Last time Air France/KLM offered a promotion for purchased miles in their Flying Blue loyalty program, I outlined some strategies for avoiding costly fuel surcharges when redeeming your points. Nothing has changed, but I just want to point out again that Flying Blue program really has some great deals avaiable, even when only going to Europe.

When Air France/KLM pulled most of their premium award space from partner availability earlier this fall, the Flying Blue program ...

There are various options to fly between Tokyo and Bangkok.  Not all of them have First Class, so I was somewhat limited since I wanted to maximize my award redemption.  When I saw the Thai flight on the 777-300ER configured with "suites with doors", I knew that's the option I wanted to take.  Its not the newest product anymore, but its still a pretty nice way to fly.  Jet Airways bought these planes, configured them, but then has leased them out to various carriers. ...

Sometimes people can just be downright vindictive. I admittedly have a tendency to crave revenge, though I pray I will never turn out like the United Airlines reservations supervisor I dealt with earlier this week.

One of my best clients was scheduled to fly home from Beijing to Washington via Frankfurt in Air China first class connecting to United first class. While first class is first class, as a discerning traveler he naturally preferred Lufthansa and I told him not to worry: ...

After another lovely visit to the wonderful Lufthansa First Class Terminal, I was riding in a Mercedes S-Class across the tarmac at Frankfurt to the plane that would take me to Tokyo.  This would be my first flight on a Airbus 380, and the first trip to Japan where I would actually spend more than a few hours.  The Lufthansa A380 product is not that new anymore, and in fact, several Upgrd.com bloggers have reviewed the product already.  Fozz reviewed ...

With three days left to take advantage of the 35% Air France/KLM Flying Blue transfer bonus offer from American Express, there is still time to benefit from this bonus.

I used to think the Air France/KLM Flying Blue program was good for checking SkyTeam inventory online and that was about it. But as the Delta Skymiles program has become less valuable of late with Delta’s horrible website, inept phone agents, and rumors of a massive devaluation of miles becoming louder, I have ...

I realize I am a bit late to the game for this promotion, but I want to bring it to your attention just the same, as the Air France/KLM Flying Blue loyalty program has become more valuable of late.

Receive a 35% bonus when you transfer Membership Rewards® points to Flying Blue through September 16, 2012. Rather than 1,000 Award Miles, for the period of the promotion, you will receive 1,350 Award Miles when you transfer 1,000 Membership Rewards points to your Flying Blue ...