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

LB1985

Has anybody been able to book a flight for 20,000 AAdvantage miles yet? I activated my card before 15 November, have spent the necessary amount on it, and expect to get my 20,000 miles on my next statement.

trets77

blindman has. if you don,t ger the miles chase up MBNA

blindman

trets77 wrote:

blindman has. if you don,t ger the miles chase up MBNA

Not the Citibank 20k I haven't

I don't intend to use the 20K miles offer to get to the Carribean, however reading the small print it says

He's not asking about the BMI 20K offer.;)

trets77

my mistake

blindman

greenoak wrote:

Well I finally got my card on Nov27th.

Not sure how I spend £1000 before Dec 31st

Open to ideas

My usual supermarket petrol etc will be about £500

thanks

If you're short of the 1K spend (ring them up and ask for the balance) then you could:

1) Buy a Definite refundable item that is refundable for at least a month about 2 days before your statement is made up (again ring them up and ask when this is)
e.g.
AA airline ticket or Wickes item etc.

2) Wait until the spend 'miles' are posted to your AA account.
(If you spend 2 days before the card is made up then this will occur fairly quickly).

3) Get the refund from the item.

Now this will get you into -ve miles on the card and any further spending will not earn miles, just make up this -ve amount. (T&C's say this).

BUT
If you never want this card again, just cancel and I don't think it will matter
(My opinion-NOT TESTED)
You can of course still spend until you clear the -ve miles and then cancel.

You have a YEAR to keep this card until there is an annual fee of £25.00.

mad_rich

blindman wrote:

1) Buy a Definite refundable item that is refundable for at least a month about 2 days before your statement is made up

Well if that's not fraud, it's pretty damn close to it. It may not work either. When I worked at Nectar we used to claw back points if people did this on their Barclaycards - crucuially, this could happen even after the points had posted to their Nectar accounts.

blindman

mad_rich wrote:

Well if that's not fraud, it's pretty damn close to it. It may not work either. When I worked at Nectar we used to claw back points if people did this on their Barclaycards - crucuially, this could happen even after the points had posted to their Nectar accounts.

Did you not read item 3)?????

It would be 'fraud' (doubt it) if the OP spent £1k, got the points then refunded the whole £1K and closed the card.

mad_rich

blindman wrote:

Did you not read item 3)?????

It would be 'fraud' (doubt it) if the OP spent £1k, got the points then refunded the whole £1K and closed the card.

Erm, yes. That was the part that caught my eye.

arturo_aquaboy

is there anyway of converting them into virgin miles seeing as they are partners??

blindman

arturo_aquaboy wrote:

is there anyway of converting them into virgin miles seeing as they are partners??

You can spend BMI miles to book on Virgin Atlantic
How to spend miles

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