parklife

I cannot find any Reward Flight Saver options on Aer Lingus flights. Few random dates well in advance and few different routes.

irishguy28

Thanks, but what fees do they charge for, say, a LHR-DUB?

I am wondering if you are now "marked" as being entitled to lower fees than for someone with no earned Avios in their account (which describes the majority of us still, I think!! At the moment, all short-haul flights are charged, for redemptions, at a cash amount that is only a few Euro/pounds less than the cheapest available revenue ticket, so it makes no sense to waste 4,000 Avios on such redemptions. Hence my eagerness to see if they are doing something logical and implementing RFS in the same manner as BA)

Ta!

parklife

LHR to DUB return on a date in Sep 8,000 Avios and £53.90, one way 4,000 and £38.70.

irishguy28

Thank you!

ECR

Unfortunately I don't think there is any chance of Aer Lingus introducing RFS. The RFS box has been on Avios.com for a long time and always shows as £0 for non-BA flights for example Flybe where it has never been offered.

Another IAG airline, Iberia, used to offer RFS but that was axed a few years ago, so if anything the trend would be towards removing it on BA rather than introducing
it for EI.

I would of course be happy to be wrong though!

toxfix

thats probably <5% of the aerclub members - just there to mop up the high mileage cheap ticket flyers. Overall the numbers at higher tiers will undoubtedly fall

HarryBA

Is anybody having issues logging in?

So I have reset password a few times and still I get "these login details are incorrect"

i was all set up on the app last week then it was updated and now I'm just frustrated and can see my account

Drums

It will probably only be introduced for EI on DUB-LHR. They don't compete on much else really.

KudosNI

I've never been able to logon, some gremlins it appears and still no closer to being fixed. Zero correspondence from AL

DELLAS

I was able to log in and now cant get in at all for the last two weeks. Known issue but they are no closer to solving it according to their IT.

EIFREZY

The first two of the flights I have taken since the launch, have posted with Avios & tier points.

It would be nice if you were able to get a breakdown of the tier points though, as otherwise you have no idea what has posted and what hasn't, especially as the Avios points seem to lag the tier points.

They were both cheap saver fares and they seem to have given me Avios relating to the total amount I paid, rather than just the fare element.

I thought I would have got 0 Avios, as the fare element was £0/€0 for both, with the amount I paid being made up of taxes & charges only.

On my most recent flight I got 95 Avios for a £24.99 fare, which utilising the 1.25 multiplier for Silver status means I was given Avios based on a £19 spend (x 4 x 1.25).

RMDrive

There seems to be a time period from Oct 17th to Nov 21st where activity did not count towards your new AC tier, but where you will not get tier credits for it either.

I've been in touch with AC via the Aer Lingus twitter a/c (a very unsatisfactory way to communicate with them) and it has been confirmed that all my activity since I moved to Prestige (July 2016) is being wiped from the record. So someone who was Prestige in July 2016 and ceased flying for the rest of the year is being rewarded in same way as someone who flew 7 TATL flights return since then. It's strange logic to me but when I look at how the whole AC things has been rolled out ... I suppose it fits.

Ce la vie. I'd love to be able to say I'm taking my business elsewhere but the reality is that for services to ORD, there's very little option save routing through LHR. So I'll still be spending my money with Aer Lingus but I'll be doing it a lot more begrudgingly than I did in the past.

PierDave

That's exactly the problem I'm still trying to fight with EI. I done the bulk of my flying this year within that exact time period (how typical), and would have equated to over 200 tier credits if they let them count towards AC.

I've had three phone conversations in the past five weeks with EI and had the following three responses:

1. "Oh your tier should be at least Silver. We'll have it sorted by mid-Dec."
2. "You'll definitely get tier credits for the flights in that period"
3. "Sorry, nothing we can do."

Really crappy performance.

I don't even know why I care so much as I have a BoI Gold Mastercard which gives better lounge access than AerClub Silver anyway. It's just the point of it really.

soy

They totally botched the introduction of Aer Club. It was way late, zero transparency around rules and requirements, website issues and a poor conversion ratio.
Once again they have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. This could have been so much better - a wasted opportunity

tangey

That's not entirely correct. For BAEC, you need to have earned a point in any way (transfers don't count) in the last 12 months, to be eligible. I've earned points from credit cards/tesco/TCB etc. I've flown several RFS BA flights, I've never earned a BAEC avois point by flying.