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

adobbing

adobbing wrote: »

Hi Stefanie

Currently airmiles allows me to book Manchester - Munich on Lufthansa for 2,000 miles per seat.

Will I still be able to book seats on Lufthansa and how many "Avios" miles will it cost.

Thanks

Hi Stefanie

Can you answer the following please?
Will Avios allow me to redeem miles for flights on airlines such as Lufthansa and if so, what would the mileage rate be typically on a route such as Manchester - Munich?

Thanks

adobbing

adobbing wrote: »

Hi Stefanie

Can you answer the following please?
Will Avios allow me to redeem miles for flights on airlines such as Lufthansa and if so, what would the mileage rate be typically on a route such as Manchester - Munich?

Thanks

Deafened by the silence!

Avios_company_representative

On_The_Ball wrote: »

Hello Stefanie,

I'm looking at flights to Hong Kong departing next August and returning in September. There are only six days with return flights available - is there any chance this will increase with the inclusion of Iberia flights, or is that it?

Thanks a lot!

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Hi On The Ball,

Thanks for getting in touch.

Iberia flights to Hong Kong are actually operated by British Airways.

In terms of availability, Airmiles flights are generally released 50 weeks in advance - additional seats may be released at a later stage, depending on the operating airline. The best thing to do is to keep checking the web site or get in touch with one of our experts in our UK Customer Contact Centre on 0844 49 333 49 who'll be able to discuss your options with you.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Stefanie

Doc_N

Two or three years back it used to be possible to get 'free' BA flights between London City and Amsterdam. That's not been possible for some time now, and all you ever get, no matter how far ahead you try to book, is this:

There are no full miles prices available for the dates you have chosen. However, a list of cash prices for flights on your chosen dates are shown below.


Why are these flights no longer available please?

SaveTheEuro

malkie76 wrote: »

My take it on it was that you could transfer points within the schemes without issue. Hence you could transfer your points from BAEC into Airmiles and use them as you previously would have used Airmiles.

This condition seems to rule out spending with Air Miles the points acquired through the BA Executive Club:

C.4.1 Except as otherwise provided by us and communicated to the Member and subject to any stated limitations, Points are not transferable in any way (whether from person to person, account to account, statement to statement, card to card, Scheme to any other loyalty type scheme or otherwise).

http://www.airmiles.co.uk/avios/terms

malkie76

I think your interpretation is incorrect. Thats purely about transferring avios points outside of any avios scheme. Furthermore, the first line "Except as otherwise provided by us", allows them to dictate how you can transfer points - this term is to prevent selling accounts or points on ebay etc.

You'll still be able to transfer points to another member as a gift as is currently available.

It's basically saying you can only transfer points under their rules.

ince_mon

Just simply buy cheap flights from elsewhere,and use your points for hotels.

Doc_N

ince_mon wrote: »

Just simply buy cheap flights from elsewhere,and use your points for hotels.

That would be fine - except that booking a hotel uses vast numbers of Airmiles. The hotels are even poorer value than the flights.

Best bet is to dump the scheme altogether and tell any companies still using it that as an incentive it's about as attractive now as a dead skunk.

SaveTheEuro

malkie76 wrote: »

I think your interpretation is incorrect. Thats purely about transferring avios points outside of any avios scheme. Furthermore, the first line "Except as otherwise provided by us", allows them to dictate how you can transfer points - this term is to prevent selling accounts or points on ebay etc.

You'll still be able to transfer points to another member as a gift as is currently available.

It's basically saying you can only transfer points under their rules.

I hope you are right. But why won't British Airways and Air Miles make a clear statement about this?

becominganobsessivesaver

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

I hope you are right. But why won't British Airways and Air Miles make a clear statement about this?

If your original query was about transferring BA Avios to Airmiles Avios (and vice versa) there is a thread on flyertalk where a BA rep has confirmed the transfers will be possible (one of the ones linked from here - unfortunately I can't remember which one http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1255433-thread-index-executive-club-changes.html)