SkyTeam to Seychelles?
Apr 1, 2007 | 4:21 pm
#1
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SkyTeam to Seychelles?
Is it possible to get to the Seychelles via SkyTeam?
Yes, I have searched.
Looking at Orbitz I can see that AF has a codeshare SEZ-CDG with Air Seychelles, so I can only assume that they have one going to the other way.
My questions - does anyone know for sure whether or not AF has a roundtrip codeshare with Air Seychelles; and is it possible to book these flights with SkyMiles?
Thank you much...
Yes, I have searched.
Looking at Orbitz I can see that AF has a codeshare SEZ-CDG with Air Seychelles, so I can only assume that they have one going to the other way.
My questions - does anyone know for sure whether or not AF has a roundtrip codeshare with Air Seychelles; and is it possible to book these flights with SkyMiles?
Thank you much...
Apr 1, 2007 | 4:53 pm
#2
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I believe that to redeem a SkyTeam award the flight needs to be operated by a SkyTeam carrier; not just a flight with a SkyTeam code attached to it. Therefore, the Air Seychelles is probably not eligible for a Delta redemption, but if you had Flying Blue miles it might be.
Apr 13, 2007 | 7:03 am
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Update
Last week in an ATL CRC I asked an agent to pull up flights to SEZ. An AF flight was showing up, but it said it was operated by Air Seychelles. The agent said it was probably a code share, thus not open for award flights, but also said it looked somewhat different from regular codeshare so he recommended I contact the intl partner award desk.
So, last night i called the partner desk. It is true that AF does not operate any metal to SEZ. They "co-operate" a flight with air seychelles, thus meaning we CAN book award travel. A J award is 140k unless you take Continental TATL and then its 160k.
I'll be trying to book two of these in the next few weeks, I'll let you know how it goes.....
Last week in an ATL CRC I asked an agent to pull up flights to SEZ. An AF flight was showing up, but it said it was operated by Air Seychelles. The agent said it was probably a code share, thus not open for award flights, but also said it looked somewhat different from regular codeshare so he recommended I contact the intl partner award desk.
So, last night i called the partner desk. It is true that AF does not operate any metal to SEZ. They "co-operate" a flight with air seychelles, thus meaning we CAN book award travel. A J award is 140k unless you take Continental TATL and then its 160k.
I'll be trying to book two of these in the next few weeks, I'll let you know how it goes.....
Apr 13, 2007 | 10:31 am
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Booking CDG-MRU (Mauritius) as part of my RTW award, both AF metal and AF codeshares on Air Mauritius were available for award booking. At first we booked to codeshare until we realized that we wouldn't really be in J, but rather Premium Economy. We quickly changed to an AF metal flight.
Apr 16, 2007 | 7:09 am
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I'm heading to SEZ in June/July.
Using NW miles, I booked my flights on NW, PrivatAir (KL, IAH-AMS), then KQ (Kenya Airways) from AMS to NBO and then to SEZ.
Unfortunately, this won't help DL, CO members since KQ isn't a partner with those airlines.
Using NW miles, I booked my flights on NW, PrivatAir (KL, IAH-AMS), then KQ (Kenya Airways) from AMS to NBO and then to SEZ.
Unfortunately, this won't help DL, CO members since KQ isn't a partner with those airlines.
Jan 24, 2008 | 1:28 pm
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And yes, you can book the Air France code share with Air Seychelles
Jan 24, 2008 | 10:46 pm
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Booking CDG-MRU (Mauritius) as part of my RTW award, both AF metal and AF codeshares on Air Mauritius were available for award booking. At first we booked to codeshare until we realized that we wouldn't really be in J, but rather Premium Economy. We quickly changed to an AF metal flight.
Jan 24, 2008 | 11:04 pm
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I see now what you refer to. From their website. I remember now decding we could live with 45" since the schedule worked well.
Jan 25, 2008 | 1:17 am
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I was looking into booking NBO-MRU on an Air Mauritius flight codeshared with Kenya Airways and they said it could not be booked with Skymiles..how exactly is that different from the Air France/Air Seychelles flight?
Jan 29, 2008 | 6:58 am
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The arrangement AF has with HM is revenue sharing where AF actually pays a fixed amount to HM for each flight and gets a number of seats in return to sell. Those seats are eligible for award travel.
As an aside, up until last year I went to both Seychelles and Mauritius yearly for business (tourism) and am still quite familiar with a lot. PM me if you have questions about most anything and I should be able to help (esp with the resorts and tourism aspects).
Feb 18, 2008 | 8:54 pm
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Sez
Successfully booked using skymiles
Air France/Air Seychelles AF0952/ CDG-SEZ
Air France/Air Seychelles AF0953/ SEZ-CDG
Kenya Airways (via NBO) was also an option, but didn't fly every day and didn't have the best flight times (we would have had to overnight in NBO).
Air France/Air Seychelles AF0952/ CDG-SEZ
Air France/Air Seychelles AF0953/ SEZ-CDG
Kenya Airways (via NBO) was also an option, but didn't fly every day and didn't have the best flight times (we would have had to overnight in NBO).
Last edited by kazakie; Feb 18, 2008 at 9:53 pm