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Jet Airways makes metal neutral pact with KLM/Air France
Jet Airways has signed a pact with Air France / KLM group to collaborate on a metal neutral flight basis on flights operated by the three carriers between India and Europe. The latest agreement spans 44 cities in India and 106 destinations across Europe.
Flying Blue will be reinvented on April 1, 2018
Flying Blue has announced major changes to the frequent flyer program as of next year. This will impact all 90 million Flying Blue members, as they get to a different life in terms of earning and burning miles and their status on Flying Blue.
How Cool: Dutch King was a KLM Pilot too!
The Dutch King tells us that he has been a pilot on KLM for over 2 decades. Isn’t that cool?!
KLM to start flying to Mumbai after 16 years
After Jet Airways’ rapid rise into Amsterdam, the home carrier of Amsterdam, KLM is coming back to Mumbai after 16 years. Here are all the details of the flight we know between Mumbai and Amsterdam. Another option for you to get to the US, and over the pond now.
Air France / KLM / Delta may soon make a JV with Jet Airways
This could be interesting. The much expected Joint Venture between KLM/Air France, Delta and Jet Airways may be happening. This could mean connectivity from tonnes of places in the USA and Europe to India, and the other way around as well! Here is what we know so far…
Less than a month before Jet Airways flies to Amsterdam
Jet Airways will be moving operations from Brussels to Amsterdam at the end of March 2016, when the summer 2016 schedule gets underway. This move solves a lot of problems for Jet Airways and also opens a new city for Jet Airways.
Here are all the details of the new route and how it will work for Jet Airways’ European operations here on.
Republic Day Deals: Cathay Pacific, Emirates & Air France/KLM offering special fares
26th January is a great day for airlines to roll out offers for Indians travelling around the world, and this year is no different. I tried summarising a few offers for all of you in this post: Emirates is offering 10% to select destinations across the world from India for booking it up by 26 January 2014 and travel upto 10th April 2014. Destinations include Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Nice, Prague, Seychelles & Cape Town. Etihad is offering business class deals to Africa, Europe & the UAE, and is valid for booking till 28th January 2014, and travel till June 30, 2014. Virgin Atlantic is offering special fares to London and onwards to the USA from Mumbai and Delhi which…
FlyingBlue promo reminder: 30K miles biz Mumbai/Europe or 55K miles Mumbai/USA (or back!)
Last month, I had posted about the promo awards that the Flying Blue program of Air France/KLM, where you could potentially get a one-way ticket in business-class cabins to Europe for 30K miles (instead of the normal 60K), and to the USA for 55K miles (30K Mumbai – Europe, 25K Europe – USA –> two separate awards). These promotional awards, are bookable only for the months of March and April 2013. Availability looked swell even at this point of time, with even up to 6 seats available on some dates in the business cabin. So, there you go with about 3 more weeks to make use of this wonderful opportunity. It might not be the best business class in…
Mumbai to Europe for 30K FlyingBlue Miles, USA for 55K miles, all in biz class (and vice versa)
FlyingBlue, the loyalty program of KLM/Air France, recently published their promo-award charts for the months of March and April 2013. FB’s promo awards essentially provide you with a 50% off on mileage requirement using FB miles for the period concerned. Now, there were some sweet spots from my perspective for the first time. The usual redemption rate from India to Europe on Flying Blue in Business is 60K miles for a one-way redemption, but for the next two months, one could get a business class seat for the price of an economy redemption, i.e., 30K miles one-way and 60K miles roundtrip on Air France. Take for instance, this sample booking from Mumbai to Oslo, which prices at 30K miles +…
FlyingBlue might be honoring status matches
FlyingBlue has been out in the public eye, for first offering a liberal status match to their Gold status, and then geographically limiting it to Scandinavia (the original plan), and then pulling out the offer altogether. Miles and Points-holics have been worried if they will get their committed status match or not. I discovered on this FlyerTalk thread that someone has received a reply from KLM on Facebook, discussing the problem and committing to effecting the status match: Thank you so much for your patience, <redacted>. We investigated the situation and acknowledge that due to a mistake from our side the campaign allowed members from outside Scandinavia to apply for a Flying Blue Gold status indeed. Therefore we decided to…
