Win 18,000 Avios in a new British Airways free draw

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• Stu R says:

  4 Oct4 October 05:04

  Bl***y typical …. I booked my Avis car via BA only last week. I cannot believe (although given what I’ve read about BA here recently, I actually can) that BA charge a flat £5, even for using their own branded credit cards! As far as I know, book via the Avis site and there is no charge for CC’s, but obviously no bonus Avios.

  To be honest, I’m not sure why we (Joe Public) keep BA in business anymore?

  • Stu R says:

    4 Oct4 October 05:09

    In fact, I just noticed this article doesn’t even mention the 1,000 bonus Avios (shown in the same email trumpeting the prize draw) for all car bookings made before 31st October for rentals before 15th December, so a minimum of 1,700 Avios for 3 days or more.

    • Dale says:

      4 Oct4 October 06:31

      And if you haven’t earned via a car rental partner in the last year you’ll earn another 1,000 bonus Avios on top of that – so 2,700 for 3 days rental. See next HfP article for details.

    • Richmond says:

      4 Oct4 October 08:24

      It took me more than 6 months to get these 1000 avios extra in last year’s promotion. It included chasing BAEC for 3 months before they were awarded and I had to send T&C myself and finally got points as discretionary credit.

    • Raffles says:

      4 Oct4 October 08:47

      We never saw any email. The competition was advertised on Facebook, hence the reference to FB in the rules.

  • Liz says:

    4 Oct4 October 07:35

    I always book my Avis car hire over the phone at Avios.com. Their over the phone price has been cheaper for us the past 2 years and they sometimes offer you an additional discount if you ask nicely. You earn 3pts /£1 and there is no credit card fee.

    • Brian says:

      4 Oct4 October 09:26

      How do you do something over the phone online??

      • Liz says:

        4 Oct4 October 19:04

        I meant I phone Avios rather than BA! PRice is always cheaper over the phone than online for some reason.

  • Sohan says:

    4 Oct4 October 08:24

    I don’t think there’s any charge if you book via avisba.com and they give a free additional driver too. Also give them your Avis Preferred card at desk for an upgrade

  • Alex W says:

    4 Oct4 October 08:33

    Maybe “move” to Ukraine to avoid BA credit card charges…

    • Graeme says:

      4 Oct4 October 08:58

      Is there any comeback on making this error, I have a balance on BA holidays to pay and my finger might also slip when selecting my country..

      • Rob says:

        4 Oct4 October 09:54

        No, been doing it for years. Does BA Hols charge though?

      • Simmo says:

        4 Oct4 October 11:06

        You only pay the card fee once with BA holidays 🙂

        • Graeme says:

          4 Oct4 October 15:40

          I stand corrected – you do only pay the card fee once i.e. for the deposit, I changed the country to Ukraine before checking to see if I was going to be charged if I left the country as UK. 🙂

      • Alan says:

        4 Oct4 October 13:57

        I thought the cc fee was only when paying the deposit with BA Holidays?

• Henry says:

  4 Oct4 October 05:54

  As usual … UK residents only.

• rossmacd says:

  4 Oct4 October 07:16

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  You couldn’t make it up…..

  • vindaloo says:

    4 Oct4 October 08:01

    Any browser other than Chrome should be okay. I’ve started using IE for ba.com since it stopped working on Chrome last month.

    • Colin says:

      4 Oct4 October 10:46

      I get the same error on IE. BA.com has been extremely flaky over the last few weeks, presumably as they try out the new stuff…

  • n says:

    4 Oct4 October 08:42

    +1

  • Hugh says:

    4 Oct4 October 09:21

    works in safari and chrome mobile, but i got the same result for chrome desktop

• Tony Hogben says:

  4 Oct4 October 07:38

  The BA web site is awful! I use google chrome and it hasn’t worked correctly for weeks in chrone, Better in Safari but who uses that!

  • Alan says:

    4 Oct4 October 08:32

    Weird, worked fine for me yesterday and today in Chrome (desktop and mobile)

  • Russell says:

    4 Oct4 October 10:52

    Try Firefox or Pale Moon??

• Peter K says:

  4 Oct4 October 07:53

  Thanks Rob. I hadn’t noticed you could enter every day 🙂

  • Ed says:

    4 Oct4 October 08:03

    +1

• keith says:

  4 Oct4 October 09:53

  Is anyone else having a problem accessing pages on the BA website from a Mac? This promotion is ‘down’ and many other BA pages seem down although the home page is fine.

  • Simon says:

    4 Oct4 October 10:05

    had this issue yes. someone suggest I clear the cache for BA site. that seemed to fix it.

  • Rhi says:

    4 Oct4 October 10:32

    Yes, I have the problem on Mac and on work PC using Chrome as mentioned above. Safari on my Mac works OK. Try a different browser?

• linda says:

  4 Oct4 October 10:43

  Ref Avis car hire,

  Had the most horrendous experience at Denver airport in the summer, complained to BA holidays as it was booked through them. Took three weeks to get any reply Avis would not acknowledge any responsibility and in the end BA refunded our costs. So unfortunately would never book with Avis again.

  It was a long story but the manager at the depot threw my BA paperwork back in my face saying it was not worth the paper it was written on. Linda

  • mike says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:09

    Linda – I would be interested in the long story (if you care to share here) as I am considering an Avis rental via BA for my US holidays and may switch to another company if you had a horror – thanks

    • PT says:

      4 Oct4 October 12:17

      I don’t know what Linda’s issues were, but at Atlanta in 2014 they did not accept the BA pre-paid voucher for Avis at the desk. It wasn’t until the Avis manager at Atlanta was called, that the paperwork was accepted. Took 45 minutes to resolve, so a pain rather than a major problem.

    • Matt says:

      4 Oct4 October 18:34

      Also interested…my first J redemption next year to DEN…car hire yet to be organised. Thanks in advance.

  • Susan says:

    4 Oct4 October 13:11

    After shoddy practices at AVIS’s LIS desk this summer I will not book AVIS again. They have already lost 4 rentals from me since August. BTW be warned, a prepaid voucher with AVIS for x days car rental is not a pre-paid voucher for x days rental if the rental is in another country – it’s a voucher towards the cost and at a laughably poor exchange rate.

    • Alan says:

      4 Oct4 October 13:57

      In general I’ve really not had any issues with Hertz apart from points not posting for prepaid bookings, always quickly resolved by their Twitter team.

      • Susan says:

        5 Oct5 October 15:33

        Agreed – Hertz is now my first stop for car hire – Enterprise have always been good too but they’re less common around here – Hertz especially good with the Accor/President’s circle.

    • Allan says:

      6 Oct6 October 00:11

      If it is a BA avis booking, they will refund the difference as it should be fully prepaid even though Avis say it isn’t.

• Scottydogg says:

  4 Oct4 October 11:36

  Ive entered for both me and my partners BA accounts today , might do it everyday this week . Its about time I won something

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