Promo: BONUS Double miles in Econ/Triple miles in Biz; fly 11Jul - 31Aug '11 (Targetted)
Sep 6, 2011, 11:55 am
#106
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: HKG
Programs: Marriott Ambassador (Titanium Lifetime), BA Gold, Ex-Hertz 5* PC, Ex-HH Diamond, Ex-BD*G
Posts: 3,059
Mine posted, as expected (40k , not bad - shows how much BD can motivate me to fly with them with very generous promotions). However there was a nasty little bug - as I'm over 55k those miles should have all been added to my destination miles pot. As it was they weren't, they were purely added to my status miles pot.... meaning I'm short some 40k destination miles now, ouch!
Dropped them a note and hope they can fix it without too much trouble.
Dropped them a note and hope they can fix it without too much trouble.
Sep 6, 2011, 12:39 pm
#107
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: SW London
Programs: BAEC Silver; Hilton Diamond;a miscellany of other hotel non-statuses
Posts: 3,607
Mine posted, as expected (40k , not bad - shows how much BD can motivate me to fly with them with very generous promotions). However there was a nasty little bug - as I'm over 55k those miles should have all been added to my destination miles pot. As it was they weren't, they were purely added to my status miles pot.... meaning I'm short some 40k destination miles now, ouch!
Dropped them a note and hope they can fix it without too much trouble.
Dropped them a note and hope they can fix it without too much trouble.
Sep 6, 2011, 1:07 pm
#108
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: HKG
Programs: Marriott Ambassador (Titanium Lifetime), BA Gold, Ex-Hertz 5* PC, Ex-HH Diamond, Ex-BD*G
Posts: 3,059
Status, but it shouldn't make any difference once you're over 55k (i.e. status miles turn into destination miles on a 1:1 basis up to 250k) - I was hedging my bets in the status front in case I didn't take a particular trip that earned me ~30k status miles. I'd be pretty surprised if BD was deliberately changing a longstanding policy for this promo around the conversion and suspect it is just a mistake/hasn't been thought of.
Sep 6, 2011, 2:49 pm
#109
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SIN 5 days out of 7
Programs: BD*G, A3*G, BA-S, Accor Gold, IHG Amb
Posts: 5,505
I think it doesn't automatically convert because it posts as a bonus rather than as a flight. I had the same problem last year where a status miles bonus didn't get converted at the end of the month, but a polite email got that fixed.
Sep 8, 2011, 4:56 am
#110
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: London, U.K.
Programs: bmi British Midland International Diamond Club
Posts: 3,370
I'm on holiday so only checked my account last night.
Flew LHR-MAN-BSL-MAN (3 segments) and got 14,600 bonus status miles in addition to the 3800 normal status miles for those flights. That's a total of 18,400 status miles for the bargain price of Ł233.88 (Quidco cashback included).
Flew LHR-MAN-BSL-MAN (3 segments) and got 14,600 bonus status miles in addition to the 3800 normal status miles for those flights. That's a total of 18,400 status miles for the bargain price of Ł233.88 (Quidco cashback included).
Sep 8, 2011, 4:40 pm
#111
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 44
Sep 8, 2011, 5:16 pm
#113
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Scotland
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