Get a 50% bonus when you buy an Etihad gift voucher

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• meta says:

  10 Jun10 June 16:47

  If this could be used on taxes than it could be really great. I have an F redemption booking for next year. Anyone knows if Etihad releases award bookings back to inventory if you cancel or is it more like BA where there is a bit of gamble?

• mr_jetlag says:

  10 Jun10 June 20:13

  1. Buy £42,500k voucher on Etihad,
  2. Get 85k MRs, then book Emirate suites
  3. ????
  4. Profit 🙂

  • Vit says:

    10 Jun10 June 21:20

    haha. Good idea. I think I need step 0 though. 😉

    0. Find £42,500k somewhere.

    • BJ says:

      10 Jun10 June 21:31

      3. Use the 85k to come home in EK Suite after Etihad has gone bust with £40250 of your money.

      • Callum says:

        11 Jun11 June 04:04

        Etihad is a government owned status symbol, I doubt they’d ever “go bust”.

        A face-saving phased shutdown possibly (which would of course reduce the attractiveness of the voucher), but I can’t imagine Abu Dhabi would ever accept the perceived humiliation of a collapsed state airline while Dubai’s thrives!

• Vit says:

  10 Jun10 June 21:24

  Voucher / Gift card is always tricky. Back in Feb this year I thought I strike a good deal when purchasing lastminute.com with 10% off before covid hit. Trying to be “really-smart”, I made sure I covered 99% of the ticket price using the voucher and very little on my credit card.

  Now stuck with lastminute.com. They have not refunded me even though Qatar refunded the cash to them 6-7 weeks ago. Cannot even raise a chargeback / S75 claim.

  • BJ says:

    10 Jun10 June 21:49

    Given this current experience I think most of us will be much more cautious about how and where we book travel, and how we pay for it, in the future. The travel industry must be aware of that so it seems a bit odd that many companies are trying to tempt us with vouchers as opposed to straightforward discounts and sales. It would be really interesting to get some idea how successful all these voucher schemes are proving to be.

  • Pablo says:

    11 Jun11 June 06:09

    As long as the cost was £100+ and you paid some of it with a credit card, S75 applies. Raise a claim with your card company.

• guesswho2000 says:

  11 Jun11 June 01:21

  If Etihad went bust then surely you would be able to raise a claim under s75, as they’ve taken money for a future service which hasn’t been provided?

  Which seems to think so too “Another route for getting your money back is to make a Section 75 claim under the Consumer Credit Act. The purchaser can do this if the gift cards or vouchers were bought on a card and the value of the single purchase was over £100.” They don’t mention the 35k upper cap, but the rest of it was my understanding too.

  • guesswho2000 says:

    11 Jun11 June 01:23

    The Martin Lewis site too:
    “Bought a gift card or voucher worth £100 or more on a credit card? Under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974, if you pay for goods that cost between £100 and £30,000 and you pay for any of it on a credit card, the credit company is jointly liable with the retailer if anything goes wrong. What that means is you don’t have to go to the retailer – you can choose to go to the credit card company and you have exactly the same consumer rights.

    There’s no guarantee a claim for a gift card will be successful but the Law Commission – which has made recommendations to the Government in this area – told us Section 75 rules DO apply to gift cards, so it may be worth a go. For full info on how to file a claim, see our Section 75 guide.”

• William Avery says:

  11 Jun11 June 11:28

  How do you get to a 33% discount?

  • Rhys says:

    11 Jun11 June 11:30

    50% bonus = 33% discount on future spending. For example, £1000 voucher purchase gets you a £1500 voucher. This includes the £500 bonus – which equates to 33% of £1500. Therefore a future purchase of £1500 is a 33% discount.

• John says:

  11 Jun11 June 14:03

  @Rhys see Etihad.com/travelbank on how you can use the credit in form of Travelbank

  Your questions are there responded to with:
  1. Book latest by the expiry date of the credit. Travel can be further in the future (normally max 330 days). No refund possible after an expiry date of a credit (equivalent of miles expiry).
  2. No.
  3. No.
  No redemption of miles or miles +cash ticket combinations are allowed with Travelbank. Travelbank can only be used in combination with card payment for ordinary fares.

  • John says:

    11 Jun11 June 14:05

    and you can pay for ancillaries such as seats an extra bags with Travelbank too.

  • Rhys says:

    11 Jun11 June 14:08

    Looks like that page has just been added, thanks

    • Yuff says:

      11 Jun11 June 17:59

      So I assume if you can use it to pay for extras you can also use it to pay for the miles and cash part of a reward ticket by the looks of it.

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