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Old Feb 19, 2014, 1:44 pm
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Best way to earn the 1 avios to qualify for RFS ?
I am traveling to Europe in a couple months and would like to use BA Avios that I transfer from Chase in order to fly around to different countries, but do not want to pay the crazy fees.

What is the best way to earn the 1 avios in order to qualify for the RFS ?

Transfer in points from Chase / e-Opinion / Buy the Points ?
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 1:59 pm
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Buy minimum points you can, it's instant.
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:06 pm
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Buy something through the Gate 365 shopping portal and hope the points post in time?
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:12 pm
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Something cheap of iTunes via gate365, 2avios/£1 spent
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:14 pm
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if you have e-rewards to transfer my last ones only took 2 days to post to my avios account
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:23 pm
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gate 365 seems to be down, anyone have a link for it that works ?
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:28 pm
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www.britishairways.com/travel/eshop/public/en_gb
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:29 pm
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Originally Posted by where next
Page not found
We are sorry we couldn't find the page you were looking for.
This page will automatically return to ba.com.

Located in US, if that helps
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:30 pm
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Originally Posted by golf7
Page not found
We are sorry we couldn't find the page you were looking for.
This page will automatically return to ba.com.

Located in US, if that helps
https://www.britishairways.com/trave...club/_gf/en_us

Need to be logged into your exec club account
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:32 pm
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Not sure for US, works fine here in uk. I just googled gate 365 to get the above link.

Ah, beaten by Revan with a better link
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:35 pm
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e-rewards. Follow the link below and get 750 signup bonus after your first survey. I got offered a survey the next day after signing up, then redeemed the 750 which took another 4 days to post.

http://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/...avios/shopping
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 2:44 pm
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Just ordered a 10 ft Cat 6 cable from newegg for $3. Should earn some Avios.

What are peoples expected posting times for the 365 portal ?

Is there any other option to do while I wait on those points to post ?

EDIT: I signed up for E-Rewards and will wait for a survey from them to get some points to post through there as well

EDIT 2: Can anyone confirm if transferring Avios in from Chase will count towards "Earning" avios for the RFS ? Just so I know
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 3:36 pm
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Some more possible ideas:-
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 5:15 pm
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I had to do the same recently on Avios.com, as I wanted to book a flight that wasn't available on BA.com. I managed to earn a few Avios by clicking on some nonsense on their Facebook page. Points posted within 12 hours, allowing me to book the rfs flight.
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Old May 27, 2014, 4:35 pm
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Originally Posted by golf7
Just ordered a 10 ft Cat 6 cable from newegg for $3. Should earn some Avios.

What are peoples expected posting times for the 365 portal ?

Is there any other option to do while I wait on those points to post ?

EDIT: I signed up for E-Rewards and will wait for a survey from them to get some points to post through there as well

EDIT 2: Can anyone confirm if transferring Avios in from Chase will count towards "Earning" avios for the RFS ? Just so I know
How fast did your miles post? Did you have to buy miles?

As you might have guessed, my miles will expire in June. I made 2 purchases at gate 365 on May 18th.

PS I could transfer 2500 starpoints.
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