Boost Your Airmiles Discussion Area

Paddy2eyes

Not sure about the address change etc. but it should work. To top up miles you could set up an online account for your mum then click through to ebay and buy something cheap. That would net a couple of points.

glenderg

I am trying to book a return flight to Malta plus one night in a hotel using my 1500 miles voucher from Lloyds TSB Duo Airmiles card ... for the flight and cash for the hotel. The site keeps telling me i do not have enough miles to complete the booking.
I am going to ring them tomorrow, but if anyone has any ideas why i would be delighted to see them.

quoia

jaxkesa wrote: »

I wonder if someone can help with this scenario?

I have an account registered at my address with 78 points.

My mum has an account registered at another address with alot more points. She needs to use or top-up her airmiles in the next few months or she loses them but has no way of topping her account up at the moment.

If she changes her address to mine then can I create a household account within my account and receive her points and then top them up using my clubcard vouchers. Then they won't be lost?

At the moment she has to pay a fee just to use them which doesn't seem fair.

Hope someone can help me!

Do you drive/own a car ?

Drive to a SHELL petrol station, put in 20 litres of fuel, before you pay ask for a Shell Drivers Club card, get them to put the 20 points for the 20 litres onto the card.

They'll hand you the card and a form to fill in to register it.

Fill in your mother's details and post it or registar the card ONLINE with your mother's AIRMILES account information.

20 litres = 1 Airmile

Hopefully it should credit to the account and keep it alive

stuart.pinfold

quoia wrote: »

Do you drive/own a car ?

Drive to a SHELL petrol station, put in 20 litres of fuel, before you pay ask for a Shell Drivers Club card, get them to put the 20 points for the 20 litres onto the card.

They'll hand you the card and a form to fill in to register it.

Fill in your mother's details and post it or registar the card ONLINE with your mother's AIRMILES account information.

20 litres = 1 Airmile

Hopefully it should credit to the account and keep it alive

NO - don't do this.

Yes, 20 litres of petrol is equal to one airmile.

HOWEVER - Shell only pay out Airmiles every three months (so your Airmiles account might have expired before they do this) AND only when your account has (I think) over 300 litres (15 Airmiles) in it, otherwise it gets carried over to the next quarter.

The quickest way is to buy something from the eStore, as the T&Cs state that the Airmiles will reach your account within 35 days of the purchase.

stuart.pinfold

glenderg wrote: »

I am trying to book a return flight to Malta plus one night in a hotel using my 1500 miles voucher from Lloyds TSB Duo Airmiles card ... for the flight and cash for the hotel. The site keeps telling me i do not have enough miles to complete the booking.
I am going to ring them tomorrow, but if anyone has any ideas why i would be delighted to see them.

See my response to this in the other thread you posted this question - here.

jaxkesa

stuart.pinfold wrote: »

NO - don't do this.

Yes, 20 litres of petrol is equal to one airmile.

HOWEVER - Shell only pay out Airmiles every three months (so your Airmiles account might have expired before they do this) AND only when your account has (I think) over 300 litres (15 Airmiles) in it, otherwise it gets carried over to the next quarter.

The quickest way is to buy something from the eStore, as the T&Cs state that the Airmiles will reach your account within 35 days of the purchase.

Cheers guys, yea I thought that about the Shell card. I already have one for myself and haven't received my own miles after nearly 4 months!

I'm going to try and set up the household account as neither of us want to go out and buy something just for the sake of it.

Thanks!

johnk

stuart.pinfold wrote: »

HOWEVER - Shell only pay out Airmiles every three months (so your Airmiles account might have expired before they do this) AND only when your account has (I think) over 300 litres (15 Airmiles) in it, otherwise it gets carried over to the next quarter.

Where did you get this information? I was on the same boat and asked explicitly about whether there is any threshold before miles being awarded and was told no - as long as there are 20 points.

One thing a bit annoying is that you won't be awarded miles for the quarter you registered but the quarter after. In my case, I registered in April so won't get my miles in June but in September. However, if you use the 75 miles promotional code to register your Shell online, you do get that in the current quarter, so was I told.

Lottebear

We have got just enough for 2 flights to Zone 1. We have used Clubcard points, Shell, Credit card and Household fuel miles to get there.

I am not sure if we will carry on, as it seems like a long time to get a return and maybe we would get a better return on using the clubcard points on meals out.

cundall

Lottebear wrote: »

We have got just enough for 2 flights to Zone 1. We have used Clubcard points, Shell, Credit card and Household fuel miles to get there.

I am not sure if we will carry on, as it seems like a long time to get a return and maybe we would get a better return on using the clubcard points on meals out.

Only been collecting from Jan and i have 1*1500 point voucher and just short of 2000 airmiles (got another 600 on its way soon ).

It's worth it as its just a bonus for using your credit card as cash back currently is so low. If i could get a fixed 1% on a visa card i would just use that.

PS regarding the tesco clubcard points you can do little things like spend £30 on ebay and get 720 airmiles

chambta

Think I'll stick my 3000 miles on Ebay. They seem to go for silly money!