BA American Express 2-4-1 Voucher Discussion
Jan 29, 2018, 10:12 am
#556
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Northern Ireland (in spirit), but much more likely GB or Europe.
Programs: EI Aer Club, IB Plus, BA EC, AAdvantage
Posts: 769
2-4-1 voucher issued following upgrade.
A family member had a standard BA Amex card and managed, unexpectedly, to spend over £10k on the card within his membership year. There was no hope of him getting £20k, so I advised him to upgrade from the standard to premium plus Amex to trigger the 2-4-1 voucher. This has since been completed, although the newly triggered voucher has an expiry of 1 year, I would have expected it to be 2 years given that he’s now got the premium plus. Is this correct or should we challenge Amex?
Jan 29, 2018, 10:14 am
#557
Join Date: Apr 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,383
My father had a standard BA Amex card and managed, unexpectedly, to spend over £10k on the card within his membership year. There was no hope of him getting £20k, so I advised him to upgrade from the standard to premium plus Amex to trigger the 2-4-1 voucher. This has since been completed, although the newly triggered voucher has an expiry of 1 year, I would have expected it to be 2 years given that he’s now got the premium plus. Is this correct or should we challenge Amex?
Jan 29, 2018, 10:21 am
#558
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Cambridgeshire
Programs: Varies
Posts: 1,291
My father had a standard BA Amex card and managed, unexpectedly, to spend over £10k on the card within his membership year. There was no hope of him getting £20k, so I advised him to upgrade from the standard to premium plus Amex to trigger the 2-4-1 voucher. This has since been completed, although the newly triggered voucher has an expiry of 1 year, I would have expected it to be 2 years given that he’s now got the premium plus. Is this correct or should we challenge Amex?
I contacted both Amex and BA. I believe Amex wrote to BA after I contacted them, and that BA wrote to Amex after I contacted them. So you probably don't need to contact both, but it doesn't hurt.
It seems to take between 8 and 10 business days for Amex to confirm the correct expiry date, and for it to be updated on the BAEC membership page. I received a confirmation email from BA after it was corrected.
Jan 29, 2018, 3:12 pm
#559
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: London
Programs: KLM, BA Silver, Etihad
Posts: 916
A family member had a standard BA Amex card and managed, unexpectedly, to spend over £10k on the card within his membership year. There was no hope of him getting £20k, so I advised him to upgrade from the standard to premium plus Amex to trigger the 2-4-1 voucher. This has since been completed, although the newly triggered voucher has an expiry of 1 year, I would have expected it to be 2 years given that he’s now got the premium plus. Is this correct or should we challenge Amex?
Contact Amex and wait 8/10 days
Jan 29, 2018, 4:04 pm
#560
Join Date: Jul 2011
Programs: BAEC Gold, Marriott Plat
Posts: 686
Oh absolutely Uncle T - just interested to see if anyone had any direct experience here.
I spoke to someone at AMEX earlier. They said if the purchases didn’t post tmw to get back in touch. I presume there may be some leeway from that comment, but we’ll see. My own stupid fault at the end of the day 😬
Thanks for the comments!
I had a couple of BA flights pending. I called the gold line and was told nothing could be done to speed up the payment. Thankfully I also had an expensive hotel payment pending which IHG agreed to prioritise. It went through on the deadline day, triggering the voucher.
So, to summarise - don’t be stupid like me and get your purchases in prior to your deadline. If you are struggling, certain vendors may be able to accelerate a payment (But BA told me it was not possible).
It was 100% my error so no blame here. IHG were very helpful though
Jan 30, 2018, 11:22 am
#561
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 344
Could anyone suggest anywhere with sun for two redemptions on the half term: 26th May - 3rd June
Any cabin
Any cabin
Jan 30, 2018, 1:57 pm
#563
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: London
Programs: KLM, BA Silver, Etihad
Posts: 916
This is an exercise I will have to do for the first time soon, where to go with this voucher!
Jan 31, 2018, 1:45 am
#564
Join Date: Jun 2003
Programs: BA, IHG, 5C
Posts: 4,413
I used the AA Advantage map: https://www.aa.com/awardMap/home.do#
It shows awards of a few AA partners but if you search from LON, put in a high number of "Miles to Use" to delimit it, "Include Partners" and specific Non-Stop, you'll mainly see BA flights.
You can search one destination continent at a time, but it's also one date at a time, so this really comes into it's own when you have a tight travel window and only a few date-combinations.
I'd also add Milan for the half-term searcher: even to the north in the Lakes it should be in the 20s or I've done Cinque Terra from there (though GOA or PSA are closer) where it would be warmer still, or even Tuscany where as it happens I am off to at half-term (via BLQ) thanks to finding seats this way.
It shows awards of a few AA partners but if you search from LON, put in a high number of "Miles to Use" to delimit it, "Include Partners" and specific Non-Stop, you'll mainly see BA flights.
You can search one destination continent at a time, but it's also one date at a time, so this really comes into it's own when you have a tight travel window and only a few date-combinations.
I'd also add Milan for the half-term searcher: even to the north in the Lakes it should be in the 20s or I've done Cinque Terra from there (though GOA or PSA are closer) where it would be warmer still, or even Tuscany where as it happens I am off to at half-term (via BLQ) thanks to finding seats this way.
Feb 3, 2018, 6:23 am
#565
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 344
As a Gold member I get extra availability in economy for reward flights.
Is there a way I can book two reward flights using my wife's 2-41 and 2 revenue tickets for same trip even though my wife is not Gold?
So 4 tickets, 2 revenue, 2 reward using 1 voucher?
Is there a way I can book two reward flights using my wife's 2-41 and 2 revenue tickets for same trip even though my wife is not Gold?
So 4 tickets, 2 revenue, 2 reward using 1 voucher?
Feb 3, 2018, 6:41 am
#566
Join Date: Jul 2013
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond *, IHG, Couples Romance Rewards
Posts: 2,347
I would suggest phoning up the gold line (with your wife also available to talk) and they might be able to sort it out for you.
Feb 6, 2018, 1:39 am
#567
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 802
Calling at midnight
Hi
Got the voucher and am looking at some redemptions to South America, probably in Feb or March 2019, so not quite at T-355. What is the best number to ring at midnight to snatch the 2 J seats since the link seems to be broken on wiki?
Anyone done this recently since I have heard that the US agents are now refusing to ticket these if you are UK member?
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Got the voucher and am looking at some redemptions to South America, probably in Feb or March 2019, so not quite at T-355. What is the best number to ring at midnight to snatch the 2 J seats since the link seems to be broken on wiki?
Anyone done this recently since I have heard that the US agents are now refusing to ticket these if you are UK member?
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Feb 6, 2018, 5:27 am
#568
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: England
Programs: BAEC Gold, UA Mileage Plus, Hotels.com Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Platinum, Pizza Express Gold
Posts: 600
Hi
Got the voucher and am looking at some redemptions to South America, probably in Feb or March 2019, so not quite at T-355. What is the best number to ring at midnight to snatch the 2 J seats since the link seems to be broken on wiki?
Anyone done this recently since I have heard that the US agents are now refusing to ticket these if you are UK member?
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Got the voucher and am looking at some redemptions to South America, probably in Feb or March 2019, so not quite at T-355. What is the best number to ring at midnight to snatch the 2 J seats since the link seems to be broken on wiki?
Anyone done this recently since I have heard that the US agents are now refusing to ticket these if you are UK member?
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Feb 6, 2018, 5:43 am
#569
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
Hi
Got the voucher and am looking at some redemptions to South America, probably in Feb or March 2019, so not quite at T-355. What is the best number to ring at midnight to snatch the 2 J seats since the link seems to be broken on wiki?
Anyone done this recently since I have heard that the US agents are now refusing to ticket these if you are UK member?
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Got the voucher and am looking at some redemptions to South America, probably in Feb or March 2019, so not quite at T-355. What is the best number to ring at midnight to snatch the 2 J seats since the link seems to be broken on wiki?
Anyone done this recently since I have heard that the US agents are now refusing to ticket these if you are UK member?
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Feb 6, 2018, 6:57 am
#570
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 802
Many thanks for that. I assume the numbers are the ones for customer services for Japan on ba.com? What time is best to ring Japan? Didn't know that I could book the outbound online using the voucher.
Many thanks.