Have 3,000 Avios dropped into your avios.com account?

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• signol says:

  1 Oct1 October 10:49

  I had my Avios hotel voucher last month, on my actual birthday. I couldn’t spend it though.

• MaltapointsTom says:

  1 Oct1 October 11:00

  This was a good one. I managed to book a night at a 4 star hotel in Mellieha (Malta) in November for 2,950 points, so totally free.

• Trevor says:

  1 Oct1 October 11:33

  No points for any of 3 accounts between my wife and I, and my birthday has just passed! Can’t just be a birthday as a criteria, as it seems different people have different bonuses, or like me, none at all.

• Kathy says:

  1 Oct1 October 12:44

  I wonder if they target this at people who have used Avios for hotel bookigs before? I have nothing, but then I’ve never used Avios to book a hotel.

  • signol says:

    1 Oct1 October 14:01

    No, as I received the voucher but have never booked a hotel through them. I once booked a flight, back in the Airmiles days, but tbat was all.

  • Rob says:

    1 Oct1 October 15:54

    …. and neither have I!

• Chris Storrie says:

  1 Oct1 October 12:59

  Just got 1,000 points no stipulations like hotels for how they can be spent. Just been added into my account balance. Birthday not for 6 weeks

• cmcbugg says:

  1 Oct1 October 14:30

  I just got 1000 Avios (added to my available balance), and an email indicating they are for MY birthday (which is also in Nov).

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM AVIOS 1,000

• Stephen says:

  1 Oct1 October 17:25

  It was my birthday yesterday and I didn’t get any Avios!

• What's the Point says:

  1 Oct1 October 21:12

  Not related, but I got 1,000 points added into my AA account this weekend. Something to do with an INT opt in bonus?

  • Phil says:

    1 Oct1 October 21:44

    yep. got that too. it was a one off AAdvantage eSummary sign up bonus – as outlined on the news and offers page on their site. you needed to sign up though.. not sure if its still active or not though..might be.

    • Trevor says:

      1 Oct1 October 22:57

      I recall seeing the offer and trying to sign up for that too, but I never could – it never saved my setting ggrrrr…. I tried a few different browsers, but no luck. Nothing happens when I select “Subscribe” and then click “Submit”.

      Googling it turns up the offer on this page – look under “AAdvantage offers”:
      http://www.americanairlines.co.uk/intl/be/AAdvantage/AAdvantage.jsp

      Though the page is for Belgium, and I can’t get a similar page to load for the UK. When looking at offers while logged in, nothing remotely similar turns up.

      Another hit from Google says you can get up to 2000 bonus miles, but that’s from 31/1/13 and mentions subscribing to other options that are either differently named now or don’t exist.

      I’ve just tried again now – I still cannot subscribe to anything as clicking Submit doesn’t do anything (and I updated my browser recently!). Clicking away and back to the page shows that the settings weren’t saved – for any option!

      • Simon says:

        1 Oct1 October 23:19

        Hi Trevor,

        I just tried it now and had the same problem with the .co.uk site you are having, I got this link to work using IE for me, my country at the top of the AA site had defaulted to USA at the time as well, not sure if that made a difference though.

        http://www.aa.com/myAccount/emailSubscriptionAccess.do

        • Trevor says:

          2 Oct2 October 00:04

          Thanks, Simon, glad it’s not just me!

          I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to get this to work now, but have just tried again following your experience. May as well chase the AA points if Avios don’t want me to have a happy birthday lol

          I’d also unsuccessfully swapped between UK and US sites previously to see if that made a difference, but not in IE. Strangely, the link you posted gives a different looking subscription page with no tabbed account options along the top. Even more strangely, it says “Your changes have been saved. You will also receive an email confirming your changes.” after I click submit, yet… the options remain unsubscribed! Gggrrr….

          But…, when I log back in to the normal site using Chrome, the settings have updated – result! Super-weird, but at least it’s there now, though probably missed the bonus anyway. Thanks for the tips though.

          PS: Updated my wife’s account in Chrome using your link – the thing in reverse: says setting saved yet showed as unsubscribed, and was only when logging into her account in another browser (IE) that is showed subscribed!

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