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News in brief:

4,500 Avios with Times Literary Supplement subscription

Avios and the Times Literary Supplement have teamed up, offering 4,500 Avios points with a 12 months subscription.

Times Literary Supplement is published on a weekly basis and the annual subscription costs £115 with Direct Debit and £120 with Debit Card or Credit Card. This is 35% less than the newsstand price.

This offer is obviously not as generous as the Sunday Times Travel magazine subscription for £30 with 4,500 Avios points (which we managed to close down early!) but it may make a classy gift for someone.

The website to buy a subscription is here.

You can give either an Avios or BA Executive Club account to receive the 4,500 Avios points.  Select the programme you want to add the points to from the drop down menu and enter your number.

Virgin Trains

Virgin Trains competition

Virgin Trains is running a silly but quick-to-enter competition until tomorrow.

Simply play Sants’s Slot Machine on this page of the Virgin Trains website and win one of three prizes:

A pair of First Class return tickets anywhere on the Virgin Trains West Coast network
£150 voucher for Virgin Experience Days
A year’s worth of wine (worth over £500) from Virgin Wines (four deliveries in total, first one for Christmas)

Select the prize you’d like to win and fill out your details including email address and date of birth.

The winner will be notified by 21st December.

Comments (41)

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  • Nigel Beaumont says:

    Re the Sunday Times travel offer Avios you might like to check your account as I received the same letter as you refer to and was about to phone them a week ago but thought I better check my account first and surprise, surprise my Avios were there…they had been in my account for a couple of weeks!

  • Mike says:

    I have been trying for some time for the times travel magazine subscription however it would seem the promotion code is not available without copy and pasting or upper or lower case.

  • Jerry says:

    My points also credited in late November. The code shown is STTM.

  • Harpo says:

    Re. STTM missing points: my complaining seemed to get me two lots posted – either that or they’re someone else’s!

    OT anyone’s AerLingus 250s posted?

    • Anon says:

      Yep 2x of 250 for mine + my wifes AerLingus/Avios (linked) a/c claimed and now moved to BA a/c 🙂

      • Henry Larsen says:

        > Yep 2x of 250 for mine + my wifes AerLingus/Avios (linked) a/c
        > claimed and now moved to BA a/c

        Is there any way to move the points directly from the AerLingus account to the BA account without going through avios.com (if there is, I couldn’t find it)? Otherwise, those of us outside the UK can’t combine them, or what?

    • Anon says:

      Yes 4500 Avios x2 here as well, things must be chaotic at STTM.

  • Worzel says:

    Harpo, those points could be mine-still chasing!

    More likely to be Genghis’ though as he subscribed family, extended family, and friends! 🙂 .

    • Genghis says:

      My dad is still enjoying his sub bought as a bday present! 🙂

      • Worzel says:

        No need for “panic” just yet Genghis!

        Should Dad’s enthusiasm for the magazine remain through Spring next year then that would be the time to search for excuses for non-renewal!

        Lol 🙂 .

      • James67 says:

        By contrast mine is PO after the postman damaged his letterbox pushing the mag through!

  • Mikeact says:

    After my complaints, and promises, promises from the S Times, Avios have taken it up for me and received copy of an email from them. Pretty appalling service from a ‘perceived, high end’ company.

  • Andrew says:

    I received my S Times points within 2 1/2 weeks with no chase ups, luckily 🙂

  • Neil Holland says:

    Have still not got my Avios from the travel subscription despite multiple emails phone calls et cetera. Shocking customer service would love to know how to escalate. Grr.

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