Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

You know that's not true. Your 2-4-1 voucher is for any flight, any class, anywhere. So first class to Australia is possible. The only condition is that you have to book the "1" ticket using miles and pay all the taxes.

We've only just got the card, OHs business flights are now all booked on Amex.

well, alright, i might get a bit further than newquay with 20,000, maybe paris, but it ain't going to get me much further than that.

they're better for upgrading a flight but obviously the voucher doesn't work for you there.

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

...judging what some people get away with on FB, you'd have to be really, really bad to get your account deleted.

That’s my opinion too.

I’ve seen racist abuse, foul language and the most beautiful women that have ever been on Jeremy Kyle :eek:

They should all be bannable convictions!

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

You still have to pay taqxes and charges so not that great.

The big saving is if you have a BA Amex card and spend over ?20k? as this will give you a 2-4-1 voucher for any avios purchased flight which effectively doubles the value of the points.

Martin has done a good article on this putting a value on all the different sorts of points.

it's still pretty naff unless you have loads.

if you have 50,000 points you can get a free flight one way to sydney on BA. that flight would have cost you about £300 (ex taxes which are another £300 ish) so you're looking at saving £600 with the voucher, its that's barely better than the £500 you would have got with 1% cashback (and only actually better if you wanted to fly somewhere).

if you had 100,000 you could go business and double up. you would be "saving" more like £1,700 x 2 = £3,400, but the flight would still cost £400 so actually you've only really saved £200 x 2 compared to the economy price which is what you would have spent without them, and "poshed it up" whilst foregoing £1,000 of cashback, so you're £600 down, basically. probably.

chewmylegoff

CKhalvashi wrote: »

That’s my opinion too.

I’ve seen racist abuse, foul language and the most beautiful women that have ever been on Jeremy Kyle :eek:

They should all be bannable convictions!

facebook is one of the greatest criminal investigation tools ever, a godsend to the authorities.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

facebook is one of the greatest criminal investigation tools ever, a godsend to the authorities.

Yep, i have heard too many horror stories of such sort to be putting my life on there. Much better here where at least i have a thin veil of anonymity.

I signed up once for about three days to see what the fuss was, poked single sue in the face which felt very rude and then signout forever:D

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

it's still pretty naff unless you have loads.

if you have 50,000 points you can get a free flight one way to sydney on BA. that flight would have cost you about £300 (ex taxes which are another £300 ish) so you're looking at saving £600 with the voucher, its that's barely better than the £500 you would have got with 1% cashback (and only actually better if you wanted to fly somewhere).

if you had 100,000 you could go business and double up. you would be "saving" more like £1,700 x 2 = £3,400, but the flight would still cost £400 so actually you've only really saved £200 x 2 compared to the economy price which is what you would have spent without them, and "poshed it up" whilst foregoing £1,000 of cashback, so you're £600 down, basically. probably.

Yes, but, no, but, yes, but....I dunno.

Bottom line is you want a holiday, you can collect points (and often get mega points offers like 19,000 for taking out an Amex card etc). so the flights are pretty much sorted.

of course the more valuable ticket you get using miles the more the free 2-4-1 is worth, so the better deal it becomes.

IMO the "poshing-it-up" is well worth it. I wouldn't want to fly to Sydney in economy full stop. Flying to other long haul destinations in business means you arrived ready to go, rather than needing a day to recover from your flight.

SingleSue

chewmylegoff wrote: »

facebook is one of the greatest criminal investigation tools ever, a godsend to the authorities.

It's a great investigation tool for me too....an absolute godsend to my site when trying to find out who is going to a specific meeting or for asking if people are going to a specific meeting.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

Yep, i have heard too many horror stories of such sort to be putting my life on there. Much better here where at least i have a thin veil of anonymity.

I signed up once for about three days to see what the fuss was, poked single sue in the face which felt very rude and then signout forever:D

And I never actually realised! I ignore my notifications so people could be poking away and I would never know :rotfl:

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

Yes, but, no, but, yes, but....I dunno.

Bottom line is you want a holiday, you can collect points (and often get mega points offers like 19,000 for taking out an Amex card etc). so the flights are pretty much sorted.

of course the more valuable ticket you get using miles the more the free 2-4-1 is worth, so the better deal it becomes.

IMO the "poshing-it-up" is well worth it. I wouldn't want to fly to Sydney in economy full stop. Flying to other long haul destinations in business means you arrived ready to go, rather than needing a day to recover from your flight.

I’m the same; even to Moscow we’re going Club Europe, as the new Aeroflot stuff (which I think we’re on) is better than the BA stuff

CK

chewmylegoff

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I’m the same; even to Moscow we’re going Club Europe, as the new Aeroflot stuff (which I think we’re on) is better than the BA stuff

CK

i'd obviously prefer to fly business, but i ain't paying my own money 2 people to go return to australia in business when i could have three weeks in the maldives for the same price. even this year when i've done pretty well it would still be 12.5% of my take home pay on something which lasts 2 days. that is not a good ratio of cost to duration!

obviously i would happily upgrade using avios if i had enough!