Bits: get 9600 Avios with XBox One, Air New Zealand Auckland code, get £100 off Qantas

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• Tom C says:

  2 Apr2 April 06:42

  Rob, regarding Qantas, the exact wording is: “Save to Card to get a £100 statement credit when you spend £600+ online (freight airfare excluded) at Qantas.com/uk by 31 May 2016. UK departure flights only. Valid once per eligible Card”. I was hoping to use this for flights when we’re in Sydney to get to Fiji, but as it’s UK departures only it’s no use.

  • Rob says:

    2 Apr2 April 09:25

    If you book on the UK site you may get the credit, I doubt Amex is that clever. However, once you select a non UK departure point it may switch to another site.

    No Avios redemption possible though?

    • Tom C says:

      2 Apr2 April 11:49

      BA.com doesn’t let me check that route and I couldn’t be bothered to phone up to check availability. It’s only £800 for 2 J flights, which seemed reasonable enough to me to not bother with Avios, but I’ll certainly take any discount going.

    • Michael says:

      2 Apr2 April 14:19

      Last time I paid for flights (on Delta) with my Amex my card statement contained the passenger manifest and route (and possibly the e-ticket numbers but I can’t remember). It’s entirely possible that Amex could have similar data from Qantas and so will know the departure point. Just something to be aware of.

• RedHroogar says:

  2 Apr2 April 10:52

  Couple of questions:
  1) has anyone received their Curve card yet. I signed up on the day Raffles mentioned it on this site but haven’t received it yet; despite them saying it would be late March.

  2) reviewing the ‘best’ cards for Avios today. Since I’m 70+ it looks like the Amex Plat business would suite me better due to the ‘no age limit’ on the travel insurance. Q is: are there any downsides to switching from the standard card ? Presumably I wouldn’t receive the sign up bonus? Note: I rent out a commercial property so do have a business account.

  • David says:

    2 Apr2 April 11:28

    You should have got an Email saying they are shipping starting end of March in batches over a 4 week period.

• Graeme says:

  2 Apr2 April 10:56

  OT – but Virgin Flying Club related. Tesco auto tip bonus posted yesterday so guess its time to take the auto conversion off and try again next quarter.. 🙂

  • Roberto says:

    2 Apr2 April 11:50

    +1

  • Johnnycl says:

    2 Apr2 April 22:21

    +1

• Guesswho2000 says:

  2 Apr2 April 11:45

  The QF offer is on my Gold but no others – either way, brilliant news as long as they’re competetive, as I need tickets to Australia, so thanks for highlighting this Rob!

  • flyforfun says:

    2 Apr2 April 14:45

    Not on my BA Amex card. Wonder why.. 🙂 Most of the places on there were one’s I’d never use.

    Gueeswho2000, have a look at Cathay Pacific too. If there’s a sale on they can be quite good value and they have wider seats than QF in Y. Also, I much prefer Hong Kong to transit through than Dubai. DXB is rather poor for a major hub. It really is like going in in souk. I’m glad my transits with QF there are short, but the one time I did it with Emirates I had 4 hours to kill. BORING!

    • Genghis says:

      2 Apr2 April 15:42

      Agreed. Transfers in DXB are awful. Even more so if it involves a 30 min drive around the perimeter fence

• harry says:

  2 Apr2 April 19:28

  hehe my wife just got allocated 11F on a European HBO tomorrow

  shame she’s about 5 foot 8 and won’t realise it’s a good thing, I bet I get some moans later about access to the aisle even though I didn’t actually get the chance to choose the seat

  I think she got it because I put her BA details in, not that we’ve got status these days but I guess no other fer on this flight has even got BA membership lol

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