Aer Club Credit Card
Jan 21, 2019, 1:40 pm
#16
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
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Have you actually looked at the policy?
For eg, Euro 250 maximum on personal possessions (and with a Euro 75 excess) so max Euro 175 back if your smartphone or laptop is nicked.
Your kid gets killed? Euro 3200 compensation etc.
Only good bit seems to be coverage to age 80.
For eg, Euro 250 maximum on personal possessions (and with a Euro 75 excess) so max Euro 175 back if your smartphone or laptop is nicked.
Your kid gets killed? Euro 3200 compensation etc.
Only good bit seems to be coverage to age 80.
Jan 21, 2019, 3:12 pm
#17
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 687
Have you actually looked at the policy?
For eg, Euro 250 maximum on personal possessions (and with a Euro 75 excess) so max Euro 175 back if your smartphone or laptop is nicked.
Your kid gets killed? Euro 3200 compensation etc.
Only good bit seems to be coverage to age 80.
For eg, Euro 250 maximum on personal possessions (and with a Euro 75 excess) so max Euro 175 back if your smartphone or laptop is nicked.
Your kid gets killed? Euro 3200 compensation etc.
Only good bit seems to be coverage to age 80.
Jan 22, 2019, 2:46 am
#19
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Programs: EI Silver, AF Ivory, SPG Gold, HH, IHG Priority Club, Choice Privileges
Posts: 354
Card was available to apply for yesterday ( 21st January 2019 ) but was not available online this morning
My take on it ... in a word "Pathetic"
My take on it ... in a word "Pathetic"
Jan 22, 2019, 2:52 am
#20
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 687
I just noticed that myself....either they've scraped it due to all the negative feedback already or are coming back with an improved and more realistic offering.
Jan 23, 2019, 2:48 am
#22
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It would be pretty impressive (bordering on unrealistic unfortunately) if they suddenly changed the entire product on the back of a grumpy FT thread and a grumpy Head for Points blog post!
Jan 23, 2019, 2:55 am
#23
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 687
I agree, I fear 'content' means changing the picture on the card! But one can hope for some minor tweaks to improve the offering, don't underestimate yourself, a well placed blog falling into the right hands.....
Jan 23, 2019, 8:50 am
#24
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Jan 28, 2019, 7:48 am
#26
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Programs: BA Gold, Mucci
Posts: 2,068
I'd probably consider this if it had no monthly fee.
The "free flights" is arguably not very free. I wrote about this today in a blog post. Looking at the first week of March from Dublin to London Heathrow, you save €48.95 per person on the flights if you choose the most expensive ones. Most of the flights are selling at base rate, which means you save €1.98 on a fare of over €100 as the rest is fees and charges which you still need to pay.
I think 1 Avios per €4 is stingy, and when compared to the UK American Express Avios cards, it's not very good at all. One of those cards has no annual fee and you earn 1 Avios per £1 and get 5,000 Avios for spending £1,000 three months. I know it's a different market, but even so.
Still, it would be a good card for those with no AerClub status who tend to travel Aer Lingus a few times a year and can use the priority boarding, fast-track and lounge access. Perhaps.
The "free flights" is arguably not very free. I wrote about this today in a blog post. Looking at the first week of March from Dublin to London Heathrow, you save €48.95 per person on the flights if you choose the most expensive ones. Most of the flights are selling at base rate, which means you save €1.98 on a fare of over €100 as the rest is fees and charges which you still need to pay.
I think 1 Avios per €4 is stingy, and when compared to the UK American Express Avios cards, it's not very good at all. One of those cards has no annual fee and you earn 1 Avios per £1 and get 5,000 Avios for spending £1,000 three months. I know it's a different market, but even so.
Still, it would be a good card for those with no AerClub status who tend to travel Aer Lingus a few times a year and can use the priority boarding, fast-track and lounge access. Perhaps.
Jan 28, 2019, 8:04 am
#27
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,894
I'd probably consider this if it had no monthly fee.
The "free flights" is arguably not very free. I wrote about this today in a blog post. Looking at the first week of March from Dublin to London Heathrow, you save €48.95 per person on the flights if you choose the most expensive ones. Most of the flights are selling at base rate, which means you save €1.98 on a fare of over €100 as the rest is fees and charges which you still need to pay.
I think 1 Avios per €4 is stingy, and when compared to the UK American Express Avios cards, it's not very good at all. One of those cards has no annual fee and you earn 1 Avios per £1 and get 5,000 Avios for spending £1,000 three months. I know it's a different market, but even so.
Still, it would be a good card for those with no AerClub status who tend to travel Aer Lingus a few times a year and can use the priority boarding, fast-track and lounge access. Perhaps.
The "free flights" is arguably not very free. I wrote about this today in a blog post. Looking at the first week of March from Dublin to London Heathrow, you save €48.95 per person on the flights if you choose the most expensive ones. Most of the flights are selling at base rate, which means you save €1.98 on a fare of over €100 as the rest is fees and charges which you still need to pay.
I think 1 Avios per €4 is stingy, and when compared to the UK American Express Avios cards, it's not very good at all. One of those cards has no annual fee and you earn 1 Avios per £1 and get 5,000 Avios for spending £1,000 three months. I know it's a different market, but even so.
Still, it would be a good card for those with no AerClub status who tend to travel Aer Lingus a few times a year and can use the priority boarding, fast-track and lounge access. Perhaps.
Jan 28, 2019, 9:47 am
#29
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Programs: BA Gold, Mucci
Posts: 2,068
Looked at this but not very appealing. As you say annual fee puts me off with not a lot in return if like me you already have Aerclub status. If they have a 20K sign up bonus I might do it but until then its a no no for me. Ireland is still in the dark ages when it comes to airline and other credit cards.
You're not wrong with regards to Ireland being in the dark ages in this respect. It would be nice if other banks decided to work with Aer Lingus and better this offer.
Jan 28, 2019, 9:51 am
#30
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 687
If you fly EI for work regularly (say 800-1K spend per month) and book all your flights/hotels/car rental plus make use of the odd perk then you can justify the cost just about. If you can make good use of avios would you pay 100 euro for 15000 avios? That's not a bad deal taken on its own terms (i.e. if groupon offered that I'd say a lot of people would jump at it). But if you're not going to spend personally with EI (i.e. an employer books your flights and other travel costs directly) then it's likely you will lose out.