More news in brief:
Avios Suitcase adds new points-earning badges
If you have been visiting the Avios Suitcase app on Facebook occasionally, it is worth checking back. New ‘badges’ – Avios Apple Watch App, Instagram Avios For Apple Watch, Twitter Avios For Apple Watch – are now available.
Simply by clicking on each and completing a short task, you will earn a few points. Other new badges may also be showing depending on how long it is since you visited.
The points are not huge – usually 20 per badge. They are credited to avios.com and not British Airways Executive Club, although you can merge them using ‘Combine My Avios’.
You can learn more about Avios Suitcase in this HFP article here.
$10 of free wi-fi call credit for IHG Rewards Club Platinum and Ambassador members
IHG Rewards Club, the Holiday Inn / HI Express / InterContinental / Crowne Plaza etc scheme, has launched a free ‘IHG Translator’ app for iOS and Android devices.
Covering 12 languages, all IHG Rewards Club members get access to 40 key phrases, a free audio lesson per language and local travel information.
If you have IHG Rewards Club Platinum or Ambassador status, you get free access to the Premium level. This gives you use of a voice translator, 3 minutes of free access to a live dial-up translation service and over 2,000 phrases per language.
Here is the interesting part. The Premium level also includes $10 of free Wi-Fi telephone credit for a service which works in a similar way to Skype. This can be used to call anywhere in the world. Even if you have no interest in the translation features, you may want to download it just for the free $10 of call credit if you are eligible.
(Thanks to Paul and Uncle G)
About Head for Points
I have checked in to the covent garden store (black logo), posted, says im there. Still no stickers emerging in my account- any help please!
Same here.
Took me a while. Had to resort to doing it on my tablet rather than phone, for some reason. Then got all the other badges and work out which FB account to check in to. The only one that won’t play for me is Instagram, even though I managed to remember my password and log in.
Covent Garden Apple Store has No. 1-7 The Piazza in the title. If you don’t see it in the title, you probably have the wrong one. There are a few thousand checkins on the right page.
After triggering that, it opens up a ton of other ones. If you complete all the checkins plus Twitter plus Instagram, you can get 1560 Avios total (120×13)
Thanks for the helpful advise, now worked for all my stickers except Regents Street and Birmingham Bullring stores, any idea or help would be much appreciated.
Clearly anybody doing this is a complete loser.
Wouldn’t mind 1560 free Avios though.
Can you link more than one FB account to the same Avios account? No reason why Ma can’t earn me a few Avios while she’s learning how to use FB!
Thanks for the helpful advise, now worked for all my stickers except Regents Street and Birmingham Bullring stores, any idea or help would be much appreciated.
All stickers now showing, i just tried again this morning checking in to the missing stores and for some reason they appeared – so keep on trying if doesnt accept stickers first time round 🙂
You snooze, you lose!
All ‘check-in’ stickers have now gone… I hadn’t had chance to do them and have now missed the chance it seems… ah well! 🙂
The instagram, twitter and facebook share are still there so managed to get a quick 360 avios 🙂
Just wondering… has anyone actually received the avios yet? I got 10 from the suitcase a few days ago, and nothing since….
I only got 10 as well…
I didn’t get any. All the points have disappeared from my suitcase account but none have been credited to my avios.com account. Anybody knows what’s going on?
Raffles, any chance you can get a follow up on this [points coming out of the Suitcase app but not arriving into Avios account]?
To be honest, I didn’t think it was a widespread issue?
I only got 10 points this month too, and nothing for any of the check-ins for the various Apple Stores but like others, my suitcase balance has re-set to zero.
Same here, just 10 points and now a zero balance 🙁