Exclusive: Tesco Clubcard to Avios November promotion revealed

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• Danksy says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:05

  I’ve been stacking these up! Now I have £700 of clubcard vouchers and am desperate for an avios redemption deal, I do wonder whether a devaluation gould happen as tesco take steps to redress their performance ?

  • James67 says:

    29 Oct29 October 10:38

    You are leaving yourself open to devaluation not only at tesco but also at BA and Virgin. If you have travel plans in mind it would be best to use them now. The loyalty industry has been awash with major devaluations over the past couple of years. It is unlikely that the three schemes concerned here will hold out forever; consider potential impact of Delta on Virgin, and Tesco may well be watching response to Sainsburys nectar devaluation.

• Tabitha says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:07

  When was the last time they actually ran a conversion bonus? I can’t recall seeing on for years.

• Russell Evans says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:07

  I must admit Rob, you had me with that Headline! Very good 😉

• Al says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:08

  Was July 2012 the last non-targetted bonus?

• PJK says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:12

  And there’s no general Tesco Direct inclusion in the Clubcard Boost this quarter unfortunately… Though at least I get to save the vouchers and not spend them on Christmas presents!

  • Anon says:

    29 Oct29 October 10:03

    Err, yes there is just got a new mobile phone 2x vouchers, see below..

    • PJK says:

      29 Oct29 October 20:47

      No, there isn’t – there is a specific inclusion for certain Direct departments, but most are excluded, importantly for me, the one we had planned to use if they repeated this summer’s general Direct inclusion – for a half price iPad. It seems you can use them in store but it depends what the “Electricals” dept. includes – whether that would have iPads in or whether it would just be kettles and irons and things!

• thesaver79 says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:14

  So one would be better off converting £2.50 every day. Am I right?

  • Al says:

    29 Oct29 October 07:22

    Is there a choice now? If you don’t have autoconversion, I guess it’s too late to switch and get a daily entry.

    • Metatope says:

      29 Oct29 October 07:40

      Anyone have views on this? I’ve only just started with club card, but I’m getting the feeling that I should auto convert because there may well be a devaluation on the way…

      • Rich says:

        29 Oct29 October 11:39

        I’m in 2 minds about leaving the Clubcard > Avios auto conversion turned on. It used to be £2.50 > 800 Avios. Now it’s £2.50 > 600 Avios. I’d kick myself if it were devalued again.

      • Mark2 says:

        29 Oct29 October 11:40

        Even with auto-convert it only happens once per quarter.
        It has just happened; my Avios have emerged after disappearing from the ClubCard account a week ago.

  • Frenske says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:20

    No, you receive 1 entry per £2.50 converted. If you convert 10x£2.50 in one day or over 10 days, it is still the same negligible chance to win.

    However it would make sense to covert them on days when less people are converting to increase the chance to win percentage. The 1/10 of a million Avios question is, which days are these??? For sure not at the begining of the competition.

  • Simmo says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:43

    If you did this, you wouldn’t get the ‘change’ back until next quarter… If next next month have a bonus you would loose out..

• JQ says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:23

  I don’t bother with Clubcard as much as some people do, but I’ve given up waiting.

  I’ve just found availablity for 2 CX longhaul J returns in Nov/Dec which was very surprising. Was going to book Y. Now that Tesco and Amex conversions happen overnight, changed my £100 CC or so to 24k avios and 100K amex to 100K, then used up the entirety of my household avios and managed to snatch the seats before some Marco Polo diamond took them.

  Now given that I was going to book Y, I only got 0.6p of value, but get to travel in J. And I paid 0.25p for the clubcard anyway, and a substantial portion of the Amex was free / compensation / 4x or 3x that I shouldn’t really have got. So all in all not bad. Otherwise I would still be stuck with 250K avios, no availablity and potentially a transfer bonus that I would have missed out on.

  • Charlie says:

    29 Oct29 October 07:38

    Out of interest what was BA availability like? As I’m in a similar position but would prefer to use a BA credit card 2 for 1 award.

    • Amy says:

      29 Oct29 October 07:59

      I find BA availability to be quite awful, my parents had such terrible trouble using their 2-4-1 voucher. They wanted to go to the West Coast, flying into LAX, SFO, or even LAS, in the end they are flying to SEA and flying down to where they actually want to go. They were looking at 10 months before departure… In comparison VA had availability whenever and for wherever they wanted. For me, VA has the better availability. Interestingly I had a phone call from Avios last week asking or my opinion on the program, and I told them that their availability was poor in comparsion to Virgin. The operator said she had had a few comments like that…
      I recently (last month) booked two UC tickets to NYC as a surprise for my mum, travelling next July and VFC had availability in every cabin for every single day of the month vs 4/5 days for BA, but not in every cabin.
      I’m sticking with my Virgin Credit Card.

      • Phil says:

        29 Oct29 October 08:30

        That’s Avios for you, plenty of availability as long as you….

        Fly to somewhere you dont want to go,
        Go at the time of year you dont want to go,
        and fly in a class you dont want to fly in.

        • squills says:

          29 Oct29 October 08:45

          Plenty of us here have a completely opposite experience with Avios redemptions but then perhaps it is a good idea to plan ahead…

        • Erico1875 says:

          29 Oct29 October 19:43

          I have not been disappointed.

        • Simon says:

          30 Oct30 October 22:35

          It might depend on the route but Virgin does seem to have more availability than BA, eg ba.com shows no reward flights in Business or First from LAX to LHR for July next year where as Virgin has availabilty on 30 of the 31 days.

        • Lostantipod says:

          3 Nov3 November 04:44

          How far ahead did you have in mind? I’ve regularly looked a year out, over many years of redemptions, and consistently failed to find availability to where I want to go, when I want to go, in the class I want to go. . So I have learned to get incredibly creative and patient ….. Last time I used my 2-4-1 to HKG with BA in F, then a CX redemption to Perth then QF redemptions to SYD and then HKG in J, and yes I saved a load of money, and only booked 6 months out, but all we wanted to do was go to SYD, not spend half our vacation in HKG and PER and half a lifetime on websites trying to link up availability dates. And the miles I spent were all earned as a bum on a seat with BA, not with Tesco or elsewhere. I agree for some people it works fine, and good luck to them, but on the other hand it’s not as if I am searching for half term or Xmas dates….. Money talks, BS walks….I’m sitting in Melb right now as a result of spending my cash with EY and Virgin Aus. In the past I excused BA for being a bit more expensive because of the BAEC redemptions , but I’ve lost patience. And I’m BA gold.

        • Jon Davies says:

          29 Oct29 October 08:47

          Aye to that Phil
          Cant see myself ever using my 2 for 1 voucher

        • Mark2 says:

          29 Oct29 October 11:43

          I have just booked flights to Toronto back from Montreal and strangely Club seats are only available on Tuesdays (when just released 355 days ahead).

        • Mike says:

          29 Oct29 October 13:06

          When I start to fancy a holiday I just check every week for availability until I see something I like. I got F return to SFO earlier in the year (flying 6 weeks later). Easy being a single guy with a fairly flexible employer though.

  • Andrew S says:

    29 Oct29 October 10:43

    Just for balance, i have made extensive use of avio short haul in the last year on the RFS with BA. Some flexibility is needed, but i have averaged 2 flights a month.

• Shane W says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:35

  Great site as always but I have to call you on the headline this time.

  • Rob says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:07

    I thought that was mild to be honest. I went through a few other ideas which I rejected as ‘clickbait’ which is something I try to avoid. Regular readers know when I write ‘promotion’ I don’t mean ‘bonus’ -and that I would have been more excited if it was.

    • John says:

      29 Oct29 October 16:44

      I’m shocked that you’ve ignored the breaking news re BA’s seats: http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/28/gwyneth-paltrow-sits-in-airplane-seat-on-top-of-infinity-pool-for-british-airways-campaign/

      Naturally the reader comments about Gwyneth’s face being Photoshopped are beneath contempt, and a slur on BA’s PR op.

      Have to admit the hotel pool’s more tempting than the CW interior though.

      • Rob says:

        29 Oct29 October 19:23

        Was on the beach! Did not seem justifiable cause to leave it.

  • Andrew S says:

    29 Oct29 October 10:44

    I knocked over my coffee.

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