Send your children on the British Airways work experience scheme

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• n_g says:

  23 Sep23 September 16:58

  Tried to change my payment details for now.tv to take advantage of the 50% off offer and they don’t take AMEX. How are people paying for their passes? Is their an other area of the site where you buy passes that does accept the card?

  • Shoestring says:

    23 Sep23 September 17:11

    for some reason you can’t use Amex for payment on the 50% 6 month entertainment pass deal

    all the other offers should take Amex

    • n_g says:

      23 Sep23 September 17:40

      Bizarre that there’s a standard e-commerce portal where you can buy your passes and all except the 6 month pass can be purchased with AMEX but there is also a section for managing your continuous Phone and Broadband subscriptions that doesn’t take AMEX either.

      I wonder if the option will appear all of a sudden in November and they’ve just temporarily taken the ability to do so down to prevent people like me changing payment card for a single month.

• Chrisasaurus says:

  23 Sep23 September 17:48

  Bitty bit:

  This is AA specifically but I’m interested in general so BA also relevant:

  Assuming all else is equal, that I have all the time in the world to make the journey (and by extension can live with a missed connection) and that the aim is elite qualification is it advantageous to book connecting flights rather than non-stop in order to increase the number of segments, and is the mileage calculated as the distance flown, or the distance between origin and destination?

  • Rob says:

    23 Sep23 September 17:57

    It COULD be, with BA, but not always. Due to the oneworld position of 140 BA TP for 2000+ miles and 40 TP below that, it DOES – for example – make sense to split LON-SFO into LON-NYC-SFO. Within the rules you could other sectors too, perhaps start in Amsterdam and go via London to Boston, down to New York and then across to SFO.

    You could screw up though. Splitting a 2200 mile trip into 2 x 1100 mile legs would get you 80 TP vs 140 TP.

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      24 Sep24 September 01:50

      Yes good point on the TP front I hadnt considered that- thanks. So at the least, starting in MAN makes sense too for the same reasons…

  • Shoestring says:

    23 Sep23 September 17:57

    yes
    yes
    no

    there are people dedicated to this & finding convoluted/ lucrative routes on FT, eg
    https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1949126-ba-tier-point-runs-2019-master-thread.html

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      24 Sep24 September 01:53

      I’ll check it out – oddly despite extensive googling I didn’t consider that thread as my mindset was extracting value from a work trip rather than working backwards from the TP. It’s likely going to be a case of crediting to AA anyway but I assume that the basic premise remains the same

      • Lyn says:

        24 Sep24 September 07:43

        Are you thinking about BA or AA elite qualification? They work rather differently, as AA doesn’t use tier points.

        • Chrisasaurus says:

          24 Sep24 September 08:52

          Both- but yes, understand AA is based on EQMs and looking to maximise those

  • Doug M says:

    23 Sep23 September 21:54

    The FT thread mentioned is the source for this. Broadly speaking good fares usually allow two hops either side of the Atlantic. Assuming you’re willing to ex-EU you look at somewhere that makes getting to Helsinki easy, Stockholm is often the place. You then do Stockholm to Helsinki to London, and assuming a west coast destination, JFK to LAX, and your final hop being LAX to you destination. This gives you 40+80+140+140+40 each way, so 880TP quite easy from one return if you have time. JFK-LAX is always the best cross country in USA as it’s a better seat and experience than most other choices. There are some wide bodies from Philadelphia and Miami to LAX at certain times, but hard to find. You want to avoid changes in DFW and ORD for example as that results in 2 40TP rather than a 140 and a 40.

• Benylin says:

  23 Sep23 September 19:15

  OT: For long haul (say 11-12hr flights), how have people who always fly economy found PE on BA/Virgin? I am booking South Africa, but just wondering do I go cash economy (£500-600 LON to CPT 1 stop, Kenyan/Ethiopian airlines possibly), or use my Virgin upgrade voucher to go PE, £400 or so in taxes and points.
  Alternate use of points is to save it for later business class redemptions in KLM or Air France

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    23 Sep23 September 19:42

    Virgin Atlantic don’t fly to CPT. You’d have to fly to JNB on the redemption ticket then get a separate cash ticket to CPT.

    Given the extra costs involved, I would just get the cash economy ticket. Premium isn’t that much of an upgrade over economy unless you’re really tall!

• Shoestring says:

  23 Sep23 September 20:21

  got it already, Raffles

  British Airways American Express Centenary Prize Draw
  As a British Airways American Express® Cardmember, we’re excited to invite you to enter our centenary birthday celebration prize draw. We’re giving away 100 amazing prizes, including flights all over the world, one-off experience tickets and Avios, more Avios and even more Avios.

  What’s more, entry couldn’t be simpler. Just register here and book a flight on your British Airways American Express Card before 30 September and you’re in. Winners will be drawn at random and just think – one of those 100 fantastic prizes could soon be flying your way.
  https://www.britishairways.com/100/amex-centenary-prize-draw

  • BJ says:

    23 Sep23 September 21:14

    Think we’re in if we book and cancel for free within 24h?

• BJ says:

  23 Sep23 September 21:11

  O/T: According to the M Lewis site the new nectar scheme is launching nationwide very soon. Sounds like Boots Advantage card approach, a lot more hassle and nothing very exciting. No changes to fixed value rewards either it seems..

  • Sloth says:

    23 Sep23 September 22:54

    I’m using it already. Targeted offers on things I do actually buy, you just have to save them in the app, as you used to do with Waitrose. I think it’s quite good tbh

    • BJ says:

      24 Sep24 September 14:26

      I think lone of the suggestions though is that this is changing to try to encourage people to buy things they don’t usually do. Probably experience to date is to generate positive feedback or perhaps I’m being to cynical.

• Sam says:

  23 Sep23 September 22:27

  OT: Thinking of getting the IHG Premium Mastercard but already have the free one. Am I still eligible for the 20000 bonus?

  Ta

  • Rob says:

    23 Sep23 September 22:43

    Yes, if they accept you.

• The Urbanite says:

  24 Sep24 September 13:30

  RIP to Pay.Com, who continued to be useful long after the demise of the £25 cards!

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