Hey, Hound! "Qualifying" is certainly a weasle-like word to hear. Regardless, it is nice to know that BA is getting some well deserved heat resulting from this promo.

Oh, that one is easy. Anyone who PURCHASED a Jaguar "qualified" 100%.

Maybe. But what if they weren't targeted (or weren't using Microsoft Outlook to receive the email, or...)?

Remember -- the Jaguar purchase earned 80k miles -- all the more reason not to award the miles!

... wondering if Jaguar USA folks have hired the same consultants as meetingplanning.net?



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gleff .. perhaps they might all be umbrella companies of this outfit?

www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/Forum11/HTML/010347.html

Or they've been purchased by the Global Megacorporation, Infinite Airways?

Did Infinite Airways manage to dodge Chapter 11 this year? Wow. That got biggies like United, American and Air Canada, so Infinite must be a VERY well run outfit.

Yes all the newly listed FT posters on the other thread reminds me of Detective Sam on [ this Infinite Airways classic thread. It is the weekend ..... anyone with a half day to spare/waste really might get a smile reading it all through.

Where oh where is Jon NYC when we need a sleuth?

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Hey there Frugal 1

Depends on what your definition of qualifying means............

Just as long as the weasels don't bite us in the end where it hurts in our mileage accounts

I may cancel my entire fleet of Jaguars on order

Roger that, triple 7!

Miles posted overnight...

mMine posted over night as well!!!

Mine posted also. My account now shows 20,000 household balance.

Jag miles for my wife and me were posted overnight.

YUP! ALL 5 Fam members!!!!!!!

I take it ALLLLL back!

Zee plan worked!

I had set up accounts for fam and everyone had originally planned on doing 4 Jaguar things, I recall. But then I happened to notic in the depths of all things BA that the airline was now letting up to 7 people in household combine their miles. This was discovered by some in mid/late March and became effective around that time. We had only done 4 Jaguar things and so that would yeild 40k...

But with the pending changes at BA, one of which would mean that a flight for USA-Europe or vs. would require 50k, and not just 40 anymore, so we needed 10,000 more points. Where to get em, we thought? Did they successfully rope us all in to now need and have to work for 10k more points? Yes they did--BUT I was able to get my other brother to do the Jag test drive just at the last minute and send his thing in on time (the send-in date was a little while after the last date you could get the cert signed--Mid Mar and Mar 31, I recall) and he now stood to become our much needed 5th wheel!

And today all five of our family's accounts got the 10k!

All legal, all test drove the cahhh, and all got the miles and only a few weeks late!

I had thought JUNE, then doubted it when I got duped on that funny fake web site gag, and now, we have seen justice!

We will now combine the miles to get 50k.

Am trying to figure out how to call BA and also how to do this combine thing, and how long this takes.

My question, when you look at your BA statement (see below):

What's the dif between Mileage and Exec Club pts? Is Exec club the name of the BA program or are those just the elite status points I never expected to get here?

Mr *ME* welcome to your Blue membership online.

My Mileage Balance 10,000

Executive Club Points 0

Anyway, my use of these 50k combined BA miles is going to be as follows if I can do it:

We have two dutch realtives who want to come over here in late july and though everyone and his grandmother is going to try to redeem BA miles now, their flights would be going THE OTHER WAY:

AMS-LHR-BOS and back.

They MAY get lucky and be able to have me give them one award and then they pay for the other. I can legally give my BA award to a relative and the goal here was to do the promo to get a free Europe trip and save money.

It seems to be working so far.

MM I am a very happy MMan today!

oops! need more pts.

am finding out that we will need 60k after all. oh well.

have to find 10k more and fast. Was just told by BA reservations desk (I was transferred once I got thru the many prompts needed to talk to an Exec club person) that if you book BEFORE july 1, a USA Europe ticket is 60k pp. I had thought it had once been 40 and now was only 50. Oops! WRONG! AND, after July 1, it goes up even still! WHo knows how many will be needed.

Now if that's not a buzz kill... (but we are still happy to have the 50k and maybe these can be used elsewhere. Have to learn more about BA starting now.)

MM

BA exec club: 800-452-1201 (if in USA) 718-335-7070 (if not)

after 7/1, rates go up but Miles+$ will exist...

I am learning that this MAY be hard to do...
AND, I dunno where to get this household acct form! It is NOT on the site (I certainly cannot find it!)

Here's more stuff I figured out though...

I do not yet know WHAT the exact new mileage rates will be once July 1 comes around, and neither did BA.

But I was told they will start to allow some miles+money offers when it does happen. Some of these are avial on the BA site under the redemptions section, and I THINK I found out how some of these might work for me. It is this:

The chart they have seems to say that flying to what they call Europe 1 from North America will cost me 35,000 + �115 ($175).

To go to what they call Europe 2, it's 35,000 + �130 ($195) but mine seems to be Europe 1, I think.

I have not found out enough info on all of this yet, and I hope they one day let us use different amounts of miles and money.

With the dollar sinking and the found still up, I am thinking this could still cost, but the current prices for tix booked for USA/Europe right now may still make it worth it all.

Unless I can find 10k more BA miles, I'll obviously need to wait til after July 1 to book this. This is pushing it, because my Dutch travelers wanna come at end of July and stay til mid Aug. So then it may take more effort and money than planned, but also be more possible to do in the first place, which is a good thing over all--if they still have award seats avail. I did ask if it was legal for ME to book an award for someone else and they said YES.

There is an automatic calculator on the BA site (also found in redemptions section) which lets you type in the places and currency (USD). The results I got were this:

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Take a redemption flight sooner:

If you have not collected enough BA Miles for a free* flight you will be able to combine BA Miles and cash to pay for an economy redemption ticket (UK Domestic, Euro Traveller and World Traveller cabins only).

Click here for the Part cash Part Miles table. (this brings you to the partial table I speak of, or you can do it another way... )

Use the calculator below to find the cash and BA Miles amounts needed for your journey.

Part cash Part Miles bookings can be made online or via your Executive Club Service Centre from 1 July 2003. Booking lead times will apply.

One-way bookings are possible and will cost half the amount of cash and BA Miles of a return booking.

Part cash Part Miles bookings will be available on British Airways subsidiaries and franchises.

Use this calculator to find out the number of BA Miles and cash value you will need from 1st July to redeem for a flight with British Airways:

Leaving from: Netherlands

Going to: United States

Currency:� US Dollars

RESULTS:

For your desired journey you will need: 35,000 BA Miles and $175 cash.

� Currency of payment is dependent on residency of member. Example currencies are used here.

* Subject to applicable taxes, fees, charges and surcharges.

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Hmmm...

so much to do, and that's what addictive marketing is all about. I AM a confessed consumer! They win, and I'll have 15k left over for some other day or somethin'.

ah well...

MM