BMI credit card offer

truman_sparks

I recieved this offer 2000 free miles by signing up for their credit card and spending £250 in the 6 weeks. it looks a good offer, has anyone else used it?

Copied from the email;



The bmi American Express® Credit Card from MBNA gives you rewards you’ll want to make time to enjoy. Open a bmi credit card account and you’ll earn destinations miles on everyday purchases, to spend on flights to over 850 destinations worldwide.
To get you going, we’re offering 20,000 destinations miles if you spend £250* on your new bmi American Express® Credit Card from MBNA within 90 days of opening your account – and that’s certainly enough to get you that fabulous break - in Dublin, Amsterdam or even Moscow!
* Offer available to UK applicants. A minimum of £250 in total must be spent on card purchases within 90 days of the account being opened in order to qualify for the 20,000 destinations miles. This offer is only available once per customer. 20,000 destinations miles will be credited to your diamond club account up to 56 days after you qualify. Please note that flight redemptions are strictly subject to availability, certain peak periods may be embargoed for the purpose of destinations miles redemptions. destinations miles is the currency used in bmi’s frequent flyer programme, diamond club. Your diamond club account will be opened automatically when your bmi credit card account is opened. For flight redemption, any taxes, fees and charges must be paid for in pounds sterling at the time of booking. These will vary according to the qualifying destination, and are subject to change as a result of fluctuations in taxes, airport levies and exchange rates. For further information on diamond club visit


Any thoughts?

blindman

BMI have been doing this offer for years.

Recently they have changed to the AMEX card as opposed to the MBNA Mastercard.

Amex is not as widely accepted in the UK as MBNA

Look at this thread on Flyertalks for the pros and cons.

Also BMI are giving 9,000 miles if you sign up to their FF program.

So first sign up to their FF program for 9,000 miles THEN get the Amex card for 20,000.more.

I did this journey with their miles

Enjoy

truman_sparks

Thanks for the tip, just got me an extra 9000 miles!!!!!

It looks a good deal, now need to think of something i need to buy with a credit card and work out how far 29000 miles will get me!

cheers

trueman

blindman

You need to read this thread on Flyertalk

How spend miles table show that Zone 1 to Zone 3 (UK to USA) is 45,000 .

Read the both links to fully understand.

truman_sparks

Thats great thanks blind man, so to recap,

join the bmi diamond club to get 9000 miles, then apply for the credit card 20000 miles (Spend £250 within 6 weeks) and that is enough to go to europe return twice (12000miles each). or usa/canada/mexico for 25000 miles plus £140 + taxes.

And if some one else in my family joins the diamond club and wants to donate their miles, even better!!!!


sounds a great offer, thanks

trets77

wonder if you will be able to get multiple cards and miles on this one . we got 20000 x 4 with the mastercard one.

we got 2 return tickets to Boston with a combination of money and miles from the free miles ..saved us around £700

blindman

trets77 wrote: »

wonder if you will be able to get multiple cards and miles on this one . we got 20000 x 4 with the mastercard one.

we got 2 return tickets to Boston with a combination of money and miles from the free miles ..saved us around £700

I'm afraid not

MBNA finnally caught on and they now actually state that you'll only get one bonus miles award.

Still it was nice whilst it lasted.

Look at the flyertalk links above for details

richardw

You can spend your miles on flights on Croatia Airlines and possibly Adria Airways (Ljublana).

amf

richardw wrote: »

You can spend your miles on flights on Croatia Airlines and possibly Adria Airways (Ljublana).

You can spend your miles on any Star Alliance airline, or any of bmi's other partners (eg Virgin) if you have sufficient miles.

richardw

I mentioned Croatia and Adria because they are 'regional members' of the alliance http://www.staralliance.com/en/meta/airlines/regional_members.html

I spent 12000 miles on a return flight to Split and saved £130.

kelda_shelton

I was also thinking of doing this was thinking of getting myself and OH signed on a credit acrd each and then booking Glasgow - Moscow for both of us. Did a (admittedly) quick check of the forum you suggested but wondered:

a) how they would be about the 2 of us using our airmiles to book the same flights (and I know its about availability so we are happy to chop and change with dates)
b) how long these miles last for - do they have an expiry date when they have to be used for and
c) how much the tax would be - did a general search and it looks like half the ticket price is ' applicable taxes, passenger service charge and insurance surcharge'. So for flights that would be approx £280 each (economy) we'd have to pay about £140?

Didn't know if anyone had any experience on this?