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Clowance wrote: »

As someone new to airmiles - but luckily, planning on a trip to the US next year which is at least possible judging by the above comments - is it possible to insure trips booked by airmiles? Any advice appreciated.
For example, tesco insurance used to cover tesco clubcard points holidays but almost nobody else did.

We have just booked airmiles flights to florida for 3 weeks next year and when we were completing online they had an option to cover your airmiles for £20 there were other options there but can't remember specific probs their insurance but we always have an annual insurance policy and as my husband is on meds for high blood pressure etc it becomes complicated and suddenly premiums rise so we tend to stick with our own policy but knew this might be a prob with airmiles so we took their option to cover the miles just incase.

SureSuccess

Hi All,

Does anyone know (as I couldn't find it on Airmiles website);

1. Do Airmiles give you any free miles if you recommend a friend?
2. If yes, what is the process?

Also?
1. Is there a possibility to buy Airmiles from other people and assimilate them with one's account?
2. If other people are selling them, where is the market place?

Thanks,
SS.

Any

SureSuccess wrote: »

Hi All,

Does anyone know (as I couldn't find it on Airmiles website);

1. Do Airmiles give you any free miles if you recommend a friend?
2. If yes, what is the process?

Also?
1. Is there a possibility to buy Airmiles from other people and assimilate them with one's account?
2. If other people are selling them, where is the market place?

Thanks,
SS.

1/ No, however you can get free miles if you have Lloyds credit card and recommend a friend to get one too

Also
1/Only Airmiles accounts that are registered at the same address can be consolidated

2/You can buy paper Airmiles and add them to your account.. I don't know exactly how these work though. I know you can purchase extra miles on Airmiles website either for yourself or for friend, but no idea if you can get them for better price on open market. Check Ebay.

Savvy_Spender_South

So why do people use Shel for fuel? as isee it you get 1 mil per 20 L

So an average 40 L fill (£50 ish) is 2 miles plus 5 for the AMEX = 7

Tesco forecourt £50 is 50 points = 1/5 of 50 miles under the new lower rate = 10 miles. plus the 5 for AMEX = 15

i make tesco almost double in every senario so have i missed the point with Shell?

look_after_the_pennies

Savvy_Spender_South wrote: »

So why do people use Shel for fuel? as isee it you get 1 mil per 20 L

So an average 40 L fill (£50 ish) is 2 miles plus 5 for the AMEX = 7

Tesco forecourt £50 is 50 points = 1/5 of 50 miles under the new lower rate = 10 miles. plus the 5 for AMEX = 15

i make tesco almost double in every senario so have i missed the point with Shell?

I also worked out that it was more worthwhile to buy fuel at Tescos rather than Shell. However, having a Shell card is worth having if you travel around and are likely to need to top up at Motorway services or anywhere else where there is not a Tesco garage nearby.

NonGeographicalMan

Savvy_Spender_South wrote: »

So why do people use Shel for fuel? as isee it you get 1 mil per 20 L

So an average 40 L fill (£50 ish) is 2 miles plus 5 for the AMEX = 7

Tesco forecourt £50 is 50 points = 1/5 of 50 miles under the new lower rate = 10 miles. plus the 5 for AMEX = 15

i make tesco almost double in every senario so have i missed the point with Shell?

Answer

A. Tesco only sells fuel off its large superstore forecourts in large towns. You won't find any of these conveniently situated driving long distance cross country.

B. Tesco fuel is widely considered to be watered down detergent filled crud that gets less miles per gallon than decent Shell or Esso unleaded fuel and also probably gives your catalytic converter an artificially short life.

C. Some of us consider all Air Miles to be a near worthless currency that BA can devalue at any moment by increasing the mileage required between city pairs, eliminating one way flights or stopovers (already done to Air Miles holders some years ago) or making Club class flights far more expensive than for BA Miles holders (already done). So therefore I would buy the fuel with my Egg Money Mastercard and earn 1% cashback instead of bothering to collect the useless Air Miles. This then renders the difference between the Shell site Air Miles rate and the Tesco Air Miles rate not very significant given the far more convenient location of many Shell stations for anyone who actually drives (rather than being a mum who just shuttles between the school and the supermarket in her local large town).

D. Shell fuel was a very good deal indeed before Shell withdrew its Citi Mastercard and so was giving you 3% cash back on the value of the Shell petrol purchased. In that situation the Shell Drivers Club Air Miles were just a nice bonus. Anyhow I was getting the 0.5% cashback vouchers off Shell fuel on that too until Air Miles announced it would confiscate all my 10,000 miles built up over many years unless I remembered to collect at least one Air Mile per year.

In short your mistake is probably to think firstly that Tesco fuel is as good a fuel as decent fuel from Shell or Esso and secondly to think that Air Miles is a reliable currency that will actually get you flights in return for instead of being devalued as fast and as often as it possibly can be by Willy Walsh and the rest of his new O'Learyesque like colleagues at BA.:mad:

meinnit

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

B. Tesco fuel is widely considered to be watered down detergent filled crud that gets less miles per gallon than decent Shell or Esso unleaded fuel and also probably gives your catalytic converter an artificially short life.

There is no proof to back this up!

jackieblack

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

B. Tesco fuel is widely considered to be watered down detergent filled crud that gets less miles per gallon than decent Shell or Esso unleaded fuel and also probably gives your catalytic converter an artificially short life.

meinnit wrote: »

There is no proof to back this up!

I usually always use Tesco fuel, on the one occasion recently I was in a strange town and had to fill up at Esso petrol station, I had got 10mph less per gallon at the next fill up! (per fuelly.com)

NonGeographicalMan

jackieblack wrote: »

I had got 10mph less per gallon at the next fill up! (per fuelly.com)

I expect you mean you got 10 miles more on the whole tankful (or about 1 mpg extra). A 10mph difference is very unlikely unless you drove with one tankful entirely round town and with the other tankful entirely at 56mph on the motorway.

These are variable you seem to have neglected to tell us about.

NonGeographicalMan

meinnit wrote: »

There is no proof to back this up!

Yes there is and it comes from numerous other members of this very discussion forum.:money::T

See https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/205865

See also:-

https://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-truth-about-supermarket-petrol