Earn 20,000 air miles with credit card enough for a free flight to USA,

carl_east

blindman wrote:

Details of Special offer of 15K to fly internal USA\Canada

Book Award travel on-line

Cancun for 20K miles

The Cancun deal is only from the between the Continental U.S. (including Alaska), Canada, the Caribbean and not the UK.

carl_east

Just tried checking flights from London to New York and it came up with £81 taxes plus a £100 fee for something called "Award Fee(s) First Passenger". So £181 return to New York. Pretty much the same price as paying for it outright.

Horlock

Keith wrote:

If you made a paypal payment to yourself for £1000, paypal would deduct 3.5% (£35). And you would get your flight for a total of £35

Better plan - use quidco - sign up to a casino (who should pay you about £40 +) to deposit money in the realms of £1000, then update your creditcard details and withdraw the cash.

Can anyone see a flaw in my logic - just make sure that the casino doesn't charge for credit card transactions - utter bargain:T :T

jasonrat

carl_east wrote:

Just tried checking flights from London to New York and it came up with £81 taxes plus a £100 fee for something called "Award Fee(s) First Passenger". So £181 return to New York. Pretty much the same price as paying for it outright.

so its not a bargain after all i suppose unless others know different

stratford_2

Horlock wrote:

Better plan - use quidco - sign up to a casino (who should pay you about £40 +) to deposit money in the realms of £1000, then update your creditcard details and withdraw the cash.

Can anyone see a flaw in my logic - just make sure that the casino doesn't charge for credit card transactions - utter bargain:T :T

the potential flaw is that some credit card companies treat casino payments as a cash advance, with additional charges - you'll need to check T&Cs

See story here, for some examples:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9070-2088219_1,00.html

The article also mentions this (I don't know if it's true) :

"Citibank, the US banking giant, already bars its one million customers in Britain from gambling with its credit cards."

The AA card is a Citibank card.

LB1985

Has anybody else applied for one of these recently?

trets77

What about the BMI card ???? i and my wife are desperate to gain the extra 5000 miles each on top of my free 20, 000 so i can use 50 % miles and 50% cash to book a flight to Boston next September

does the either the Paypal yourself or partner thing work with the BMI card.?????

i know depositing money on to a poker site didn,t and they charged me £3 for the privledge of finding out it is a cash advance (i.e NO miles) so pretty sure the whole online gaming stooze for miles won,t work !!!

plus i was completely dense about getting more than one card and catching a free 20,000 each time.. do i have to wait six months between applications ????

my other grand plan might be to get parents to apply for the cards if they are able to give their miles away to me

any or either way i,m fully booked for my trip to Boston now apart from my flight ..so i getting on a plane one way or anthor so your help will be greatly appericated money savers:T :T

Reaper

carl_east wrote:

MBNA are still doing a similar offer with a BMI credit card...The other brilliant thing is that you can apply for up to 5 cards and you get 20,000 miles with each one.

I don't understand this either. Are you saying you can apply for the same card in your own name 5 times and end up with 5 active identical cards, and they will let you combine all the points into a single account? Or are you doing one at a time, canceling them and then re-applying?

trets77

well lets see now

carl easts orginal thread on the exrta 20,000
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=186580

I got my BMI card through last night. I had actually been told by a friend that if you get the normal card and then upgrade to a platinum card at a later date you can get another 20,000 miles. I wanted to wait to get my first card before I called and asked them about this offer but the card they sent me was a platinum card. So I called and asked anyway as this meant that I definitely wouldn't get another 20,000 miles. But they told me that upgrading to a platinum after you've already received 20,000 miles will not get you any more.

BUT...

She told me that you can hold up to five credit cards from them at the same time and they'll give you 20,000 miles for each of them. I was very surprised by this so I would like more confirmation first but it seems that you could then get up to 100,000 free miles. The only problem is that you can't combine them. But you could use them for five single journeys. That could get you to zone 5 and back for free or by paying a supplement you could get any zone apart from 9 with two lots of 20,000 miles. So two credit cards could get you a whole lot further. Unfortunately the cost of airmiles from other zones to other zones is quite high and very limited but I'm sure the table was intended for UK users. So in theory you could potentially get five credit cards and plan yourself a round the world trip. It would still probably cost quite a bit though

so if i,m reading this right you could book a one way flight with one set and book a seperate one way flight back with the 2nd . but why give you 2 seperate Diamond club accounts with the same name and the same address. seems silly really. and they might twig at BMI that something is amiss

one way flights are allowed basically half advertised mile price. there are even more ways to around this as non travelling friends and family can buy you tickets as well with free miles as well .

mum and dad time to get signed up

i have PM carl east . please enlighten us with your experiance of this sir

carl_east

Hi all,

Let me clear things up. You're all going to like this to. You can hold up to 5 MBNA/BMI credit cards under your own name at the same time and they'll give you 20,000 free destination miles for each and every card. Not only that they will actually add them to the same BMI destination miles account. So I currently have two BMI credit cards and as a result I have 40,000 destination miles sitting in my account.

What's even better is that you seem to only have to make a single purchase on the card. It says in the T&C's that you have to spend £200 (or £250 I can't remember) but I actually got my second 20,000 miles by spending about £10.

I'm thinking of getting one more so that I can get a free flight to Chile so that I can go hiking in Patagonia. How's about that for a free deal. It costs about £800 to get there with Lufthansa normally but free with 50,000 destination miles.

As far as I'm concerned that is a much better deal than the free US flight deal.