Air France has launched a new cashback offer with American Express. If you are targetted, you will see it in the ‘Offers’ section of the app or website on one or more of your cards. .....

Air France has launched a new cashback offer with American Express. If you are targetted, you will see it in .....

21 Sep 202221 September 2022 by Rob Burgess

Regular readers will remember that, back in November 2021, I did a series of three articles on different aspects of the Accor Live Limitless programme. They looked at what I learned after hitting .....

Regular readers will remember that, back in November 2021, I did a series of three articles on different .....

13 Sep 202213 September 2022 by Rob Burgess • 4 comments

Today we are starting a series of articles from a recent trip that Rhys took to Mauritius. For once, we are not focusing on the flight because it was British Airways Club World from London Gatwick. .....

Today we are starting a series of articles from a recent trip that Rhys took to Mauritius. For once, we are .....

26 Aug 202226 August 2022 by Rob Burgess • 36 comments

Air France has announced that its new direct service from London Heathrow to Nice will continue into the Winter. The reason we mention this is that, as a Virgin Flying Club partner, this flight is .....

Air France has announced that its new direct service from London Heathrow to Nice will continue into the .....

19 Aug 202219 August 2022 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

Flying Blue, the Air France / KLM loyalty programme, is running a bonus promotion for anyone who is looking to top up their account. This offer is the best we have seen for a .....

Flying Blue, the Air France / KLM loyalty programme, is running a bonus promotion for anyone who is .....

13 Aug 202213 August 2022 by Rob Burgess

There is nothing more frustrating than finding that your miles have expired when you finally come to use them or add to them. This is most likely to happen with secondary programmes where you once .....

There is nothing more frustrating than finding that your miles have expired when you finally come to use them .....

6 Aug 20226 August 2022 by Rob Burgess • 34 comments

Once upon a time, it was not unusual for airlines to offer transfer options out of their frequent flyer miles and into hotel schemes. Over the years this changed, creating a pyramid of sorts: There .....

Once upon a time, it was not unusual for airlines to offer transfer options out of their frequent flyer miles .....

11 Jul 202211 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

It’s beginning to look like Air France and KLM are hunkering down in Heathrow Terminal 3 with no plans to return to Terminal 4. This makes sense, of course. Now that the two airlines have joined .....

It’s beginning to look like Air France and KLM are hunkering down in Heathrow Terminal 3 with no plans .....

1 Jul 20221 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 45 comments

Can you buy American Express Membership Rewards points? Interestingly, yes. One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up to 10,000 .....

Can you buy American Express Membership Rewards points? Interestingly, yes. One of the lesser known features .....

24 Jun 202224 June 2022 by Rob Burgess • 13 comments

It is now over two years since Virgin Atlantic added Air France and KLM as redemption partners, following the launch of the expanded transatlantic joint venture with Delta Air Lines. In theory, being .....

It is now over two years since Virgin Atlantic added Air France and KLM as redemption partners, following the .....

10 Jun 202210 June 2022 by Rob Burgess • 52 comments

If you have some Radisson Rewards points, you may be wondering if it is worth transferring them to Avios or Flying Blue miles, which are the only two major programmes now supported. The answer, in .....

If you have some Radisson Rewards points, you may be wondering if it is worth transferring them to Avios or .....

10 Jun 202210 June 2022 by Rob Burgess • 6 comments

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. In a surprise announcement, Air France has announced a new business class seat that will be flying from September. It is joining a growing gang of .....

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. In a surprise announcement, Air France has announced a new .....

13 May 202213 May 2022 by Rhys Jones • 42 comments

This is our review of KLM’s non-Schengen Crown Lounge at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Over the last six months, new Italian airline ITA Airways – which rose from the ashes of .....

This is our review of KLM’s non-Schengen Crown Lounge at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Over the .....

17 Apr 202217 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 46 comments

ITA Airways, the ‘replacement’ carrier for Alitalia, has brought back the elite status match that it first ran last October. This allows you, for free, to get elite status across the .....

ITA Airways, the ‘replacement’ carrier for Alitalia, has brought back the elite status match that .....

19 Mar 202219 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 85 comments