Purchase or Gift Avios and receive a surprise bonus- BA email
Mar 9, 2017, 5:15 am
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Purchase or Gift Avios and receive a surprise bonus- BA email
Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere-didn't find any mention of it on this board yet.
Received an email from BA yesterday with this offer:
We have a surprise just for you! Receive a bonus when you purchase or gift up to 100,000 Avios before 23:59 hr GMT 23 March 2017. Then turn your Avios into savings – book a reward flight, cabin upgrade or just spend a little to discount the price of your ticket.
Click below to find out your surprise bonus.
Logged in and was offered a 20% bonus.
Not nearly enough to tempt me into purchasing Avios at BA's rate but I thought it was an interesting new approach-can't remember them running anything similar in recent years.
Did anyone else receive similar? Anything better than 20%?
Received an email from BA yesterday with this offer:
We have a surprise just for you! Receive a bonus when you purchase or gift up to 100,000 Avios before 23:59 hr GMT 23 March 2017. Then turn your Avios into savings – book a reward flight, cabin upgrade or just spend a little to discount the price of your ticket.
Click below to find out your surprise bonus.
Logged in and was offered a 20% bonus.
Not nearly enough to tempt me into purchasing Avios at BA's rate but I thought it was an interesting new approach-can't remember them running anything similar in recent years.
Did anyone else receive similar? Anything better than 20%?
Mar 9, 2017, 5:41 am
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I got 30% too - not tempted. 10,000 plus the 3,000 bonus would cost £245. A subscription to the Economist (until the end of the month) gets 13,200 Avios for £179...
You can guess which I did...
You can guess which I did...
Mar 9, 2017, 6:49 am
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I did get this offer - deleted the email rather than reading it !
I wouldn't buy Avios (apart from via shopping at Tesco and flying - which both cost money and give me Avios) - they don't seem terribly good value.
I wouldn't buy Avios (apart from via shopping at Tesco and flying - which both cost money and give me Avios) - they don't seem terribly good value.