Texas_Duck

Have couple questions. Been booking for over 25 years business class seats using AMEX points with Delta. Now that Delta has doubled or tripled miles required to book seats, looking at options. Can I join Flying Blue now and transfer points from AMEX to Flying Blue and immediately book my seats. Is the transfer 1:1? Can miles in Flying Blue account be used by either KLM or AF? Therefore, if I am trying to get nonstop from IAH to AMS, I should call KLM or if I want nonstop between Paris and Houston, call AF. Thanks for help.

mlin32

Normally the transfer is instant, BUT in your case it would likely be red-flagged immediately by Flying Blue because you have not flown with them- there are numerous cases of this ! People have a new or zero-balance FB account, and decide to transfer MR miles solely for an award ticket........the miles are then cancelled/frozen. So don't try this.

To answer your other question, FB miles can be used on AF/KLM or some other Skyteam carriers too, but for AF/KLM the award pricing is dynamic so it can vary based on demand.

Oxymore

You can do it, but do it over the phone the very first time you redeem miles, and preferably redeem them in your own name.

Boturham

You might want to read through this thread before you make a move...

Air France/FB says my 317,000+ MR transfer is FRAUD! Help!

brunos

To answer your questions:
1. transfer 1:1: you have to check with your credit card website.
2.Yes FB miles can be used on either AF, KL any ST partner and some other airlines.
3.You need to call FB (Flying Blue) tp book an award, not the airline itself,

Now the issue of transferring cc miles on a newly created FB account. The transaction will be flagged and they will have you go through hoops.
We have some horror stories on FT, but I sometimes feel that the OP gives a biased version of the story.
Booking a ticket for someone else is a no no.
But if you book the ticket for yourself with miles transferred from your own AMEX, I think that you will end up successful. However it might take a bit of time before they issue the ticket and will perform some verification. Personally, I know of two examples (not reported on FT) that went through either quickly or after a couple of weeks. The good thing is that they usually let you do the booking (so you can grab available seats) and then investigate.

Goldorak

I think this is a very fair assessment of what can happen and very good advices for future posters who will be in the same situation.

Mwenenzi

As above it would be far better if you had a history with the AF/KLM Flying Blue ffp. Fly some DL flights or FB parnter and credit to FB

Amex have other partners
Amex MR Transfer Membership Rewards points to which airline or hotel program?

Some ffp's have better award availability for their own members and less for partners . Or saver vs anytime (very many ff miles)
FF miles are not all equal to earn or burn, but credit cards can transfer at the same rate.
A guide to ff miles needed on some ffp's as link. With the trend to dynamic awards this will come harder to predict.
--> www.awardhacker.com
--> www.wheretocredit.com/dl
--> www.wheretocredit.com/klm

beachmouse

Any thoughts on whether a FB account that has been nicely 'aged' but has no actual flight history is considered to be a fraud risk? A little over a year back when FB made it possible to keep miles earned by partner activity from expiring by earning additional partner miles, I created my account and have been dumping redemptions from e-Rewards and another survey program into the account as well as Amex points when there's a good bonus offer in play.

Prolly won't redeem anything from there until the account is 2+ years old, and it works out better for me to credit SkyTeam flights to Delta, so I'd like to not credit actual flights to FB unless it seems like I have to in order to avoid drawing a fraud flag.

lemon123