Pasdawan

Hi there,

I've been looking into the other threads but didn't find anything on this. When being a FB Platinum with an Amex Platinum AF-KLM Card, you have a specific benefit: your preferred partner/spouse is getting automatically the Platinum status on FB following yours.

I'm trying to get the info if it's going to ben kept with the new program.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Sam
voyage-platinum.com

carnarvon

The benefits remain the same except:

- no more Status miles (XP in new programme) with purchases at AFKL
- free XP instead of free segments on anniversary of card.

Masterfrog

It won't change. Here is the link :
http://operation-ae.com/explore_flyingblue/afplatinum

The only remaining interesting perk probably.
That Platinum FB Amex card has terrible value for the price though.

caliform

Compared to what? I get quite a bit of nice use out of it, the mileage earnings were pretty crazy.

carnarvon

i concur.

Am pleased with the miles earning and the top notch insurance coverage.

chil

"The top notch insurance coverage" is fake. It works until it doesn't.
I've had an AmEx Gold for years and once I had an accident in Switzerland in the mountains in 2011. It didn't fall under exceptions in the insurance conditions (they changed them shortly after to explicitly exclude cases like mine) which did not prevent them from refusing my insurance claim. So, I had to pay about 6000EUR.

carnarvon

Your statement is clear as mud.

Ditto

But you get both with the normal Amex Plat, and in fact you get MR points which you can then convert and use with many other airlines and not just limit yourself to FB awards.

carnarvon

You earn waaaaaay more FB miles with Amex FB than MR points exchanged for FB miles, especially if you buy quite few AF tickets.

For example:

- 1,000 Euros spent with Amex FB Plat at AF KL generate 2,000 FB miles and 1,500 miles when spent elsewhere.

- 1,000 Euros spent with normal Amex Plat generate 1,000 MR points according to Amex website which translate into 800 FB miles.

Then with Amex FB, the miles are your FB account so if you see an award you can take it straight away where MR take time to reach the FFP account meaning the award might be gone by then and your MR are assigned forever to the FFP.

A no brainer for me.

True you lose the freedom to affect the MR where you want, but one cannot expect to have it both ways.

Others might be in a different situation, but in my case, it plays well.

When I want to fly a non FB partner airline, I buy the ticket. I think, on the long run, it pays better.

But you can of course prefer to earn less miles and be free to use them in more FFP.

There is no such thing as one size which would fit all (even single size socks can turn out being too small), so one's paradise is another's hell.

bodory

MR transfer to FB is immediate.

Sjondorn

You're sure about the normal Amex Plat? In the US, for Amex Plat I get 5 MR per 1$ spent on airline tickets (any airline), so if I'd buy 1000 EUR ticket (~1166 USD), I'd be getting 5830 MR, which I can convert to 5830 FB miles.

bodory

Bolding is mine.

There lies the difference. The x5 on airfares is not applicable to French Amex Plat.

carnarvon

Amex website says "up to 72 hours".

If it is immediate, it is good. The risk of seeing the award go is minimised.

carnarvon

As bodory is pointing out, the figures I quoted are for French cards, as we are comparing Amex FB and normal Amex (Amex FB is only available to French and Dutch bank account holders).

This being said, these US figure are insane (good for you though). One gets far many more miles with the card than with flying.

Are the 5 MR per dollar spent for tickets only? What about other purchases?

Gajan

In NL you now get 1.5 MR per Euro. This changed a few months ago.