DC closing : Summary of questions to be answered
Sep 28, 2012, 12:11 pm
#16
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: PMI
Programs: BA,LH,CX,EK SPG,IC mainly and a few others
Posts: 1,862
I have a bMI MasterCard, but do not live in the UK and have a non-UK mailing address. What will happen to my card post 2012? Will I still have an option to earn avios points/ destination miles on my spend? Will I be given some other card by MBNA? Will accounts like mine be kept active despite they being non-UK based since I have the card?
Sep 28, 2012, 12:30 pm
#17
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Thatcham, UK or Adelaide Australia
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Plat OZ Diamond SK Diamond BA Blue
Posts: 3,323
The email mentions "the bmi credit card from MBNA".
There are of course several. A standard Amex earning 1.5 miles per £, a Plus Amex earning 2 miles per £, the Visa earning 0.75 or 1 miles per £, and older mastercards earning 1 mile or better.
The bmi Plus amex is still offering 4000 bmi status miles - which won't exist after 27 October...
Surely something must be changing regarding the MBNA cards and bmi - can anyone say what?
There are of course several. A standard Amex earning 1.5 miles per £, a Plus Amex earning 2 miles per £, the Visa earning 0.75 or 1 miles per £, and older mastercards earning 1 mile or better.
The bmi Plus amex is still offering 4000 bmi status miles - which won't exist after 27 October...
Surely something must be changing regarding the MBNA cards and bmi - can anyone say what?
Sep 28, 2012, 12:50 pm
#18
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I have a bMI MasterCard, but do not live in the UK and have a non-UK mailing address. What will happen to my card post 2012? Will I still have an option to earn avios points/ destination miles on my spend? Will I be given some other card by MBNA? Will accounts like mine be kept active despite they being non-UK based since I have the card?
Sep 28, 2012, 2:04 pm
#19
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club, Marriott Bonvoy
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Englandshire
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I hope BA and/or bmi have/are carefully checking the email databases so that this crucially important notice is getting out to all DC members. Last email I had from DC/bmi on any family member account, or on accounts of friends I look after, was 03 July; they just stopped. If I personally know at least five other members who are in exactly the boat, how many tens of thousands won't get this one I wonder?
Sep 28, 2012, 2:17 pm
#22
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 5 miles from EMA
Programs: BD, BAEC Pleb, VS Pleb, Accor Pleb, HHonors Gold, Big White Season Pass
Posts: 5,904
Well, no-one in my household, me included, have received anything today. So unless the e-mails are coming out in waves, it looks like there could be a significant issue here. FWIW, I received an e-mail confirming a DC-BAEC transfer yesterday to the email address on my DC account.
Sep 28, 2012, 2:50 pm
#24
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: BHD/DUB
Programs: BA Gold, TK*G, EI Elite
Posts: 7,622
Well, no-one in my household, me included, have received anything today. So unless the e-mails are coming out in waves, it looks like there could be a significant issue here. FWIW, I received an e-mail confirming a DC-BAEC transfer yesterday to the email address on my DC account.
In response to the standard "check this, check that, make sure" reply, the problem is not at my end. In at least the last 18 months, I have not changed email addresses, I have not changed anything on the accounts of family or friends at flybmi.com and nothing has arrived in any Inbox or SPAM folder of any email domain since July. Quite simply, I'm not being sent mail to any of them.
Sep 29, 2012, 1:22 am
#25
Join Date: Jun 2004
Programs: BD, DL, UA, AA, Marriott, SPG
Posts: 1,131
I've got some Non transferable bonus miles in some of the accounts that are part of my family membership.
What's the best way to transfer these over? I'm guessing I'll have to create BA accounts for each individual and then link them to my BA household account.
Is there an easier/better way of doing this? Any chance BMI/BA will let the Non transferable bonus miles transfer to the Head of Account so they can be transferred from there to my BA account?
Thanks!
What's the best way to transfer these over? I'm guessing I'll have to create BA accounts for each individual and then link them to my BA household account.
Is there an easier/better way of doing this? Any chance BMI/BA will let the Non transferable bonus miles transfer to the Head of Account so they can be transferred from there to my BA account?
Thanks!
Sep 29, 2012, 1:27 am
#26
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: Seniors Bus Pass
Posts: 5,529
Of course it is at their end, as on reading this thread it reminded me to move across another months mbna CC miles through the "Combine my avios" tool on ba.com.
As we all know it sends a confirmation email to both your BA and bmi account registered email confirming the transfer is complete. These arrived at both accounts for both of us for each transfer!
I suppose we have chuckled over the years about the funny IT at bmi, so I am not really surprised. Just glad that I am following it here to find out what I should be being told.
As we all know it sends a confirmation email to both your BA and bmi account registered email confirming the transfer is complete. These arrived at both accounts for both of us for each transfer!
I suppose we have chuckled over the years about the funny IT at bmi, so I am not really surprised. Just glad that I am following it here to find out what I should be being told.
Sep 29, 2012, 4:04 am
#28
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: PMI
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Switching to another MBNA card will be an issue as one needs to be UK resident to apply for one.
Sep 29, 2012, 4:29 am
#29
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I think you'll be ok just changing your diamond club address and leaving MBNA as is. I don't think diamond club checks the name and address matches on both accounts.
Sep 29, 2012, 6:20 am
#30
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Germany
Programs: LH FTL, BA Bronze
Posts: 831
Star alliance Award now non-refundable?
I live in Germany. When I booked my Asiana award flight in May 2012 for February 2013 travel the t&cs that became part of my contract with bmi said that all award bookings are refundable for a fee. Now DC are saying that this booking will turn into a non-refundable one come 31 December. In my view, DC cannot retroactively und unilaterally change the t&cs of an existing booking. If I cancel an award booking even in January or February I still expect a full refund of both miles (in the currency of Avios) and cash. What is your position on this, Nicci? Thank you, ps