Bits: money off Addison Lee, win Qatar Airways tickets, 20% off Airparks

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• Gavin says:

  22 Feb22 February 06:16

  I didn’t complete the game properly but still got entered – just FYI

  • Barry cutters says:

    22 Feb22 February 21:03

    It wasn’t difficult

• Steve says:

  22 Feb22 February 06:59

  Can’t see where to enter the promo code on the AL app?

  • Pol says:

    22 Feb22 February 09:27

    You enter when booking, not signing up.

• Harry says:

  22 Feb22 February 07:49

  It would be so much more attractive, and therefore press worthy, if airlines who run these competitions awarded Business Class awards. Sure it would cost them a minute amount more – the most is the loss of profit on two business class seats anywhere in the Qatar network which can’t surely add up to more than $10,000 – but think of the additional free publicity that would result. Most of the time the extra cost would be minimal as very few Business cabins are always completely full.

  • Robbie says:

    22 Feb22 February 08:12

    I guess it depends on the target, for these competitions they are probably targetting volume customers rather than a few high value in which case the economy seats will be a big enough draw. You will probably find that they also run competitions for Business Seats but they will be more targeted and in collaboration with someone that can get them their target audience.

    • Rob says:

      22 Feb22 February 08:37

      Like the competition they did with us 2 years ago to win 2 business class seats!

• Gulz says:

  22 Feb22 February 09:00

  Talking about Airport parking, I managed to book Meet & Greet at Heathrow for 3 weeks in March/April using the Purple Parking’s Virgin affiliate link for little over half the price quoted directly by the likes of Airparks, Holiday Extra and even Purple Parking (using their steepest discount code). 500 VS miles bonus on top.

• Gulz says:

  22 Feb22 February 09:06

  you can use Ctrl+Alt+4 for the € sign! makes it nicer to read.

  • RussellH says:

    22 Feb22 February 10:16

    Alt Gr (to the right of the spacebar) + 4, or EUR

  • sam says:

    22 Feb22 February 11:44

    thx. €€€€
    leared something new!

    • mark2 says:

      22 Feb22 February 17:25

      +1

• Russell Evans says:

  22 Feb22 February 09:27

  OT: Just wanted to share an experience of mine that I may have been missing out on before now, so worth a comparison if you qualify for this quite, niche, bracket of points collectors. I brought £66 of fuel at Tesco, pay at pump, using Tesco “Finest” Clubcard Credit card (which must have a grandfathered points earning rate). I earned 66 Clubcard points, and a further 33 Tesco Bank Clubcard points = 99 points. My conversion rate from Tesco Clubcard to Avios is £2.50 in vouchers = 800 Avios (again a legacy from being “in the game” for as long as I can remember). I therefore, if my calculations are correct, earned 317 Avios for my spend of £66, a rate of 4.8/£. Have genuinely surprised myself as have usually done Tesco spending on AMEX to qualify for sign up bonus/241, but think I will re-evaluate my strategy now and divert Tesco spending to Tesco Credit Card. Appreciate these things don’t often get written about on here seeing as they are no longer available to the market, but I was hoping to share my experience with those longer term points collectors because we all know however long you’ve been collecting, there’s still always a surprise gem hidden somewhere!

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  22 Feb22 February 09:42

  I actually prefer Addison Lee to Uber but only if I prebook (but sometimes prebook just for 20 mins in advance). The main reason I prefer Addison Lee is that the prices are fixed before your journey so there’s no nasty surprises when you’re stuck in traffic. Although Uber fares are reasonable I don’t like the fact you can’t keep track of your fare on the move and as London traffic is unpredictable it’s good to know your fare in advance.

  I find the off-peak rates they charge competitive with Uber and as you climb through the tiers of their loyalty programme you also get discounts on peak rates. I’m at their black tier and so get 30% off peak fares.

  Uber wins on ASAP availability, but most of the time I can decide at least 20 mins before and pre-book Addison Lee.

• SY says:

  22 Feb22 February 09:50

  O/T, but was wondering whether there are any amex offers right now for upgrading gold to plat?
  My card anniversary is coming up and i’m figuring out whether to upgrade or cancel and churn.

  • ankomonkey says:

    22 Feb22 February 20:08

    I called up Amex CS about 3 weeks ago and was offered 15k MR points for spending £1000 in first 3 months of holding Platinum.

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