For those holdouts who have clung onto their last bit of BMI - the credit card - there is some excellent news from MBNA. In summary: A minor rebrand from "BMI Credit Card" to "Diamond Club Credit Card" Enhanced earn rate Double Miles on British Airways flight purchases with flights departing from the UK 10% Discount on British Airways flight purchases depending on … [Read more...]
American Airlines and MBNA dangle a UK credit card offer – up to 35,000 AA miles!
One of the things I despair of every now and again is the state of the UK Credit Card market when it comes to airline bonuses. Well it seems AA and MBNA have come to the table with something quite interesting, with the possibility of earning 35,000 AA Miles. 5,000 AAdvantage bonus miles when you make a card purchase within the first 90 days 10,000 AAdvantage bonus miles … [Read more...]
Virgin Australia to add an option to its FF programme. A PrePay Visa Card…
Virgin Australia is trying something new with its Velocity Frequent Flyer programme - by adding a new side to it called "Global Wallet" Virgin Velocity Cards will be issued with a Prepaid Visa function - when activated, allowing members to: Load money onto their card and store it in multiple foreign currencies as well as Australian dollars Make Purchases where the Visa … [Read more...]
Emirates to introduce fuel surcharges on awards
It seems Emirates is joining the fuel surcharge party with awards. Fuel surcharges will apply to all awards in the Skywards scheme from 31st March 2013. You'll be able to pay the Fuel Surcharge in either cash or more Skywards miles and will form part of the taxes and surcharges. Emirates say: Until now, the surcharges have been excluded from Emirates Skywards reward … [Read more...]
Quidco offers 14% Cashback on Intercontiental Group properties
For those of you who are still enamoured with Priority Club and Intercontinental properties, here's a juicy bit of cashback. Quidco*** are offering 14% Cashback on bookings made through the Holiday Inn site (which as we all know allows you book InterContinental's, Crowne Plaza's, Staybridge Suites, etc etc etc). This compares quite favourably against TopCashback who are only … [Read more...]
50% Avios on Avios eStore Purchases in certain shops
It seems to be that time of the year again for Avios/BA Avios eStore purchases where they're running a promotion on the UK eStore, with 50% extra Avios on the following: 50% extra Avios at the following stores until 25 January: Adidas - 4 Avios/£1 Apple Store -2 Avios/£1 Austin Reed - 4 Avios/£1 Boden 4 - Avios/£1 Cath Kidston 4 - Avios/£1 Charles Tyrwhitt - … [Read more...]
Avios flight sale
With one year gone since the word "Avios" formally became part of the frequent flyer list of words, it seems Avios.com, British Airways and Iberia are having a bit of a party. The skinny: 25% off redemptions using Avios or Avios+Money bookings (Avios part only). Bookings must be made between for travel between 14/11/12 & 19/11/12 for departures from 14/11/12 & … [Read more...]
An intresting Alitalia offer
Yes, I did promise a piece on Alitalia... and here it is They seem to have a reasonable offer on, called "MultiBonus", involving actual flying with up to 50% more miles per flight. Fly from 4 to 7 flight segments: you get 15% more miles Fly from 8 to 19 flight segments: you get 30% more miles Fly over 20 flight segments: you get 50% more miles. Offer runs until … [Read more...]
Virgin Atlantic to offer “Mile Booster”
I don't write too often about Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, as to be honest its not an exciting programme. However, with the announcement today, it maybe a bit more interesting. Mile Booster is a simple enough product: Pay Virgin Atlantic more money Get 2x or 3x base mileage extra Also get 1000 points for each use. Miles Booster starts at £0.015 each mile, with a … [Read more...]
Tesco Clubcard current collection period – Ends 20th October
For those of you who shop at Tesco and collect Clubcard points - a big heads up. The current period for collecting points is coming to an end on Saturday 20th October. If you're doing spending and want it reflected in this quarters statement, it needs to be done by the 17th October as Clubcard points take two days to process... and Tesco's IT can be variable at … [Read more...]
