Bits: Avios / Tesco competition, 1200 free Avios with PayQwiq, Etihad ‘all A380’ from Heathrow

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• Lumma says:

  4 Aug4 August 07:34

  I got the original 500 bonus points for payqwiq but I also got an extra 200 points this month, so it may be worth continuing to use it where possible if they’re gonna continue to give random extra clubcard points.

  Other than that I don’t see any real benefit to using it. By the time you’ve opened your phone, found the app, opened it, entered your PIN, then scanned the barcode, you could scan your plastic clubcard and pay contactless/pay chip and PIN. (The reason I’ve used it mainly is to buy a drink from tesco while out jogging and still get the clubcard points)

  Saying that, I still don’t get the obsession with using Apple/android pay. Until everywhere accepts it for all payments and you can guarantee you’ll not run out of battery, you still need to carry the physical card as well.

  • billy says:

    5 Aug5 August 20:16

    I’ve used it a few times since this article was posted and i agree its too fiddly. Unlock phone, find app, open app, enter pin/finger print. Too many steps. They need to disable the step with the password or better yet create a passbook/wallet shortcut.

  • Stuart says:

    8 Aug8 August 13:11

    Wasn’t persuaded before now with these payment apps on phone, but using it during running (no cards to lose en-route) alone is a winner for me! And bonus miles too 🙂

• sleepingbeauteez.com says:

  4 Aug4 August 07:50

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  Win 10,000 Avios points with Tesco this month

• Go says:

  4 Aug4 August 08:00

  I used PayQwiq in Norther Ireland yesterday. The supervisor told me it had just lauched so it may be available elsewhere. The logo was on the till. No mention of the bonus points

  • World Traveller says:

    4 Aug4 August 22:55

    I used PayQwiq in Wales in April. I can’t rember if there were any stickers on the till or not – the cashier wasn’t surprised so I can only assume i wasn’t the first customer to use it in that store.

  • Cuchlainn says:

    5 Aug5 August 03:42

    Hi – which store in Northern Ireland did you use PayQwig in ?
    Thanks

• oliver anderson says:

  4 Aug4 August 08:32

  I am a bit confused about the avios to BA switch. The link in the first article takes you through to a former post on Tesco to avios competition (not avios to BA) and I cannot find any information on the avios to BA switch. Does the avios to BA switch (via combine my avios) have to be in conjunction with a Tesco switch? I have lots of avios that I could convert to BA but theyare from credit cards, durveys etc. Also, is there anything stopping a user switching all points to BA and then back again (to avios) then switching back again to (to BA) to enter the competition again?

  • Alan says:

    4 Aug4 August 08:42

    You can switch Avios points between Avios.com and BA Exec Club as often and as much as you want, Oliver. What Rob is highlighting here is that Tesco are now running a competition for converting Clubcard points to Avios.com, the previous competition was for converting to BA Exec Club.

  • Egg says:

    4 Aug4 August 16:00

    in my experience I could not transfer back.
    So I had to use Iberia
    Eg. Avios to BA
    BA to Iberia
    Iberia to Avios

• Yan says:

  4 Aug4 August 08:48

  “Starting 18NOV16, the airline’s 20 out of 21 weekly flights will be operated by A380, an increase from previously planned 19”

  Nothing really changed with A380, they just swapped 77W with 346 on Tuesday, but will see if last minute equipment changes continue.

  Last two A380s will operate JFK route

  • Raffles says:

    4 Aug4 August 09:01

    Thanks for the insight Yan.

• mark2 says:

  4 Aug4 August 09:13

  OT
  For my Accelerate target I need one ‘Points and Cash’ stay and to ‘Stay Once’.
  Am I correct in thinking that the ‘points and cash’ stay also counts as the ‘stay once’ please?

  • Louie says:

    4 Aug4 August 09:35

    No. Points stays don’t count as eligible stays for the Accelerate promotion, other than to achieve specific points stay targets. I did a points and cash stay a couple of weeks ago and it posted yesterday, but only the points and cash stay offer has been updated on the Accelerate website.

• Derek Holdrup says:

  4 Aug4 August 09:21

  We have around 140000 Avios earned on Tesco. Would it be worthwhile transferring these to BAEC as we are purely leisure travellers and only use the Tesco earned Avios for leisure flights? Any comments gratefully received.

  • @mkcol says:

    4 Aug4 August 09:26

    It really makes no difference where you “hold” your Avios as you can switch them to the other spending sites (eg: BA, Iberia…) as & when you need to use them.

    • Genghis says:

      4 Aug4 August 09:32

      Agreed. I keep mine altogether in BA only because they are shown on the BA app.

      • Egg says:

        4 Aug4 August 16:02

        & because you can have a family account

  • Yuff says:

    4 Aug4 August 10:14

    Consider virgin for more flexibility and 20% bonus 😉
    I have the same dilemma but had a, shall we say, not perfect virgin experience to Orlando last year from Manchester in UC.
    But virgin also has hotel flexibility! Hilton and IHG.
    I may split my tesco vouchers, I need approx 400k avios annually which means 180k from tesco to top my BA up and then 300k to virgin.

• Alex says:

  4 Aug4 August 09:59

  Off topic, but Amazon seems to be running a promo for topping up your gift card balance at the moment. 3GBP extra if you top 60+. 5% isn’t much but its better than a kick in the n*ts. Llink should be in newly-introduced summary bar on the front page.

  • Imran says:

    4 Aug4 August 10:45

    Hi Alex do you have a link around the 5% Amazon topup promotion? thankyou

    • Alex says:

      4 Aug4 August 17:44

      Unfortunately I don’t… Already topped up my balance and the system won’t show me the link again.

  • Rob says:

    4 Aug4 August 15:12

    I get ‘Unfortunately you are not eligible for this offer’.

    • harry says:

      4 Aug4 August 19:27

      same here – it’s targeted at low users

  • Alan says:

    4 Aug4 August 19:45

    🙁 says I’m not eligible – perhaps this was the one mentioned earlier? I’m suspicious it might be only for those that haven’t topped up before?

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