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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 3:31 am
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Am I missing something here !!

Below is the cost f award flights from KLM. Is it not somewhat on the border of being fraudulant to sell something that does not exist.

The point I am making, I would be sevrely peeved if I used my hard earned miles to buy a business class seat to find they dont exist, but not to worry as I would get bonus miles and a beer ????

If I pay for something and get a sub standard product, then surely this is a breach of advertsing codes.

Departure Arrival Regular price Now Discount
Amsterdam Schiphol Birmingham - International 22500 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
12500 Miles (Economy)
16250 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
6250 Miles (Economy)
6250 Miles

Valid from 17 November 2003 until 15 March 2004
Valid on All days
Valid on All KLM flights, Business / Europe Select and Economy Class


Departure Arrival Regular price Now Discount
Amsterdam Schiphol Humberside - Hull 22500 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
12500 Miles (Economy)
16250 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
6250 Miles (Economy)
6250 Miles

Valid from 17 November 2003 until 15 March 2004
Valid on All days
Valid on All KLM flights, Business / Europe Select and Economy Class

Departure Arrival Regular price Now Discount
Amsterdam Schiphol Tees Side - Middleton 22500 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
12500 Miles (Economy)
16250 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
6250 Miles (Economy)
6250 Miles

Valid from 17 November 2003 until 15 March 2004
Valid on All days
Valid on All KLM flights, Business / Europe Select and Economy Class

Departure Arrival Regular price Now Discount
Amsterdam Schiphol Newcastle Airport 22500 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
12500 Miles (Economy)
16250 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
6250 Miles (Economy)
6250 Miles

Valid from 17 November 2003 until 15 March 2004
Valid on All days
Valid on All KLM flights, Business / Europe Select and Economy Class


Departure Arrival Regular price Now Discount
Amsterdam Schiphol Norwich - Horsham St Fa 22500 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
12500 Miles (Economy)
16250 Miles (Business / Europe Select)
6250 Miles (Economy)
6250 Miles





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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 3:51 am
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Ok, some flights will have Europe Select and others just a Y-cabin, none of them will have C-class.
BUT on a BIG upside, because Humberside is listed under discounted award between Ams-Huy, this actually means that all flights to and from Huy within Europe are 50% off. So I'm bloody well excited!
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 6:36 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Avallon:
Ok, some flights will have Europe Select and others just a Y-cabin, none of them will have C-class.
BUT on a BIG upside, because Humberside is listed under discounted award between Ams-Huy, this actually means that all flights to and from Huy within Europe are 50% off. So I'm bloody well excited!
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Wow! The new list also includes 50% off economy award tickets to JFK, IAD and SFO until 15/03/2004.

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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 7:20 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Avallon:
Ok, some flights will have Europe Select and others just a Y-cabin, none of them will have C-class.
BUT on a BIG upside, because Humberside is listed under discounted award between Ams-Huy, this actually means that all flights to and from Huy within Europe are 50% off. So I'm bloody well excited!
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Not sure I understand - so (e.g) if I wanted to book HUY (which is a great little airport - loved my first trip through it!)-Prague, then the whole trip would be 50% off, or only HUY-AMS, with AMS-Prague at normal price?

And the site is showing a discount of 6250 miles - not 50%. So looks like total discount would be 6250 miles off the trip.

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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 8:40 am
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My point was they are trying to sell business class tickets on flights with no biz class facility
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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 8:52 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Jenbel:
Not sure I understand - so (e.g) if I wanted to book HUY (which is a great little airport - loved my first trip through it!)-Prague, then the whole trip would be 50% off, or only HUY-AMS, with AMS-Prague at normal price?

And the site is showing a discount of 6250 miles - not 50%. So looks like total discount would be 6250 miles off the trip.

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The discount is per one-way journey so
actually it works out the same. HUY-AMS-PRG return for 12500 miles (either 25000/2 or 25000-6250-6250).

Or HUY-AMS-SFO return for 25,000 miles. As a PE that is essentially a "buy 1 get 1 free" offer.

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Old Nov 17, 2003 | 11:08 am
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Oooh, I see now. Gosh, I'm slow today V nice offer!

Steve, not ignoring your original comment, you are entirely right about the extra miles of Europe Select on a service which doesn't offer it. I suppose their justification would be that they sell tickets in ES on that route, so of course they can offer ES seats. Would a reward ticket booked in ES have the same flexibility that a paid for ticket would have?

I notice that MAN isn't included and that has recently started two 737 flights a day with "full" ES on them.
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