Aerlingus AerClub/Avios

Can somebody give me an explanation of earning tier credits on plus or advantage within Europe - I understand that typically the lowest fare is an A or similar class which gets half the saver tier credits (i.e 7.5), but if you go for plus do you get the full 25 every time or are there "sale" versions of plus and advantage where you get less?

For some reason some retailers don’t show on the AerClub app - but both Apple and ASOS are available on the desktop site

Avis are gone brutal for awarding Avios. they used always follow on 2-3 weeks after the drop off but now you have to go back to their site and manually claim missing avios and you still may never get them. I have 12 rentals since last September and none awarded even after claiming the missing avios page.

Has anyone traveled Cork-AMS lately? Just wondering how busy the flights actually are now that they have gone back to twice daly as all the regular faces appear to be on KLM.

You don't need 601 for Silver - you need it for Platinum (I forget what you need for silver - I think it's 300?). So in the next 12 months if you earn less than what's needed for silver, you'll be back down to green.

Physical cards are no more. Will be the virtual card.

Im platinum and i havent traveled with them since January 2020 bar one free flight last month. I think ill be flying with them again to AMS tho as KLM have gone so expensive.

Platinum = you + guest = max of 2 persons

One more Aer Club question if anyone knows ? (As called the Platinum desk and like talking to a wall!)

Did things change for tier point allocation. I travelled last month to Dubrovnik with travel companion on a Saver fare, but only received tier points and avios for myself (e.g. 15 tier points return) even though both booked at same time and on same booking.

Aer lingus mention that in same scenario if you booked a flight for 2 AD+2 CH on same booking e.g. Saver, you need a frequent flyer account per person so individual tier points + avios ? Its been a while but was sure in the past this wasnt the case.

Does anybody know how complimentary upgrades go these days? If you book 6 or 8 months ahead are you likely to get two on a transatlantic flight?

trying to figure out if it’s worth aiming for concierge because it still seems that’s the only real benefit over silver…

Tried my AerCard flight redemption there. Took an absolute age to get approved - much longer than the claimed time period - but it has been; and its €101 all in compared to over 350 at the time I send it in.

Probably just about saved the cost of the card since I've had it!

I am at my wits end with EI.

I have been trying to always fly them this year to get status but it seems I have to chase them on every flight.

I have a flight from back in March where they credited tier points but not miles and I have been chasing them since. I flew then return to London in PLUS three weeks ago and still nothing .

I also have a Aer Lingus estore purchase from Early March and no sign of the points despite sending them another mail.

It is almost as if they want me to give up. Very strange way to reward loyalty. It can't be that hard to design IT system to do this automatically

I did a return trip to LHR last week. They've managed to credit me tier and avios for the return leg but no sign of the outbound. There's a "claim missing points" form online (web, not via the app as far as I know) that I filled in. Will see if they ever turn up.

Jesus - you’d be very annoyed if you’d done a bunch of travel and were due to go up a tier or even two if they never bothered crediting the tier credits….

is it a tactic of some sort?