The Offer
There’s a new offer showing on Membership Rewards Amex cards:
- Spend $1,000 or more with an enrolled card on Air France at airfrance.us and get 20,0000 Membership Rewards points
The Fine Print
- Valid through April 14, 2017.
- $1,000 can be spent in a single transaction or multiple transactions.
- Offer valid only for purchases made directly with airfrance.us online or via the Air France mobile app. Not valid on purchases made by phone or at physical locations including, but not limited to airports, local sale offices, and lounges.
- Excludes hotel bookings and car rentals when purchased separately from airline ticket/package.
- Offer not valid for group airline reservations, prepaid airport parking, or any purchases made through 3rd party/affiliated links on airfrance.us.
- Limit 1 enrolled Card per American Express Card online account and limit of 20000 additional Membership Rewards points per Card.
- Purchases or transfers of Flying Blue miles do not qualify for the offer.
Our Verdict
Pretty good deal for cash bookings on Air France. I found this offer on all MR-earning cards.
Will this work on the fees for an award ticket?
I guess it is time to get the 100K back from Amex for taking it away from my platinum..
Doesn’t seem the offer is still available ? Checked on all my 5 card ‘s is it can someone please check?.
I haven’t added the offer yet but I stil see it on my account as available to add
It’s the last offer on the bottom of my account my account so you may have missed it.
0/3. Damn
How can I book completely domestic US flights on the air France website? Is that possible?
Thanks
See the comment above you. This is very easy to find out……..wow people are lazy
Is it possible to buy delta flights via Air France site?
I priced out some trips form Denver to Paris and most flights were on DL and it did let me go to the payment screen so it should work for at least the TATL flights.
Thanks Kenneth – good to know.
Is it that difficult for you to go to airfrance.us and search for ATL-JFK to see for yourself?
Why do other people have to do your job?
Thanks for the comment, I tried several dates from ATL to JFK but I kept getting flights are not available for that date. I guess I can keep trying more dates
i valued the contemplation sans result.
As always, if you don’t want to answer a comment you’re welcome not to answer it. I understand where you’re coming from but sometimes people try things and can’t get it to work and just want to make absolutely sure they aren’t messing anything up. Let’s try to keep the comments positive!
Y do u care? Mind ur biz. Sounds like someone had a bad day. Lol chump
What about buying miles? I don’t have an Air France account, so I can’t log in and see, but most airlines sell miles through partner sites..
The sell via points.com so would not work here.
Offer not valid for group airline reservations, prepaid airport parking, or any purchases made through 3rd party/affiliated links on airfrance.us. Purchases or transfers of Flying Blue miles do not qualify for the offer
Got this on all my MR cards.
Air France does not appear to sell gift cards so moot point.
This calls for purchase and return of refundable ticket like 6 month from now…..
Seriously. (Thinking to myself) What would happen if I purchase a refundable ticket, cancel my AMEX in 3 months before the annual fee hits anyway, and 3 months later cancel my refundable ticket. Get a check back in the mail or go through Air France customer service nightmare…?
I am very curious about this too…
Also, if I purchase using my Amex Platinum, I’ll get another 5000 points, right?
I like the cut of your jib!
So to piggy-back on this and perhaps modify this plan into a slightly less sketchy approach….
If I purchase a flight from the US to Europe on Air France, say JFK to Paris or whatever… aim for ~$1000 ticket. I believe the “change fee” on a one way ticket is $150? Unless I’m not interpreting the fare rules properly…
Does anyone have any experience rebooking/changing Air France flights? Do you get a voucher code? Or is there some sort of eWallet thing, like on United or Alaska? The follow-up question then comes, can you use the voucher or wallet credit to book flights on any SkyTeam alliance member (ie. domestic flights on Delta)?
I’d definitely be willing to pay a $150 fee in order to have a $1000 voucher to be used on any domestic Delta flights within the next 12 months from the date or original purchase… The 20,000 + 5000 MR points could be worth about $500 if you have the Business Plat, so this seems very worthwhile… and it wouldn’t be possible, at least not very easily, for AMEX to know that you even did this, so you’d still be on “good terms” with them, right? I’m trying to find the hole/flaw in this approach, it seems too easy… The biggest question seems to be whether the voucher or whatever they give you can actually be redeemed on Delta or not, does anyone have any DPs on this?
Wishful thinking. AirFrance vouchers can only be used for AF flights. I don’t know of any airline where a voucher can be used across the whole alliance. The alliances are for earning and redeeming miles, not for credits or vouchers.
Bummer. It was worth a try, had to ask. Thanks for the clarification.
Has anyone tried this with previous offers? Will the 20k MR stay once the ticket is refunded like months later?
I haven’t, but seems like this is the way to go. They will probably pull the points for ticket but I would really doubt they will put bonus one year later….
That’s a bad idea.
‘Bad’ in what sense?
Too close to fraud and good chance of amex taking negative action against you.
I think its bad idea in general because airline can shut you down.. But at this limited targeted offer, I don’t see any disadvantage. Buying refundable ticket, parking 1k for like a year and then returning, I can bet any money Amex would now claw back this bonus.
Not worth the risk and it’s basically fraud.
You clearly don’t know what fraud means. Many travelers have plans change, refundable tickets are meant for those with flexible plans. Similar to hotel reservations.
I had a change of plans and refunded my AMEX hotel reservation, the 10k bonus points stayed.
Of course won’t complain to an agent if they claw back the bonus.
There is a difference between having plans change and intentionally making a booking that you pre-plan to cancel. If you can’t see the difference I don’t know what to say to you.
How is this any different from opening sapphire reserve paying 450, getting 600 back via 2 year 300 reimbursement bonus and closing card? Then this is fraud too 🙂
How is that fraud at all? Those credits are based on a calendar year, not a card member year.
Though it came to my mind a few hours ago I can’t see myself doing something so shady to both the airline and AMEX even if I would get away with it. The idea behind booking a flight, getting the bonus, and cancelling the flight values to me as theft.
Its all very shady in churning business. Then don’t do it at all because all of it is not what airlines intend in the first place.
If you’re all so damn worried about being ‘bad’ then get an airline voucher for the refund instead of returning the money to your amex.
See my comment above… applies to you too.