[Misc] How drunk do you get when flying?

kingcole said:

Your not wrong but the beauty of the BA loyalty program is you don't have to fly BA!

There are some great one world airlines. It is a shame BA isn't one of them.

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driller said:

How do you book a non Ba flight with air miles?

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Bozza said:

1. Get a black Virgin Atlantic Amex card (with accompanying Visa card).
2. Get secondary cards on the same account for your wife/partner.
3. Both of you use the cards wherever you can, regardless of purchase size. Always use the Amex where it is accepted, the Visa otherwise.
4. If convenient - do all shopping and fuel purchases with Tesco.
5. Do not convert your Clubcard points to Virgin miles until you are notified they are offering a boost on the conversion, then convert all you have. Rinse and repeat.

Doing this should enable you to accrue a fair few miles pretty quickly. We're a household of only 2 adults and a child and we don't do a huge amount of miles in the car either.

Additionally, you can:

1. Register for the free white card when there is something like a "spend £1000 and get 10,000 miles" offer. Spend the £1,000, get the miles and cancel the card. You can have the black and the white cards at the same time.
2. Then register for the free white card for your wife. Do the above again.
(3. I believe you can do the above again 6 months after cancelling)

Additionally 2:

1. Sign up for an Amex Gold Card (this one: https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/...knav=uk-amex-cardshop-details-browse-GoldCard) - it has a £140 fee but is free for the first year. Register, spend the £2,000 in three months, get 20,000 points which will become 20,000 miles. Cancel the card.
2. Do the above for your wife.

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Rambo said:

Bozza, do you also use the Virgin Shops away links for online shopping? Do you know if you get the points from that as well as the Virgin Amex Card points on top if you use it to pay online with those offers?

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Bozza said:

I've never looked at that, no, but I would imagine you get both.

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OzMike said:

I was on an 18 hour part of a 2 leg flight coming back here with a drunk yob sat in front of me.
Even though he was clearly drunk they kept giving him more.
I made a comment to the steward serving him and got a barrage of abuse from him, as he didn't want his supply cut off.
After a bit, when the in flight meal was being served, he decided it was time to sleep it off and was in the process of fully reclining his seat back.
I allowed it to come back a couple of notches and then stopped it with my foot.
As a result I got a load more abuse but my foot was not moving.
He said that when the flight was over he would meet me on leaving the plane and sort it out.
I didn't expect anything else really, said nothing and was quite prepared for it, as I'm no slouch and was getting pretty peeved by then.
The plane landed at Perth and I was preparing myself mentally for the ensuing confrontation when he leapt out of his seat and headed for the front of the plane.
As soon as the door was open he was out and gone.
I left calmly with all the other passengers but was keeping aware waiting for something to happen.
I collected my luggage and there was no sign of him.
I was just going through customs and I spotted him in the company of a couple of police officers.
He had a case in his possession that wasn't his, he legged it to luggage reclaim, grabbed the first suitcase that came out and bolted for the exit, was caught and arrested.
I gave him a wry grin as I passed and wished him a nice stay in his new hostel.
Made all the crap on the flight worth while
No alcohol, no alcohol induced problems.

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kingcole said:

Go onto the BA website. Choose reward flights and you will be shown the other airline options to your destination as well as the BA ones.

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