Aerlingus AerClub/Avios

Yes they expire if you don't earn or spend them

Not sure of the timescale,it could be 2 or 4 years

How many do you have ? People here might be able to advise on best use

You can credit it to another avios earning group like BA or QR ,that you can send back to aerclub if you want,it will presumably earn avios in aerclub though ?

Does the temporary lounge in LHR have Aer Lingus staff present to help with flight changes?

I have a late flight on Thurs but hoping to show up early if I can and do the usual change in the lounge. Cheers!

Cheers thanks. About 8k. I should probably look at spending it.

Should be open, thats adjacent to the Plaza Premium, if unstaffed head to gate A21 where there should be staff

Plus and advantage always earn full credits.

correct

The samsung revolut estore is 15 rev points Per euro spent,so 14000 Rev points meaning 15000 avios in one purchase there at the moment on a €1000 phone purchase

22.5k avios on a samsung ultra approximately

Many more in the list,tap the lifestyle tab if you are on ultra

I'm looking at a trip to Japan in December and looking for guidance from here on how best to use what I have.

I have Concierge status with Aer Lingus until end April and 4x Business class upgrades & 100k avios at the moment

I have Platinum status with KLM & Air France.

Any bright ideas as to how I can best use these travel tools to do a comfortable trip to Japan?

Thanks!

Actually,I usually use the maldron Dublin airport on stays,same price as their website

I'd rarely use booking.com or the likes as you get better value & perks in my experience using travel agents that are members of the likes hyatt privé,four seasons preferred partner,and various other brand promotion tools plus still pay with Revolut and get the points

The metal benefits certainly have improved into a sort of ultra light but they're not as good and aren't as many

The cancel for any reason insurance means I put all travel spend through ultra and take the points

6000 avios is worth about €160 but of course you can buy avios on 50% off offers and pay with rev getting some more

The way to look at avios imho is its a savings policy for trips you might take,its extremely useful subject to availability if fares are high or a last minute booking

But caution urged as airlines devalue them on a whim lately

As for dragonpass,I'm using that on all trips,its dead handy

Ymmv,but I've done my own maths on ultra vs metal ,you do yours

you do get better value if travelling a lot

If you don't get use of the add ons,or find metal is where cost equals return for you but not beyond,'m not recomnending ultra

Apple lost me at the 6S btw,when it used turn off if it got too cold or too hot 😱

Worst phone I ever had

It'll be a while before I try them again

Plus of course they'll need to triple the Rev points on that E store

Price can vary by destination etc

Just log onto your Avios account and put in some dummy bookings - you'll see availability and cost with various levels of your points applied its a 5 minute task and way more accurate then Boards supplying random destinations and points totals.

You definitely have enough points though, just down to availability and the amount they will charge you for taxes (compare to the Aer Lingus site for current cost of same ticket too).

I would not use on hotels, I find Avios to be poor value there - however, again, get the current rate for the hotels being offered and make a comparison.

Never seen this, I thought you had to call them to do that?

Probably just book dublin-japan on BA with EI as the Dublin London leg and use your avios to upgrade the BA flights. You might be able to use the lounge in Dublin with your EI concierge status (though technically it'll be a BA flight number). Your free EI upgrades can only be used on EI flights. Potentially you'd get upgraded to Aerspace on the Dublin London flight if it's the A321

Possibly dumb one, how come when i log in through app, it doesnt give me family first discount, but gives me extra option to use more avios on points, yet on browser, same account, I DO get the family first discount, but it wont let me use the more avios…

Seems like a get-you-somehow system

No EI use the British Airways Lounge at EWR and IAD.

Maybe it's just me but the idea of queuing for a lounge defeats the purpose as you know it's going to be packed inside. I have been there a few times over the past few months and it's never been great. I think the EI lounge will reopen soon so it will be interesting to see what they have changed, hopefully better AC anyway!

That virtual queue should only be for third party paid lounge access (priority pass, dragonpass).

If you have EI entitlement you should not be part of the virtual queue unless it's 100% full and then you should be one of the first (right after their own paid customers).

But it's getting out of hand, there are always queues in several lounges these days, the new aspire in Amsterdam is another example.

Too many people having entitlement and too many people having paid lounge access programs.

There has been tonnes of transatlantic availability on BA lately and its very easy to transfer your avios into

Loads of business class and wt+ to miami and capetown amongst others

You are losing out BIGTIME if you stick to just EI availability

Your EI avios is just as good on the other IAG airlines

I booked business class DUB LHR MEX return yesterday on BA for example

at first look it doesn’t seem great, I suspect they did it as it was manual to issue the free flights, this way you leverage the reward booking system. 40,000 is a lot though and could get you a few trips more than the 2 free (availability pending). The loss of the free lounge and fast pass seems petty to me.

the increase in Avios from 1 per 4 to 1 per 3 is good though.

135k using a BA GUF1 from wt + into CW

Cash element was stg500

Vueling to Iberia to BA to EI?

https://www.headforpoints.com/2024/08/13/aer-lingus-credit-card-changes/

Or you could find yourself a Concierge Card member and get Silver gifted to yourself.