Loyalty programs
Flying Blue still issues physical cards…for lifetime statuses
Even though Flying Blue no longer sends physical cards to its customers, two exceptions remain: for lifetime members and Ultimate members.
It has been a year since Air France and KLM's loyalty program, like other competing programs, stopped sending physical...
Sell your miles? A very bad idea!
Many sites offer to redeem miles and points from your loyalty programs for cash. If the operation can be tempting at first sight, it can especially bring you problems.
Miles and points are, as is often said, the currency...
Flying Blue: a new status between Platinum and Ultimate
It's not official yet, but it will be soon: Air France and KLM will launch a new status for their frequent flyer program, Flying Blue. An update on what we know about it.
Yes, we are writing a lot about...
Accor is betting on subscription. Interesting for the customer?
The French hotel group Accor plans to generalise the subscription cards already available in certain regions of the world. Its goal: to gain market share while offering attractive rates to its customers.
Accor surfs the subscription card business
The subscription...
Flying Blue Ultimate: Air France and KLM change qualification criteria
Air France and KLM have just announced to their Platinum customers yesterday a significant evolution in the qualification for the Ultimate superstatus: a change in the qualification period from 2 years to one year.
Indeed, until now, it was necessary...
ITA in Skyteam, a scam?
ITA Airways is a member of Skyteam and as such is of interest to all passengers who are members of the frequent flyer programme of one of the alliance's airlines and expect to enjoy the benefits associated with their...
Is it still worth playing the loyalty program card in 2023?
With statuses getting harder and harder to achieve and benefits getting worse and worse, many passengers are wondering if it is still worthwhile to stay loyal to an airline or hotel group and if it is not better to...
Paid check-in upgrades: what’s left for loyal Hilton Honors guests?
As of last week Hiltons hotels are proposing Gold and Diamond members of the Hilton Honor program paid upgrades when checking in online. A very bad news for them which confirms the bad turn that Hilton Honors takes.
Paid upgrades...
Accor All – Qatar Airways partnership: so unbalanced
A few days ago, Qatar Airways and Accor announced an important partnership between their two loyalty programs.
If it is a question of concretizing the ambitions of the two businesses within the sports club that they sponsor, namely PSG, it...
The bad faith of airlines with award tickets
This is a question our readers often ask us: "If I pay for a ticket with my miles, will I earn miles?". A question that many frequent travelers will find ingenuous on the part of neophytes, but you will...