New credit card earn rates
Jan 26, 2023, 8:33 pm
#47
Join Date: Dec 2022
Posts: 4
About the get ANZ Airpoints Visa platinum (phone interview next weekend), and already booked quite a few trips. I wonder if they give a 50% boost for existing tickets and 2 lounges to new customers.
Also, I have Airpoints Dollars Advance from Amex, will they increase my Airpoints Dollar Advance limit for ANZ CC?
Also, I have Airpoints Dollars Advance from Amex, will they increase my Airpoints Dollar Advance limit for ANZ CC?
Jan 26, 2023, 8:41 pm
#48
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 2,633
About the get ANZ Airpoints Visa platinum (phone interview next weekend), and already booked quite a few trips. I wonder if they give a 50% boost for existing tickets and 2 lounges to new customers.
Also, I have Airpoints Dollars Advance from Amex, will they increase my Airpoints Dollar Advance limit for ANZ CC?
Also, I have Airpoints Dollars Advance from Amex, will they increase my Airpoints Dollar Advance limit for ANZ CC?
Advance is basically and over draft not more points.
The phone interview will be a good time to ask that question. As the T&Cs seem to say yes but seems dumb
Jan 26, 2023, 10:06 pm
#49
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Wellington
Programs: Airpoints, Qantas, KrisFlyer, Mileage Plus
Posts: 88
I am 100% positive and would bet that its only for purchases made through the card. Simply getting SP for owning it makes no sense.
It wouldn't be double dipping because that would be an entirely different type of SP earn: a static benefit that your account just has, rather than an award per dollar spent. But it won't be that, it will be on purchases made with the card.
Honestly, its enough to make me take a second glance and I will calculate whether its worth it to sign up for one now. That's a really amazing SP bonus per dollar spent. That's way more SP per dollar spent than the basic 1 SP = $200/250 etc.
The main thing for me will be calculating whether the CC SP I earn will match my metal SP. There is no point in paying an extra cc fee, if the bonus SP will go to waste because I can't meet the metal requirement.
It wouldn't be double dipping because that would be an entirely different type of SP earn: a static benefit that your account just has, rather than an award per dollar spent. But it won't be that, it will be on purchases made with the card.
Honestly, its enough to make me take a second glance and I will calculate whether its worth it to sign up for one now. That's a really amazing SP bonus per dollar spent. That's way more SP per dollar spent than the basic 1 SP = $200/250 etc.
The main thing for me will be calculating whether the CC SP I earn will match my metal SP. There is no point in paying an extra cc fee, if the bonus SP will go to waste because I can't meet the metal requirement.
Jan 27, 2023, 12:37 am
#51
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Jan 27, 2023, 3:06 pm
#52
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 474
Is the understanding that any credit card spend before 20 Feb will earn SP at the "old" rate of 1SP/$250 spend? Is this going to be impacted by statement timings or anything. If that is true then we may bring forward some spend in order to maximise earn.
Jan 27, 2023, 3:59 pm
#53
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 181
Have others had emails as well? Both my wife and I are long time ANZ Platinum card holders and have not heard anything from ANZ about this. We are NZ based and NZ cards.
Is the understanding that any credit card spend before 20 Feb will earn SP at the "old" rate of 1SP/$250 spend? Is this going to be impacted by statement timings or anything. If that is true then we may bring forward some spend in order to maximise earn.
Is the understanding that any credit card spend before 20 Feb will earn SP at the "old" rate of 1SP/$250 spend? Is this going to be impacted by statement timings or anything. If that is true then we may bring forward some spend in order to maximise earn.
Yeap, you'll receive all previous rates up until the 20th, and won't be aligned to statement period (i.e. if your statement period is usually around the 5th to the 4th, then you'll get about two weeks of the previous benefits until the 20th, then it'll stop and switch for the second half).
Jan 27, 2023, 6:25 pm
#54
Join Date: Dec 2007
Programs: Air New Zealand Elite
Posts: 445
New status point deal for Anz airpoints platinum would be handy for people who book their own work flights and get reimbursed. We generally put work flights on amex for the points but if we were running short in SP to qualify for another elite year could start switching and paying for the flights on air nz platinum visa instead.
Jan 28, 2023, 2:30 pm
#55
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,095
New status point deal for Anz airpoints platinum would be handy for people who book their own work flights and get reimbursed. We generally put work flights on amex for the points but if we were running short in SP to qualify for another elite year could start switching and paying for the flights on air nz platinum visa instead.
Jan 28, 2023, 3:12 pm
#56
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 2,633
(Until the T&Cs change to say that only flights booked and paid in full with ANZ card are eligible)
Jan 28, 2023, 4:45 pm
#57
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I can totally see what Air NZ want to do and the move in itself makes a lot of sense but a 50% bonus is just nuts. There are gonna be people raking in hundreds more SP per year from credit cards than they did under the current offering. Air NZ may not care because these are going to be loyal frequent flyers but presumably ANZ is going to be funding this and numbers for them could just blow out like crazy.
Jan 28, 2023, 5:53 pm
#58
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: New Zealand (when I'm home!)
Programs: Air NZ Elite
Posts: 1,218
Everyone here is so confident that simply owning an ANZ credit card will entitle you to 50% SP whether you book with it or not. I can see no information regarding that requirement has been released, but the full T&C are not live yet, just vague wording. It will be interesting to see if everyone turns out to be right. If so, I will be surprised, although happy surprised at that generosity.
It will push up numbers I think but it will mostly push them up in Gold/Silver. The metal requirement for Elite is so high that a 50% SP boost will still not be enough for most people. Most people fly domestically and it takes an insane amount of flying to hit Gold already. And if you add 50% on top of gold, that's still not getting you to Elite.
The more I think about this change and the more I chat to people I really just don't understand how this change makes sense and how long it will last before they need to make further changes. I can totally see what Air NZ want to do and the move in itself makes a lot of sense but a 50% bonus is just nuts. There are gonna be people raking in hundreds more SP per year from credit cards than they did under the current offering. Air NZ may not care because these are going to be loyal frequent flyers but presumably ANZ is going to be funding this and numbers for them could just blow out like crazy.
Jan 28, 2023, 6:31 pm
#59
Join Date: Dec 2007
Programs: Air New Zealand Elite
Posts: 445
Agreed kiwiff. I posted that comment assuming that only flights booked on the anz airpoints plat card would be eligible for the 50%bonus SC. It’s clearly not going to be offered across the board regardless of which card you book the flights on.
Jan 28, 2023, 7:26 pm
#60
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T&C very clear that a Personal Plat card cannot be used for business purposes, although no idea how that could be enforced:
6.2 Except for ANZ Visa Business Airpoints, to earn Airpoints DollarsTM, the Card account must be used wholly and exclusively for your private and domestic expenditure. Where ANZ has reason to believe that the expenditure is of a business nature, these transactions will not earn Airpoints Dollars.
