[Now Dead]100,000 BA Avios Chase Card, $150 fee
Aug 26, 2013, 7:06 am
#1261
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: PHL
Posts: 10,060
Got the points 2 days after statement closed.
Aug 26, 2013, 8:25 am
#1262
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: In CT,left my heart in Leicester.
Programs: Work in progress.
Posts: 1,237
I received my bonus in June. Did a round of apps in July with UA and Marriott in there. Had to call and the first thing the rep said after he said my credit limit with them was too high was do you wan to trade your BA card for the UA. I said of course. I did not get the AF back but kept the points.
Right...then maybe I'll cancel it with two days to go on that 60 day period...
But thanks rdaven2003.
Good to know that the BA points weren't taken away.
Sep 1, 2013, 10:44 pm
#1263
Join Date: May 2010
Location: NYC
Posts: 245
I received my bonus in June. Did a round of apps in July with UA and Marriott in there. Had to call and the first thing the rep said after he said my credit limit with them was too high was do you wan to trade your BA card for the UA. I said of course. I did not get the AF back but kept the points.
Sep 2, 2013, 11:53 am
#1265
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 4,166
Well sure enough both my wife and I received our 50k miles the month the annual fee posted in. Statement closed on the 28th and the AF posted Aug 1st so we got the points on the Aug 28th statement.
Sep 5, 2013, 8:48 am
#1266
Join Date: May 2010
Location: NYC
Posts: 245
anyone that canceled the card to avoid the annual fee without the miles being taken back?
Nov 2, 2013, 9:05 am
#1269
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 432
Looks like this offer is back. VFTW and Mommy Points had posts about it today. Bit angry it came out now cause I just did a churn last week
Nov 2, 2013, 1:36 pm
#1270
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: LAX
Posts: 588
That's a different offer than the one in this thread (which is still dead). The newest offer is for 50k after $2k, another 25k after $10k, and another 25k after another $10k. That offer thus requires $20k in spending to earn the full 100k Avios, whereas the offer in this thread basically let you "buy" 100k Avios for the price of two annual fees.
Nov 2, 2013, 5:45 pm
#1271
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 493
well, I got all my 100K avios after a year of having this card, but I haven't spent many of them, because the taxes are horrendous. So I signed up for an Iberia ff account. So you guys know, you can transfer your avios to Iberia, and if you are flying where Iberia goes, you get a much better deal and not much taxes. However, there are a couple of things you might want to know, which I found out.
First, you can't transfer any avios until you've had the Iberia account for awhile. And you need to activate it by either buying some more avios from Iberia, or transferring some membership rewards from American Express (you can transfer 1000 MR for 1000 avios.) If you go this route, make sure your Iberia account has the same exact details as the BA one...
So I did this, and it took a few days to transfer the Amex MR miles over to Iberia. But now they are there. Then you go to British Airways, and try and transfer some of your BA Avios to Iberia. It's not that hard to do, just go into executive club, select manage my account, and where it says "blue member," select "combine my Avios" and try it there (it won't work until you've added some Avios to your Iberia account though).
I got a message I have to call BA because something isn't quite right. So I was unable to do the ticket I wanted to do. I'll be in London in a few weeks (on another trip), so I'll go and try and straighten it out there (not in the mood for long distance calls to the UK. Also, I may have to wait 3 months since I activated my Iberia account, which was a week or so ago. Not sure exactly.
Just thought I'd pass this by you guys who aren't getting much use out of your Avios because you have to pay $700 in taxes and service charges for a $1060.00 trip to London. Eek!
Oh, and the Iberia website is not very flexible when it comes to booking frequent flyer airline tickets, unless you are going round-trip to some place, like say, Spain.
The other thing, you can use the Avios for hotels. Maybe I'll try that instead.
First, you can't transfer any avios until you've had the Iberia account for awhile. And you need to activate it by either buying some more avios from Iberia, or transferring some membership rewards from American Express (you can transfer 1000 MR for 1000 avios.) If you go this route, make sure your Iberia account has the same exact details as the BA one...
So I did this, and it took a few days to transfer the Amex MR miles over to Iberia. But now they are there. Then you go to British Airways, and try and transfer some of your BA Avios to Iberia. It's not that hard to do, just go into executive club, select manage my account, and where it says "blue member," select "combine my Avios" and try it there (it won't work until you've added some Avios to your Iberia account though).
I got a message I have to call BA because something isn't quite right. So I was unable to do the ticket I wanted to do. I'll be in London in a few weeks (on another trip), so I'll go and try and straighten it out there (not in the mood for long distance calls to the UK. Also, I may have to wait 3 months since I activated my Iberia account, which was a week or so ago. Not sure exactly.
Just thought I'd pass this by you guys who aren't getting much use out of your Avios because you have to pay $700 in taxes and service charges for a $1060.00 trip to London. Eek!
Oh, and the Iberia website is not very flexible when it comes to booking frequent flyer airline tickets, unless you are going round-trip to some place, like say, Spain.
The other thing, you can use the Avios for hotels. Maybe I'll try that instead.
Last edited by lbotez; Nov 2, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Nov 2, 2013, 10:33 pm
#1272
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Bay Area, CA
Programs: AA Plat, UA Gold, AS MVP Gold, HH Diamond, SPG Gold, Club Carlson Gold, US
Posts: 956
well, I got all my 100K avios after a year of having this card, but I haven't spent many of them, because the taxes are horrendous. So I signed up for an Iberia ff account. So you guys know, you can transfer your avios to Iberia, and if you are flying where Iberia goes, you get a much better deal and not much taxes. However, there are a couple of things you might want to know, which I found out.
First, you can't transfer any avios until you've had the Iberia account for awhile. And you need to activate it by either buying some more avios from Iberia, or transferring some membership rewards from American Express (you can transfer 1000 MR for 1000 avios.) If you go this route, make sure your Iberia account has the same exact details as the BA one...
So I did this, and it took a few days to transfer the Amex MR miles over to Iberia. But now they are there. Then you go to British Airways, and try and transfer some of your BA Avios to Iberia. It's not that hard to do, just go into executive club, select manage my account, and where it says "blue member," select "combine my Avios" and try it there (it won't work until you've added some Avios to your Iberia account though).
I got a message I have to call BA because something isn't quite right. So I was unable to do the ticket I wanted to do. I'll be in London in a few weeks (on another trip), so I'll go and try and straighten it out there (not in the mood for long distance calls to the UK. Also, I may have to wait 3 months since I activated my Iberia account, which was a week or so ago. Not sure exactly.
Just thought I'd pass this by you guys who aren't getting much use out of your Avios because you have to pay $700 in taxes and service charges for a $1060.00 trip to London. Eek!
Oh, and the Iberia website is not very flexible when it comes to booking frequent flyer airline tickets, unless you are going round-trip to some place, like say, Spain.
The other thing, you can use the Avios for hotels. Maybe I'll try that instead.
First, you can't transfer any avios until you've had the Iberia account for awhile. And you need to activate it by either buying some more avios from Iberia, or transferring some membership rewards from American Express (you can transfer 1000 MR for 1000 avios.) If you go this route, make sure your Iberia account has the same exact details as the BA one...
So I did this, and it took a few days to transfer the Amex MR miles over to Iberia. But now they are there. Then you go to British Airways, and try and transfer some of your BA Avios to Iberia. It's not that hard to do, just go into executive club, select manage my account, and where it says "blue member," select "combine my Avios" and try it there (it won't work until you've added some Avios to your Iberia account though).
I got a message I have to call BA because something isn't quite right. So I was unable to do the ticket I wanted to do. I'll be in London in a few weeks (on another trip), so I'll go and try and straighten it out there (not in the mood for long distance calls to the UK. Also, I may have to wait 3 months since I activated my Iberia account, which was a week or so ago. Not sure exactly.
Just thought I'd pass this by you guys who aren't getting much use out of your Avios because you have to pay $700 in taxes and service charges for a $1060.00 trip to London. Eek!
Oh, and the Iberia website is not very flexible when it comes to booking frequent flyer airline tickets, unless you are going round-trip to some place, like say, Spain.
The other thing, you can use the Avios for hotels. Maybe I'll try that instead.
Nov 3, 2013, 3:01 pm
#1273
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: DCA
Posts: 7,769
As stated here avios are great for hopping around the U.S. on AA...or Asia on CX...or S. America on LAN...or Australia/NZ on Qantas.
Nov 3, 2013, 3:05 pm
#1274
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Intermountain West
Programs: Too many to list
Posts: 12,073
To avoid confusion with the other 100K BA offer, now alive, we'll temp. close this one.