 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi peeps
It could be worth getting an airmiles credit-card & using your miles for cheap flights.
I flew BA in April for 800miles plus £54 tax for a return ticket - and you still get meals, complimentary booze & papers on the flights. One hold bag allowed, but no hassle with additional ski- & boot-bags.
You can build up miles using your card / convert tescos clubcard points to airmiles / get miles with Powergen for your gas & electric bills etc - they soon mount up. You may get about 500 complimentary miles when you take the card out too
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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geoffers, regarding using the Tesco Clubcard to gain airmiles. All the advice from the gurus is to transfer Tesco earnings to something else and NEVER get the points converted to store vouchers, as anything else gives a better rate of return.
I'm about to do my first 'free' flights on miles - me and her heading for Las Vegas paid for by Star Alliance miles. I still had to pay fuel surcharges and taxes. It will be interesting to see whether I get treated any differently when going for lounge access etc. compared to a normal paid up flight.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I convert my Tesco points (and points from my Amex credit card) to British Airways Miles. Without changing my shopping pattern too much the miles soon build up, and during the past four years we've had five pairs of business class flights to the US, paying only taxes.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I've signed up - had loads of flights over the years with nat west (who have started a new scheme), but they really need to sign up more people to take amex. You get double miles when used abroad - just come back from france and hardly anywhere would accept the amex so had to use the mastercard, which even at double miles is worse than the old nat west rate for 1 mile : £20
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I've been collecting Airmiles and BA Miles for years and agree with the sentiment.
I must admit, though, that as fuel surcharges and taxes have crept up, I've found it less and less advantageous to use either for short haul trips - especially as BA's base fuel surcharge/ taxes are a lot higher than EasyJet, say, on the same route.
By planning ahead, I rarely pay over £80-100 for a return trip to Geneva on BA, Swiss or Air France - so using mileage to save £30-£50 doesn't seem to be great value to me. I think you get much better value saving up for medium and long haul rewards. Or holding out for Airmile / BA Mile "sales".
jmdohanlon - I've never had any different treatment when travelling on miles than if I've paid.
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