Superb Heathrow Rewards deal …. 1000 Avios / Flying Club / Miles & More miles for spending £10

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• Skydivemacca says:

  20 Feb20 February 09:31

  When following the link it says only 100 points?

  Have they downgraded the offer due to popularity?

  • Rob says:

    20 Feb20 February 10:20

    100 points is the normal bonus. As long as the Virgin code is in the Promo Code box (should be autofilled) you will get them automatically.

    • flieduk says:

      2 Mar2 March 22:33

      How long is it taking to post? I did some last week and they have still not posted. TIA

      • TimS says:

        3 Mar3 March 06:31

        I would have expected them to post by now.
        Email customer services and get them to do it manually if the purchases themselves have tracked ok.

        I did that with the Dec 2013 offer and they were adjusted manually within 24 hours.

      • Rob says:

        3 Mar3 March 08:17

        Transactions post overnight from World Duty Free and usually within 48 hours from everyone else. If its longer than this then email a scan of your receipt to Customer Services and they will do it manually (or post it in).

        • flieduk says:

          6 Mar6 March 07:29

          Nah, the transactions have posted but the bonus hasnt :/

        • Rob says:

          6 Mar6 March 08:30

          Quick email to HR should sort that out

• Muryu says:

  20 Feb20 February 09:33

  I had the same issue with postcode while accessing on my mobile
  It worked correctly on Chrome Desktop, even got 100 bonus points for the sign up

• Skydivemacca says:

  20 Feb20 February 09:34

  Have joined anyway, so it seems like the site is functional again, however there’s no mention of 1000 points>

  • Rob says:

    20 Feb20 February 10:20

    See other reply. As long as the Virgin code is in the box it will post automatically.

• sarah says:

  20 Feb20 February 09:38

  I’m running out of email addresses for this – can anyone please advise whether you can still merge different accounts (of family members ;))? TIA

  • Skydivemacca says:

    20 Feb20 February 09:40

    I’m trying to register my wife. All the details are different except the postal address. It won’t let me do it, as it’s saying one account per customer, despite it’s a different person – It’s citing the postal address as the issue.

    Has anyone got round this?

    • TimS says:

      20 Feb20 February 10:14

      The way around it is to either register her at a business address or possibly change her address to something like 1a Any Street rather than your actual address of 1 Any Street.

      • ankomonkey says:

        20 Feb20 February 16:50

        I’ve done this by adding a comma at the end of the address line, changing upper case to lower case, adding an extra space, etc.

    • Rob says:

      20 Feb20 February 10:21

      Office, parents, next door neighbours …. it can be changed later I’m sure.

      • TimS says:

        20 Feb20 February 11:35

        I don’t think it can be changed later as the site still won’t allow duplicate addresses. (I’ve tried).

        However you can call up customer services & merge accounts (and therefore combine orphaned points) later. So if you use an office address for the latest card you should be able to merge it later with your “main” one once they have tracked & close down the card with the dummy/office address.

    • Rebecca says:

      20 Feb20 February 17:37

      I signed up my other half. Used different email addresses but same postal address. No problems encountered. Since I was flying that same day I made a note of his card number and used it when buying duty free. They typed it in on the till.

      I also used the “recommend a friend” facility. (Find it on the homepage of your account on the left side tab). When I signed him up I filled out my card number in the section “recommended by” and after “he” spent over £30, I received 300 bonus points 🙂

      I’ve since recommended more friends. Easy way to get some points!

      • Rob says:

        20 Feb20 February 19:12

        Do let me know if ‘recommend a friend’ works alongside the 1000 points. The reason I do not offer my own number for referrals is that I am worried that it will cancel out the 1,000 point deal.

        • TimS says:

          20 Feb20 February 20:10

          I used recommend a friend for the recent 500 point on £30 spend before Christmas. The referral points tracked fine but i had to contact Customer Service for the 500 points to track. They did post the points the day after my email but it didn’t track automatically in my case.

        • Rob says:

          20 Feb20 February 20:18

          Thanks Tim. I will continue to not give out my refer a friend details then!

        • Rebecca says:

          20 Feb20 February 20:30

          I used it when it was a much smaller 500bonus points. My partner received the 500 bonus points without any problem. I did have to email them with both our card numbers to get my 300 points from recommending him.

        • TimS says:

          20 Feb20 February 22:26

          So it may be that they can automatically deal wih one promo/referral but not the other (and it seems on a whim as to which they recognise each time!) but they are still willing to give out the eligible points to both referer & referee if you contact customer services!

  • AviosNewbie says:

    20 Feb20 February 09:43

    I think you might use different combinations of a gmail address using a period

    johnsmith@gmail.com = john.smith@gmail.com = j.ohnsmith@gmail.com

  • Tim says:

    20 Feb20 February 12:38

    Your own domain name costs less than £5/year. Then you can have practically infinite email addresses, should there be any benefit in them.

  • John says:

    20 Feb20 February 20:32

    mailinator.com

• Hancock says:

  20 Feb20 February 10:26

  Is the BAEC/Avios account permanently associated with the HR account? In other words, is there any way to transfer to the same Avios account from multiple HR accounts?

  If an account that has been used to transfer points to Avios has been closed, can the Avios membership number then be associated with a different HR account?

  Hope that makes sense.

  • Rob says:

    20 Feb20 February 10:40

    See your point, not sure about the answer. Remember that you can transfer to BOTH BA and avios.com, in any event, and then merge the points using Combine My Avios.

• terry says:

  20 Feb20 February 12:28

  Raffles do you think that a £10 top up of a pre-ordered Vodafone SIM card at the Vodafone store in Heathrow T5 would work to trigger the points? Have no plans to spend money at Heathrow any time soon so looking for ways that I could trigger the 1000 points and get something of equivalent value back for it rather than just buying something extra I wouldn’t have ordinarily have bought and effectively wasting it just to trigger the points. The obvious option would be to buy Euros via currency exchange, but they are on to that. Another option might be to buy (albeit expensive) groceries at the M&S Simply Food.

  • Rob says:

    20 Feb20 February 12:29

    Should do, ask Voda first. As long as they swipe your card and the total is £10 you will be fine.

    • FormalHall says:

      20 Feb20 February 12:41

      I often by my pay-as-you-go top-up at WH Smith at Heathrow (even the landside ones), and it always points correctly with Heathrow Rewards points, so perhaps you could get a voda sim there if you are uncertain the voda store will bill you the required £10.

  • John says:

    20 Feb20 February 20:34

    The real question is why are you using Vodafone PAYG??

    • FormalHall says:

      25 Feb25 February 00:44

      I don’t, I by O2 credit to use on giffgaff. I use PAYG because phone companies are seemingly unwilling to give contracts to people who have been in this country for less than 3 years (although Amex was happy to give me a gold card!)

      • Flashware says:

        25 Feb25 February 10:21

        Are you on the Electoral Roll? That plays a big part. I was able to get a mobile contract after 1 year living in the UK after having moved from Australia.

• Mark says:

  20 Feb20 February 13:42

  Does anyone know if the spend can be for Heathrow Express tickets?
  Mark

• Michael says:

  20 Feb20 February 13:53

  This should work with buying i.e. gift card at Boots or WH Smith you can thenuse everywhere!?

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