Earn up to 1000 bonus Avios with Uber airport trips

[davefl]

Until 1st Sept, book twice with Uber and earn 500 Avios each time – Ts&Cs :

Key terms

To qualify for the 1,000 bonus Avios, eligible participants must book and complete two individual pre-booked Uber trips between 00:01 on 5 August 2024 to 23:59 on 1 September 2024.
500 bonus Avios will be awarded for each of the two pre-booked Uber trips taken.
Offer is valid for rides taken in mainland UK and Northern Ireland only.
Only one Uber account can be linked to an Executive Club account and the holder of each account must be the same person.
Standard Avios earn rate is 1 Avios per £1 of qualifying spend for rides booked and completed via the Uber app.
Only selected Uber Ride products will be eligible for the Avios award. Eligible Uber Ride categories are UberX, UberXL, Uber Assist, Uber Access, Uber Comfort, Uber Exec, Uber Lux, pre-booked Uber, Uber Pet, Uber Green, Local Cab, Coach, Rail, Eurostar, Lime e-bike & e-scooters and Uber Boat by Thames Clippers.
Bonus Avios will be awarded within 24 hours after the completed journey.

Full terms and conditions can be found on this page. https://www.britishairways.com/content/executive-club/avios/collecting-avios/lifestyle/uber

[Aston100]

I wonder if this will trigger on trips starting from an airport.

[Londonsteve]

My reading of the T&Cs is that it should trigger with ANY trips via any of the methods listed, not just those going to and from the airport. It doesn’t state your start or end point has to be an airport, even though the promotion suggests this as a possibility. I’m happy to stand corrected if this isn’t in fact the case, it would be useful to know.

[davefl]

Yeah that was mentioned elsewhere and that train trips might trigger it, even says Lime, but the link takes you to the pre book a ride on Uber (which works out way more expensive than just ordering one when you need it) so it’s all up in the air as usual depending on the quality of Uber’s IT

[Londonsteve]

The pre-book prices for cars can be eye wateringly high, sometimes far more than a local minicab firm that’ll gladly take the same booking. A train or coach ticket terminating at an airport should certainly comply with the terms, however (even though the terms don’t say that it has to!).

[iamlost]

What are people on about? Click the link, read the Uber 1,000 points offer terms and conditions.

Up to 1,000 bonus Avios is available for Eligible Participants who book and complete two individual pre-booked Uber rides between 00:01 5th August 2024 and 23:59 on 1st September 2024. 500 bonus Avios will be issued for each of the two pre-booked Uber trips taken after the trip has been completed. Offer is valid for rides taken in mainland UK and Northern Ireland only.
Pre-booked Uber rides are only available in specific UK locations and Uber Ride categories, as follows – Greater London: UberX, UberXL, Uber Exec, Uber Lux, Manchester: UberX, UberXL, Uber Exec, South-West (incl Bristol and Bath): UberX, UberXL, Uber Exec, Birmingham: UberX, UberXL, Uber Comfort, Uber Exec, Leeds: UberX, Leicester: UberX, Merseyside (primarily Liverpool): UberX, Nottingham: UberX.

[Londonsteve]

Those are not the T&Cs at the bottom of the e-mail I received from BA. When you click through on the relevant link, you get to the T&Cs you’ve posted. Cut and paste error in the e-mail, or a more deliberate mistake?

[Londonsteve]

To clarify therefore, it does seem that train and coach tickets to an airport aren’t included, nor certainly is anything else other than a pre-booked ride with an Uber car. Oddly though, no mention the ride has to end at an airport.

[davefl]

Londonsteve wrote:

To clarify therefore, it does seem that train and coach tickets to an airport aren’t included, nor certainly is anything else other than a pre-booked ride with an Uber car. Oddly though, no mention the ride has to end at an airport.

Londonsteve wrote:

Those are not the T&Cs at the bottom of the e-mail I received from BA. When you click through on the relevant link, you get to the T&Cs you’ve posted. Cut and paste error in the e-mail, or a more deliberate mistake?

Yep, incompetence thy name is marketing departments and as yet we have no idea how their IT will handle the promotion. Anyone want to be a guinea pig?

[Londonsteve]

I think it’s safe to conclude that only a pre-booked ride with Uber taxi service will meet the requirements. They’ll bat away the discrepancy between the email terms and those on the site
arguing that the email was a mistake.

[Indy500]

My experience with Uber pre-book is that it only starts to look for a ride at the appointed time. At busy times it’s a disaster. Maybe they’ve changed how it works now.