Airmiles - Fantastic Loyalty Scheme (Airlines in general)

Member Name: richardandkaye

Product:	Airlines in general
Date:	09/09/00 (364 review reads)
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Advantages: The best Loyalty Scheme Ever

Disadvantages: None

My wife and I have saved Airmiles ever since they were launched.

On day one , accrual of the valuable Miles proved to be very laborious and slow , being reliant on the 1 mile for every £20 spent on my NatWest Credit Card and the occasional promotion through Sony (for buying their electrical products) and Allied Carpets.

However , things have moved on considerably since then , you can now get Airmiles for buying your Petrol at Shell , swap your Electricity to Scottish Hydro-Electric , move your Gas to Amerada , take a Mobile Phone from Vodafone , sign up with RAC etc.etc.

The best of all (in my Opinion) is the use of Sainsbury's Reward Points in conjunction with their Credit Card for doing your weekly shopping at Sainsbury's and buying your Petrol from Sainsbury's.

You now get 2 Points for every Pound spent at Sainsbury's and a further 2 Points from your Sainsbury's Credit Card for every Pound spent at Sainsbury's and put on your Sainsbury's Credit Card.

So if you spend £75 per week at Sainsbury's shopping and £30 per week at Sainsbury's buying Petrol , it will work like this.

Shopping

£75 per week * 52 weeks = £3,900

Petrol

£30 per week * 52 weeks = £1,560

Total Spend £5,460

You get 2 points for every £1 spent plus an extra 2 points for every £1 put on your Sainsbury's Credit Card , making 4 points per pound.

Therefore , in a year you will make minimum 21,840 points. I say minimum since this takes no account of any extra Bonus Points that you may accrue throughout the year from buying Special Offer products.

So what is 21,840 points worth.

Each 500 points equals 40 Airmiles so if we round the points up to 22,000 , we get 44*40 = 1,760 Airmiles.

This is equivalent to

Two Flights to Paris 2 * 450 Airmiles = 900
2 Adult & 2 Children Passes to Alton Towers = 560
2 Free Ticket
s to UCI Cinema = 120
2 Free Tickets to Sealife Centre = 160

Total 1,740 Airmiles

Not bad for doing your Shopping in one place for year.

Personally , what my wife & I have done is to save up over a couple of years , as well as Shopping at Sainsbury's , we put all other expenditure onto our NatWest Credit Card and our Airmiles grow quite quickly.

Last year , we went to San Diego (in June) Normal Airmiles to San Diego 11,000 , reduced to 4,500 for June , Sept & Oct - sometimes can go even lower though.

Two flights to San Diego 9,000 Airmiles (all we had to pay was Airport Tax of £50,10 each). It had taken us just 2 years to save this amount of Miles.

The actual flights would have cost circa £350 plus tax each therefore , we saved ourselves £700 from two years worth of shopping.

Not bad.

Have a look at www.airmiles.co.uk

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