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This kind of space doesn’t last long. We are seeing a ton of award space, across the network from summer through winter to Europe. If you’re thinking of a European getaway…I’d have a gander at award availability especially because you can populate these miles with every transferrable currency. Details below:
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How do you get Flying Blue Miles?
They are a transfer partner of every flexible bank point so you probably have them and don’t even know it
- American Express
- Bilt Rewards
- Brex
- Capital One
- Chase
- Citi
- Wells Fargo
Searching a Month at a time
- Search One Way
- Leave the dates blank
LIke this:
And then can see space 30 days at a time
Samples
One of the hardest to find ( usually ) is west coast flights…quite a bit of space especially later in the year.
Los Angeles
Midwest: Chicago
South: Raleigh/Durham ( RDU )
Taxes and fees
Depends on where you’re flying to/from but usually around $200 to $300 ( the UK is substantially more )
Air France/KLM North American Destinations
KLM
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- Las Vegas
- Minneapolis
- Chicago
- Houston
- Austin
- Miami
- Atlanta
- DC
- New York
- Boston
- Montreal
- Toronto
- Vancouver
Air France
- Seattle
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- San Diego
- Phoenix
- Dallas
- Denver
- Houston
- Minneapolis
- Chicago
- Atlanta
- Miami
- Detroit
- Raleigh
- Washington DC
- New York City/Newark ( JFK and EWR )
- Boston
- Montreal
- Quebec
- Vancouver
- Ottawa
Air France/KLM business class
I’ve flown both a few times and you want to make sure that you get the newer planes.
KLM
For instance, KLM has older 777s that they fly that have this business class. You want to avoid them ( the seat map with be 2-2-2 )
Instead you want to find seat maps with 1-2-1 with all aisle access that look like this:
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KLM has retrofitted that look like this but have doors. They are on 777s with a 1-2-1 configuration
Air France
Air France has A350s and 777s with a new business class with doors that look amazing ( I haven’t flown it yet ) and you can tell the ones that have the new
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Lemme know if you book!
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
- That’s $750 when you redeem through Chase Travel℠
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2024
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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