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With BA upping the spend requirement to 15k/year on both their cards, where does it now leave the Blue BA card?
For those who are restricted to economy redemptions (either because they’re not avios rich or have small children travelling with them where the prospect of CS would be unthinkable) surely they could have made it a bit more attractive to offset the £5k additional spend – at least extending the validity of the voucher to 2 years (obviously keeping it restricted for economy redemptions) for example.Rob has written previously about how the free BA Amex is now largely pointless. Only reason I can think of to keep it is if you’re in the fallow period of a Membership Rewards earning card, and you want to double dip on points using Curve Fronted.
I does seems so. The 241 voucher still holds some value to us but I just can bring myself to pay £300 for the BAPP card when I know I’m not going to be using the voucher for CS/CW redemptions anymore.
It’s only the 2 year validity really but does that justify paying £300?I think the Amex BA Blue Card is as useful as BA Blue Status.
That card is a “dream seller” for those who collect tiny amounts of Avios and hope to get a reward ticket to Paris in economy by getting a horibble value per Avios and after collecting miles for 2 years.
Those people, unfortunately, “finance” our hobby..I does seems so. The 241 voucher still holds some value to us but I just can bring myself to pay £300 for the BAPP card when I know I’m not going to be using the voucher for CS/CW redemptions anymore.
It’s only the 2 year validity really but does that justify paying £300?We tend to book 1 trip to Dubai (family of 3) every year and the 2-4-1 is useful? It saves us 60k Avios (Economy), so I don’t see it as bad value?
Exactly what we’ve been doing – NY in the summer hols and Dubai next April, £400 for the four of us including the free NCL domestic connection.
We’ve had plenty of value from it over the years. Just at the stage now where our avios pool has diminished and will take longer to build up again, hence why the PP card has the advantage with the 2-year voucher validity
If the card was useful before the changes (it wasn’t for me, but I get others may have seen some value in an Economy voucher) then I don’t see how raising the spend threshold suddenly makes it useless.
Previously you had to spend £12k for the voucher (so it’s not £5k additional spend), and it’s gone up by 25%
Inflation over the past couple of years has been 25% so without even changing your spending habits you’ll more or less hit the new target as easily as you did the old one.
Until 2021 you had to spend £20k on this card to get the voucher, albeit that voucher wasn’t restricted to Economy only.
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