airberlin now offering oneworld status via credit card spend – would a UK credit card do this?

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• Scotlish says:

  30 May30 May 20:13

  I thought I’d just mention that you can apply for the German card from the UK, you just need to have a German bank account which you can get with Comdirect.de or DKB.de with ease (I’m personally with Comdirect), you can also apply for the German Hilton HHonors Visa which offers better value for money than the UK HHonors card (in my opinion), for those ineligible for a UK AMEX you could try your luck in Germany too.

  It would also appear you can apply for the Austrian card too as you can pick Großbritannien however I’m unsure as to whether you need an Austrian bank account. I would presume you can use your British account as it asks for IBAN/BIC in place of an account number/sort code (it’s a one or the other thing) although as I haven’t gone through the application I cannot be certain.

  Just thought I’d clear up the misconception that you need to live in Germany (and possibly Austria) in order to apply for the card 🙂

  • Alan says:

    30 May30 May 21:11

    Better vfm Hilton card sounds good – is there a link to info? Could be an interesting post, Raffles.

  • Polly says:

    30 May30 May 21:32

    Thank you for that, v useful for those of us whose MP cards will expire later this year. And yes, it would be worth keeping the plat then once we had BA silver equivalent with someone in OW.

    • Rob says:

      30 May30 May 22:14

      Hmm … I would be interested to see if they actually let you have one. The UK is pretty strict and the Germans are even worse – remember that very few even have credit cards!

      • Scotlish says:

        31 May31 May 09:22

        From experience I can tell you that DKB will issue the HHonors credit card without issue to UK customers, likewise you can be issued a Lufthansa credit card. I believe American Express issue cards to non-German customers too although I’ll need to check as I haven’t had one issued myself (not bothered applying).

        Germany isn’t actually strict when it comes to issuing credit cards, all you need is a German bank account (as before Comdirect.de or DKB.de) and you can then apply for any card you like (unless explicitly stated it’s only for German residents) so for the Germans being worse in strictness, they’re not at all, rather they’re relaxed which in a way is worrying but that’s for another topic :p

        Hope it’s useful to an extent 🙂

        • Rob says:

          31 May31 May 09:34

          Very useful! Ironically my German wife has closed all of her local accounts ….

        • Alan says:

          31 May31 May 21:11

          Thanks – that’s interesting info both on the card and the German bank account front 🙂

        • Scotlish says:

          1 Jun1 June 13:21

          You’re both welcome, when I first discovered this a while back I was surprised too but since it’s been incredibly beneficial especially on the HHonors status front.

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