Flying Blue

First, FlyingBlue is a transfer partner of Citi ThankYou, Amex, and Chase. Second, every month FlyingBlue puts out a list of discount tickets to/from Europe (or within Europe). Right now I could book a ticket for two months out, for only 18,750 miles.

Heck, I've seen tickets to Europe as low as 12,500 miles, or 31,250 miles in business!

This may be the single best use of Citi ThankYou points, and obviously a great use of Amex MR or Chase points... which is a lot of options for earning points via credit cards.

I want to explain what Promo Awards are, how to book...

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Flying Blue is an exciting program that is now transferable from Citi ThankYou points, Amex MR points, and SPG points. But little did I know just how awesome this program is. So I'm very excited for this post.

I'm very proud of this research. Not only is this a "best use" post, I created the first complete Flying Blue award chart, defined regions, discovered some odd pricings, made a list of which partners do/don't have fuel surcharges and which partners can be booked online. In many ways, this post will be the first (that I know of) to stumble upon a lot of things.

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