MBNA Diamond Club credit cards to end 30th September

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• Genghis says:

  31 Aug31 August 15:11

  V annoying. Although I’ve been using the IHG card recently to hit the £10k spend for the free night, the plan was to resort back to the DC afterwards.
  Raffles – I look forward to your updated review of other Mastercards / Visas on the market.

• Godot says:

  31 Aug31 August 15:20

  Aw dammit, this has been the consistent workhorse of my credit cards for a long while now.

  Going to have to look into the best options for long-term spend on Amex/non-Amex now that I can’t just rely on the Diamond Club cards – I’m assuming Raffles will have an article on this in the next couple of weeks?

• Nick M says:

  31 Aug31 August 15:36

  Looking forward to the update on other cards – now that my wife has benefited from a few flights/hotel stays (with status) she is quite happy to use whichever card I tell her to rather than complaining that it was too complicated!!

  • bill says:

    31 Aug31 August 16:17

    Same

  • Nate1309 says:

    31 Aug31 August 16:26

    +1

• Scott says:

  31 Aug31 August 16:07

  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news guys, I couldn’t believe it when I saw the message this morning 🙁

  I’m going to have to find another card now for normal spending! I’ve got the Tesco card but I think the points rate was hit recently so don’t think that’s any good. Sad day indeed.

  • harry says:

    31 Aug31 August 18:19

    kill the messenger! lol

    not literally (whoever that person was who told me off last night)

• Andrew says:

  31 Aug31 August 16:08

  No!

  I never thought I’d be so disappointed to hear that a credit card benefit was being withdrawn…

  Saying that. Don’t they have to give their customers a full months notice of changes like this? I haven’t had anything by post or by email yet…

  • ee says:

    31 Aug31 August 18:21

    I would have thought so but might be based on the date the letter is sent rather than received. Reckon we’ll have letters by the weekend….

    • Roger* says:

      1 Sep1 September 09:12

      [NOT the Roger who posted above – I’ve added an asterisk]

      Mrs Roger and I had e-mail messages yesterday.

• Yuff says:

  31 Aug31 August 17:40

  I was always jealous of you guys 😉
  It’s been a tough 18 months in this game, BA/Etihad devaluation, interchange cap etc but one door closes and another will open…..there are always opportunities/loopholes out there 🙂

  • Worzel says:

    31 Aug31 August 18:10

    I’m a little relieved, although I feel HFP pain- of course!

    Having chopped in the BMI Amex card a couple of years ago I’ve been kicking my backside ever since- so, one job less to do in the morning 🙂 .

    • harry says:

      31 Aug31 August 18:15

      ain’t that Schadenfreude, Worz?

      just tell me the best alternative on Oct 1st lol

      might consider 6 months of Lloyds Amex @ 2 points?

      • Genghis says:

        31 Aug31 August 18:21

        2.5, harry. Good on the Amex, not so on the MC

        • harry says:

          31 Aug31 August 19:26

          might just go for plat points after all this time, I know the bonus maths Mr & Mrs intros etc (thanks!) so might as well forget the earning points

          plus I have always been a bit of a lounge lizard

        • Genghis says:

          1 Sep1 September 06:18

          You know the plat makes sense. We’ll be doing it again in Oct / Nov for 92k MR points with the target 2 x £2k spend all going on work expenses. Easy points.

      • JPR says:

        31 Aug31 August 18:29

        I’ve had the Lloyds a couple of years ago. Anyone know how are they at allowing the X2 bonus for old customers or even a referral bonus, which I think is theoretically available?

  • harry says:

    31 Aug31 August 20:55

    my Canadian mate thanks me for his Economist sub 🙂

  • Genghis says:

    1 Sep1 September 06:20

    You need to adapt to survive. I seem to ge doing alright points wise at the moment.

• Alan says:

  31 Aug31 August 18:52

  Official email just received from BAEC…

  Dear Alan,

  We are sorry to inform you that the Diamond Club will be closing on 30 November 2016.

  Please be assured that up until this date, you can still use your 10% discount on British Airways flights.

  If you have a Diamond Club Credit Card issued by MBNA Limited, you will no longer be able to collect Destinations miles from 30 September 2016, however you will be able to convert them in to Avios using the Combine My Avios tool when you log in to your Executive Club account. You will need to do this by 30 November 2016, otherwise your miles will not be transferred and will expire.

  If you have any further queries, please contact us.

  Yours sincerely,

  The Diamond Club

  • Andrew says:

    1 Sep1 September 09:49

    Received the identical email…

    However, I was only ever on the “standard” Diamond Club so wasn’t entitled to 10% off BA flights.

    How odd… Although if it has suddenly become valid, I’d better start booking for next summer.

    • Rob says:

      1 Sep1 September 10:27

      It was always valid …. it just wasn’t meant to be.

      • Rupert S says:

        1 Sep1 September 12:44

        The 10% off closed in May – not sure how it worked but we got some great deals via that link – often much more that 10%

        • HAM76 says:

          11 Sep11 September 15:09

          Seriously? I could have saved a few thousands on BA flights in the past years as a plain Diamond Club member getting a 10% discount?

    • Alan says:

      1 Sep1 September 12:05

      It was valid for everyone that could login to a Diamond Club account I believe… 😉

• harry says:

  31 Aug31 August 18:58

  we was rough – but we was diamonds 🙂

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