I discovered bmi’s frequent flyer programme - diamond club only a few months ago and it has proven to be one of the most generous frequent flyer programmes in existence. However, with Lufthansa taking over bmi in January it’s very likely that diamond club will be merged with Lufthansa’s much less generous Miles & More scheme.
The term ‘mileage run’ is often used on frequent flyer sites such as FlyerTalk, a mileage run is when someone books an itinerary for the sole purpose of earning frequent flyer miles, usually to reach a higher level of status in the programme and to gain the associated benefits from this. Some frequent flyer programmes such as Flying Blue also allow you to earn status based on the number of segments flown rather than the total mileage flown. This is the ideal way of earning status for those who regularly fly short haul flights. Every year my travel patterns get me enough segments to reach gold level comfortably but I usually fall a few segments short of reaching platinum. This day trip to Italy was designed to fix that.
A reader on FlyerTalk Flying Blue forum has pointed out that the mileage redemption rate for flights from Europe to North America is going to be raised from 80,000 miles to 90,000 miles for business class travel. For the moment economy class remains unchanged at 50,000 miles and First Class at 100,000 miles. (more…)
Well you’ll probably notice when I start documenting most of my travels that I tend to fly a lot with KLM and to a lesser extent Air France and their SkyTeam partners.