Bits: Tesco trialling 12000 Avios bonus for the Premium Credit Card, Aer Lingus traffic data

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• Andy Lea says:

  11 Aug11 August 08:36

  For the Tesco premium card to tempt me – I would need circa 25k Avios signup and circa £100 annual fee

• Bernard Peller says:

  11 Aug11 August 08:55

  I flew the new Aer Lingus Business class seat back in March from AGP to DUB, during the summer season the fly an A330 to AGP on the morning flight, that same aircraft then does the afternoon flight to JFK. As AGP is classed as short haul Europe I paid €80 supplement just to try the seat, there is no service difference from economy, you pay for your luggage, you pay for a drink etc. The seat is a vast improvement on the last angled incarnation but unless there was a huge sale on I would not pay business class money to fly with EI as I would not earn any Avios or tier point. But for some added comfort on a 3 hour flight I would pay the €80 extra every time. The seat layout is 1-2-2/ 1-2-1 All the A Seats are single but the single seats in row 3 & 5 K have extra shelf space so are great seats if you want to work or relax with you laptop etc.

  • ADS says:

    11 Aug11 August 09:38

    EI also fly a nasty old B757 on their US routes – not sure if the business class seat is the same.

    I hope Rob doesn’t end up in that when he’s trying to review the new product !

    • Rob says:

      11 Aug11 August 09:51

      Those have now been updated I believe.

      It will be A330 though. Not going to Hartford!

    • Worzel says:

      11 Aug11 August 10:22

      “Nasty old B757” .

      A view from the place that matters? :

      https://headforpoints.com/2015/05/22/book-review-skyfaring-a-journey-with-a-pilot-by-mark-vanhoenacker/

      Page 100:

      ‘Pilots tend to like powerful planes. I’ve often heard complaints about one long-retired aircraft type that pilots felt was under-powered; the joke was that it only ever got airborne because the earth eventually curved away beneath it. In contrast every pilot I’ve talked to who has flown the Boeing 757 has mentioned, unprompted, how powerful its engines are’. …..

• Raffles says:

  11 Aug11 August 09:10

  The 500 Marriott points for following them on Instagram have arrived:

  https://headforpoints.com/2016/06/19/airberlin-20-discount-code/

• Will Squires says:

  11 Aug11 August 09:23

  Still waiting for a sign up bonus on the current account 🙁

• Duncan S says:

  11 Aug11 August 10:31

  RE: DUB pre-clearance. If I book a flight from GLA > DUB > MCO with only about 90 minutes layover in DUB, will I be able to pre-clear or won’t there be time?

  • Daftboy says:

    11 Aug11 August 11:47

    You have to pre-clear, or you won’t get on the flight – it is not an optional step (the US-bound flights leave from a dedicated set of gates which you have to pass through US immigration to access).

    If you are booking it as one ticket/journey with luggage checked through and the website offers you a 90 minute connection then you will be fine; that is enough time.

    If separate tickets (e.g. Ryanair and Aer Lingus) and needing to collect and re-check luggage then 90 minutes will not be enough.

    • Duncan S says:

      11 Aug11 August 17:32

      Thanks for that. It’s actually for my FIL, but he’s looking at a GLA > MCO flight via DUB booked as one ticket on the Aer Lingus website, so that should be fine.

      I think he might prefer to have an overnight stop in DUB anyway, which Aer Lingus don’t allow you to specify online. I think he might just book GLA > DUB and DUB > MCO separately but on different days.

  • Brian says:

    11 Aug11 August 17:32

    If you book on the one ticket you should be fine. I have connected on to the EI105 flight at 1050 from the earlier GLA-DUB flight. On arrival at DUB the cabin crew will announce if anyone is connecting to JFK, who then get off last and then are bussed to the Pre-Clearance area (with obvious priority to get through).

• Scottydogg says:

  11 Aug11 August 10:54

  Re Aer Lingus , I remember reading that Dublin to Boston was a good deal with regards to Avios redemption , I see you quoted a business class return in the article , but my question is
  Do you know what price Dublin to Boston 1 way would be , how many avios and taxes ?
  I don’t want to have to phone BA for the price

  • Lumma says:

    11 Aug11 August 11:59

    It would be 37500 avios and if I remember correctly it’s about £45 taxes from Dublin and £30 from Boston

  • S P McLaren says:

    11 Aug11 August 13:24

    Sorry , I should have said . Economy , how many avios 1 way in economy to Boston?

    • Rob says:

      11 Aug11 August 14:41

      12,500

• Renwaldo says:

  11 Aug11 August 12:47

  Does anyone have an update on whether it will be possible in the future to redeem avios for RFS style flights on Aer Lingus? Particularly interested in MAN – DUB as it can get very expensive when you need to fly last minute.

  • Rob says:

    11 Aug11 August 13:00

    No idea. If Aer Lingus does revenue-based redemption it would be crazy to have flights openly bookable on ba.com for 4,500 Avios.

• GC says:

  11 Aug11 August 16:35

  One reason for the driver in Aer Lingus may be the BA site itself. When I put in ABZ-JFK or ABZ-MCO in recent searches, it forces the return leg in most cases via DUB with no option (apart from Multi City but even that has it’s limits due to the 2 hour stopover minimum) to fly via LHR. Most casual travellers won’t check for other options not shown on BA.com.

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