majortom421

The $30K annual spend for a 241 certificate is based on calendar year (i.e. January 1 to December 31) not your card anniversary date.

hungarianhc

Correct - I'm not sure which part of my post indicated something contrary to that. I'm almost at $30K annual spend, but May 1 is when my annual fee will hit.

majortom421

Sorry, my mistake.

I am impressed with $30K of spend in four months.

nmenaker

you might want to research this a bit more. My recollection was that the BA Chase card needed to be used to pay for the fees for the 241 certificate to be used. Could be wrong, could be an old requirement - or even non at all.

but, best to confirm it all so you don't lose the option to use the 241.

Stripy

The impressiveness depends how much of that $30k was 'manufactured'

hungarianhc

Thanks for that feedback. I just took a look at the site, and all I could find, digging into terms and conditions... Doesn't look like the annual fee to the card is relevant to the certificate. Do you remember where you heard that?

Travel Together Ticket
Earning a Redemption Voucher for a companion

You are only eligible to receive a Travel Together Ticket (�Voucher�) for a companion if you are a member of the BA Executive Club and are the main account holder within a BA/Chase Credit Card account (a �Member�).
Additional cardmembers to the main Credit Card account are not eligible to receive a voucher. Any amount spent on any supplementary Credit Card(s) of the main Credit Card account will count towards the main account holder�s Spend Target.
To be entitled to receive a voucher, the Member must have reached the required Spend Target within a 12 month period starting each year on January 1 and ending on December 31 (the �Twelve Month Period�) For the avoidance of doubt, if a customer opens a Credit Card account on any date following January 1 then they must have reached their Spend Target by December 31 of that year to be awarded a voucher.
The qualifying Spend Target of the BA/Chase Credit Card is 30,000 USD (the �Spend Target�). Qualifying spend does not include cash withdrawals, interest, balance transfers and fees.
Only one voucher can be earned in any Twelve Month Period. If the Member reaches their Spend Target within the Twelve Month Period then further spend will not accumulate towards another voucher. Members can begin earning towards their next voucher at the beginning of the next Twelve Month Period.
When the Member has reached the Spend Target an e-voucher (�Travel Together Ticket �) will automatically be added to their BA Executive Club account. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. The e-voucher will be valid from the date on which it appears on the Member�s Executive Club account and will be valid for 24 months.

IMH

This is not the case (and I'm 99.99% certain that it never has been).

nmenaker

I'm not talking about the annual fees, but the fuel service charges and taxes for tickets.

Back in 2010/2011 when this whole 100K deal started, I was instructed by BA that I needed to use the BA Card to pay those fees. I seem to recall there was some language to that effect back then. It doesn't appear (based on post above, although not sure if REDEMPTION is truly covered in that text) that to be the case any longer.

Certainly there should be someone who can comment from actual usage of another credit card being used for the *stupid fuel surcharges and taxes associated with using a 241?

JIMCHI

I recently used my American Express card to charge taxes and fuel surcharges for a trip using a Chase 2-4-1 voucher.

IMH

Yes -- that was clear from your earlier post. My answer remains: this is not the case (and I'm 99.99% certain that it never has been).

I've used an AmEx more than once (it earns me more Avios than BA's own credit card, even without a transfer bonus).

nmenaker

The annual fee reference was for the earlier poster, who noted the annual fee requirement.

If you had repeatedly used an AMEX before, then why weren't you 100% certain and I guess why wouldn't you have simply put that in post #652


Ah well, in almost all things OMMV.

edit: just for posterity, adding some of the historical T&C's

"Member and companion must each pay all applicable surcharges, government fees and taxes where applicable. Offer applies to new bookings only. Other restrictions apply.

Now granted, this was from back when the offer was new for the 241, either 2009 or 2010.
• This offer is only available to select US Executive Club members who use their BA Visa card to book"

IMH

Thanks for that -- it's always good to have these archived. (My 99.99% was way too confident, sorry.)

nmenaker

it does seem that the BA American Express cards to which this offer applies internationally (in UK for example) have the same T&C's, even today.

So, it could be that BA when booking doesn't really discriminate possibly when it comes to booking with AN AMEX, and not necessarily THE BA AMEX.

the USA Chase Card T&C's seem a bit more vague, saying things like "booking will only be made the card holder name" and "card holder" must be one of the passengers on the itinerary, etc.

Booking with a Mastercard or another visa MIGHT be problematic, but I don't really know at this point.

TravelPhotographer

Looked back several pages, can't find any "churnable, unchurnable" reports...?
Me:
a. got it Sep2013, got 50Kmi via $2K spend
b. can I get 2nd 50Kmi offer via "need" for personal & investing cc's?
c. willing to cancel 1st or not according to authoritative advice!

Thanks for any veteran responses or links!!! ^ :-: ^ :-: ^

TravelPhotographer

#659: did I post in wrong forum...?
(flummoxed by no responses in 48hrs!! )