Aerlingus AerClub/Avios

Who has the Aer Club credit card?

Just got notified that my card is in the post. Changing over from a normal business cad.

Just wondering where to link it to your Aer Lingus number? As ill be mainly flying KLM going forward as they are the main Amsterdam players itll be handy to keep the avios coming in.

I assume its 1 avios per euro?

Thats actually pretty shocking!!!!

I booked a hotel in Luxembourg last month for a week and then adjusted it to the date i needed and i got the avios for the the full week.

I assume if you have your booking.com visit tracked you'll still get the 6 avios per 1 euro?

I've the card since the start. I put maybe 40 grand a year over the card (quite a lot of that is expensed work purchasing - tailed off a little during COVID but not fully by any means) and I've got nothing worth using in Avios from it yet.

All I've used is the fasttracks. Two a year is pathetic.

Checked the last statement and I got points for the beers I bought onboard my last EI flight at least!

Supervalu is probably a better earn partner and even its terribly low.

Has anyone looked at booking avios reward flights on EI over the Christmas period? I used to do this frequently pre-pandemic. Just a few weeks ago, there were a number of interesting options available for the Christmas period. Now they all seem to have disappeared. Options only become available again from around the 6/7 of January. I somehow doubt that all the avios reward seats disappeared so quickly...

Nope, must be travelling on an flight with a Shamrock on the tail

I do, but the problem is KLM have taken over the Cork-Amsterdam route so my avios intake is down! My platinum is extended till Nov 22 with EI tho Also! Just discovered you can link your Debit/Credit cards to the Aer club store and you can get avios for in store purchases from the list of retailers

Aer Lingus currently have a buy Avios, get 50% extra offer. Even if you go for the maximum amount, it works out at just over 1 cent per Avios. If you go for smaller amounts, the cost is a lot higher.

I’ve had an Aer Credit card for three years and I used some of the points I earned to book a very cheap flight this week. The exchange rate worked out at just under 0.6 cents per Avios.

With that bad an exchange rate, why on Earth would anyone buy Avios? Or are there other ways of using Avios points that offer better value? What am I missing?

Yes, I paid with Avios. How should I use my Avios points to get better value?

The call BA workaround for cheaper taxes/fees is gone.

The YQ component of the redemption is gone up to about $300 return (vs. ~$100 calling into BA to make the booking).

That really torpedoes the value for me, those 26k off peak round trips were great while they lasted.

Use your Avios to book reward flights on Avios.com. The flights are fixed in price with a small difference depending on the season (peak and off-peak). You can save a lot of money sometimes if you're flying more expensive routes like LHR or sun routes. You can also transfer your Avios to BA Executive Club and buy reward flights there.

https://www.avios.com/ie/en/spend

Don't ever use Avios on the Aer Lingus website to discount flights, unless you only have a very small balance.

Dunno if this was posted, another drop in the lounge offering, since the individual water bottles disappeared...

"Visitors to the lounge now get free access to more than 7,000 newspapers and magazines via the PressReader app while connected to the lounge Wi-Fi. Print newspapers and magazines will no longer be available."

Just went to make a booking my heart skipped a beat. Welp, there goes my excuse to keep flying EI lol

I would say upgrade to business on TA.

presuming you had a British Airways executive club membership and logged these flights there you can use the combine My Avios feature to bring the avios points to your Aer Lingus account and in future if you want to spend them on BA flights you can use it to transfer relevant points back.

just make sure that both BA and Aerlingus account details are identical or it will not work.

As previous poster said you can also apply to have the BA flights credited to your Aer Lingus account directly although in my experience you would get less points for that but, if you don't have BAEC then it is the option available to you, it may still be possible to create a BA account and get the flights credited though.

What is the best way to get missing Avios added? I have 3 flights from last Autumn which have never been credited despite submitting the claim form twice. Strangely the 1st flight was automatically added and my Aerclub number was on the other 3 bookings, so it's a mystery why they never appeared. Should I email/call or is that a waste of time?