Did you get the Amex Platinum ‘5,000 points for a travel booking’ letter?

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• Clive Field says:

  9 Jan9 January 18:24

  Bodrum

• Clive Field says:

  9 Jan9 January 18:56

  Not yet

• Paul says:

  9 Jan9 January 18:42

  Anyone got the 5000 yet for Amex FX transaction?

  • cmcbugg says:

    16 Jan16 January 08:52

    Not yet – it does say 90 days after end of promo (31 Dec) – so guess we need to wait a bit longer

• Paul says:

  9 Jan9 January 19:54

  Was due to book a flight to Glasgow today so used this offer. Not only was one way fare 90p cheaper on the Amex site than with BA.com but I also avoided the BA rip off £5 credit card charge per person.
  Would also add that car hire rates look very good and one day hire of group B. just cost £19.
  So this is a good deal all round for me

  • gagravarr says:

    10 Jan10 January 09:08

    The Amex site won’t do premium economy, mixed class, or multi-city. However, for BA flights that don’t need any of those, it’s great because it’s the same price or a tiny bit cheaper, and no credit card charges!

    • Flashware says:

      10 Jan10 January 09:09

      Handy to know. Will need to do my future bookings that way then!

      • gagravarr says:

        10 Jan10 January 09:29

        As long as your BAEC account is UK based too, you should even be fine to do avios upgrades on the booking, but you’ll miss out on the cheap ET->CE upgrade offers before checkin.

• gnarlyoldgoatdude says:

  13 Jan13 January 12:04

  Date: 09/01/2013
  Description: AMEX TRAVEL BRIGHTON
  Charge: £8.69
  Base points: 8
  Bonus Points: 5,016
  Total Points: 5,024

  Result!

  • Raffles says:

    13 Jan13 January 12:52

    Fantastic! Let’s see if we all get them automatically.

    Relieved to see one of these posting automatically and not in arrears …. one less thing to chase up!

    • Flashware says:

      13 Jan13 January 13:36

      I’ve received mine automatically as well. On top of that I also got the easy 5000 points that are for the taking by complaining that HHonors Gold is now gone 😉

• Alan says:

  15 Jan15 January 19:34

  Well I got the offer in the mail, but couldn’t register with either FF or IE – text was all corrupt. I didn’t want to use the code above in case it wasn’t the same for everyone so thought I’d phone them – boy what a mistake! Took 20 minutes as rather than just registering me for the offer they instead put me through to travel to make the booking. This was for a simple domestic return where I even knew the flight numbers, but it still took an age!

  They also provided incorrect info (saying BA required photo ID when this isn’t the case for domestic flights – they even say so on their website!), didn’t have my BAEC number on file (despite me having used it with them on a previous bookIng) and to cap it all off said there “may” be a £4.50 CC fee, but they couldn’t confirm either way?!! Certainly inspires zero confidence to book through them again.

  • Alan says:

    17 Jan17 January 19:23

    Just as a follow-up – when the charge moved from pending to actual on my account it did indeed incur and extra £4.50 cost. Plat CS have now refunded this as well as crediting an extra 5000 MR as goodwill for such rubbish service on their part!

• Joanna says:

  16 Jan16 January 09:28

  My 2,500 MR for Gold posted today and I got a hotel for £4.92 (is this the best?) – in Bodrum, Turkey.

• christian says:

  16 Jan16 January 13:51

  Thanks for this, Even better for me. The website wouldn’t let me register so I had to call in. The nice lady said thanks for reporting it and gave me 5k ex gratia any way! Now that with my 25% transfer bonus 🙂

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