Don’t miss out on Flying Blue’s Fall promo where Air France/KLM awards are 50% off in January & February 2014:

The Deal

Award bookings on Air France/KLM routes have been reduced by 25-50% for travel between Jan 1 – Feb 28.

For those of us sitting in ‘Merica (and Canada), we’ll be most interested in:

All destinations below. Note: Everything is to/from Europe.

How to Get It

1. Head to Flying Blue here to see full list of routes: Promo Awards
2. Reference our How-to: Booking Air France/KLM flight post
3. Book between Dec 30, 2o13 – Feb 26, 2014.
4. Enjoy your savings!

Analysis

US to Europe awards are generally 50k in Economy and 125k for Business, making the ones listed above between 25% and 50% off. The kicker, however, is that you’ll still be responsible for fuel surcharges. This would be appx $264.94 for a roundtrip from Boston-ORD to Paris-CDG. So total you’d be looking at 37.5k miles + $264.94 in surcharges/taxes:

Example Boston-BOS to Paris-CDG award

What the flight would cost in $

Miles stretch analysis

A similar calculation on a business class (65k miles at promo rate) fare from Montreal-YUL-CDG, taxes/fuel is appx $687.25:

The good new is that there’s still pretty good availability on the routes:

Don’t forget: 

• “Reservations must be made exclusively on www.airfrance.com or www.klm.com (except for bookings for children, infants and minors, who are not authorized to book an award on the website).”
• You’ll still get hit with fuel surcharges!
• We’ve got a How-to Guide for booking flights with Flying Blue points.

BOTTOM LINE: You can find some good value in your Flying Blue points during this promo (don’t forget you can transfer from AMEX–> Flying Blue), but hefty fuel surcharges might make some routes a deal breaker, especially for economy (only 1.89 cent/mile). Business class (5.5+ cents/mile) or intra-Europe awards are a better value at the promo rates.