sal77

Yes I got the cards a few days ago.

Paulitso

Just used my Amex to book a flight and note it is 1 mile for every £1, and wondered what advantages the visa has ? It seems the Amex has the better benefits for spending, so wondering if I am missing something as I won't use the visa at this rate ??

m27

The Visa is just there for places that don't accept Amex. Keep using the Amex wherever possible

ukdoctor

I assume you used your amex card to book a flight on EK. Shouldn't you have received 2 miles for every £ spent on EK even with a standard card or 4 miles per £ spent on EK with the elite card.

And with the visa card it should be 2 miles for each £ for EK flights with elite card and 1 mile for each £ for EK flights with the standard card

m27

assuming paulitso was mistaken? what you said is correct.

I spoke to MBNA as I wanted to check if I get charged for using paypal (I read various old threads that said Paypal used to do the transaction in $'s for Amex). The lady on the phone said that there should be no charges, did 3 transactions on Sunday waiting for them to show up! I also asked when my miles balance will show up, she said after the first statement has been issued, at present it shows no mention of miles.

easterisland

My other (non Emirates) MBNA Amex and Visa card account does not show the miles for the month until after the end of the statement period. You have to go to Statements and view the statement that has been generated, the miles are shown at the bottom of the statement...

AMEX MILES | 3,018.73
VISA MILES | 652.59
BONUS MILES | 57.00
ADJUSTED MILES | .00
TOTAL MILES | 3,729.31

ukdoctor

I registered my cards online and I've started using them.I checked out the website for MBNA. Couldn't see my Skywards number ( to which my miles should be credited to) anywhere.

marconess

Whats the length of time it takes from purchase through to appearing in the Skywards Account?

easterisland

My MBNA Amex/Visa statement period cuts off at the end of the month and the miles hit the account 2nd - 4th of the following month.

02-Jul-2013 MBNA Consumer Credit Card on 02-Jul-2013 00:00:00.001 3,729

Also in this account I do not see my FF number anywhere.

m27

when I gave them a call I also checked my skywards number and it was fine

ukdoctor

Has anyone managed to buy an EK ticket using the Amex card? Tried it multiple times and wouldn't go through . Contacted an agent who said it was probably because it was a new card and agreed to put a temporary override on fraud prevention and asked me to try after an hour.

Tried again after an hour and still didn't work. Contacted MBNA again (had to again go through the irritating voice recognition thingy) and got a miss know it all this time.
I was told that the AMEX cards are not accepted for the EK booking .Wouldn't listen to any of my explanation regarding the fact that its an EK co branded card and they themselves claim that you earn 4 miles per £ on EK bookings made by AMEX.

Finally got fed up and booked using the visa card as I didn't want to lose the ticket .

Seriously considering contacting trading standards as this seems to be a recurrent problem with MBNA issued AMEX cards.

Check out the thread on the BA forum

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...ng-amex-1.html

jackiedada

Routinely use my Amex to buy EK tickets online (India issued).

Could be that.

ukdoctor

I've been using my spg amex as well for a while so I knew that it was nonsense.

easterisland

I used my EK Amex to pay for an Emirates Tours (Holidays) booking, I am just hoping that I get the same x4 points as booking flights, I will find out at the end of next week when the statement appears.

ukdoctor

You should be fine as long as you use the UK websites. I went through the T&C carefully.

I'm still waiting to see if someone has managed to book a ticket via emirates uk using the MBNA Emirates AMEX. (The MBNA VISA works)

Telephone booking might have worked in my case but then I would have lost the cashback via quidco/topcashabck for online bookings.

It does look like a passkey issue with the MBNA AMEX as mentioned on the BA thread