If you wish to journey to Europe comfortably this summer time, Air France-KLM Flying Blue is providing glorious award house in Delta One enterprise class starting at just 55,000 Flying Blue miles.
Plus, you probably have Citi ThankYou Rewards points, this deal is even higher. Citi is at the moment providing a 20% switch bonus to Flying Blue, which implies you will must switch solely 46,000 Citi points to ebook lie-flat business-class seats, a terrific deal for peak summer time journey.
This deal was first reported by One Mile at a Time.
Here’s what it’s worthwhile to learn about reserving this nice provide.
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How to search out Delta One award house
While we love the Seats.aero software for rapidly discovering award house throughout a 12-month interval, this useful resource sadly doesn’t present Delta One seats bookable by means of Flying Blue. The platform does have a Delta One Finder software that, in principle, exhibits Delta One seats bookable with companion miles (as an alternative of paying 300,000-plus miles per flight by means of Delta’s personal SkyMiles program).
However, this software solely exhibits companion seats by means of one program, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. While Flying Club affords nice award charges, displaying seats obtainable for 47,500 to 77,500 points, relying on the size of the flight, it tacks on enormous charges, taxes and surcharges, which can quantity to over $1,000 in further prices every method. Therefore, you’ll be able to anticipate to pay greater than $2,000 for Delta One flights along with the Virgin Atlantic points required for round-trip flights to Europe.
If you do not wish to pay excessive surcharges on Delta One flights, attempt reserving by means of Air France-KLM’s Flying Blue program, because it has each engaging mileage charges and considerably decrease taxes and costs. Know, although, that availability is normally laborious to search out.
You can use Seats.aero’s Delta One Finder as a starting level to test which routes and dates to Europe can be found by means of companion applications. In principle, if a seat is on the market with Virgin points, it ought to even be obtainable with Flying Blue miles (with the decrease money copay).
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Unfortunately, we now have not seen consistency between the seats obtainable by means of Virgin Atlantic Flying Club and people obtainable by means of Flying Blue, that means that many Delta Air Lines seats obtainable by means of Virgin Atlantic aren’t obtainable by means of Air France or KLM.
If you could have a selected route in thoughts, you might want to attempt looking for it straight on the Air France and KLM web sites within the hope of scoring a fairly priced seat. For the very best outcomes, search for nonstop flights operated from Delta hubs.
Some Delta One business-class choices we discovered obtainable to ebook by means of Flying Blue embody:
- Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to Dublin Airport (DUB) in July for 55,000 Flying Blue miles (or 46,000 Citi points) plus $33 in taxes and costs
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in July for 73,500 Flying Blue miles (or 62,000 Citi points) plus $33 in taxes and costs
- JFK to Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) in August for 74,500 Flying Blue miles (or 63,000 Citi points) plus $33 in taxes and costs
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) to Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN) in August for 85,500 Flying Blue miles (or 72,000 Citi points) plus $33 in taxes and costs
- New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Geneva Airport (GVA) in September for 72,000 Flying Blue miles (or 60,000 Citi points) plus $33 in taxes and costs
- BOS to Scotland’s Edinburgh Airport (EDI) in October for 57,000 Flying Blue miles (or 48,000 Citi points) plus $33 in taxes and costs
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How to ebook Delta One award seats with Flying Blue miles
Once you discover availability on the Flying Blue web site, click on by means of to the cost display to make sure the seat is on the market, after which it is best to be capable to ebook it.
Flying Blue companions with all main bank card currencies at a 1:1 charge:
You can even switch Marriott Bonvoy points to Flying Blue at a 3:1 charge and obtain a further 5,000 Flying Blue miles for each 60,000 Bonvoy points you switch.
Through July 19, Citi ThankYou Rewards members can switch their points to Flying Blue with a 20% bonus, that means you will want 20% fewer points to ebook Delta One awards than with different bank card currencies. Transfers have to be made in increments of 1,000 points, and there’s a most of 500,000 ThankYou Rewards points which you could switch per points switch.
Transfers from Citi to Flying Blue must be on the spot, however do not forget that they can’t be reversed, so we suggest discovering the award house on the Flying Blue web site first and being able to switch your miles and ebook instantly as soon as you discover the flight you are all in favour of.
Transfers from different currencies can also be on the spot, although transfers from American Express and Marriott Bonvoy might take greater than 24 hours to finish.
Related: How (and why) it is best to earn transferable bank card points
Bottom line
While it might be a bit troublesome to search out availability, it is effectively value spending the time to go looking the Flying Blue web site to see in the event you can rating a terrific deal in your most well-liked route, even when it’s worthwhile to be versatile on the dates. Delta One is extraordinarily troublesome to ebook at an honest charge when factoring within the quantity of points or miles wanted and the extra money charges.
Even although these seats might be difficult to search out, at these costs, they will not final, so ebook now if you wish to journey in model to Europe this summer time.
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