MBNA Diamond Club credit cards to end 30th September

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• uk1 says:

  31 Aug31 August 18:58

  End of an era. Does anyone else rembember the QXL auction days when you picked up buiness class seats for peanuts. bSo many wonderful trips. I rember winning six return business class seats for the first flight out and last back to Amsterdam and took all the family for £15 each. And we got miles towards Silver. I must have booked over a hundred tickets through that auction.

  And what about the cash-balance transfer where they capped the charge at £70 and we filled our boots with hundreds of thousands of BMI miles when they were wrth something. Rob, I think we owe noticing that wrinkle to you? At one stage I was transferring £30,000 backwards and forwards between the card and my bank account twice a week.

  Happy days. RIP BMI.

  • Baggageinhall says:

    31 Aug31 August 23:42

    I do! Visited many points in Europe in style while still a student with my then girlfriend, now wife. We once used the (long gone) check-in desks at Paddington and had to endure a cross-examination from a supervisor as to why our tickets were so cheap.

    My first thoughts on receiving the doomed email from BA this evening was what Raffles would make of this and where my non Amex spend will now go.

  • Marc says:

    1 Sep1 September 13:00

    My first ever trip in business class was to Warsaw won on QXL for £56 return including taxes in 2000, not long after finishing University.

    I have to admit though I never flew BD ever again as living in Newcastle made BA much more practical. Took out the Diamond Club card during the merger knowing the sign up bonus would be good for avios.

    • Rob says:

      1 Sep1 September 13:41

      I doubt I ever flew them more than twice, despite burning about 2 million Diamond Club miles 🙂

      To put in context how cheap it was, I flew myself and 3 friends to New York in LH F for a weekend at one point, just because.

• Eshaq Choudhury says:

  31 Aug31 August 19:20

  Nooooooooooooooooooo

• PAL says:

  31 Aug31 August 19:24

  Would be great having a page where some of the more experienced travellers could relay some of the best perks in the old days – i remember reading once 25 avios per pound on an old Lloyds card? Also remember seeing keeping receipts for avios!

  • harry says:

    31 Aug31 August 19:29

    it’s like a bit of a get INTO jail card on Monopoly – but you just need to ask Raffles in a good moment down here

  • xcalx says:

    31 Aug31 August 19:41

    Some of the perks have to remain a closed topic, at least until the miles are all used, and that could take a while. LOL.

    • harry says:

      31 Aug31 August 19:44

      and I could have added: or xcalx lol

  • Rasser says:

    1 Sep1 September 09:02

    Triple BA Miles at Travelex (including on Sterling Travellers Cheques). LGW Travelex for a few weeks offered commission fees capped at £3.

    Withdraw cash from bank > travel to LGW to exchange for Sterling TCs > Return to bank to pay TCs back into bank account.

    Repeat. Cost per transaction approx £20 (travel and commision).

    Was a nice earner when taking a wad of £10k down to LGW.

    The time was an annoyance though.

    • Rob says:

      1 Sep1 September 09:26

      I used to do this!

• Graeme says:

  31 Aug31 August 20:39

  Gutted. This card has been great for me, allowing me to go back to it immediately after I’ve hit other targets. It’s obviously always been coming, but even so it’s disappointing.

  In unrelated news, I suspect I might need to book a very expensive fully refundable flight a few days before the Club closes.

  • Graeme says:

    31 Aug31 August 21:24

    I’m thinking that I’ll book it, pay the bill, remove the points, cancel the card, then cancel the flight so the refund comes back elsewhere.

  • Rich says:

    2 Sep2 September 08:51

    Thinking about doing the exact same. With BA refundable flights are there any fees whatsoever? Or do you get back exactly what debited?

    • Rob says:

      2 Sep2 September 10:52

      £15 IIRC

• David says:

  1 Sep1 September 08:26

  Anyone know if you can collect points for purchases made before the 30th September but where your statement is generated afterwards?

• Tina Hammond says:

  1 Sep1 September 08:36

  What fee do Lloyds charge for HMRC payments made on the Avios/Amex Mastercard?

  • Rob says:

    1 Sep1 September 09:01

    Presumably 0.38%

• Monica says:

  1 Sep1 September 13:01

  Hi,
  Can anyone advise how to contact diamond club. They’re online form doesn’t work and the birthdate on our account is wrong so BA won’t transfer our points.

  Thanks

• Ian says:

  1 Sep1 September 21:36

  surely MBNA don’t want to lose a lot of high spending customers over night? They may well find some way of keeping this card alive? I spend a lot on it, so it could be a big hit to mbna balances?

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