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I’ve been keeping an eye on KLM for about 6 months now looking for a sale for flights to AMS, but haven’t seen anything. Do they ever come up? I just need a return J flight to tick over into silver with VS.
You’re better booking economy and paying for the upgrade offer you’ll get on that route. But do check if it credits the J TPs and not the original Y
How would one check in advance? I don’t want to buy the Y and then find out I don’t get the TP’s. Might just have to stump up full price – a pit it’s not enough to avail of the current Amex offer.
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I’ve been keeping an eye on KLM for about 6 months now looking for a sale for flights to AMS, but haven’t seen anything. Do they ever come up? I just need a return J flight to tick over into silver with VS.
You are setting yourself a difficult task looking for cheap business seats with KLM on this particular route as a private individual and/or as a point to point passenger.
J seats are held for the big Anglo-Dutch corporates and a few other institutions, all of whom have an exclusive or primary deals with KLM rather than BA who won’t get close on price, but it’s optically very important for KLM and part of bigger arrangements. They are taking 50%+ of the seats and on Fridays and Mondays much more. Seats are also held on a married segment basis for long haul travellers. That’s before any big conferences etc.
Thanks @JDB, so in essence I’m stiff out of luck.
It’s not a dealbreaker, the prices aren’t horrendous, but if there was a reasonable chance of saving a hundred quid or so it was worth looking into. Sounds like I should just jump.
Thanks @JDB, so in essence I’m stiff out of luck.
It’s not a dealbreaker, the prices aren’t horrendous, but if there was a reasonable chance of saving a hundred quid or so it was worth looking into. Sounds like I should just jump.
@phantomchickenz – I would hate to be the one persuading you to pay more than necessary, but it is a peculiar route. What’s galling is that you would probably be very pleased to pay 150% of what these firms are paying, but that’s the benefit they get for booking thousands of seats a year.Take LHR and LCY out of the equation and you’re not fishing in the same pool. Even so from LHR and LCY I’ve never not been offered a last minute upgrade. The terms re which TPs you earn will be in the smallprint sonewhere on the website
KLM doesn’t really do sales on short haul J, IME. These fares are always unreasonably high.
Also worth noting that in Flying Blue, at least, the business class XP are not awarded for taking an upgrade offer – you only get those XP if doing a full fare difference upgrade. Suspect that VS will take the same approach in only awarding Tier Points for the underlying economy fare purchases from KLM.
Other thing to check is what fare code it books into as some are not valid for Virgin Tier Points.
How cheap are you trying to get? I can see £360 LCY-AMS and back in early August (Sat-Mon)
Thanks all.
I’m fixed with dates being mid-Nov to end of Dec so my Silver status is valid for Christmas 2025, and weekends only due to lack of leave. But with those constraints I can get two of us for just shy of £700 which seems reasonable.
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