{"id":2967,"date":"2021-11-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:09:52","slug":"flyingblue-mileage-expiration-the-mixed-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/09\/flyingblue-mileage-expiration-the-mixed-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"FlyingBlue Mileage Expiration: The Mixed Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frequentmiler.com\/air-frances-flying-blue-miles-are-easier-to-extend-than-i-thought\/\">The<\/a> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frequentmiler.com\/air-frances-flying-blue-miles-are-easier-to-extend-than-i-thought\/\">existing<\/a> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/air-franceklm-flyingblue-miles-expire\/\">articles<\/a> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/flying-blue-double\/\">about<\/a> what resets the expiration of miles in AirFrance\/KLM\u2019s FlyingBlue mileage program are all over the board, and they conflict with one another at the surface level. There\u2019s only one thing that\u2019s been certain to this point: crediting an actual SkyTeam revenue flight to your FlyingBlue account will reset expiration and kick the can down the road for another two years.<\/p>\n<p>What about points transferred from partners and from the FlyingBlue shopping portal? You\u2019ll find different information in different articles and they\u2019re all correct at some level. It\u2019s taken several months of experimentation and now with the help of Gary and Connor, I now have a proper test and validation set to explain what\u2019s going on: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some partners reset expiration of transferred miles, and some don\u2019t. <\/li>\n<li>No partners reset the expiration of miles earned through flying<\/li>\n<li>Miles earned through a FlyingBlue credit card reset the expiration of all miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok, but most of us don\u2019t have a FlyingBlue credit card and don\u2019t want to credit a flight to the FlyingBlue program, so we rely on transferred miles to reset the clock (and transferred miles is probably how we got them in the first place). Here\u2019s the scoop:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Partner<\/th>\n<th>Resets Transferred Mileage Expiration<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brex<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Capital One<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chase<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Citi<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FlyingBlue shopping portal<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>American Express<\/td>\n<td><strong>No<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p>See the stick in the mud there? Our best friend and aspirational colleague American Express is different than the rest. When you transfer miles from American Express to FlyingBlue, it doesn\u2019t reset the expiration on other transferred miles, and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve had mixed data-points about this topic for years.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019ve tested and validated this, can we collectively move on to something else?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2968\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2x7YcmkBfneL1vdbaCFQUYkl2nbic7GvL8JSZGzEPGA.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2x7YcmkBfneL1vdbaCFQUYkl2nbic7GvL8JSZGzEPGA.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2x7YcmkBfneL1vdbaCFQUYkl2nbic7GvL8JSZGzEPGA-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2x7YcmkBfneL1vdbaCFQUYkl2nbic7GvL8JSZGzEPGA-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2x7YcmkBfneL1vdbaCFQUYkl2nbic7GvL8JSZGzEPGA-800x600.jpeg 800w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>The \u201csomething else\u201d that we\u2019ve apparently moved to collectively. Why did we catalog this, exactly? Perhaps there\u2019s some golden ratio of crust to nugget meat that I don\u2019t understand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The existing articles about what resets the expiration of miles in AirFrance\/KLM\u2019s FlyingBlue mileage program are all over the board, and they conflict with one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,5,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-meta","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7167,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}