bmi diamond club - Am I the only one who didn't book anything?

Despite sitting on a nice amount of miles I have refused to book any DC redemptions over the last year. More a case of not having firm travel dates than anything else.

Everyone else seems to have gone redemption crazy.

Nope. I had an nice business class award booked (I would have been flying tomorrow, ironically) but had to cancel it due to other things happening, and not having firm dates for future travel. I'll move my DC miles over to Avios when the time comes and see what I want to do from there.

We are ironically flying on an F TG award at the moment, but the only recent redemption was an AMM booking ironically on BD.

I'm fairly relaxed about the move to Avios. Very much looking forward to using my Amex 2-4-1 vouchers which can actually be more cost effective compared to a BD M&C award. DC was fun whilst it lasted and actually for a while I was actually primarily flying BD metal.

For the future however, BA is looking good. I love the extra miles you earn in Y (yes, I am actually flying Y again at the moment!) and now that my QF days are pretty much over (I have three flights left to credit before I bin the card), I'm ready to concentrate on actually crediting to BA and not just flying them.

I'm curious however to see what happens next. Will it be possible to earn status miles in DC or is today really the last day before the programme is officially in life support?

Onwards and upwards.

I burned a load last year. I still have a pile of miles that I'm happy to Avois at the moment.

I could had booked another trip, but would have had trouble sorting hotels and other fiscal issues. I therefore held back.

Well done to those who booked and got it ticketed.

You could still earn status miles on BD coded flights (what's left!) :D

I did look at a quick trip to Jordan in the autumn but there was no availability showing. I guess they didn't load any reward flights where they weren't sure if the route was operating.

So I've been left with a bunch of miles to ship over to BA next month as well. The transfer will get my Avios balance into 7 figures which will be a first for me.

Like HIDDY, I'm miles rich and time poor.

Nope, nada here. Next planned trip is to West Coast US Easter 2013. Can't wait for the transfer to Avios to get MFU's

Despite sitting on a nice amount of miles I have refused to book any DC redemptions over the last year. More a case of not having firm travel dates than anything else.

Everyone else seems to have gone redemption crazy.

Same for me and it's better because it won't be possible to change a *Alliance booking

More a case of not having firm travel dates than anything else.The same for me. I'd never actively participated in DC, but that good credit card deal got me started. I then topped up to exactly enough for a pair of C&M tickets to one of our usual and frequent destinations, but we haven't been able to match potential travel dates to availability. So now those miles will go to shore up our stash of Avios (in relation to which we usually have the same availability problems).

I booked, but the way I saw it, it presented an opportunity: if I can time the BD->BA conversion right I won't have to worry about retaining Gold for the next 12 months, meaning I can focus on redeeming some miles for a change.
It's been a very tricky balancing act of time and money to get enough revenue flights throughout the year to retain Gold, thereby often leaving no room for redemptions. This year is different...although I have run out of annual leave; hence the need to wait until Easter 2013 to book the next redemption. Mind you, off on a revenue flight this weekend.

I've switched everything I needed in long haul business to award bookings, mainly because I had no clue in which FFP it was best to accumulate miles. Had I known the final arrangements a lot sooner, I might have carried on booking revenue flights on *A but se la vie. At least I didn't waste miles on anything I didn't want and very soon I'll be sitting on a nice stash of half a million Avios as well has having 12 months worth of *A redemptions queued up.

Despite sitting on a nice amount of miles I have refused to book any DC redemptions over the last year. More a case of not having firm travel dates than anything else.

Everyone else seems to have gone redemption crazy.

Not necessarily, but if you had redemptions to do for the next 12 months at a leisurely rhythm, why not lump them over the last month instead of abandonning them? In the worst case, it's cancellation and booking to avios. My travel dates are set for next year (and I have a list of places I want to travel to for fun)... so I did them. And usually, I mixed redemption with paid trips to maintain status... This year, thanks to 23 month of BA status and unexpiring A3 status, I won't have this need, so it was 100% redeemed flight until next Jan.

It wasn't a flight out of Avios: I'll probably buy 24,000 BMI miles for each of my family members as a gift before June 30th --- I find they have value when priced at BMI+20% offer.

Not necessarily, but if you had redemptions to do for the next 12 months at a leisurely rhythm, why not lump them over the last month instead of abandonning them?

I had thought of booking a trip to the US but the chances of having to cancel were going to be high.
Although more Avios AA taxes/charges from EZE are very low compared to flying UA using DC so I didn't really feel the need to book a redemption before the deadline. If we were still Europe based in normal jobs with holidays more certain then yes I would have booked.

I had thought of booking a trip to the US but the chances of having to cancel were going to be high.
Although more Avios AA taxes/charges from EZE are very low compared to flying UA using DC so I didn't really feel the need to book a redemption before the deadline. If we were still Europe based in normal jobs with holidays more certain then yes I would have booked.One of my redemptions is semi-speculative as some dates could shift but I reasoned that, at a cost of £25 for a cancellation, it would not be the end of the world if I needed to cancel it a few months down the line for an itinerary which would cost me much more with Avios, even if I were to find availability for it.

I spent most of mine for summer 2012 travel a few months ago.

About 50k is going to Avios, will match before my BD*S expires in December.

One of my redemptions is semi-speculative as some dates could shift but I reasoned that, at a cost of £25 for a cancellation, it would not be the end of the world if I needed to cancel it a few months down the line for an itinerary which would cost me much more with Avios, even if I were to find availability for it.

Yes the £25 fee is neither here nor there compared to the savings you make. The free stopover option is certainly something that made a DC EZE-US redemption very appealing.

I still have close to 800k miles in my BD family account. Used my old CO miles earned when they were in Skyteam for long haul *A redemptions in 2010 and 2011, zeroed out our CO accounts. Have been using DC mainly for Europe short haul redemptions last year as long haul travel is on hold due to arrival of another junior LonLH. Despite several redemptions, got a boatload of new BD miles due to double/triple miles promos. Did not want to do any panic bookings just for the sake of it, so now that is a million plus Avios miles to burn.
2012 is requal year for LH and CX ( i have Eurocheat BA gold and have requalified until 2013 already), and since we have several LH e-vouchers to redeem before they expire in June 2013, 2013 looks like year for lots of * A rev flights and 2014 looks like the year for burning our LH stash of close to 2 million miles in the family.

Despite sitting on a nice amount of miles I have refused to book any DC redemptions over the last year. More a case of not having firm travel dates than anything else.

Everyone else seems to have gone redemption crazy.

I can't say for myself but I know a few of my friends didn't. One had just under 150K and another had over 1/2 million. He is more concerned over 'loss of *G status than anything'. Looks like I'd have to give him another lesson in *A Gold status match 101 soon.

332k DC miles to compliment my 180k Avios.
Spent about 400k DC miles ealier this year but nothing in the mad rush I saw in the past few days.

Besides losing DC which I had for 8 years, losing my *Gold status is the only downside but then easy to get via A3. For now OneWorld has my business.

Globalist

Despite sitting on a nice amount of miles I have refused to book any DC redemptions over the last year. More a case of not having firm travel dates than anything else.

Everyone else seems to have gone redemption crazy.

HIDDY.. you surprise me!

I booked a trip to Mexico for me and the wife, a great stop-over-open-jaw to Belize and Mexico for the parents and a final fling to Singapore and Bali for me and the wife next NY.. figured that it was better to blow the annual bonus and max the CC while I could still get Z1-3 for 37.5k+C+T

RIP Diamond Club :confused: