KLM finally spots the big loophole in its baggage charging plan

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• Britbronco22 says:

  19 Jun19 June 07:20

  The value you get using miles for baggage is still probably better than their short haul redemptions though

• Euan says:

  19 Jun19 June 10:04

  A shame about the change… I’ve made use of it several times recently.

• Phillip says:

  19 Jun19 June 10:27

  What would be interesting to know is how many new members signed up to Flying Blue over the space of the year! I would say more than a loophole, it was an intentional plan to bulk up the FFP and improve statistics!

• Leon says:

  19 Jun19 June 11:11

  They added about 200.000 new FB members in the last year, strictly related to their (at that time) new bagage rules.

• Aeronaut says:

  19 Jun19 June 11:20

  How come the exception to baggage charges for KLM flights to Italy?

• Lady London says:

  19 Jun19 June 11:56

  Apparently you can’t switch their emails off if you are a member of FlyingBlue. Silly really, as any serious frequent flyer is perfectly able to keep themselves aware of anything they need to know about KL/AF without receiving huge emails with magazines that take ages to load and are fiddly to flip through (I’m looking at you, KL!!) each month. I’m likely to start flying again on several routes quite soon that I would seriously consider KL/AF in particular to have strength in. But trying to unsubscribe from their emails and being told it’s not possible to be a Flying Blue member and not have any emails from them at all, has put me right off.

  So I’ll just have to cobble together flights from Qatar, SAA, and other Middle East Airlines instead which is actually much less convenient that regularly using KL/AF would have been.

  • grex9101 says:

    19 Jun19 June 12:15

    What’s the big deal? Give them a fake email address of just mark their emails as spam. Hardly a deal breaker.

• Callum says:

  19 Jun19 June 16:39

  I’d hardly call it a loophole. They’ve announced you could do this from the very start of the new baggage policy.

  I’d imagine it was just a transition period before this latest change kicked in (and maybe the half price will be eventually removed as well).

• Kris Schimmel says:

  19 Jun19 June 23:13

  If this doesn’t take effect until October, I can still sign up at the moment to Flying Blue to get free hold luggage if I book befor October 1st? I’m thinking of running Amsterdam marathon in October, so do I have 3+ months to decide if wanna take hold luggage?

  • Rob says:

    20 Jun20 June 08:02

    Yes, that is how I read it

    • Kris Schimmel says:

      20 Jun20 June 09:55

      Cool! Thanks

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