The earnings rate on the old bmi credit cards has been secretly increased

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• Grandmaster says:

  2 Apr2 April 07:43

  Wow, that’s excellent news. I own this credit card after you recommended it to me on Flyertalk for a £6k spend from a merchant who didn’t take Amex. It’s mostly been dormant since then, but I’ll make more of an effort to remember the PIN from now on!

  So I guess I should also be moving across spend from the BA Amex Platinum across to this one? Thinking about it though, I think my next Amex membership year is about to commence…

• Koshka says:

  2 Apr2 April 07:53

  I was having difficulty making any sense of my most recent statement which had 470 miles on a spend of £144. I think all the Foursquare credits confused the issue. Having tried again I think that the February spends earnt 1.5 miles per pound and the March ones earnt 2.0 miles per pound. No miles were deducted even after the Foursquare credits were applied. I have the standard MBNA BMI Amex/Visa.

• Barry Lynch says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:06

  Just got my April statement.It’s giving 2.5 Avios per £1 of Amex spend and 1.25 Avios per £1 of Visa spend for my ‘Plus’ card.
  Thanks very much Raffles for putting me on to this before it closed to new applicants.

  • David says:

    2 Apr2 April 10:04

    1.25 Avios per £ just moves the Visa ahead the old Tesco Mastercard (also no longer avilable to new applicants – sorry) at 1CC/£2 = 1.2 Avios per £.
    Ofcourse Tesco clubcard may have a conversion bonus, and you have a choice where to convert….

    Really wish someone would say officially these new rates have ‘stuck’, or a ‘good for’ period.

• Dannyrado says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:34

  Any reports on what the stand alone BMI mastercard is earning? The one I’m referring to was free, and earned 1 point per pound.

  • gnarlyoldgoatdude says:

    2 Apr2 April 10:32

    I’m fairly certain that my bmi Mastercard used to earn 1 mile per £1, but that had/has a £60 yearly fee. My statement is due on the 10th, so I’ll let you know.

    • Rob says:

      2 Apr2 April 17:54

      If you paid the £60, your card was 2 miles per £1 and will now be 2.5 per £1 (same card I have)

      • David says:

        2 Apr2 April 17:59

        2.5 per £ on a non-Amex. Obsecene….

  • dannyrado says:

    2 Apr2 April 19:00

    The answer to my own question is 1.25 avios per pound. I got my statement today. My card is free. There were a few different stand alone BMI mastercards, mine was one of the last.

• Flashware says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:52

  Will be interesting to see what it posts as. Had quite a large spend on Visa this month (gotta love how building/home improvement related companies tend not to take AMEX….), so hopefully ended up with 1:1 on it!

• Robert says:

  2 Apr2 April 09:00

  Just checked and I have indeed been awarded 2 points per £ from March on my BMI Mastercard.
  Was getting 1.5 points per £ up to February.

• john says:

  2 Apr2 April 12:07

  Dammit, I wish I could have applied for these, but with 6 credit searches in 6 months at the time I couldn’t risk another one and probably would have been declined.

• Roger says:

  2 Apr2 April 12:32

  Same here, 2.5 miles per £ on my very old £60/year BMI Platinum Mastercard. Excellent stuff!

  • Roger says:

    3 Apr3 April 08:41

    … and 2/£ on my zero fee MC for THIS Roger! 😀

    [not entirely serious] We have two posters using the same name. I hesitate to suggest registration for the forum, so I’ll think about using a different name. Slightly reluctant as it is my username on FT. Perhaps ‘Real Roger’? 😉 [/not entirely serious]

    • RogerJ says:

      3 Apr3 April 09:30

      I’m happy to become RogerJ which also matches my FT username. Should have done that in the first place!

      • Roger says:

        3 Apr3 April 09:45

        What a gentleman! Thank you. 🙂

        It would only have been an issue if we had wildly diverging opinions on something. I think that as we probably have similar interests, this would have been unlikely. Nice gesture!

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