Air France KLM's Flying Blue is once again offering a bonus on buying their miles less than a month after the last time they did! Usually buying FB miles isn't a great proposition but if you can tie in buying them with one of their discounted promo awards offering up to 50% off award tickets you may just be able to out some value from this promotion.
Offer details:
Up to 50% Bonus Flying Blue Miles when you buy miles online. Full Details Until Dec 31, 16
- 2,000 Award Miles – 10% bonus
- 4,000 to 8,000 Award Miles – 20% bonus
- 10,000 to 28,000 Award Miles – 30% bonus
- 30,000+ Award Miles – 50% bonus
Here is an example of this buy miles bonus saving you some money:
You can buy 96,000 miles for EUR 1760. Those 96,000 miles will be enough to redeem for a discounted business class award ticket between Toronto and Europe (with a few miles to spare) Looking at Feb 7-14, 2017 in business class you can get the discounted rate between YYZ & FCO for 93,750 miles and 455.77EUR in taxes and fees. To buy the miles will cost EUR1848 (including 5% GST) and add in the taxes and fees on the award flight of 455.77EURfor a total of 2303.77 EUR. Convert that to C$ and you get C$3,290.97.
To buy the same tickets outright costs C$5,570.11. As you can see buying the miles can provide you a savings of over C$2,200 on these particular flights!
If you don't live in Canada those miles will only cost you 1760EUR saving an additional 88EURor so. And the discount for these Flying Blue tickets is only 25% at this time, sometimes its 50% off so your savings could be even bigger.
Find many more Flying Blue bonus offers here!
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