ENDS TUESDAY: Get 2p per point when you book flights with ‘Part Pay With Avios’ for five days only

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• MoJack says:

  8 Feb8 February 12:44

  OT; I need advice guys:
  I currently have the plat and need to cancel, but want to keep my account open to keep the points alive. Would it be a plan to apply for green charge card, then cancel plat, then upgrade green to plat, and get a reset referral counter ( and potentially get upgrade bonus)…? Thanks in advance.

  • MoJack says:

    8 Feb8 February 12:53

    I know that route, I think this is a better idea… looking for confirmation… thanks!

  • TGLoyalty says:

    8 Feb8 February 14:59

    It won’t reset the referral counter as it’s the same MR account? Need to close and open or wait until next Jan?

• Alex W says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:06

  Could one both PPWA and also then UUA to Club World?

  • BJ says:

    8 Feb8 February 13:40

    Yes, that is possible.

• Ace says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:08

  What is the best way to prevent my reward points from expiring when “upgrading”? I want to go from the Gold Credit card to platinum and be eligible to the sign up bonus but was told that I need to cancel the gold card and wait for 6 months before reapplying for the platinum card to be eligible for the sigup bonus. However, the points I have with my gold card are only valid for 30 days post canceling

  • Symon says:

    8 Feb8 February 13:14

    FYI You can’t upgrade from a credit to a charge card.

  • Alex W says:

    8 Feb8 February 13:14

    You could take out a dollar/euro card and transfer them over. In the past I have transferred uneeded MRs to Virgin or Marriott as these schemes retain some flexibility for onward transfer.

    • Alex W says:

      8 Feb8 February 13:20

      See this article
      https://headforpoints.com/2018/12/20/american-express-international-currency-cards/

      • Rob says:

        8 Feb8 February 13:25

        They only allow one transfer per rolling 12 month period. I THINK it is one transfer in each direction so you’d still be OK, but I can’t be sure – I have only ever transferred TO my $ card and not out of it. Very handy for Singapore Airlines and Jumeirah.

  • JPa says:

    8 Feb8 February 22:37

    Green then upgrade to plat.

• Rebecca says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:12

  O/T I have return flights booked on Avios from Lima to Cusco with LATAM (saving me £290!!!) On the return, I’m connecting in lima and will be flying on a revenue flight that evening back to London, via Madrid.
  I know BA wouldn’t allow the bags to be checked through as there are different bookings, but are LATAM more accommodating? I have a very long wait as flights out of Cusco are prone to delay so I figured it was better to be safe than sorry. Anyone have any experience? I have lounge access in Lima as I’m in business (and have silver status with BA anyway) so would prefer to go and wait there rather than be stuck waiting to check in with a suitcase.

  • Doug says:

    8 Feb8 February 13:50

    I’m flying there next month, I think latam will give you bags (I’m expecting that). Note that flights using latam peru are way cheaper than other agents as you can see via google flights.

    • Pieter says:

      8 Feb8 February 14:52

      No, LATAM does not through-check baggage on two PNRs. Tested this two years ago in a similar situation: LATAM domestic then BA longhaul.

      • Rebecca says:

        8 Feb8 February 15:29

        I’m LATAM domestic and LATAM long haul. Would that make any difference?

      • RIccatti says:

        10 Feb10 February 02:14

        All sensible Oneworld airlines backed down on this.

        Only BA (and on occasion Iberia) refuses BA to BA luggage ‘interline’ citing Oneworld policies..

• chris says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:38

  e-Rewards are now using BA Exec Club miles as their ONLY UK rewards partner and are no longer transferring to the Avios rewards platform!

  Even more Avios closures?

  • guesswho2000 says:

    8 Feb8 February 13:55

    Not even IB any more? I remember IB being a better transfer rate (2000 e-rewards to 750 Avios) than the 2000:500 with BAEC/Avios, but this was some years ago.

    • fivebobbill says:

      8 Feb8 February 18:27

      Iberia’s still listed in mine, and still 2,000 pts for 750 avios…

      • TheSkintTraveller says:

        9 Feb9 February 07:51

        Some older erewards accounts still have the various partner redemptions, IB is definetely the best avios redemption route now 8k – 3k. The new rules apply to accounts opened up before avios closed recently and you could redeemed to Vueling / Are Lingus @ 2k a month.

      • tartan says:

        9 Feb9 February 10:16

        Just discovered this myself and posted about it on today’s Bits post. Iberia don’t seem to have been offering e-rewards signups for at least a year or so.

    • RussellH says:

      9 Feb9 February 16:22

      Iberia, Flying Blue. United, BAEC, American, Eurowings, Virgin, Etihad all available on both my Hilton e-Rewards a/c and my Accor Hotel a/c.
      Both a few years old, though

  • TheSkintTraveller says:

    9 Feb9 February 07:48

    And I discovered onky yesterday that they changed their redemption amounts per month, max is 1k avios per month instead of 2, hit on two accounts.

• Den says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:46

  I upgraded my Gold Charge Card to Platinum but I also still have a Gold Credit Card (I can’t seem to find it online now – it’s a lighter colour than the ‘normal’ Gold card)

  If I cancel the Platinum, would I retain my MR points by virtue of having still the Gold Credit Card?

  • Rob says:

    8 Feb8 February 13:57

    Yes, assuming the card is totally separate to the others and is registered on the same Amex online account.

• Chris says:

  8 Feb8 February 14:04

  The only option on E-Rewards points redemption now is into BAEC regardless of any Avios accounts still held with AL, FlyBe, IB or Vueling although you could still combine Avios through the transfer process.

  I guess rewardsforthoughts will be next, taking the AL, FlyBe, or Vueling avios platforms off?

• Jonah says:

  8 Feb8 February 16:03

  Why didn’t all these OT comments go in the Bits thread today? This is getting very very dull.

  • Pid says:

    8 Feb8 February 16:45

    Does it really matter?

    • _nate says:

      9 Feb9 February 05:47

      Yes, I think it does. I think the wealth of OT comments just don’t belong in a thread where someone reading the comments might legitimately be interested in the topic at hand – eg, are there any especially good WT/WTP prices at the moment?

      • Mikeact says:

        9 Feb9 February 08:35

        It’s not for the first time, and it won’t be the last.

      • Callum says:

        9 Feb9 February 09:20

        Some “regulars” on here decided that they should go in the “bits” article. AFAIK it’s not a rule of the site, and while people can moan as much as they want, feel free to ignore them.

      • Lumma says:

        9 Feb9 February 09:43

        If I’m asking an off topic question I would put it in the article that is the most closely associated with what I’m asking – I’d even wait until the next day if there’s nowhere to fit.

        If bits is all about hotel schemes and there’s one article about an airline and my question is about airlines I’d put the comment on the airline article (even if it’s a BA question on a Virgin article for example)

    • Doug M says:

      9 Feb9 February 09:47

      Slow day so bitch about where a comment belongs. Rob has said there are no rules regarding which threads you choose to comment in.

      • Mikeact says:

        9 Feb9 February 09:51

        So every topic may as well be a free for all.

      • Doug M says:

        9 Feb9 February 10:00

        What do you expect? There’s no search facility for comments, and on busy days it’s hard to find anything an hour or two later. Look at the recent Curve threads, it was hardly worth the effort if typing it was all moving so quickly.
        Why do you think that the perceived organisation deemed important by a few readers is so important. Lumma’s point that some threads are more relevant anyway has been ignored, and us having a to and fro serves no purpose whatsoever on any thread. Rob’s site Rob’s rules.

        • Rob says:

          9 Feb9 February 10:16

          I am now looking more seriously at a Q&A forum because I’ve found some nice software that might work with our set up. This would allow some off topic stuff to be moved out.

      • Callum says:

        9 Feb9 February 10:16

        Yes Mikeact, every article can be a free for all. It’s a small blog, I really think we’ll survive….

      • Dan says:

        9 Feb9 February 11:09

        Rob, I think a Q&A forum would be a huge improvement. As some others commenters have said above, I basically lose interest in scrolling through them when they begin to go over 1 page. Much better to move ongoing questions about Amex churning, BAPP voucher usage etc. Somewhere else.

      • Julian says:

        9 Feb9 February 11:22

        Yes it is very high time for a proper forum to discuss things and then the selfish ones who only want to ever discuss how to churn their Amex cards yet again (which I am quite sure will be banned at some point by Amex due to how much it is costing them with the constant aggressive churners) can be stuck in the appropriate place.

        Today’s thread hijacking was particularly bad and cynical as the BA £100 off Part Pay WIth Avios long haul offer was a particularly interesting one and the discussion should have been entirely about which routes have the cheapest World Traveller tickets where the £100 reduction therefore makes the biggest percentage impact.

        • Rob says:

          9 Feb9 February 11:48

          No forum. UK libel laws mean I’d need to be crazy.

          Q&A forum is different.

      • callum says:

        9 Feb9 February 11:52

        Julian – I’d much rather read their off topic posts than your whining… If you want to discuss what the cheapest economy fares are then discuss them – no-one is stopping you.

        Not that I’d agree that’s an interesting discussion, if you want to know the cheapest WT fares then just go on BA’s low fare finder. No discussion required!

      • callum says:

        9 Feb9 February 11:58

        Rob – Out of curiosity, how are libel laws any different between an internet forum and a comment section on an article (or Q&A forum – I assume a forum in which only you can start threads in)? (If that’s even a question you can answer without having to write an essay!) To my non-legal mind, they are basically the same thing.

        • Rob says:

          9 Feb9 February 12:11

          The law is the same, but a format which only allows you to post questions, which can be easily moderated for relevance, is far less likely to off on tangents.

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