EXCLUSIVE: Earn 250 Avios when dining at local restaurants from 1st October

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• Rob says:

  19 Sep19 September 17:59

  Why? All that would happen is that Curve would take your cash and buy Avios from IAG for 1p, or probably a bit more than 1p, each.

  As you can struggle to get more than 1p of value from them, you shouldn’t complain about getting cash which is more flexible. Feel free to use your Curve Rewards cash to book a BA flight for cash, with no availability issues!

  • Andrew says:

    19 Sep19 September 19:54

    I wasn’t complaining, I was thinking long term if the amex rate drops and the visa gets worse due to interchange fees etc. It may be a option if they did bonus transfers etc or maybe, I am thinking hopefully. Reading the blog it does say that you can’t use the rewards as a part payment yet, if the amount of rewards doesn’t cover the purchase amount it declines the payment. Their scheme looks interesting, it will be good to watch it evolve.

    • Johnnycl says:

      19 Sep19 September 20:13

      Not sure how they’ll be able to manage authorising transactions below the reward balance when using contactless. I guess it will revert to the next saved card for the balance but it will be interesting to test this.

• Nick says:

  19 Sep19 September 19:34

  Sorry, O:T, is anyone still waiting for their £20 credit to their moneycorp account?

  • ankomonkey says:

    19 Sep19 September 20:15

    Me.

  • Tom h says:

    19 Sep19 September 21:14

    And me.

  • mark2 says:

    19 Sep19 September 23:04

    Me too; should we expect it to be added to the GBP wallet or to the wallet w have used does anyone know?

• roger says:

  19 Sep19 September 21:16

  +1

• flyforfun says:

  20 Sep20 September 06:11

  American Airlines used to (or maybe still does) have the iDine program that gave your points just for using your card at the eating establishment. You needed to register a card with iDine and you automatically got the points when you used it at the place – no need to book.

  I used it a few times signing up my UK card when on holidays there and racked up a 5hitlo@d of miles at places I wouldn’t expect to have offered miles. Given the points were on spend as well, it was very generous, sometimes like 5 points per $ spent.

  Alas, when I went to register my next card, they seemed to have twigged it wasn’t a US card or that the address I was using was a hotel. If it does exist I’ll see if I can get a pre-paid mastercard or similar in the US and see if that works!

  • Daniel says:

    20 Sep20 September 08:20

    Make sure with the Idine thing that you live in Beverly hills..90210.. that’s the trick…

• Roger* says:

  20 Sep20 September 09:45

  Thanks for the Idine update, flyfor fun. i just checked my details and they are still valid. (My address ends in 00000.) Last used in 2015. The credit card number, used for logging award details, doesn’t need an expiry date as Idine don’t take payment. If people are already registered and use the same credit card for restaurant payment, they’re all set.

  Idine also operate several other miles-earning schemes via rewardsnetwork.com: Alaska, American, Delta, jetblue, Southwest, Spirit and United.

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