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Amex Offers are promotions from all types of merchants, available to you as an Amex cardmember in connection with purchases made with your American Express card. A new offer that just popped up is the chance to pick up 20,000 Membership Rewards points when you spend $1,000 with Air France. This offer worth looking at when you consider the value of 20,000 Membership Rewards points.
How it Works
The Air France offer is straightforward and valid through April 14, 2017. You don't have to travel by then, but you must purchase your ticket(s) by April 14th, and the charge needs to post your American Express account by that date. Apart from the deadline, the rules are as follows:
- You need to register for the promotion by logging into your Amex account and heading to the offers page, and selecting the Air France offer
- You must make your purchase with Air France online, or via their mobile app
- Phone bookings and bookings made at physical locations are NOT eligible for the bonus
- Multiple purchases are okay, as long as they total $1,000 and hit your account before April 14, 2017
- Buying Flying Blue points does not count as qualifying spending
Full terms of the promotion from AmericanExpress.com:
Offer valid only for purchases made directly with airfrance.us online or via the Air France mobile app. Not valid on purchases made by phone or at physical locations including, but not limited to airports, local sale offices, and lounges. Excludes hotel bookings and car rentals when purchased separately from airline ticket/package. Offer not valid for group airline reservations, prepaid airport parking, or any purchases made through 3rd party/affiliated links on airfrance.us. Purchases or transfers of Flying Blue miles do not qualify for the offer. Enrollment limited. Purchases may fall outside of the offer period in some cases due to a delay in merchants submitting transactions to us or if the purchase date differs from the date you made the transaction (for example, the purchase date for online orders may be the shipping date). If American Express does not receive information that identifies your transaction as qualifying for the offer, you will not receive the additional points. For example, your transaction will not qualify if it is not made directly with the merchant. In addition, in most cases, you may not receive the additional Membership Rewards points if your transaction is made with an electronic wallet or through a third party. ENROLLMENT/ELIGIBLE CARDS: Must add offer to Card and use same Card to redeem. Only U.S.-issued American Express® Cards that are enrolled in the Membership Rewards® program at the time of purchase are eligible. Your enrollment of an eligible American Express Card for this offer extends only to that Card. Your enrollment does not extend to any other Cards that may be linked to the same Membership Rewards program account (such as Additional Cards). Offer is non-transferable. EARNING POINTS: Limit 1 enrolled Card per American Express Card online account and limit of 20000 additional Membership Rewards points per Card. These additional points are in addition to any points you would normally receive for purchases on your Card under the terms of your Card Member Agreement and the Membership Rewards program. When we calculate the additional points benefit for Amex EveryDay® Card products, points awarded under this offer will not be included. Additional points will be credited to your Program account within 90 days after 4/14/2017, provided that American Express receives information from the merchant about your qualifying purchase. Terms and conditions for the Membership Rewards program apply. Visit membershiprewards.com/terms or call 1-800-AXP EARN (297-3276) for more information. Participating partners and available rewards are subject to change without notice. The value of Membership Rewards points varies according to how you choose to use them. To learn more, go to www.membershiprewards.com/pointsinfo. By adding an offer to a Card, you agree that American Express may send you communications about the offer. Bonus ID: B2JV POID: CFC5:0001
Overall
If you were planning some travel on Air France, then this is a no-brainer—you need to pick up this offer if you're eligible. Even if you have no travel planned on Air France, you should consider switching a trip or two to Air France, to take advantage of this very generous offer. Have you already decided what you would like to do with your 20,000 Membership Rewards points?
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Sounds like an excellent offer, I hope they’re going to offer something similar for non US-issued cards
I just took advantage of this offer! I was going to buy those tickets anyway, I spent a little more (about $100), but I value 20k MR point at least $300, so it was worth it!
This offer is almost enough to make me forget about the terrible experience we had, the one and only time we couldn’t avoid transiting CDG, and give AF another chance.
I can’t see myself using this, but worth bearing in mind if you’re considering booking with AF.
Deals like this are great but they never happen when I need them unfortunately!
I know. First you need to figure out when you need to spend $1000 to go to Europe. Otherwise just a waste of money
What a sweet deal! If only I had the personal Plat to get the 5x on the purchase. Oh well, the PRG 3x will have to do.
The only drawback is that you need to book it direclty on Air France website where the prices tend to be higher than on flight Search websites
Wonder if this works with gift cards?
I would venture a guess at no — not something I’d recommend trying either.
great deal with points worth $400.00 on a $1,000.00 purchase
i couldn’t find it earlier, but now they’re showing up in all my three cards.
Great offer! Thanks for sharing.
I have this on a few cards, may use myself and convince a friend of mine to let me buy the tickets.
Oh my…phone bookings are not eligible for this promotion?
I just booked a ticket over the phone because the website kept erroring out on me.
Now I need to get back to AF and cancel my ticket, and try to book it online somehow.
Thanks for the post, I almost kissed good bye to my 20K MR points!
This looks like a really good offer. Unfortunately though I don’t have any trips planned that I could use Air France for. Hopefully though plenty of other people will be able to!
They had one for ANA last year that I used!