUS), with a daytrip or a Saturday night trip? I can easily find business class routings with 2 transfers, but not really for Eco...
Sadly, common 2-segment return does not cut it..
By my calculations, including current bookings, I am at 154 XP, which means I am lacking 26XP to renewal (yes, the 1 XP is ever so annoying
)Now, I need to buy a ticket to go home for Easter, and it's either take *A, or a KL-coded OK-opr itinerary that's about 100 EUR more, but gains 20XP. I could combine that with a daytrip/weekend trip for 10XP at ~100EUR if I am flexible, to get over.
But it got me thinking, as the times suck for ST option - would it be possible to instead gain 25-27-30XP for about 200-250 from AMS (or BRU, maybee DUS), with a daytrip or a Saturday night trip? I can easily find business class routings with 2 transfers, but not really for Eco...
Sadly, common 2-segment return does not cut it..
Mar 7, 2019, 1:17 pm
#412
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: Flying Blue, Diamond Club
Posts: 780
Alitalia flight departed from Terminal 1, area A (and then using gate A28).
The very friendly check-in agent mentioned that there was no lounge available (airside), unlike T1 area D used by AF with its lounge - that AZ clearly advertises on its website. Of course one can't go up to zone D airside ( anyway that's a huge walking distance).
No food & drink voucher was offered either
It's pity because, knowing this in advance, it could have allowed me to arrive obviously much later at the airport. Is AZ always using A-Gate at Munich?
Mar 7, 2019, 3:36 pm
#413
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: AMS
Programs: FB Platinum, Hilton Gold, Hotels.com Silver,
Posts: 52
Hi guys.
By my calculations, including current bookings, I am at 154 XP, which means I am lacking 26XP to renewal (yes, the 1 XP is ever so annoying )
Now, I need to buy a ticket to go home for Easter, and it's either take *A, or a KL-coded OK-opr itinerary that's about 100 EUR more, but gains 20XP. I could combine that with a daytrip/weekend trip for 10XP at ~100EUR if I am flexible, to get over.
But it got me thinking, as the times suck for ST option - would it be possible to instead gain 25-27-30XP for about 200-250 from AMS (or BRU, maybee DUS), with a daytrip or a Saturday night trip? I can easily find business class routings with 2 transfers, but not really for Eco...
Sadly, common 2-segment return does not cut it..
By my calculations, including current bookings, I am at 154 XP, which means I am lacking 26XP to renewal (yes, the 1 XP is ever so annoying
)Now, I need to buy a ticket to go home for Easter, and it's either take *A, or a KL-coded OK-opr itinerary that's about 100 EUR more, but gains 20XP. I could combine that with a daytrip/weekend trip for 10XP at ~100EUR if I am flexible, to get over.
But it got me thinking, as the times suck for ST option - would it be possible to instead gain 25-27-30XP for about 200-250 from AMS (or BRU, maybee DUS), with a daytrip or a Saturday night trip? I can easily find business class routings with 2 transfers, but not really for Eco...
Sadly, common 2-segment return does not cut it..
Mar 8, 2019, 12:52 am
#415
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: NUE
Programs: *G (TK elite+), OW sapphire (QR), ST elite plus (AF). LA black
Posts: 3,674
Thanks for sharing, it was done yesterday! Everything went fine except:
Alitalia flight departed from Terminal 1, area A (and then using gate A28).
The very friendly check-in agent mentioned that there was no lounge available (airside), unlike T1 area D used by AF with its lounge - that AZ clearly advertises on its website. Of course one can't go up to zone D airside ( anyway that's a huge walking distance).
No food & drink voucher was offered either
It's pity because, knowing this in advance, it could have allowed me to arrive obviously much later at the airport. Is AZ always using A-Gate at Munich?
Alitalia flight departed from Terminal 1, area A (and then using gate A28).
The very friendly check-in agent mentioned that there was no lounge available (airside), unlike T1 area D used by AF with its lounge - that AZ clearly advertises on its website. Of course one can't go up to zone D airside ( anyway that's a huge walking distance).
No food & drink voucher was offered either
It's pity because, knowing this in advance, it could have allowed me to arrive obviously much later at the airport. Is AZ always using A-Gate at Munich?
Mar 8, 2019, 12:55 am
#416
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: NUE
Programs: *G (TK elite+), OW sapphire (QR), ST elite plus (AF). LA black
Posts: 3,674
none available at the moment. but a premium economy sale from Spain ... BCN-GIG in premium economy for 694€
https://www.alitalia.com/es_es/offer...omy-promo.html
https://www.alitalia.com/es_es/offer...omy-promo.html
Mar 8, 2019, 4:12 am
#417
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: FR
Programs: FB Plat
Posts: 298
By my calculations, including current bookings, I am at 154 XP, which means I am lacking 26XP to renewal (yes, the 1 XP is ever so annoying )
Now, I need to buy a ticket to go home for Easter, and it's either take *A, or a KL-coded OK-opr itinerary that's about 100 EUR more, but gains 20XP. I could combine that with a daytrip/weekend trip for 10XP at ~100EUR if I am flexible, to get over.
But it got me thinking, as the times suck for ST option - would it be possible to instead gain 25-27-30XP for about 200-250 from AMS (or BRU, maybee DUS), with a daytrip or a Saturday night trip? I can easily find business class routings with 2 transfers, but not really for Eco...
Sadly, common 2-segment return does not cut it..
)Now, I need to buy a ticket to go home for Easter, and it's either take *A, or a KL-coded OK-opr itinerary that's about 100 EUR more, but gains 20XP. I could combine that with a daytrip/weekend trip for 10XP at ~100EUR if I am flexible, to get over.
But it got me thinking, as the times suck for ST option - would it be possible to instead gain 25-27-30XP for about 200-250 from AMS (or BRU, maybee DUS), with a daytrip or a Saturday night trip? I can easily find business class routings with 2 transfers, but not really for Eco...
Sadly, common 2-segment return does not cut it..
Mar 8, 2019, 6:10 pm
#418
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: HAG
Programs: Der 5* FTL
Posts: 8,017
That does not sound too bad, but I haven't been able to find one in dates where it works for me, and then only for about 350-360. Also often offers non-stop from AMS...
This weirds me out btw. because with all the cheap tickets to the US lately, 350 somehow manages to feel like a high price for a transatlantic ticket though of course I know it not to be.
So it sounds like I'm still better off doing this trip on KL tickets even if that means some 150 EUR extra, oh well.
Besides the hotel, I'm having issue enough finding something from AMS sub 10 EUR XP on a weekend return as is, for returns via CDG both ways. BRU is better but then that's extra 60EUR or so to get to BRU in the first place, so it's a draw pretty much.
Shame the Alitalia run to Valencia doesn't allow for a single night return. I'd have booked that twice and problem solved.
This weirds me out btw. because with all the cheap tickets to the US lately, 350 somehow manages to feel like a high price for a transatlantic ticket
though of course I know it not to be.You may find a return to somewhere in SW Germany / Switzerland / N Italy with a stop in CDG both ways for about ~150€ and then add the cheapest intra-Europe return trip you may find for about ~100€, which would yield 30XP for about 250€. If you need to add the cost of a hotel night for the first return though, I am not sure it is worth the XP run. If positioning to DUS is not an issue, I would rather go with one of the XP run mentioned earlier in this topic: best value for me considering the XP rollover.
Besides the hotel, I'm having issue enough finding something from AMS sub 10 EUR XP on a weekend return as is, for returns via CDG both ways. BRU is better but then that's extra 60EUR or so to get to BRU in the first place, so it's a draw pretty much.
Shame the Alitalia run to Valencia doesn't allow for a single night return. I'd have booked that twice and problem solved.
Mar 9, 2019, 3:15 am
#419
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Somewhere between BHX and HUY
Programs: Flying Blue Plat, Eurobonus Silver, ALL Gold
Posts: 1,673
Managed to get - via a shady OTA - a rtn BHX-AMS-BRU-JFK for £1250 wont be many miles but it's 120XP for the whole thing which is not bad at all. You can probably get a bit more xp/$ by flying all euro connection flights only (but then why would you!)
Also get to fly delta for the first time, although im not sure if thats something to look forward to or not. Looks like a 767 both ways.
Also get to fly delta for the first time, although im not sure if thats something to look forward to or not. Looks like a 767 both ways.
Mar 9, 2019, 6:35 am
#420
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: VIE/PRG
Programs: FB Platinum, Marriott Platinum Elite
Posts: 1,591
Managed to get - via a shady OTA - a rtn BHX-AMS-BRU-JFK for £1250 wont be many miles but it's 120XP for the whole thing which is not bad at all. You can probably get a bit more xp/$ by flying all euro connection flights only (but then why would you!)
Also get to fly delta for the first time, although im not sure if thats something to look forward to or not. Looks like a 767 both ways.
Also get to fly delta for the first time, although im not sure if thats something to look forward to or not. Looks like a 767 both ways.