Is this week your last chance to get the MBNA airline credit cards?

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• Sergeant Major says:

  1 Nov1 November 14:00

  Just signed up for Llyods card and it didn’t ask me for avios.com membership number? Any ideas how they link it? Should I phone up?

  • the_real_a says:

    1 Nov1 November 14:04

    You wont get much sense form the call center, they will probably put you through to Avios. WHEN the points don’t post you will probably find avios have opened a new account. They can merge the accounts quite easily. This happens pretty much every-time i link Avios to anything.

    • Iain Wilson says:

      1 Nov1 November 15:23

      I had exactly this problem, Avios call centre easily found the orphan lloyds account and merged them.

  • Rob says:

    1 Nov1 November 14:11

    Email match.

    PS. Is ‘solution’ now a verb? Sat next to a middle management type in Edinburgh’s No 1 Lounge who thinks it is, eg “I am solutioning ….”

    • Genghis says:

      1 Nov1 November 14:47

      Oh, how awful!

    • Sussex Bantam says:

      1 Nov1 November 15:17

      I solution, he problems, they f*ck it up…

    • Gulz says:

      1 Nov1 November 15:48

      solutionising is a common verb in today’s world

      • Marc says:

        1 Nov1 November 20:40

        What’s wrong with “solving”??

      • Andrew says:

        1 Nov1 November 22:25

        Solutionising…

        Surely that means losing strength, weakening or plain old watering down?

      • Rob Brown says:

        2 Nov2 November 09:39

        You can’t use solving as the people Solutionising aren’t going to be the ones to do the actual solving – mostly they will just get in the way!

    • the real harry1 says:

      1 Nov1 November 20:43

      at least you’re not spelling it ‘solutionning’

      cf ‘targetting’

    • Will says:

      6 Nov6 November 11:36

      Oh no. Please ‘no’!!

• Stephen says:

  1 Nov1 November 14:24

  OT: Last month we were able to manually add offers to AMEX cards with some jiggery pokery in URL.
  AMEX has updated the site lately and it seems that this is not working any more. Is this is the case or there is still a way around to add offers that are not appearing in the “available offers” list onto my card?

  • Lev441 says:

    1 Nov1 November 14:35

    No longer posible with the new site..

  • Genghis says:

    1 Nov1 November 14:47

    If you know the offer ID from a previous offer, yes. Otherwise no.

• Lux says:

  1 Nov1 November 14:50

  Thanks for the prior warning Rob.

  I decided to tidy up my MBNA cards

  – I’ll probably drop the Black Virgin card at the end of the year as it’s not that useful for me. But I’d like to keep the Virgin miles ticking over so have applied for the White card. The link on the website still works as of 1445 today

  – I was going to close the basic Emirates card (I’d opened it just for the bonus, I also have the fee-paid card) and was offered a 5,000 miles offer for a £1,000 spend on the card within 90 days. I’ll aim for that and then likely this card, as Emirates have a three year cut off for miles expiry regardless of account activity

  So – can still apply for VS cards, plus I now hold four MBNA cards without any issue.

  • MattB says:

    1 Nov1 November 16:53

    I just rang up to see if I could get another 5k retention deal, no luck but they did offer to pro rata refund the £140 fee I only paid 2 months ago if I cancelled. They even left a note on my account if I called back to go ahead with the cancellation.

    Not sure whether to go for it or leave it and collect the PE economy upgrade voucher I’m due in 10 months

  • J says:

    2 Nov2 November 22:45

    I was offered a 5k on my virgin black when cancelling on Monday, so even if you plan to keep it a bit longer, it might be worth phoning now to ‘cancel’.

• Wally1976 says:

  1 Nov1 November 14:53

  This is bad news – suggests there won’t be a transfer bonus (not that I really thought there would be but we live in hope!).

• the_real_a says:

  1 Nov1 November 15:45

  So the rumor is that the cards will be pulled on 28th Feb 2018. The question is do i grab the white card now, to spend 10k on the AMEX to generate the premium economy upgrade voucher. That would be a net loss of 10k points (vs the black amex which i would normally spend on). I would get 3k welcome bonus. This equates the upgrade voucher at a cost of 7k points. Hmmm

  • Lev441 says:

    1 Nov1 November 21:53

    Depends on if you’d make use of the premium economy upgrade vouchers..

    I just let two expire annoyingly….

• Lumma says:

  1 Nov1 November 15:51

  OT But 20% bonus on Clubcard to virgin transfers again this quarter

• RussellH says:

  1 Nov1 November 16:52

  It will be interesting to see what happens to my ancient Lufthansa Amex and Visa. I have had the (standalone) Amex for nearly ten years and in that time it has had its earning rate cut once from 1.75 points per £1 to 1.5 points. I suppose they could be looking at a second cut, should the card survive. The Visa is even older, still earns 1 point per £1 (as it always had done). I took them out to maintain the validity of my M+M miles, and while I have used the cards a lot in the part, these days I put just a few pounds a month on each card to keep the miles alive.

  • Solivagus says:

    15 Nov15 November 21:53

    I’m also praying that both legacy standalone M&M Amex & Visa will stay. At least, just the Visa will be good enough – to keep the validity and clocking up the miles.

• Will says:

  1 Nov1 November 17:28

  OT but any views on this in UK context?

  https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/amex-rat-team-cracks-down-on-gaming-with-new-terms-and-conditions.html

  • the_real_a says:

    1 Nov1 November 18:41

    The specific clause on gaming has been in the UK T&C`s for a while now. However having a clause to “safeguard” the company is very different to actively perusing and committing resource to “catching” people. There is no evidence that the latter is happening. I have always found it completely bizarre that AMEX encourages people to sign up for multiple cards. For example i have 3 MR cards of various colours – each of which earned a sign up bonus. This defies commercial logic to me, so AMEX has to take some of the blame in the form of the use of their marketing budgets.

    Also in the US its common to access what i believe is called level 3 data. This is the ability to see the line by line item transaction from the major retailers. Apart from Air tickets, this information is not allowed to be transferred in the EU due to privacy legislation. So whereby AMEX could “see” that their card was used for gift cards in the US it would not be able to see that detail in the EU.

    • Will says:

      2 Nov2 November 14:45

      Great response. Cheers. Gaming meaning churn effectively? Surely if they wanted it to stop they would do what the other issuers do and withdraw bonus from repeat sign ups? I know it has been talked about previously.

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