Generous 40% or £100 cashback deal launched by American Express and FREE NOW / mytaxi

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Of all the pointless rebrands I’ve seen recently, the clear winner is FREE NOW. For some reason, the mytaxi black cab app – owned by BMW and Daimler – decided that being called mytaxi was clearly too obvious and easy to remember, so switched to FREE NOW …..

I know this is now a pan-European brand, but I’m not sure that FREE NOW necessarily works better in multiple European languages than mytaxi. I didn’t even have a problem with Hailo, the original UK name.

It looks like the bodged rebrand has an upside, however. In an attempt to win your business from taxi apps with more sensible names, FREE NOW is offering many Amex customers either 40% cashback on all rides OR £100 for taking 10 rides until 14th December.

FREE NOW 40% american express discount

You need to see if either of these offers is showing on the ‘Offers’ tab of your online statement page, and save it to your card.

I have both versions. My Platinum card has ‘40% cashback on an unlimited number of rides’ and my British Airways Premium Plus card has ‘£100 back when you take 10 rides’. The latter is better for us as we do a lot of £10 – the minimum fare – rides to school and back.

With two months to take advantage, this could work out very nicely indeed. It could even swing regular Uber X users over to black cabs.

If you don’t already have a FREE NOW account, using Rhys’ promo code of ‘rhys.jon’ after downloading the app will earn you £5 credit.

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Js says:

9 Oct9 October 09:17

Any idea what a central London to LHR freenow taxi would be, pre-discount?
- Rob says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 09:46
  
  £75 is a ball park figure.
  - Alex M says:
    
    9 Oct9 October 11:50
    
    And wheely is £50 fixed. Guess who I would use.
    - Rob says:
      
      9 Oct9 October 12:27
      
      To CENTRAL London? ie Leicester Square? That is remarkably good given the cars they use.
      - Alex M says:
        
        9 Oct9 October 13:30
        
        I checked and it was £60 to Leicester square (I assumed it was £50 fixed anywhere in London).
    - Dev says:
      
      10 Oct10 October 12:20
      
      Wheely was £75 last week from South Kensington to LHR.
Ant says:

9 Oct9 October 09:23

I have the Wheely £25 offer, get 15% and Free Now 40%.
Anyone has an idea how much a black cab or Wheely costs from Bank to City airport?

Thanks
- Rob says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 10:19
  
  £25 at a guess in a black cab? But if you’re at Bank you might as well take the direct DLR – I always do.
- Bob says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 15:34
  
  wheely is similarly priced to uber black.
Ali says:

9 Oct9 October 09:27

Perhaps the name change to FREE NOW is to align it with other Daimler-BMW transport services such as Drive Now (which, as it happens, recently rebranded to SHARE NOW). Whatever next? Could we see a Daimler-BMW acquisition of HfP and subsequent rebrand to POINTS NOW?
- Michael says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 10:22
  
  I think they need to STOP NOW.
  - Shoestring says:
    
    9 Oct9 October 10:26
    
    How about GO NOW?
    
    Or am I thinking of Boris?
Dave B says:

9 Oct9 October 09:59

uswitch is also a site to check .I’m on a uswitch SSE exclusive tariff for gas at 2.3p/Kwh. Not now available,
Rui N. says:

9 Oct9 October 10:10

Thanks Shoestring. I always forget about the Citizens Advice comparison tool. Just found out that E.On (my current supplier) shows a tariff there that would save me £90 per year compared to what I currently pay (they don’t show that tariff as a option on “my account”; I’m supposedly on the cheapest tariff according to that). Just sent an email asking for the same tariff or I’ll abandon them.
Max says:

9 Oct9 October 10:21

The BA173 is showing as a B744 in January instead of a B772. Maybe the flight changes or the timetable hasn’t been updated fully?
- TGLoyalty says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 10:27
  
  I actually thought it was meant to be the 1.30 flight which arrives around 4pm but perhaps there was a last min change.
- Max says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 10:30
  
  Just checked EF and it seems that the B772 with the Club Suite changes to the BA177 from 31 October and then to the BA175 from December.
  - TGLoyalty says:
    
    9 Oct9 October 10:40
    
    This is the info from Fylertalk
    
    “London Heathrow – New York JFK
    eff 27OCT19 BA177/174 Various frequencies
    eff 02NOV19 BA115/176 1 weekly (Except Feb 2020)
    eff 09DEC19 BA175/116 Various frequencies
    02JAN20 – 20FEB20 BA173/112 2 weekly
    eff 23FEB20 BA179/182 1 weekly”
    - gibbbooooo says:
      
      9 Oct9 October 13:39
      
      doh – missed it by 18 days!!
Ben E says:

9 Oct9 October 10:31

Avios.com: for some reason it doesn’t recognise my old ID and password and the AL competition sign up from last week wasn’t recognising my password either. But attempting to reset password on avios.com site doesn’t yield any reset emails. Anyone else having this problem?
- LB says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 11:05
  
  I tried to log into Avios on Saturday with no luck. I had to change my password but no problems with that.
- Lumma says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 14:38
  
  I can’t access combine my avios. It just says that my session has expired
  - Charlieface says:
    
    9 Oct9 October 21:34
    
    I think you got third party cookies disabled
Yuff says:

9 Oct9 October 10:37

OT: can anyone suggest how to get back to the midlands on a Sunday evening at 9pm from London city?
I’d hire a car but I am not sure if anything is open at 9pm at LCY?
Any suggestions greatly received, it’s 2 adults and 2 children
- Andrew says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 10:39
  
  Virgin Trains operate a regular service from Euston.
  - Yuff says:
    
    9 Oct9 October 10:52
    
    Train won’t be suitable, it needs to be by car….
    - EvilDoctorK says:
      
      9 Oct9 October 11:16
      
      Europcar is open until 10pm – https://www.europcar.co.uk/en-gb/stations/united-kingdom/london-city-airport .. Avis closes earlier I know
      - Yuff says:
        
        9 Oct9 October 14:53
        
        Might work if the flight isn’t delayed.
        We are away for 17 nights and coming down via train on to Paris on Eurostar, so leaving my car somewhere isn’t viable.
        I need to get close to Stamford and the 2 children have school the next day.
        Hire car would be the best option
      - Yuff says:
        
        9 Oct9 October 15:15
        
        Evil doctor
        
        Looks like you can pay an out of hours surcharge…so europcar looking good, thanks for the tip 😉
- Lady London says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 11:44
  
  Hire a car on your outward journey and leave it at lcy ready for your return?
  Arrange with someone like Enterprise that will, for a fee, deliver the car to you?
  Stay a night in a hotel there and continue on next morning with car from airport or delivered to/ arranged by hotel?
  Or… gasp… bring own car to airport?
- Andrew says:
  
  9 Oct9 October 13:14
  
  Where in the Midlands?
  
  It’s a vast area from Oxford in the South through to Derby in the North, Hereford in the West and Grimsby in the East
  
  The Tube runs all through the night from Victoria to Oxford.
  - Mary Berry says:
    
    10 Oct10 October 01:52
    
    Grimsby in the Midlands?!!! lol Never heard of coastal Yorkshire and the Ridings and east of england being called the midlands before.

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