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Points and miles search engine, concierge booking, and mileage run creators point.me announced its pick for the world’s best airline loyalty program.
Flying Blue — Air France and KLM’s frequent flyer program — took home top honors.
“We selected frequent flyer programs that are accessible to US-based travelers,” point.me said in a statement, “essentially, those that partner with major United States financial institutions or global hotel loyalty programs, including American Express® Membership Rewards®, Bilt Rewards, Capital One Miles, Chase Ultimate Rewards®, Citi ThankYou, Accor Live Limitless, and Marriott Bonvoy.”
The rankings were determined based on a specific formula:
- Ease of earning miles (25% weight)
- Redemption rates (20% weight)
- Availability on partner airlines (15% weight)
- Ease of booking (12.5% weight)
- Expanded availability on own airline (7.5% weight)
- Routing rules (5% weight)
- Ability to hold awards (5% weight)
- Customer service quality (5% weight)
- Customer service quality (5% weight)
Here are the top ten finishers.
- Flying Blue (Air France-KLM)
- Aeroplan (Air Canda)
- MileagePlus (United)
- Executive Club (British Airways)
- Flying Club (Virgin Atlantic)
- Mileage Plan (Alaska)
- Privilege Club (Qatar)
- True Blue (jetBlue)
- LifeMiles (Avianca)
Delta SkyMiles, American AAdvantage, and Southwest Rapid Rewards did not place. For what it’s worth, they make the top 13 for North America:
- Air Canada Aeroplan
- United MileagePlus
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- JetBlue TrueBlue
- Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards
- Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles
- Delta SkyMiles
- Allegiant myAllegiant
- Spirit Airlines Free Spirit
- Frontier Miles
- Sun Country Rewards
- WestJet Rewards
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point.me has a search engine that’s often called “the Google Flights for points and miles.” I’ve used it several times and it’s very helpful.
Their mileage run and concierge trip booking service used to be known as “Juicy Miles.” We’ve recommended the point.me group for years.
What do you think about the rankings?
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Is there any clever way for a Skymiles member (currently Platinum & Million Miler) to convert over to Flying Blue?
I guess you could try a status match to Flying Blue. One thing I really like about that program is that you can transfer points/miles from so many different credit card partners (Amex, Chase, Cap One, etc). You can source points pretty easily.
You can’t Status Match using a a SkyTeam airline