The end of Diamond Club! [MBNA CC earning ceased 30 Sept, Avios transfer 30 Nov 2016]
Aug 31, 2016, 4:39 pm
#61
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Aug 31, 2016, 5:29 pm
#62
Join Date: Mar 2014
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Sadly the tales of DC and its cards are from before my time, but having spent a lot of time reading FlyerTalk, this was always one of my biggest envies of being a newcomer.
Even for me though, it is sad to see the last scrap of BMI sent off to history.
One of my biggest gripes about the current airline industry in the UK is that other than LCCs and maybe Flybe, BA has no competition. Oh for the likes of BMI and BCAL, for the competitive market one can find in the US and elsewhere. BA has lost its likeability for me just in the past few years, and I'd love to be able to have an airline of which we could be proud to carry our flag again.
Even for me though, it is sad to see the last scrap of BMI sent off to history.
One of my biggest gripes about the current airline industry in the UK is that other than LCCs and maybe Flybe, BA has no competition. Oh for the likes of BMI and BCAL, for the competitive market one can find in the US and elsewhere. BA has lost its likeability for me just in the past few years, and I'd love to be able to have an airline of which we could be proud to carry our flag again.
Aug 31, 2016, 7:02 pm
#63
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Location: Maine
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By all means gripe away, but don't look to the US for that mythical competitive market. We're down to three network carriers here, in a nation approximately the size of the EU.
Sep 1, 2016, 3:14 am
#66
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They do, as Raffles just pointed out. Just slightly under 0.4% .... and this thread coincides with me paying the company VAT today on my bmi card. The small interest payment is tax allowable as bank charges - as I learned from Raffles some years ago, particularly useful since the changes in January when HMRC interest rates charged dropped.
This will be missed by me, although Raffles will shine a light on the way forward
The IHG free night for £10k spend will be easy enough.
This will be missed by me, although Raffles will shine a light on the way forward
The IHG free night for £10k spend will be easy enough.
Sep 1, 2016, 5:03 am
#67
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Sep 1, 2016, 5:24 am
#68
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I doubt that anyone could possibly know whether regulations like this will have to be kept under the terms of our new arrangements with the EU, or whether (even if they don't) they will be kept anyway because they are considered to be in the interests of the consumer (which was the basis for their introduction by the EU to being with). Unless someone has a crystal ball that's currently in good working order?
Sep 1, 2016, 5:33 am
#69
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Sep 1, 2016, 6:02 am
#70
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They've just put their bonuses up to match BA until the end of October. 25,000 for the Black (not as good as 32,000 at one point last year but still a good bonus), 10,000 for the White. On the black you earn 2 miles on the Amex and 1 on the Visa per £ which I think is about as good as it gets in the UK ^
Sep 1, 2016, 7:06 am
#71
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They've just put their bonuses up to match BA until the end of October. 25,000 for the Black (not as good as 32,000 at one point last year but still a good bonus), 10,000 for the White. On the black you earn 2 miles on the Amex and 1 on the Visa per £ which I think is about as good as it gets in the UK ^
Sep 1, 2016, 8:39 am
#72
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Brain not functioning properly, does this mean that neither amex or mc can be used at all, so suppose I will have to get another MC from somewhere else, maybe Tesco
Sep 1, 2016, 8:48 am
#73
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Sep 1, 2016, 9:01 am
#74
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Sep 1, 2016, 9:14 am
#75
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However, it wouldn't surprise me if shortly thereafter MBNA decided to withdraw this card as a pointless exercise, given the costs of maintaining a separate brand for a small user base that isn't going to get added to. In addition, "Diamond Club" is presumably a BA- or IAG-owned trademark that MBNA won't have the right to use in perpetuity.