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

theexplorer

richardw wrote: »

Good point. An extension to the deadline for bookings to say 15th Jan may help. I think the meadja may pick up on collectors in this predicament.

Not everyone as not all people are able to take several trips within one year. The soliution would be to ring fence the Airmiles already purchased and for them to be able to be booked under the old scheme.

Just as in if a pension scheme changes its terms it is often the case that benefits earned so far are preserved and then less generous terms apply to future contributions and new member

paulday22

richardw wrote: »

My guess is you won't have to travel by 15 December.

hi, i have tried to book airmiles flights to turkey for may 2012. spent ages on the phone to a bemused call centre girl asking her to fly me to 3 of the 4 turkish airports that B.A. fly to. she gave up in the end passing me on to customer relations.
i am being told that british airways no longer flies to any airport in turkey and if they did? there are no available airmiles slots. please try again at the end of november. !!!!!!! oh well the world ends next year anyway, does'nt it? or is that as big a lie as airmiles customer relations??

Road_Hog

Any wrote: »

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As Richard said, I am also sure Airmiles have checked the legality of this.
But still, good luck!

Okay smart !!!!, where in my post did I talk about the legality and what is the good luck for, I've not suggested any legal action.

richardw

paulday22 wrote: »

i am being told that british airways no longer flies to any airport in turkey and if they did? there are no available airmiles slots.

BA flys to Istanbul. But appears no longer to fly to Antalya and Izmir.

richardw

theexplorer wrote: »

The soliution would be to ring fence the Airmiles already purchased and for them to be able to be booked under the old scheme.

for travel to be completed by what sort of date?

malkie76

theexplorer wrote: »

I have no need to address the other issues as they have been covered.

Re my comment about google, i was asked which large companies have been defeated in court through having terms & condition that failed under the unfair contracts act. As I have no inkling to look that up and have no nned to know, i suggest to google it. That is the only time i have said to google anything.

I would suggest that you get your facts straight before posting

So essentially you posted something, but are now confessing that you have no examples to support your claim, and further more were unaware of any examples when you posted.

I'm really just bringing into questions your rationale for court action - it seems to be built on rather shaky ground. A few people have pushed for a little more information, but you've been rather evasive.

What have you achieved so far, and what are your plans?

mrdavidwhitley

Forgive me if this is seen as spammy, but one thing Air Miles/ BA hasn't done yet is published which destinations will be in which Zone (and thus how many Avios a return flight will be to get there). This seems pretty fundamental in working out the value to me, so I've gone through the press office and got the details.

I've put a full comparison table on my own site seeing as they won't publish it on theirs - it's at bit(dot)ly/qO46bS if it's of interest. As far as I can work out, for most destinations, you're best off spending your Air Miles ASAP. There are a few stand-out exceptions, though (Moscow, Kiev and St Petersburg in particular).

janterry

Can anyone tell me, will the changes to Airmiles affect only flights? What about things like travelling by Eurostar, car hire and hotel stays? Will I still be able to pay for these using only miles after the changes come into effect, or will there be some cash payment for these as well?

loates123

try to use my 22800 airmiles to book a flight for next july and august and hardly anywhere is available

guess ill have to wait but its a pain having these miles and not being able to spent them for next summer

loates123

richardw wrote: »

BA flys to Istanbul. But appears no longer to fly to Antalya and Izmir.

Antalya seen this but it does not say what airline