MSE News: easyJet joins Nectar loyalty scheme

Former_MSE_Helen

This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:

" Nectar card users will soon be able to exchange their points for easyJet flights to over 550 destinations ..."

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"easyJet joins Nectar loyalty scheme"

alzy_3

Glad to have another option on spending my Nectar points :beer:

oxenryd

alzy wrote: »

Glad to have another option on spending my Nectar points :beer:

Agree, quite surprised with this

SewerSide

Pretty pointless (pardon the pun), as they're only worth the same as they are in Sainsburys. I wish Nectar would do something similar to Clubcard rewards, where points can be worth more elsewhere.

fifeken

SewerSide wrote: »

Pretty pointless (pardon the pun), as they're only worth the same as they are in Sainsburys.

Pretty good to have another choice especially if you don't want to shop in Sainsburys.

Goldielocks

Interesting, thanks for the information

icg1964

You have to book the easyJet flights through the Nectar website and pay an unavoidable booking fee of £7. This means that 1,500 Nectar points (worth £7.50) actually only gets you 50p off the flight cost. So, spend £750 at Sainsbury's and get 50p off an easyJet flight.

Am I missing something?

SaveTheEuro

Thanks for pointing out how useless the Nectar/Easyjet scheme is.

Yes, you are missing something. It's even worse than that. You may have to overspend your points or pay £4.95 on top.

This is what they say:

Every 500 points gives you a £2.50 discount off the price of your booking.
Bookings can be paid for pay fully in points. If the total booking price is not divisible by £2.50 you will be able to overpay with points, to the nearest 500 points. Please note you will not be refunded any excess points if you wish to do this
Outstanding cash balances paid by Visa, Mastercard or American Express will incur a card fee of 2.5% with a minimum charge of £4.95.

theschaff

icg1964 wrote: »

You have to book the easyJet flights through the Nectar website and pay an unavoidable booking fee of £7. This means that 1,500 Nectar points (worth £7.50) actually only gets you 50p off the flight cost. So, spend £750 at Sainsbury's and get 50p off an easyJet flight.

Am I missing something?

Yup you're missing something - the total fee amount (£7 + card fee) is the same as on the easyJet website. It's a slightly different breakdown (easyJet website piles it all into the card fee), but its the same fee amount nonetheless.

SaveTheEuro

theschaff wrote: »

Yup you're missing something - the total fee amount (£7 + card fee) is the same as on the easyJet website. It's a slightly different breakdown (easyJet website piles it all into the card fee), but its the same fee amount nonetheless.

What fee are you refering to? If you pay by Visa Electron on Easyjet there is no fee.

Enigmatic_Me

Well I had been looking at Easy Jet flights then got the email yesterday from Nectar so went and had a look.

I have tonight booked the flights via Nectar and it has worked out much cheaper than booking direct with Easy Jet. The reason, the add ons are much cheaper???

For example adding 2 hold bags was £36 (£18 each) where as on Easy Jet own website it would have been £50 (£25 each). I also added speedy boarding which was £20 (£10 each) whereas on Easy Jet own website it would have been £32 (£16 each).

So my total booking via Nectar was £147.96 plus the £7 booking fee compared to £173.96 if I had booked direct with Easy Jet.

Just worried now that someone is going to realise something is not quite right!!