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Flying Blue, the Air France / KLM frequent flyer scheme, is running a very generous offer with hotel booking site PountsHound for first-time bookers.

You will earn 12,000 Flying Blue miles if you book a two-night stay via this link TODAY, for any future stay date.

I apologise for the short notice of this offer.  However, whilst the link has been around for a while, I was concerned about the fact that the offer is described as being for ‘Corporate Flying Blue members’.

I don’t know what a ‘corporate’ member is but I am pretty sure I am not one.  However, looking online it seems that the miles are posting for anyone who uses the link irrespective of their Flying Blue status.

Remember that hotel stays booked via PointsHound are treated as ‘non qualifying’ by the hotels and you will not earn any points or stay credit in, say, Hilton HHonors or IHG Rewards Club.  Depending on the scheme you may not even earn points on your food and drink spend in the hotel.

For 12,000 Flying Blue miles, though, I can live with that.

Remember that you need to book today, Saturday, via this link and you must be a first-time PointsHound customer.


How to earn Flying Blue miles from UK credit cards

How to earn Flying Blue miles from UK credit cards (April 2024)

Air France and KLM do not have a UK Flying Blue credit card.  However, you can earn Flying Blue miles by converting Membership Rewards points earned from selected UK American Express cards.

These cards earn Membership Rewards points:

Membership Rewards points convert at 1:1 into Flying Blue miles which is an attractive rate.  The cards above all earn 1 Membership Rewards point per £1 spent on your card, which converts to 1 Flying Blue mile. The Gold card earns double points (2 per £1) on all flights you charge to it.

Comments (24)

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  • Stan says:

    The offer states by the 15th and from my understanding that means Friday was last day.

    • James says:

      To my understanding 15th October is a Saturday no matter where you live in the world. It’s just that the Australians and the Chinese get to every day of the week a bit more quickly than the Europeans or the Yanks do…

      • Stan says:

        The word “by” in English means before and in most cases if the day is included it has the word “inclusive” in the sentence which in this case terms do not have.

        • Genghis says:

          I disagree. ‘By’ means ‘not later than’ and hence includes 15th.

        • John says:

          Genghis appears not to have clicked the link, and Stan appears to have read the word “by” where it says “before”, or, in the past 3-6 hours the website has been subtly altered.

          • Stan says:

            The word was “By” yesterday but now it even more clear as they changed it to “before”…… I booked 3 days ago when the deals was just out, just wanted to give a warning to guys that saw it last minute.

          • Genghis says:

            Now that is sneaky… they’ve made it even more ambiguous. Does book before 15 Oct really mean book by 14 Oct? Clear as mud. Flying Blue isn’t my thing anyway.

    • Susan says:

      The Italian site uses “entro il 15 ottobre 2016” which includes the 15th

  • Andy says:

    Still friday here on the west coast 😉

    Are refundable bookings possible via pointshound?

  • Anpiet says:

    It doesn’t work for me. The link showed many hotels with the 12,000 Flying Blue miles, but as soon as I entered my Flying Blue number, I had the message ‘No hotel found’ (because I am not a corporate member). Too bad.

  • Roger says:

    Saw this on Loyalty lobby a week or so ago. Tried dummy booking which did work.
    But for some reason now trying dummy booking it says no hotel found.

    • Fritz the cat says:

      You have to refresh several times up to 15x and then you should be see available hotels.
      Had the same problem yesterday by searching hotels in Pattaya, and finally booked 2 nights for a total of $60 incl. tax:)

      • Roger says:

        Is this limited to one bonus per user for each 2 night stay booked?
        I assume there is no option of refundable booking if you are booking speculatively for a semi-planned holiday.

  • James67 says:

    I pondered this for days because 12k FB miles can actually be very useful and valuable. In the end I passed as I didn’t particularly need any more hotel stays or changes. Offer appeared to be restricted to those hotels costing about €100/night or more.

  • Coolblue says:

    Just booked 2 nights in Koi Samui for €55 Total and 12100 miles.

  • David Devine says:

    Just had a look at KLM award flights and one way MAN-AMS starts at 5950 miles up to 30k miles plus tax (from 28e-51e). Cheapest weekend I can see is 19750 miles + 70.19e tax. I know BA has gone down in my estimation recently, but at least you know where you stand with reward flghts when they are available.

    • xcalx says:

      On the other hand you could do a December break to St Martin for 30,000 plus 200 Euro for a return from Manchester. or even fly out before xmas and fly back in Jan for the same deal.

      never gave FB much of a looking at before but as ST Martin is our favourite Caribbean Island these promo offers are tempting

      .I just checked SXM-LBA 1500 FB points plus euro109 for December. I have IB booked in Business from MIA but am tempted to drop to economy to have a week in St Martin after our cruises. Decisions decisions

  • Rosina Leber says:

    I couldn’t enter. As soon as I entered my Flying Blue number and PIN it came up
    ” try logging in again”, I tried over and over again. I understood that “corporate
    member” means that you need to have a registered corporate account.

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