Airline reward programmes

[EternalOptimist]

I've never bothered with air miles, and I dont know what premium check-in is, but On-line check-in and print your own boarding pass means that I havn't had to queue for years
its truly ace

[Pondlife]

Purple Dalek is quite correct. It should be more like travelling by train.

You should be able to jump on as the doors are closing. Buy a ticket off the hostess if she asks you and park you bike by the emergency exit.

If there aren't any seats available you'll just have to stand in the aisle.

[Spacecadet]

Purple Dalek is quite correct. It should be more like travelling by train.

You should be able to jump on as the doors are closing. Buy a ticket off the hostess if she asks you and park you bike by the emergency exit.

If there aren't any seats available you'll just have to stand in the aisle.

and pi$$ through a hole in the floor

[EternalOptimist]

Purple Dalek is quite correct. It should be more like travelling by train.

You should be able to jump on as the doors are closing. Buy a ticket off the hostess if she asks you and park you bike by the emergency exit.

If there aren't any seats available you'll just have to stand in the aisle.

mightn't that be dangerous if there were to be some turbulence though? and what about flying to Singapore ? that's a long time to be standing up

[Purple Dalek]

Hang on there, passport control is required for immigration reasons...

Secondly matching your boarding card to your passport is required for "not being bloody stupid" reasons...

In another thread it was pointed out the bogosity of passport controls. There's one of the problems: you're all getting so conditioned to this climate of fear that you think it is normal. It's nothing but a scam to separate you from your hard earned.

And as for 'not being bloody stupid' reasons, I've seen arguments on the plane over seats, then it turns out one of them is on the wrong plane.

[Advocate]

Purple Dalek is quite correct. It should be more like travelling by train.

You should be able to jump on as the doors are closing. Buy a ticket off the hostess if she asks you and park you bike by the emergency exit.

If there aren't any seats available you'll just have to stand in the aisle.

I didn't think you flew with Ryanair...

[swamp]

I now have a whopping 12,000 BA airmiles, which will get me one flight somewhere if I chip in some money. I have a BA credit card and I've just got a Tesco club card to earn miles as well.

To be honest BA airmiles are not very generous, but I need to fly with them a few times a year so it's worth it for me.

[BoredBloke]

I'm on the American Airlines one and I've had a few free upgrades from Economy to Business and from Business to First over the years.

A couple of weeks ago when my wife and me went to New York I paid with points and cash ($300) for both of us to get upgraded ffrom economy to business. On the way out they bumped up up into first - which was nice. I used to have 126,000 before my trip - I'm probably on about 26,000 now

I'm also on the Marriott rewards thing. That paid for my hotel while in New York.

[oracleslave]

I now have a whopping 12,000 BA airmiles, which will get me one flight somewhere if I chip in some money. I have a BA credit card and I've just got a Tesco club card to earn miles as well.

To be honest BA airmiles are not very generous, but I need to fly with them a few times a year so it's worth it for me.

That's kind of been my experience. I have around 60 000 miles but when I look at redeeming them, plus factor in the taxes which cost more than the flight it hardly works out as being worth the effort to collect them in the first place.

[Pondlife]

I agree, the taxes you still need to pay don't make it as attractive as it could be.

Saying that, because I have two flights each way as I connect in schipol I rack up about 6000 miles a week

I think they're quite good if you use the miles for upgrades or longhaul but I wouldn't bother for a weekend trip in Europe.