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Real flights, real fares, real redemptions — and the occasional strong opinion about airline catering. Filter by programme, category, or cabin class below.
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Flying Blue · Air France / KLM · September 2026
Economy from 18,750 miles, Premium Economy from 30,000, and Business Class back to North America — Minneapolis and Mexico City from 45,000. Plus what the 8 September fare change means.
Booked 48 hours out. Seated in the literal nose of a 747. CHF 250 in taxes.
Two Dreamliners, one great lounge, and a Muscat stopover during a regional conflict nobody planned for.
Singapore Airlines delivered. SWISS reminded me why I miss Swissair.
TAP Air Portugal's open secret: transatlantic lie-flat beds for less than most people pay for economy.
A cash upgrade at check-in, 13 hours of The Office fully flat, and a breakfast that made arriving in Switzerland feel like a reward.
CHF 700 upgrade on one of the world's longest routes. The new KLM seat is genuinely good. The tiny porcelain gin house is baffling.
Miles & More · Switzerland · No flights required
Welcome bonuses, everyday CHF spending, Coop Supercard, Amex transfers. The complete Swiss-specific guide — with referral codes embedded.
Business Class at 25-50% off. Released on the 1st of every month. Most people don't know they exist. Here's how to find them and book them.
Cornèrcard vs Swisscard vs Amex. Earning rates, welcome bonuses, fees. Which one belongs in your wallet — and why the answer might be all three.
Switzerland's only card that credits Flying Blue miles directly. Compared like-for-like against Cornèrcard and Swisscard — including where it loses.
Cornèrcard · Gold + Diners · 2026
Switzerland's best base earning rate for everyday spend, at one of the lowest annual fees on this site. Why the ongoing rate beats a bigger welcome bonus.
Cornèrcard · Platinum + Diners · 2026
The same best-in-Switzerland earning rate as Gold, plus unlimited lounge access. Is the CHF 750 fee worth it?
Swisscard · Amex Platinum · 2026
Switzerland's biggest single welcome bonus and the most flexible points currency. The honest cost of that flexibility.
Swisscard · Amex Gold · 2026
A cheaper, flexible second Amex for stacking welcome bonuses. When the elevated promo actually applies.
Swisscard · SWISS M&M Platinum Duo · 2026
First Class check-in, Priority Pass, and the official SWISS-branded card. Who it's actually for.
Flying Blue · Availability · Q3 2026
Booking windows, the 8 September devaluation, and which partner airlines actually have Business Class room when Air France and KLM don't.
Miles & More · Lufthansa Group · Dynamic Pricing 2025
The fixed award chart is gone. Here's what replaced it, why it's not as bad as most people think, and where the real sweet spots are now from Zürich and Geneva.
Strategy · Switzerland · Dual-Card
Earn miles on every CHF spend with Amex, then switch to Revolut for foreign currency to avoid the 2.5% FX surcharge. Both cards, one goal.
TWINT bypasses card networks entirely — no interchange, no miles, no rewards, ever. Here's how the Swiss payment stack actually works.
Swiss SMEs and freelancers run CHF 5,000-10,000/month in expenses. Routed through the right card, that's 30,000+ miles per year — before any bonuses.
Swiss incomes run 30-40% above European equivalents in real terms. Combined with CHF purchasing power on EUR-priced redemptions, this changes the maths entirely.
360,000 Grenzgänger earn in CHF but reside outside Switzerland. Swiss card residency rules, German Amex options, and why Flying Blue is the right programme.
Reka offers a guaranteed 4% discount at 10,000 Swiss partners. Miles offer asymmetric upside on premium redemptions. The answer depends on how you travel.
The six-month deadline, how long to wait first, and what to do if the online claim doesn't work.
Prices, the current bonus and the annual cap for buying Miles & More miles — and when it actually pays off.
Switzerland's two official Miles & More card issuers, compared head-to-head.
Status points from hotel stays, automatic Gold status for Senator/HON Circle — what it actually gets you.
What's standard, what's promo, and how to maximise the bonus across all three relevant issuers.
Which Swiss cards include Priority Pass, what it costs standalone, and which lounges you actually get at Zurich Airport.
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