Earn double Avios points with Shell Drivers Club

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• Wivus says:

  15 Jan15 January 07:15

  OT. Has there been confirmation that the IHG points for Intercontinental will go up tomorrow?

  • Rob says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:06

    Weirdly not.

    • Wivus says:

      15 Jan15 January 10:03

      Pain in the backside. Sitting on 99k points with an Accelerate 4k waiting in the wings somewhere. All I need to take me to the promised land of 100k two nights in the IC Osaka and they are taking an eternity to post.
      Now have to book one night then wait and see I suppose.

      • Scallder says:

        15 Jan15 January 10:32

        Perhaps buy 1k (or whatever the lowest level is) – worth it, if it saves you 10k from an increase?

      • Wivus says:

        15 Jan15 January 11:19

        Thought about it Scallder but I have challenged myself to a 2 week holiday in Japan without paying a penny extra in flights (Tax/charges of course) or accommodation. I’ll get around it somehow I suppose.

      • Ade says:

        15 Jan15 January 12:01

        Have you tried signing up for the IHG survey site, I had a similar issue to you in wanting to round my points up to 80k, signed up for their survey offering, and had a 1000 points within a couple of hours of registering, Probably 1/2hr of effort to set up and do 1 survey.

• Paul Hickey says:

  15 Jan15 January 08:06

  Managed to get my parents booked Oslo – Sydney – Stockholm for £1,336pp in biz (787, A380, 777 but no Qsuite unfortunately)
  Flights to from Manchester were about £125 each with SAS.

  I do have a question though, if anyone can help?

  How do they get the 600 BA Tier Points and of course, AVIOS?

  When booking on the Qatar website I entered their respective BAEA numbers in the frequent flyer box.

  do I have to go in and amend somthing or wait until the Qpoints land? I guess either way I need to create each of them a privilege account?

  These tickets are classified as “R”.

  Would also be good to know exactly how many AVIOS points they will each earn for this routing. The Qater website seems awfully cluncky for a first timer!

  Thanks!

  Paul

  • Daftboy says:

    15 Jan15 January 08:11

    You don’t need to do anything else – the booking will earn Avios and TPs in BAEC directly instead of QPoints

    • Paul Hickey says:

      15 Jan15 January 08:23

      Thanks

      • Lady London says:

        15 Jan15 January 14:05

        Avios from my outward flight did not post on my last QR flight. I desperately needed the Avios. I had to phone BAEC. The flight was checked to have been flown and credited immediately. Weirdly, the Avios from the return QR flight posted in two days.

        So as well as other posters’ suggestions to check the boarding pass right up to the gate to check that the BAEC number is still on it, I,’d advise checking from 36 hours after the flight to see that they actually credit. If not credited within a week I’d phone BAEC. Also make sure they keep the boarding passes until the flights credit.

  • Paul Hickey says:

    15 Jan15 January 08:27

    Very useful thanks!
    Works out just over 28k AVIOS each, so 56.5k in to MY household account ????
    They will get silver status each @ 600 tier points which is great.
    Now need to help them book hotels preferably via eBookers at 10:1 AVIOS!

    • Polly says:

      15 Jan15 January 08:58

      Paul,
      Remember they still must do 4 X BA sectors to qualify for silver within their TP year..l noticed you flew them SAS, return. Do they do plenty of other BA flying during the year otherwise, as they will need to fly those 4 BA coded flights.HBO flights will do.
      Re the Qatar site, sometimes the FF now revert to another plan in Qatar. I meant, to make sure at check in their boarding passes have their baec no on them. I only noticed ours before boarding that our QR nos mysteriously appeared on them. So l got it changed back to baec at the gate.

    • Dave H says:

      15 Jan15 January 09:02

      They will also need 4 BA flights as well as the tier points to attain Silver

    • Louie says:

      15 Jan15 January 09:09

      And bear in mind both the outbound and return and the 4 BA flights all need to be in the same BAEC year to get silver. It’s not a rolling year like some FF schemes.

• Helena says:

  15 Jan15 January 08:10

  Slightly OT: how do I make sure my Qatar flights credit tier points and avios, not the Qatar equivalent? Booked to Adelaide in the sale. Thanks.

  • Polly says:

    15 Jan15 January 08:23

    You log into Qatar with their booking ref no, in the frequent flyer drop down box, chose BA and insert your baec no. Or do it at check in, lounge. We even did it at the gate one time!

    • Paul Hickey says:

      15 Jan15 January 08:29

      Thanks Polly, is this in addition to me having already entered their BAEA numbers at the booking stage?. Just want to be sure… thanks

      • Polly says:

        15 Jan15 January 09:03

        Yes Paul, as above…slip ups easily happen. Also found out that the chaps in Qatar lounge in Doha can ONLY input their own QR privilege no now, NOT the baec one. Had hassle last time with ours too, noticed baec on out BP and QR no on 2 nd leg. Chaotic! So warn them to double check their boarding passes are correct.

      • RIccatti says:

        15 Jan15 January 13:52

        Wow, this must be a breach of something in OW, if Qatar Airways instructs their agents not to enter other airline’s frequent flyer numbers.

    • Scottnothing says:

      15 Jan15 January 09:10

      Exactly this. I flew Qatar over New Year from South Africa and the Avios and Tier Points credited within 2 days.

    • Helena says:

      15 Jan15 January 13:49

      Thanks Polly!

• Will says:

  15 Jan15 January 09:08

  OT: Etihad Devulation – Seems to be a lot better than expected. LHR to AUH needs around 4K less miles in business now. This will offset the 50$ rise in tax nicely with miles and points option. Phewww!

• Lumma says:

  15 Jan15 January 09:17

  OT flying from T3 for the first time since I got silver status. Lounge hopping and can’t believe how awful the BA lounge is compared to the Cathay Pacific and Qantas lounges. Suppose it would be good if you wanted to get blind drunk before a flight!

  I think I’d probably just stick to the Cathay Pacific one the next time I’m here unless I had lots of time to do both

  • Lady London says:

    15 Jan15 January 18:30

    What did you think of the QF lounge Lumma?
    What time were you there?

  • Clive says:

    15 Jan15 January 18:59

    I was in the CX lounge today. Pigged our on Noodles and Dim Sum. Fantastic

• mark2 says:

  15 Jan15 January 09:25

  OT
  It is so long since I did not pay a card in full that I have forgotten, or it could be my age.
  If you leave a balance outstanding do you pay interest on the unpaid amount or on the whole statement amount please? (Amex SPG card)

  • Lumma says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:02

    Whole statement. Calculated daily I think. There’ll be an estimated interest amount on the previous statement which is what you’d pay if you just made the minimum payment on the due date. Will vary depending on how much you’ve paid off or spent during the month

    • mark2 says:

      15 Jan15 January 14:09

      Yes thanks. I wanted to leave enough to absorb the refunded annual charge on cancellation, but I shall have to spend it and lose the 60 or so points.

      • Genghis says:

        15 Jan15 January 14:21

        Or just ask for it to be refunded as cash / transferred to another account?

      • Peter K says:

        15 Jan15 January 22:33

        I always wait for it to appear on the account after I cancel. Then have it refunded/put on another card I have with them. It does NOT put back your cancellation date, which is an important point for 6 month churning.

• RussellH says:

  15 Jan15 January 10:08

  As Rob mentions, the best thing about the Shell scheme is that you only need 20 points to get a few Avios. I would imagine that most readers routinely fill up at Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda or Morrisons, or some local garage that prices similarly. But when away from home, you may have to use a more expensive oil co. place – you will never get enough points for a £2.50 voucher anyway. So a few avios is fine.

  I think the nearest Shell station to me is around 30 miles away anyway…

• Anna says:

  15 Jan15 January 12:25

  OT – internal flights in the US, it’s been several years since we did one. We’re flying DCA-MIA-GCM this summer with AA. The first flight is 8 am but the airport shuttle buses don’t start running until 6 am, is this going to give us enough time? I have grim memories of security queues in the US being so slow that people were missing connecting flights. Not used DCA before but I think it’s a good deal smaller than JFK, ATL etc. Also, will we need to go through security again at MIA?

  I’d booked our redemptions into IAD and out of GCM before realising how badly served GCM is from the Washington DC area, so no option but to change in Miami unfortunately.

  • MrHandBaggageOnly says:

    15 Jan15 January 14:17

    DCA recommend arriving 90 – 120 minutes before your flight. If you’re worried though, grab an Uber. It will be not be very expensive (assuming you’re central DC) and worth it for the peace of mind. As both flights are with AA I see no reason why you would need to re-clear security in MIA outbound as you’re just in transit and with the same airline. Flyertalk thread here may help. https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-airlines-aadvantage/1718314-aa-guide-mia-miami-int-airport-mct-connection-15.html

    • Annal says:

      15 Jan15 January 15:05

      Thanks – we are staying at DCA so the shuttle should take a matter of minutes, but I don’t know how long baggage drop and security will take. If they recommend 90 mins as the minimum though, we should be ok.

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