Exclusive: Tesco Clubcard to Avios November promotion revealed

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• Anon says:

  29 Oct29 October 10:01

  Hope’s well and truly dashed reading that headline, PAH!

  Some serious traffic generation you’ve created, how about some prefix to the head line
  ” (but its yet another disappointing BA Comp.) ”

  Still I dont feel so bad blowing £60 (14.5k Avios) of Tesco vouchers on a 2x boost deal of £120 towards the new 2nd Gen Moto G.

  To balance my minor moan above, I’m flying to London tomorrow, got redemption stay booked at the Conrad, £34rtn with Virgin +7500miles, so I’ll be thinking on during travels/stay, that’s I’m esp. grateful for Raffles & HFP.

• Luc Charmasson says:

  29 Oct29 October 10:22

  Just wondering, why is it too late to switch now to auto convert and get the daily entry?

• vindaloo says:

  29 Oct29 October 10:34

  Surely if you’re going to have a go then you should convert all your vouchers early, getting one entry per £2.50, and then enable auto-convert, earning another 30-odd entries at the rate of one per day.

• RIccati says:

  29 Oct29 October 11:48

  BA.com shows cheap tickets but adds couple hundred quid after flight selection.

• idrive says:

  29 Oct29 October 11:52

  saw that, the problem is that when i click, the fare becomes 364!

  • RIccati says:

    29 Oct29 October 12:02

    Fares quoted without ‘carrier-imposed surcharges’, which is added to fare, taxes and fees AFTER flight selection. Not a first for BA.com.

    It is ridiculous how far this effort of hiding ticket price into carrier surcharges goes, right on the border of mis-selling. Price shown at flight selection can be considered ‘a published fare’ so the airline has to sell at this price.

    • Vikrant says:

      29 Oct29 October 12:07

      Oops..sorry for my post then. I just assumed that unlike US prices displayed in UK included all taxes. Next time will confirm it all the way.

      • idrive says:

        29 Oct29 October 12:12

        to be honest, i thought it was supposed to be in EU too, i don’t recall seeing difference in prices when clicking the fare. not a bad deal but at that price at the moment i am considering some US routes to visit my friends. £172 would have been a click-no-think straight away! but thanks for clarifying the issue!

• euflyer Tom says:

  29 Oct29 October 12:40

  It’s poor form (and bordering on misrepresentation) from BA though – on the foot of the page with the 2 x £86 flights it explicitly says:

  ABOUT YOUR FARE
  Taxes, fees and carrier charges for the entire journey are approximately £128.06 – £516.06 per adult and are included in the prices above.

  • Polly says:

    29 Oct29 October 14:02

    Definitely worth a challenge, anyone willing to take them on then?? And get that bargain flight to DBX!!!!

    • idrive says:

      29 Oct29 October 15:07

      this was magically updated to include that now!

      • Euflyer Tom says:

        29 Oct29 October 18:39

        Indeed. So the fare that never was is now no more.

  • RIccati says:

    29 Oct29 October 23:38

    The ridiculous part is that BA.com added ‘carrier-imposed surcharge’ where BA is it’s own carrier.

    BA must be able to quote fares on its own flights outright.

• Brian says:

  29 Oct29 October 14:43

  A hotel company (possibly IHG, but I’m not sure which one exactly) were recently forced to display all-in prices from the beginning, rather than having a price which seemed very cheap and then adding on taxes to make it less attractive. Don’t see why the same shouldn’t apply to airlines.

• Brian says:

  29 Oct29 October 18:52

  If the Clubcard/Avios conversion was devalued, what’s the chances of it happening without giving people at least a reasonable amount of notice?

  I could be wrong but it would be very surprising if it happened practically overnight without giving people the chance to convert before the devaluation occurred?

  I’ve been saving clubcard vouchers up but getting a tad concerned re the devaluation chat.

  What’s the thoughts on this?

  Thanks

  • squills says:

    29 Oct29 October 19:12

    I’ve been waiting for about 2 years I guess, last thought about it seriously in the summer but there has been a lot of bad news since then. Starting to think that a bird in the hand might be a decent option. I think it went down 800—>600 last time, so wouldn’t surprise me to see either 400 or 500, which would make me pretty unhappy 😉

    • squills says:

      29 Oct29 October 19:17

      No rush, highly unlikely to happen before Dec 4th I suppose.

      Re: that point about reasonable notice – anybody remember how much notice there was last time?

  • RIccati says:

    30 Oct30 October 00:02

    It depends on how strongly the boat is rocked. If people who sit on piles of vouchers choose to convert them, Tesco would have to act to stop the outflow of cash.

    Lack of long-haul Avios availability helps because people don’t have that much use for Avios. I guess now is different from when it was 800 Avios for £2.50 and people had more opportunity to book family holidays/four seats in Business, etc.

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