Just wanted to share the data for a trip we booked to London/Paris for Sept. P2 and I each transferred some miles to Flying Blue during the last bonus from Amex, but we had to top it off yesterday in order to book what we wanted. I had been keeping an eye on KLM/Airfrance and when I found a direct flight from Paris to Newark for 50K miles in Biz. Anyway, here is the breakdown all booked on FB all in BIZ:
CLE -> London 91K miles pp + $382 in fees (CLE-JFK on Delta, then JFK-LON on Virgin) wanted to book this way so we could check our bags straight through. We'll have a 4 hour layover to lounge hop.
Paris to Newark - 50K miles pp + $218 in fees (AirFrance). I will book a cheap cash flight on United from Newark to CLE since we have to get our bags, etc. in Newark anyway and we have the United card.
We will be there a total of 10 nights and taking the Eurostar from London to Paris. Excited to start planning and deciding on hotels, etc. Just wanted to share what I thought was a good deal of 141K miles r/t to Europe - actually less than that since we transferred a number during the 25% bonus. DH and I have been to both before, but London was 25 years ago and we didn't go together. We spent a few days in Paris in 2022 but felt we didn't have enough time and have wanted to go back.
ETA: I checked the amount we transferred during the bonus offer plus with what we added yesterday, and the total MR reward points was 234K or 117K pp.