If you go through the steps for a dummy booking at AirFrance.us, you may see an offer that includes a $100 statement credit on top of the 70K miles and 100 XP shown below. You need to begin the booking process for a flight at Air France and you may see it before you pay, but we don't have a direct link to this offer. I did not apply for the award ticket, but I was presented with the offer as I was in the process of booking it. You should see it before you enter payment info.
The original post about the public offer is located below.
Bank of America has a new welcome offer on the Air France/KLM World Elite Mastercard of 70,000 Flying Blue miles and 100 XP after spending $2,000 in the first 90 days of card membership. I believe that this is the largest welcome offer we have ever seen on the card.
Flying Blue's tier-qualifying points are referred to as "Xp", which stands for Experience Points. Flying Blue Silver status is achieved with 100XP, which has a couple of perks.
The Offer & Key Card Details
Bank of America Application Tips
- 3/12 or 7/12 Rule: You won’t be approved if you have opened 3 or more accounts, with any bank, in the past 12 months. For those with Bank of America deposit accounts, the rule changes to 7+ accounts.
- 2/3/4 Rule: Max 2 consumer cards per rolling 2 months, 3 per rolling 12 months, and 4 per rolling 24 months.
- 5 card limit: You will not get approved for a new consumer card if you already have 5 consumer BOA cards open
- Get Same Card Again: With some BOA cards, must wait 24 months after either opening or cancelling, depending upon the card.
- Hard inquiries are usually combined into 1 when initiated within 30 days but there have been reports of TransUnion not combining.
Quick Thoughts
I don't think this card is worth a slot. Flying Blue is one of the mostiscuous programs out there and bigger bonuses of transferable currencies could be had with a variety of cards in the Chase ecosystem.
This is the first time that the Air France/KLM card has become interesting for a lot of people who have quite a few cards. This is the first time that it has cracked the top-15 for personal credit offers. Last week, Nick posted an updated list of sweet spots on Flying Blue, and recently wrote about finding a useful and affordable spot using Air Europa.
You can get to FB Silver status with 100 XP.
- Earn 6 Miles for each Euro spent
- Priority access at check-in, baggage drop-off and boarding
- Get 25% off of Seat Options
- Choose your standard seat free of charge
- Bring an additional baggage item on all SkyTeam flights
If you don't have Delta or some other Sky Team elite status, you can get an extra checked bag on any SkyTeam partner.
I think this offer is only worth considering for people who are over the age of 24 and are looking for new offers. After getting the SUB, it should be off to the drawer.
Best uses for Flying Blue Miles
- Air France Flying Blue Promo Rewards. Each month, Air France offers discounted award rates for a number of routes. Sometimes we see economy flights from the US to Europe available for less than 11,000 miles one-way.
- Fly to Israel for the same award price as to Europe. For example, you may see business class flights from the U.S. to Tel Aviv for as low as 55,000 miles one-way.
- Delta economy flights between the US and Hawaii for 17,500 miles one-way. Air France also has great award prices for Delta first class to Hawaii, but Delta rarely releases first class award space on its Hawaii routes.
Things to know
- Air France awards usually incur taxes and fees.
- Award availability may be hard to find. Acquire Flying Blue miles only if you know that the awards you want are available.
- Flying Blue miles expire 2 years after they are earned. Keeping miles alive beyond two years is… weird:
- As long as you don’t credit any flying activity to your account, you can renew your miles by acquiring more miles through non-flight activity. For example, transferring miles from a transferable points program will renew these miles.
- If you earn miles by crediting flight activity to your account, then all of your miles become flight activity miles and can only be extended by taking an eligible flight (and crediting it to Flying Blue), or by being an elite member, or making a purchase with your Air France / KLM Flying Blue credit card.
- For more details, see: Air France’s Flying Blue miles are easier to extend than I thought
