The saga of the Iberia 9,000 Avios per flight booking promo rolls on

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• Andrew says:

  9 Jul9 July 07:40

  Is there any advantage to doing this if you’ve booked business class so seat selection is free already? If so I will add mine on the day of the flight too…

• Jimbob says:

  9 Jul9 July 07:44

  I’ve been declined the 9000k bonus per ticket due to “inconsistencies”.
  Can’t be bothered fighting it, you win some, you lose some

  • Matt says:

    9 Jul9 July 08:08

    If they offered you 9M bonus per ticket you should definitely fight to get that! I thought it was only 9k though …..

  • Andrew says:

    9 Jul9 July 08:46

    And were there inconsistencies?

    There’s a lot of bluster on FF blogs but I’ve yet to hear anyone state categorically that they did everything completely above board and still have been denied the bonus (rather than it just not having been awarded yet). Not necessarilly the case with you but it would be useful to have another data point.

    • Mark says:

      9 Jul9 July 09:34

      I did

  • Tilly71 says:

    9 Jul9 July 08:56

    Must of been your dogs account!

• Anna says:

  9 Jul9 July 07:55

  Again your Spanish is a bit off. “El avios” would mean just one avios point; your (very credible) 900,000 would be referred to as “Los avios”. Perhaps you could use some of them to fly to Spain or Latin America and brush up your language skills?

• Yawn says:

  9 Jul9 July 08:00

  Seems fair enough don’t blame IB at all for trying to stop all the US blog scroungers. They’ll he their cash back so nothing to complain/sue about.

  Enjoy the party although couldn’t have less interest in either prize – signed football or flight to Abu Dhabi? Geez no thanks.

  • Rob says:

    9 Jul9 July 08:41

    You forgot the Man City tix for a game of your choice!

  • RussellH says:

    9 Jul9 July 10:36

    I would imagine that one would have little difficulty finding a charity that you like that would be delighted to take the ball off you. Particularly in the current feverish madness going on about football they should be able to raise a useful amount of cash. I had hoped Sweden could bring all the hype to an end – now my hopes are on Croatia.
    If England were to win we would never hear the end of it.
    :-((

    • Andrew says:

      9 Jul9 July 12:44

      Haha so glad someone else shares my curmudgeonly sentiments!

    • Lady London says:

      9 Jul9 July 21:30

      I should think you’re pretty safe then.

  • Callum says:

    9 Jul9 July 12:53

    But UK blog scroungers are fine?

• Goran says:

  9 Jul9 July 08:12

  I have few years old Iberia account and got Avios for 7 flights booked on Saturday, but no Avios received for 3 additional flights that I have booked on Sunday. Anybody else with the similar situation?

  • Lisa says:

    9 Jul9 July 08:30

    I have an active, old Iberia account. 10 flights booked and no Avios received at all. I can see the bookings when I log in. My husband is the same. No emails received from them either.

    • Craig says:

      9 Jul9 July 09:49

      Same boat here! Not sure if this is worth anything but Iberia on twitter just messaged me saying I will get my avios in a few days…..I feel these are all just words to stop us contacting them.

    • goran says:

      9 Jul9 July 09:50

      Hi Lisa you & husband get your Avios soon … I even received some strange one off credit of 500 Avios, but still waiting for reaming 27000. Out of interests have you booked your flights on Sunday?

      • Lisa says:

        9 Jul9 July 11:22

        Our flights were booked on the Saturday afternoon, so we’ll see what happens. As Craig mentioned above, will sit it out for a few days yet and hopefully they’ll post to our accounts soon.

• Mark says:

  9 Jul9 July 08:44

  Thank you Rob for advising us to sign up for Iberia Plus accounts years ago!

  Hope everyone going enjoys the party later.

  • Anna Gavela says:

    9 Jul9 July 10:13

    I will open one one of these days! I may wait till I’ve got my Spanish passport to get around any Brexit issues though. This involves a trip to either London or Edinburgh though, both of which are 200 miles from where I live!

    • Mark says:

      9 Jul9 July 20:41

      Let’s not get started on that particular dog’s dinner as well 🙁

• Steve says:

  9 Jul9 July 08:49

  O/T IB related: Booked 10 tickets each using my wife’s newly created account for her and myself (I had an existing account but if O tried making the booking the system wouldn’t let me add wife’s IB number) I have since received my 90k Avios but wife has had to send in evidence. We are yet to hear back on my wife’s Avios, but it would be strange if my wife does not get her Avios and I do on the same bookings .Anyone else in my situation? If so have you or your co traveler received your avios?

  • xcalx says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:02

    I wouldn’t argue the the fact that you received the 90K for the same flights as they may vanish too.

    • Steve says:

      9 Jul9 July 09:19

      Definitely would not bring it up, just wondering:

      a. Has anyone recieved points for the co traveller but not the booking account holder

      b. If they refuse the booking account holder points will they retrospectively take back the 90k they have already given their co-traveller i.e. are my points at risk

      • TravellingJake says:

        9 Jul9 July 19:52

        Not quite my situation but I made the bookings on my other half‘s newly opened IB+ account. I have an existing account but his was new, I have received the points he has not.

• Steve R says:

  9 Jul9 July 09:00

  It will be interesting to see if any of those people who have been refused the 9k use the European Small Claims track for a clear breach of T & C’s

  Plenty of companies geared up for taking the Airlines to court for flight delays

  • londonsteve says:

    9 Jul9 July 10:36

    I believe you can use MCOL and serve to Waterside. They are a Spanish company but with a business presence in the UK and an address registered at UK Companies House. My ticket confirmation states Iberia London at a Hammersmith address that I believe no longer exists, but has no doubt been replaced with Waterside since the IAG merger. I would be interested to hear if someone disagrees with this assessment.

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