Airmiles, joyous wondorous Airmiles

So I've been meaning to book a flight to Turkey for a while now (off to a wedding). Was chatting to my Mum the other day and she said: "I think I've got some airmiles somewhere, you're welcome to use them."
Anyway she dug out her account details and I logged on to discover she has 11000 of the things. I'd imagined these were a bit like nectar points and assumed that 11000 would probably fund about 5 minutes of a flight from London to Southampton. Turns out I was wrong. 2500 Airmiles has just bought me a return to Antalya. What a result!
I love my Mum, I love airmiles. That's £300 odd saved (to be spent on something bike related and some flowers!).
Anyway she dug out her account details and I logged on to discover she has 11000 of the things. I'd imagined these were a bit like nectar points and assumed that 11000 would probably fund about 5 minutes of a flight from London to Southampton. Turns out I was wrong. 2500 Airmiles has just bought me a return to Antalya. What a result!
I love my Mum, I love airmiles. That's £300 odd saved (to be spent on something bike related and some flowers!).

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Airmiles are the way forward. You can even get them when ordering bike parts.
Game on
That's excellent!
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Cue a frenzied American Express application.*
*thinks about all the lost airmiles.
Oh and yep Blondie, Bibs are a GO.
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I had about 35,000 BA Miles at one point and I think that was just about enough to get me a flight to Paris.
Mind you for small trips to Europe I have found that it is often cheaper to get a cheap flight as you still have to pay the tax and excess charges with on of the big carriers when using airmiles.
2009 Communting Totals - Car 112 miles Bike 2,765 miles
And isn't there an annual fee on the BA Amex card ? I am sure it used to be about £100 (but with other benefits like 1 free flight for every flight earned)
2009 Communting Totals - Car 112 miles Bike 2,765 miles
Dont know I havent checked for a long time. Parents just transfer the money to me as and when.
Considering I will fly to turkey about 5-6 times a year it works quit well
However, a word of warning - I have nearly 200,000 of the pesky miles, but still couldn't get a business class return to oz (150,000) because there were 'no miles seats available'.
Lame.
But for europe hops they're great - just have to remember to use the bloomin' things, and fly out of Stansted to avoid the massive taxes at LHR.
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This is the truth - you are better off waiting for Tectonic drift to take Britain to Australia than for BA to let you use your points and upgrade / give you a flight.
What would Thora Hurd do?
Damn, I was hoping to get a business class ticket on one of those new double decker Airbus planes (if BA have them).
BA are not getting any of the Airbus 380's. They have one of the largets fleets of Boeing 747's and possibly one of the newest. So they wont be having them for while
I went to and from oz on one of those with Singapore Airlines in Business. Very nice it was too!
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