Last month, I had posted about the promo awards that the Flying Blue program of Air France/KLM, where you could potentially get a one-way ticket in business-class cabins to Europe for 30K miles (instead of the normal 60K), and to the USA for 55K miles (30K Mumbai – Europe, 25K Europe – USA –> two separate awards).

These promotional awards, are bookable only for the months of March and April 2013. Availability looked swell even at this point of time, with even up to 6 seats available on some dates in the business cabin.

So, there you go with about 3 more weeks to make use of this wonderful opportunity. It might not be the best business class in the sky and it charges a fuel surcharge, but it still business class for a nominal price.

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• Mumbai to Europe for 30K FlyingBlue Miles, USA for 55K miles, all in biz class (and vice versa)

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FlyingBlue has been out in the public eye, for first offering a liberal status match to their Gold status, and then geographically limiting it to Scandinavia (the original plan), and then pulling out the offer altogether.

Miles and Points-holics have been worried if they will get their committed status match or not. I discovered on this FlyerTalk thread that someone has received a reply from KLM on Facebook, discussing the problem and committing to effecting the status match:

Thank you so much for your patience, <redacted>. We investigated the situation and acknowledge that due to a mistake from our side the campaign allowed members from outside Scandinavia to apply for a Flying Blue Gold status indeed. Therefore we decided to stop the campaign. All members that received approval for their status match request, however, will still receive their Flying Blue Gold card as promised. We hope you will enjoy all the benefits!
Please let us know, if you have any further questions?
Kind regards,
KLM Facebook Team

Further, in another reply to another poster, they committed themselves to solving the issue in 2 weeks:

We apologize for the inconvenience, however this problem should be solved within the next 2 weeks.
Unfortunately you are not the only one having this issue.
We thank you for your patience.

A third post here ratifies the discussion.

While I am not overly worried about this and would be a while before I’d chase them up, this is good news if this works out for everyone who applied.

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This has been an interesting one to track right from the start. A week or so ago, SkyTeam member airlines Air France / KLM offered to match to Gold status in their FlyingBlue program anyone who was Gold status on another airline. The terms were generous and one had until May 30 to apply.

Then they realised, they forgot including the relevant geographies in the application. So, the offer was amended to include the Scandinavian countries, and the timeline was reduced to February 28 as the last date of the offer.

And now, it is gone, a month in advance.

Talk about bad copy botching up a campaign. Possibility does exist that FlyingBlue hit their numbers expected real quick, and maybe will honor the offer for all non-residents of Scandinavia as well. A boy can dream, right?

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• Flying Blue offers another chance to status match Gold Status (SkyTeam ElitePlus)
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• Turkish Airlines status matching up to Star Alliance Gold

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