Free Miles & More (Star Alliance) Silver status for oil, gas and energy sector employees

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• Lady London says:

  19 Jun19 June 04:17

  IIRC KLM/Air France have the same. Gets access to a reasonable lounge at CDG if you’re passing through, also, I think, some overnight accommodation there for some people whose flight works out that way.

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  19 Jun19 June 05:20

  If you’re flying BA and your onward flight is from T5 then I can’t think of anything easier than connecting at T5. As a DOM-INT flight then flight connections consists of a boarding pass scan then up an escalator into the main part of T5.

  Unfortunately the return part isn’t as straightforward involving passport control and security.

  • Colin mackinnon says:

    19 Jun19 June 08:38

    Am I doing something wrong? I seem to have to go through the security scan hell too. Or go to T3 for Denver!

    • Alan says:

      19 Jun19 June 10:59

      You only avoid security hell in T5 when connecting *within T5* from UK domestic – if going to another terminal or connecting *to* UK domestic then sadly you’ve got the full fun of LHR security!

• harry says:

  19 Jun19 June 07:14

  Nothing to stop a chancer applying with the a UK business address of (say) BP. Lufthansa use your existing Miles & More number & your personal details incl address will remain unchanged. I doubt if there will be much more than a cursory check that the business address stands up to scrutiny. They won’t be phoning HR asking them to confirm if Mr harry works there.

  • Anon says:

    19 Jun19 June 07:59

    Fraud?

    • harry says:

      19 Jun19 June 08:06

      I buy BP petrol & feel part of the BP family

      • Anon says:

        19 Jun19 June 08:27

        In that case maybe they’ll ask you to help assist with the GoM settlement… 😀

  • Lady London says:

    19 Jun19 June 22:18

    they checked when I worked for BP. They wanted a work email which they tested. Luckily mine was, of course, a BP email at the time.

    They’ll also expire your status in due course if you do not do enough flights, even on this scheme.

• Anon says:

  19 Jun19 June 07:41

  Any bargains on ABZ fares to Frankfurt tho, Avios with BA to LHR is much cheaper or almost free if connecting to Long Haul.

  OMG – Is that me giving ProBA biuas???? lol!!! 😀

  • Anon says:

    19 Jun19 June 08:23

    Rack rate for RTN is avg £300!

• David says:

  19 Jun19 June 08:48

  Do you reckon they’d approve a student doing a Masters in petroleum engineering? Not working in industry yet but a future employee.

• Steve says:

  19 Jun19 June 08:48

  I do work in the oil idustry and live in ABZ. I applied for this and approval took 6 weeks, however approval did indeed happen, and I have no idea what they did to verify my industry status.

  I had to supply my emplyer details and valid emploiyer email address.

  Might actually start using Lufthansa more on my several trips per year to Houston in Y, as my preferred BA flight has now moved to a 787-9, and I really found that really uncomfortable compared to the Lufthansa A380 from Frankfurt.

• MoNkEyMaN says:

  19 Jun19 June 08:57

  Would a part time job stacking shelves at the petrol station count?

  • Lady London says:

    19 Jun19 June 22:28

    Yes, although it would be better if it was fulltime. Probably you will need to provide a personal company email address at the relevant oilco though. I am sure that technically the office cleaner at Shell would have qualified if they’d been directly employed and had a relevant email address.

    This isn’t one you can fudge based on my experience.

• Feldmarschallin says:

  19 Jun19 June 10:55

  Slightly OT, but thinking of industry recognition schemes, does anyone know of benefits for NHS workers? There are a lot of us! Hilton has something I think, any others…..?!

  • harry says:

    19 Jun19 June 11:03

    Codes NHS (and RAC) get you a very good discount at Purple Parking. However, last time I checked, it was better to go via Virgin Atlantic Flying Club portal.

    • Tom H says:

      19 Jun19 June 12:02

      +1 I am NHS too but the VFC discount was £20 cheaper for terminal 5 PP than the RAC / NHS discount codes (thanks to Harry who mentioned in comments previously)

    • Aeronaut says:

      19 Jun19 June 12:54

      A bit of a long shot I know, but whilst we’re on the topic…

      Any codes or routes for cheaper ‘official’ i.e. on-airport parking at LGW?

  • Raffles says:

    19 Jun19 June 11:22

    Don’t you get discounts via the union on various things?

    • Alan says:

      19 Jun19 June 21:33

      LOL there’s more than one TU in healthcare and most discounts aren’t that great

  • Anon says:

    19 Jun19 June 18:21

    Theres the Hilton Public Sector offer

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