<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Roger:
I can't say I agree they are useless.
The answer of course is - it depends. If you want to fly and haven't got enough, perhaps you should earn some more, just like you would if you didn't have enough airline miles for an award.
I may sound a little smug. If so, it's only because I have enough Air Miles to go to Switzerland (where folks live) every year for the next 32 years, or twice a year for the next 16 years ... or once a week for the next 32 weeks.
And on that route they are cheaper than BA (1,000 Air Miles = approx 10,000 BA Miles; BA charge 12,000 BA Miles).
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Funny you should mention that. I tried to get a Club award for LCY-GVA.
I was either told that:
a) We don't have a contract with BA from LCY
b) We are currently setting up a contract with BA from LCY. [Yeah - right]
c) We don't have a Club contract with BA from LCY.
ARRRGGGG 
It takes them 15 minutes each time to figure out that they won't give seats that BA will. They point blank won't issue oneway awards.
To boot I earnt these ****ing things at 1 per £20 spend on my (Coutts) CC. Ugggg. Now I'm earning two bmi miles per £1.
My problem is that I have Air miles, period. I would a much, much happier man with a balance of zero - like I said, 5500 Air Miles stand between me and happiness. I am in the process of giving away award Club tickets to AMS, CDG & BRU to family [Don't go SleazyJet - here have a CE ticket]. Those at least are decent value.
The Air Miles idiots even took away the ability to book Club seats online (Even though they obviously use the BA award availability engine).
Regards,
Alex [Does my loathing of Air Miles come across?]
[This message has been edited by alexwuk (edited 09-28-2003).]