Got my miles I may pass out !
I considered this a long shot......
Like winning the lottery !
Came in today
posted as special promotion ............
At first I thought it was a mistake !
Jaguar and BA rock

yahooo!!!! mine too!! many thanks to all your guys who made this possible for me!

this IS great and we stand to have 50k once all is said and done (as I said above, have 5 people in household--family who did Jag promo and got the 10k each!)

BUT the joining of accts is something entirely different:

1) you can do up to 4 people in the HH acct right now and I found the form on the site in the redemption section. It is said to take a few weeks to get processed.

2) it turns out that AS OF JULY 1, and not before, you can do up to 7 (the welcome letter we all got in the regular mail says stuff about this in the fine print at its end).

you can add in people later but all non household people must be over 18.
if you have 3 kids, and 5 people, add your wife last.

you CANNOT give awards to someone not in the household gig. YOu can give them to others in any other miles scene, but not in this one.

Looks like we will be using this for ourselves and maybe on the partners like American for other stuff...

MM

But if I create the family account now with 4, can I add 3 more on July 1? The rules say I have to wait 6 months between changes, but the CSR says I can add 3 in this case. Is there anything in writing on this?

A. Not sure if you had to have the family account set up before you send in the certs. Maybe you're OK.

B. IIRC, after July 1 you will not be able to join EC unless you take a full fare BA flight!! So ... get in now and get grandfathered in.

Wait a minute - that's dumb! If you weren't already a member, you wouldn't have the miles! Hmmm.

Well, OK - let that be a warning to others planning to join up.

from what I got when talking to BA CS today, you can do 4 people now and then as soon as July 1 comes along, you can do the others, up to 7 total.

When you send in the form now, it takes like 2 weeks to process. SO you have 40k.

Then when July 1 comes, you send in the others (in this case, we had 5 so my wife will be the 5th) and they will add her in. In fact they said to me that in case we had some flight pending using miles, they may even be able to expedite this!

I did find out you can only use the mileage awards for household accounts FOR those people--you cannot give the award to someone who is not in the household acct.

I will be faxing my form in this week and then, according to everything above, will have the 5th person and a total of 50k by mid july.

MM

1 p.m. yesterday: I faxed my household account application to British Airways.

1 p.m. today:I call BA and make a reservation to ANC. Not enough miles but but my family account (which will provide the necessary amount) is marked "pending." So they transfer me to Member Services, so I can ask if they can expedite my household account application. They agree, and say they should be able to do it in 24 hours.

5 p.m. today:I check my British Airways account, and my household account is all set up!

Top-notch customer service from British Airways!

Whoo-Hoo! All Jag miles posted !

Julia has kindly copied the official rules for us. Clearly, resorts are not required to even give RC access to Diamonds.

In the past, I would usually get RC access, even at resorts. In the past year or so, I have been denied this perquisite more often than I have been granted it.

I believe thst Diamonds used to be given an RC upgrade or access until the program changed about 2 years ago.

Julia, it is clear that Diamonds do not get club access at resorts, but what type of room upgrade should we expect if the club is not available?