Credit card help..PLEASE!!
 

Hi all,

I am confused...and I am sure you guys can help.

My company is transferring me from USA to Europe. I am going to be living in Scotland and travelling a lot within Europe. Right now I have a US company credit card but will have to hand this in when I leave the US and get a new one in the UK. This will be a private card of my choice on which I put company transactions.

I have a platinum card with Air France/KLM and was hoping to find a credit card which will allow me to accrue miles to my flying blue account. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I see some talk about transferring miles between cards but am not really up on that stuff.

Thanks in advance.

rich

Welcome to FlyerTalk, richlear.

For AF/KLM, what you need to do is find the UK website for them. (Check in the FlyingBlue forum here on FlyerTalk if you're unable to find that website on your own.) Once you find the UK website for FlyingBlue, it should list what credit cards (available to people with UK billing addresses) can earn with FlyingBlue, somewhere probably in a section on earning miles with partners.

On your last question, you don't transfer miles between cards. If a card uses "real" miles (such as FlyingBlue), they're posted to yur FlyingBlue account every statement, so you just have make sure you don't cancel the previous card before all your miles post to FlyingBlue. (Ie, have a period of overlap between getting the UK card and cancelling the US card.) As long as your new card also puts miles into the same FlyingBlue account (you can give them your existing FlyingBlue number when you're applying for new card), there's nothing you need to transfer.

Meanwhile, in most cases, you can't transfer miles between one miles program and another. (In the few cases where you can, you lost a lot of value in such transfer.)

Diners club
 

Hi,
Thanks for the information. I did as you suggested and KLM offer Diners club card with the following statement:

as a Diners Club customer, you receive 1 Club Rewards point for every € 5 you spend. You can then exchange these Club Rewards points for Flying Blue Miles at a rate of 500 Club Rewards points for 2500 Flying Blue Miles

I am not sure how good a deal that is??

thanks

rich

Comes out to one mile per euro spent - I'm not familiar enough with European cards to know whether or not that's a good deal. In the U.S., it would not be.

One miles per euro spent is what I got for my Flying Blue Amex in France. It is probably about the best you can do for FB. Is there any way you could establish a bank account and billing address in France? If so, you could get the Gold FB Amex. One great feature of that card is that your expenditures on the card are credited as status miles; that's mainly how I got to Gold status with FB.