MSE News: Costs to soar in Airmiles revamp: use points before they devalue

theexplorer

richardw wrote: »

It may be best take professional legal advice on this. Not sure if you understand the CPR that apply.

Having had many succesful wins in court, i am fully aware of the CPR, but thank you for your concern

theexplorer

Any wrote: »

Well God help you if you are acting like this at court...
When not knowing how to follow or want to follow argument you just start insulting people...
:rotfl::rotfl:

this is not a court and i know how to follow an arguement, i chose not to on here as it is to no avail

richardw

richardw wrote: »

if a judge asked a claimant to detail and describe why the airmiles couldn't be spent, that may not be that easy to demonstrate.

Would you find it easy to demonstrate then?

theexplorer

richardw wrote: »

Would you find it easy to demonstrate then?

Very easy, check out the fight the Airmiles chage face book page and you will see many reasons why people cannot spend them

theexplorer

anyway, end of discussion, as far as I am concerned it is fruitless

ince_mon

Thats it for me now. I've about 10,000 air miles,gonna use them for a nice break for me and the Mrs.From now on,my clubcard vouchers will be used to get money off my shopping.

richardw

theexplorer wrote: »

Very easy, check out the fight the Airmiles chage face book page and you will see many reasons why people cannot spend them

There are just statements about how much extra the taxes, fees and charges would cost, not detail about why they can't spend them under the current scheme before the December deadline.

If you can't demonstrate why you couldn't spend them, not sure you are going to get very far.

theexplorer

richardw wrote: »

There are just statements about how much extra the taxes, fees and charges would cost, not detail about why they can't spend them under the current scheme before the December deadline.

If you can't demonstrate why you couldn't spend them, not sure you are going to get very far.

even though I said end of conversation, i will just clarify this final point. If you look deep enough through all the posts, you will see that there are several reasons why they cannot be spent before Dec deadline, one is that many people do not know thier work allocation until after the new year, two, some people have too many to be able to book several trips in one year and can go on

Road_Hog

theexplorer wrote: »

even though I said end of conversation, i will just clarify this final point. If you look deep enough through all the posts, you will see that there are several reasons why they cannot be spent before Dec deadline, one is that many people do not know thier work allocation until after the new year, two, some people have too many to be able to book several trips in one year and can go on

Or they may not have enough to get to the destination they want to go to. I think a number of people have been saving them up over the years to go somewhere long haul as a treat or somewhere that they might not normally be able to afford.

I think that there are a number of people being obtuse about the situation. The top and bottom is, if you're an Air Miles collector (and not a BA Miles collector) this is bad news for nearly all and is forcing people to use their Air Miles in a fire sale.

Sure, there is the odd person who tends to go to one destination that has slipped back a zone, but that person is few and far between.

Any

Road_Hog wrote: »

Or they may not have enough to get to the destination they want to go to. I think a number of people have been saving them up over the years to go somewhere long haul as a treat or somewhere that they might not normally be able to afford.

I think that there are a number of people being obtuse about the situation. The top and bottom is, if you're an Air Miles collector (and not a BA Miles collector) this is bad news for nearly all and is forcing people to use their Air Miles in a fire sale.

Sure, there is the odd person who tends to go to one destination that has slipped back a zone, but that person is few and far between.

I think every single statement in this post can also be said the other way round..
As Richard said, I am also sure Airmiles have checked the legality of this.
But still, good luck!