KLM Flying Dutchman Programme

I have been for more than 10 years Royal Wing member with the KLM Flying Dutchman and have been changed to Platium Elite plus with Skyteam. On paper I have a lot of avantages but every year these are reduced. Now using the KLM/AirFrance lounge in Barcelona is not allowed anymore, because I was flying a non Skyteam airline. This change was never mentioned! Next to many other changes. Even the priority on flights is not what is was. I wonder if I still want to use this card. Fortunately I have similar cards with an other alliance. KLM should be our national pride but that is ...  Read the complete review

I was a Platinum Elite member of the Flying Dutchman program, which has recently changed to Flying Blue program, very appropriate name change as it is giving me the blues!! I had accumulated 140,000 plus miles and KLM used to be my favorite airline until I realized that I can not encash my "accumulated" miles. They have a long list of excuses to deny you flights using your milage. After denying use of the miles, then they begin with dropping your membership itself for not flying with them, as it happened with my daughter, who lost 40,000 km and her membership was dropped without informing us. My wife and daughter used to fly KLM until we discovered ...  Read the complete review

I have flown KLM a lot for about five years now and I think that they are ok, except for the poor food. The points scheme looked very good, but I have just tried to book a couple of award flights on their website. The interface is very poor. I get endless 'no suitable flight found', which may mean that KLM do not fly that route, or it is the wrong day, or it is fully booked, or there are no award seats - who knows! It does not appear to check days either side of the input dates and there is no way of finding out if there are any award seats available at all without endlessly guessing dates and destinations. I checked three destinations over a two weeks period ...  Read the complete review

KLM has, by far, the best Frequent Flier program than other airline in the world today. KLM itself enjoys a good reputation, in aviation circles, as being reliable, on time and providing excellent service in the air and on the ground. They call their Frequent Flier program the “Flying Dutchman”. Anyone can become a member of the program by simply picking up a form at any KLM office, the KLM check-in desk at the airport and some major travel agencies or even on the internet from their website. The form contains a temporary card that you can start using straight away, until you receive the actual card in the post. ...  Read the complete review