Air Miles ?

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Anyone know much about them?

Discovered 1350 Airmile coupons in my drawer the other day, completely forgot I had them, have no intention of using them ... had a quick look on the famous auction site and quite a few folk are selling their ones, one guy has 1100 and the current bid is over £100 for them.

How can I tell if mine are still valid, do they expire? I got them after buying a TV set years ago.
 
£100 for 1100 air miles? With the scheme I'm with, it takes 12,000 miles for a free return economy flight within Europe, x2 for Business and 48,000 miles for a return flight to the US.

£100 for 1100 miles seems VERY steep.
 
To be honest that's not a lot of airmiles at all. Even with nearly 20k with Virgin I can't get much with that bar light discounts.

They're definitely not worth that much.
 
Stick em on the bay.

I asked on this very forum recently , as my dad has 2000+ which he is not going to use.

My dads are held in an air miles account (?) and as such are virtually worthless.

If you have the physical paper vouchers , then they do sell on the auction site.
 
as said 1350 isn't worth much

I recently used 180,000 for 2 business class flights to Vegas , me and the missus have about 45k with Virgin and these are still not much use
 
Thanks for the feedback, all.

I will put them on the bay, if someone is daft enough to pay what that other guy is getting, then I'm quids in, other wise I'd never use them.
 
one reason they could have value on Ebay is, for example , if someone is 1000 short of getting £1000 of flights for nowt then they suddenly have value to that person
 
Rotty said:
one reason they could have value on Ebay is, for example , if someone is 1000 short of getting £1000 of flights for nowt then they suddenly have value to that person
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That *has* to be the reason ... I've just had another look on the Bay and there quite a few auctions for Airmiles and they are all doing quite well.

I'll watch them for a week and then put mine up for grabs.
 
The "Air Miles" scheme, which used to be used by BA before they reformed their Executive Club scheme, was entirely different to the "actual number of flown miles" that most frequent flyer programs use.

To cut the story short, the actual figure for both the miles earned and miles spent under the "Air Miles" program tend to be much lower than those figures used by other airlines.

For example, you only need 4,500 miles under the Air Miles program for a free return economy class flight to Hong Kong, and most shorthaul European destinations cost under 1,000 miles.

If your voucher has a blue and white logo with an aeroplan flying over some land, it's the Air Miles program and you should visit http://www.airmiles.co.uk for more information.
 
jhmaeng said:
The "Air Miles" scheme, which used to be used by BA before they reformed their Executive Club scheme, was entirely different to the "actual number of flown miles" that most frequent flyer programs use.

To cut the story short, the actual figure for both the miles earned and miles spent under the "Air Miles" program tend to be much lower than those figures used by other airlines.

For example, you only need 4,500 miles under the Air Miles program for a free return economy class flight to Hong Kong, and most shorthaul European destinations cost under 1,000 miles.

If your voucher has a blue and white logo with an aeroplan flying over some land, it's the Air Miles program and you should visit http://www.airmiles.co.uk for more information.
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OneWorld are useless when it comes to these bonus schemes, and I have heard bad things about their airport lounges.

Best thing to do with airmiles is to stack them up so you go up the levels to Gold/Diamond, then have lounge access and have a relaxing, quiet wait :cool:
 
Ex-RoNiN said:
OneWorld are useless when it comes to these bonus schemes, and I have heard bad things about their airport lounges.

Best thing to do with airmiles is to stack them up so you go up the levels to Gold/Diamond, then have lounge access and have a relaxing, quiet wait :cool:
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the one world lounge at Manchester is ok , I used the one at LAX recently and that wasn't much good

re stacking miles up to increase your level, AFAIK the two things are independent, your level usually works on a points/sectors system per year system and has nothing to do with the amount of miles you have ( with all airlines I use anyway )
 
Rotty said:
the one world lounge at Manchester is ok , I used the one at LAX recently and that wasn't much good

re stacking miles up to increase your level, AFAIK the two things are independent, your level usually works on a points/sectors system per year system and has nothing to do with the amount of miles you have ( with all airlines I use anyway )
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Don't know about oneworld, but with Star Alliance, you get 2 types of miles, Destination and Status miles, where status miles determine your membership level whilst destination miles are a combination of miles flown, and earnt through other schemes, such as signing up for credit cards or through the Hilton bonus scheme.

Destination miles you can spend on flights, status miles are for membership status.
 
Rotty said:
the one world lounge at Manchester is ok , I used the one at LAX recently and that wasn't much good
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The one at LAX is TINY and hardly any food/drinks in there!

EDIT: THe problem with BA air miles is that they can't be used for the surcharges. You can get the flight free (35k to US IIRC), but you still have to pay the fuel charge, security charge, tax, admin fee, booking fee, breathing fee & fart tax etc. That all add up to around £250 (for US). So the BA scheme is no where near as good as it seems.
 
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