irishguy28

Flying Blue celebrates its 10th Anniversary with special Promo Awards. During 10 days, you can save no less than 50% on your Award Miles on selected destinations! The sales period will be only between 1 and 10 December 2015 (10 days).

All of these specials are in ECONOMY only

For these specials, all of the European destinations offered by Air France are genuinely Europe-wherever, rather than the recent Paris-wherever offers.

Travel 15/01-15/03/2016


Europe: Birmingham, Bordeaux, Edinburgh, Genoa, Hamburg, Istanbul, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Montpellier, Moscow, Nantes, Prague, St. Petersburg, Toulouse, Zagreb, Zurich

North America: Atlanta, Boston, Houston, New York, Washington DC

Asia: Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Dubai

South America: Lima, Sao Paulo

fifty_two

One more thing to add , if someone would like to buy extra miles there is a 50% bonus until November 30th

Unfortunately these birthday sales looks like a compilation of nice offers that i saw during 2015 , but nothing crazy like a FB black friday

Middle east : only dubai as usual
Caribbean : Nothing
North America : it seems really really nice , unfortunately its only the east coast
Europe : thanks that all these fares are from europe and not from paris as AF used to do, cause for me thats make no-sense to offer these destinations only from paris

mike turnbull

Only AF ? Is not KLM taking part ?

fifty_two

Yes they are , as usual . check the Flying Blue 10 Years Promo Awards section

f0zzyNUE

Lima for 35.000 miles plus 243€ tax&fees is a steal

ajs123

In any case without any J or P promos the celebration is lousy ...

irishguy28

That's not what I said.

If you follow the Promo Awards you will have noticed that - in the last few months - Air France has gone from offering, amongst its European offers, "Europe to Promo-Destination" offers to "Paris to Promo-Destination" offers.

However, for at least these 10-year anniversary Promos, they have reverted back to the Europe-wide offers - meaning travel does not have to start or end in Paris, as has recently become the norm for Air France's selection of Europe promo awards.

bodory

Who is stealing who?

olivedel

See, that is the issue

TravelingFitzMe

Never flown with Flying Blue before so not sure how consistent their promos are but I had a question on possible future promos:

I plan on flying ATL - DUB on March 15 for the 12,500 miles one way. Is there a strong chance the next wave of flying blue promos will feature Europe-USA at 50% starting March 16, allowing me to get back about a week later for the same 12,500 miles? I know it's all speculation at this point but just curious if there is history here.

Thanks in advance.

orbitmic

it's neither likely nor predictable. Most promo awards are 25% nowadays and rarely the same destinations twice in a row although it can occasionally happen. Incidentally you obviously need availability of award tickets to get a seat even at a theoretically promotional price. One week after 22/3 is just a couple of days before good Friday and Easter weekend and school holidays I many countries, so availability of cheapest band award tickets then is not very likely at all.

AlicorporateUK

I think YVR & YUL have been promoed for a few consecutive months but I might be wrong.

G

fifty_two

Good luck ! 25% yes for sure but 50% you need to be very lucky (see below)


Yes ! i checked the promo awards for 2015 and more or less the same destinations are offered but every 3/4 months , you cant really guess it , but except some ''surprises'' with garuda or kenya airways , there are some parts which are recurrent

north america = east coast
europe = completely random , with the funny offers of KLM in EBC for 45k or AF to french cities but .... only from paris
middle east = dubai , doha or abu dhabi (take 1/2 of them every month)
asia = i dont remember cause iam not interested by this area , besides ex-ussr countries
south america = often to brasil
Caribbean and central america = overpriced sh*t in premium economy or business

TravelingFitzMe

FWIW, this sale was extended until the 20th.

irishguy28

It has, indeed.

When these offers went live, I was looking at booking a one-way from one of the US origins to AMS, as I actually needed a one-way in the timeframe that the offers were available. However, given that KL was looking for €200+ in cash for the Promo Economy seat - the same cash amount as for a biz redemption - I balked and made other arrangements. (this made no sense, as to take an indirect routing on any other carrier brought the cash amount way down to sensible levels).

Having looked now, the cash co-pay for my route has been reduced to a rather more sane €71 (though considerably more than the ~€20 DL wants for indirect routings, though at double the miles!)