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Air France KLM World Elite Mastercard® Offer: Earn 60 XP
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Air France KLM World Elite Mastercard®
- Get 60 XP in the first year, plus 30 XP in subsequent years
- Earn 5 Flying Blue miles per euro spent on Air France KLM flights
- Earn 2 Flying Blue miles per dollar spent on food and drink
- Earn 1 Flying Blue mile per dollar spent everywhere else
- Minimum income: $80,000 personal or $150,000 household
- Annual fee: $132 (waived in the first year)
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I am aware that the last offer of 50K points (without 1st year fee waived) just expired. They seem to have the same promotion last year but forgot when. Do you have the history? Want to see if there might be a pattern to time the XP qualification period.
If you earn the points and then cancel the card after the first year, and after paying the two annual dues, would you still keep the points earned?
Yes you will. But if you have already paid the 2nd year’s annual fee, why not just keep the card for another 11 more months? Since you have already paid for it.
“That’s enough for a one-way flight to Europe in business class from anywhere in Canada!” …
But I’ve found very few itineraries that actually are priced at 50,000 points. And for those few, the additional taxes & fees is $342, most of which is carrier surcharge.
I calculate my cost of a one-way business class ticket as: $132 + $132 + $342, plus the opportunity cost on spending that $5000 on some other card (min 2% = $100). So that’s $706, plus waiting 14 months to get to 50,000+ points. So I dunno. :/
How would it work if my spouse is currently a supplement cardholder on my card. Does he apply first and then i cancel the supplemental card or is it the other way around?
Hi Joanne, being a supplementary cardholder would not make your spouse ineligible to apply for the card. He can apply for his own card, and you could cancel the supplementary card if it is no longer providing value to you.
This is a terrible credit card and the customer service is atrocious. There is no phone number for the Flying Blue card and Brim customer service tells you that you can only contact them by email. They do not respond in 2 business days as outlined in their email response. No miles have been credited from the card purchase or bonuses to my Flying Blue account despite payment for the first statement being processed.
Be warned when applying for this card how poor the support is as well as miles not being credited either for purchases or bonuses. Flying Blue should be embarrassed that they are associated with Brim.
On the Air France website for the card, it’s indicated that the yearly fee is waived for the first year.
Hey Nicolas, we spoke with Air France and they have confirmed that there is no annual fee waiver, this is an error on Flying Blues side and they are working to resolve this as soon as possible.
I booked KLM rickets for my wife and parents using this card and I am not seeing any miles earned for this spend. I did however see miles earned for myself. That means you only earn miles if you fly the ticket in the form if the accelerator, but don’t earn any miles otherwise for the spend on KLM. Is this correct?
Thanks.
Reward miles for flying are earned by the individual flying, not by the credit card holder who paid. You will earn credit card multiplier points for the purchase, though.
I wonder if WestJet will recognize the Brim / Flying Blue AF-KLM Silver Status as it does Delta’s for Silver level perks when booking on WestJet and adding one’s Flying Blue number to the reservation?
Hi Rohin, the annual fee was credited to my account a couple days ago so it seem they are at least crediting the fee for some new application.
$15k spend to get 60k flying blue points while also paying 2 years of annual fees? Hard pass. I mean consider the opportunity costs there, pretty huge. Clearly the guys at Brim Financial are amateurs in this space. Maybe they need a few consults from you Ricky.
There are much easier ways to earn flying blue points: Amex, Chase, Citi etc.