Air Miles

memecoughlin

Hello,

please could anyone tell me what is the best method of clocking up or purchasing air miles?

Thanks

monkeyspanner

You can swap Tesco Clubcard vouchers for Airmiles but it doesn't work out a very good use of your Tesco Vouchers. You would be better off using the Tesco vouchers direct for holidays and/or holiday extras.

Homebase and Shell also have schemes

One of the major Credit card providers will give airmile for each £ spent. I think it is Nat West.

Times/Sunday Times sometimes have Airmile Vouchers to collect (last of these offers had a limited life on the vouchers).

There are usually people selling Airmile Vouchers on Ebay not sure what sort of rate you would pay.

If you shop on-line via the Airmiles site (various large companies) you can collect airmiles on each purchase have a look at the airmiles site for detail https://www.airmiles.co.uk

Voyager2002

You can buy as many as you need from the BA website. Be aware that there is a fixed fee of fifteen pounds for each purchase, so it makes sense to buy a lot once rather than several smaller purchases.

Alternatively, if you buy me a first-class round-the-world ticket they will throw in enough miles to last you for a good few years to come!

memecoughlin

Ok, that sounds like a good deal. Not.;)
Thanks for your advice!

Barter

I've got loads of airmiles that I'd be happy to sell if I knew:

A) How much they're worth, &
How to transfer them.

exel1966

Airmiles are only worth using during Special Offer programmes (ie.50% off or BOGOFS) or when purchasing non-flights.
The extremely high admin charges/taxes they charge on flights mean that more often than not a cheaper deal can be found by searching the web.

Used some recently during a special promotion to fly London - Miami - London for 2300 miles + £112 which was reasonable, but this would have usually cost over 5000 miles !!