Earn miles on Flying Blue or Skywards? Please help!

7sefton

Hey,

I have a frequent flyer account with both Skywards/Emirates (balance = 30000 miles) and Flying Blue/KLM (balance = 10932).

I prefer using my Skywards wherever possible, simply because I tend to find it simpler to use, but I tend to take more flights with Sky Team airlines hence my membership of Flying Blue. I'd really appreciate it if you could spend a second looking at my situation below and giving me some advice:

I'm about to fly to New York from Manchester with Continental airlines. I can earn miles for this flight with both reward schemes. From what I can gather, my booking class (S) only entitles me to 25% of the miles with Flying Blue, but on Skywards I get 100% of the miles credited.

The reason I hesitate in just using Skywards is because I am also flying to Singapore in December, this time with Air France. From what I remember from the booking process, I will earn around 3500 miles with this flight.

Based on this info, which programme should I use for the Continental flight to maximise the miles and benefits I will receive?

Thanks!

dmg24

After the April changes, I would avoid FB. The charges on award flights are considerably higher than most others, as are the miles required to take award flights.

I cannot really comment on Skywards, but feedback from others has certainly been more positive than FB.

old_motters

For your Continental flight, I'd agree with you on putting the miles into Skywards.

I would start a Delta Skymiles account to capture your Flying Blue miles. The taxes are still bad with Delta but at least you'll get 100% mileage credit on your Air France fares. Your flight to Singapore with AF should capture 12k miles on Skymiles instead of the paltry 3.5k with FB.

7sefton

old_motters wrote: »

For your Continental flight, I'd agree with you on putting the miles into Skywards.

I would start a Delta Skymiles account to capture your Flying Blue miles. The taxes are still bad with Delta but at least you'll get 100% mileage credit on your Air France fares. Your flight to Singapore with AF should capture 12k miles on Skymiles instead of the paltry 3.5k with FB.

Thanks for that! Do you know if I am able to transfer the balance of my FB miles to a new Delta account?

dmg24

7sefton wrote: »

Thanks for that! Do you know if I am able to transfer the balance of my FB miles to a new Delta account?

No, UK based members are not able to.

old_motters

dmg24 wrote: »

No, UK based members are not able to.

It's a real pity too. I had 35k FB miles expire on me which would have been really useful in my Delta account

dmg24

old_motters wrote: »

It's a real pity too. I had 35k FB miles expire on me which would have been really useful in my Delta account

Agreed, I know someone that had ten times that amount expire! Altough I'm not complaining, I got a nice little Premiere trip to the US out of it. In hindsight, I wish I'd booked three more!

cazwasere

If you are trying to fly at Xmas to Singapore with Air France book it quick. I've had a stressful morning trying to book a return for 4 - opodo crashed out 3 times whilst trying to book. Original flight pricing was £1743 for us all, but on the 4th attempt it had jumped to 2400....few hours of panic later, was able to book on ebookers for 1800 all in, but a lot of the choice and dates had all increased in price. Have a good trip