No Tesco / Avios bonus, no Tesco / Virgin bonus ….

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• Linda says:

  13 May13 May 13:49

  I have auto-transfer of my clubcard points to BA Executive Club. Should I not do this?

  • CV says:

    13 May13 May 14:49

    Personally, I wouldn’t, it means that IF a conversion bonus were to come along then you would already have converted your vouchers from past statements. Best to keep them in Tesco and convert only when you need to or when a conversion bonus comes along.

    Also, you should keep your options open between BA and Virgin in case one has better availability than the other.

    • David says:

      13 May13 May 14:52

      Even if you just want Avios points, if you have auto-conversion off you can then fund both your Avios.com account and your BAEC account – thereby ensuring you will always earned some avios in the last 12 months in both schemes, and are therefore able to book RFS rate redemptions from both accounts, given that they can have different availability.

• GlennM says:

  13 May13 May 16:59

  Query: Tesco Avios page website says 14th May not 14th June for Avios and BAEC on the post – Raffles do you know which it is?

  • Rob says:

    13 May13 May 17:23

    Given that it wasn’t on the Tesco site last night and the emails (which say June 14th) only went out yesterday, my money is on June 14th!

• Jon says:

  13 May13 May 18:09

  Rather annoyingly, the email I got from Virgin said transfers between May 9th and June 14th would go into the draw. Guess when my points auto-converted over? Yep, May 8th… :-/ Note to self: switch auto-convert OFF 😉

• sandgrounder says:

  13 May13 May 20:00

  Wow! Didn’t see that coming. 1p each isn’t great but cheaper than any other way of buying them.

  • Brian says:

    13 May13 May 20:11

    As with most of the gift voucher options, they’re giving a 5% bonus, so that makes it slightly less than 1p.

    • Adam says:

      13 May13 May 20:24

      Good that there’s another option, but given the availability it may be better to buy a cash ticket instead (given the Tier Points and Avios earned).

      For £90 I could get 9,000 Avios and redeem RFS at £35 + 9,000 points. Effective costs therefore £125. If booked in advance, not many places in Zone 1 that you can’t get for £125…although potentially I’m getting a better view than most as a regular Gatwick traveller…

• GlennM says:

  13 May13 May 20:22

  Excellent spot – just testing this now, nice having the additional 5% too, perhaps not the best route to Avios, but great to see an additional option. Keen to see how long a transfer takes. Love the fact that it isn’t limited! Even the smallest & largest transfer’s are accepted – Room for opportunity here!

  • N says:

    13 May13 May 22:35

    It’s much better to go via Tesco, but you can only do £50 a year that way. The direct Avios conversion has no limit.

• Ian says:

  14 May14 May 14:48

  “if you were planning to convert to Tesco then you might as well do it via avios.com and not British Airways Executive Club.”

  What is the advantage of using Avios over British Airways Executive Club – Avios?

  • Rob says:

    14 May14 May 15:06

    You get entered into the competition!

    • Ian says:

      14 May14 May 15:51

      The competition is also listed on the Tesco website under the Bitish Airways Executive Club – Avios as well.

• Stephan says:

  14 May14 May 17:03

  Unrelated but to do with bonuses. Do you know if Amex will be doing a bonus conversion any time soon? Trying to debate how much longer to hold onto my Gold Amex!

  They seem to have done 2/3 last year but none so far this year with avios.

• Claire says:

  15 May15 May 18:01

  If I have convert my Tesco to Virgin and then move my min 10k points from Virgin to Hilton, do these points count as base or bonus with Hilton? Are these currently going over from Virgin to Hilton at 2:3? I’ve switched on the auto convert and will then switch off again but never really used the Virgin route for Hilton points.

  • Rob says:

    15 May15 May 18:14

    They do not count for status. Yes, it is now 2:3 rather than 1:2 as it was.

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