BMI Credit Card 20,000 destinations miles

miniquinny

Not sure if this is the right place for this but, along the same lines as the Amazon offer, BMI are giving away 20,000 destinations miles (which are their version of Air Miles) when you make your first spend on their card.

Sounds pretty good to me - applied for mine tonight.

Here's the link:

https://wwwa.applyonlinenow.com/UKCCapp/Ctl/entry?sc=1bmihpfee_mcds&mc=BMI-RS-38998-39961

You also get membership to their frequent fliers club and can earn both miles and membership points by using the card. Or just use the free 20,000 miles to go somewhere nice or on other things too!

Mark7799

An MBNA run card with a 'typical' APR of 26% and an annual fee of £60 - not the most inviting offer I've seen. :-(

miniquinny

Surely the APR isn't relevant because you won't be using the card! Pay off the first use and forget about it!

The £60 isn't great but that is based on a credit limit of £3000 which I certainly won't get! So assuming mine will be less, it's not much to pay for 20,000 miles - which is a return trip to Europe.

Weesimba

Did this the last time the offer was out and as of yet still to spend the 20,000 miles. You only actually save around £15 as you still have to pay the taxes and can only fly on certain flights. Once when I looked it was actually cheaper to fly on a BMI flight with a BMIbaby level ticket then pay the taxes at full ecconomy level.

chalky_bertie

We have just got our miles (his and hers) and are in the process of using them. We would like to go to Switzerland on Lufthansa but they have quoted me £200 in taxes for both of us!!!!!

Checked Easyjet and they have flights including taxes for just over £200 so all even in my eyes. The taxes will depend on where youre going to and from as Paris from LBA is only £44 in taxes. Worth having anyway as I only spent £3 on the card. However we are not being charged the £60 annual fee as there isn't one when we applied.

chalky_bertie

Have just booked 2 return tickets to Warsaw for the Easter week and the taxes were only £98. Didn.t think was too bad as I doubt we would have got 2 tickets for that price inc taxes on one of the no-frills.

Thanks to the OP

Reaper

Mark7799 wrote:

an annual fee of £60

Not if you apply for the right card. This one has no fee and will still give you 20,000 miles.

petef45

Me and my brother managed to use the BMI credit card offer to get a flight (single) from athens to kathmandu (with a stop over in thailand for a week). If you check the small print a single flight uses half the number of miles - and also the only star alliance flights to kathmandu went with thai airlines from bangkok - allowing us a stopover there. so if you choose carefully you can make a lot of money out of that bmi card offer - we checked how much that flight would have cost us to book over the internet and it was over £900!

HGLTsuperstar

Reaper wrote:

Not if you apply for the right card. This one has no fee and will still give you 20,000 miles.

No it doesn't, it gives you 1.5 miles per £1 spent