Vote for the Flying Club in the Freddie Awards

[Nottingham Nick]

Voting is now open in the annual Freddie Awards.

Plenty of chance to vote for the Flying Club or your other favourite Airline and Hotel programmes.

Nick

[mitchja]

Just got the email so gone and voted here [y]

Flying Club and SPG it is....

Regards

[buns]

Originally posted by mitchja
Just got the email so gone and voted here [y]

Flying Club and SPG it is....

Regards

Me too[:D][:D][:D][:D]

buns

So why do you think Flying Club is the best? (I don't want to start a riot, I'm just curious!)

As a Silver, there are no real benefits I feel, there's no point to it and the rewards are very hard to find and claim for. I've never had an op-up or seen any extra benefits. The Helpline come up with different answers when you call and don't understand the rules of their own cards.

I can see that if I was gold I'd enjoy the clubhouse access and probably value it more, but it seemed easier to collect miles and use them on my Flying Blue card.

[:?]

Originally posted by locutus
So why do you think Flying Club is the best? (I don't want to start a riot, I'm just curious!)

As a Silver, there are no real benefits I feel, there's no point to it and the rewards are very hard to find and claim for. I've never had an op-up or seen any extra benefits. The Helpline come up with different answers when you call and don't understand the rules of their own cards.

I can see that if I was gold I'd enjoy the clubhouse access and probably value it more, but it seemed easier to collect miles and use them on my Flying Blue card.

[:?]

I think these are very fair points that you raise - long discussed. The main benefit of silver, it seems to me, is PE check in and extra miles. Gold is quite easy to achieve comparative to some airlines and is a good scheme - so I'm voting!

It appears just as easy to achieve silver on BA and when you do they reward you very well - club house access being the major one!

Silver on VS - as much as I like the service on board - means nothing - in fact I would rather fly that extra flight on BA to get silver than on VS - strange there is such a differnce - RB is normally all over these sort of things -and lets be honest it really does not cost him much more than a few glasses of champers in the lounge!

AKS120

[Nottingham Nick]

I stand to be corrected but I think Silver on BA takes a lot more flying to attain than the 15 tier points on VS.

The reason I voted for the Flying Club, and the reason I have nailed my colours to the VS mast are :
Before I attained Gold, the big attraction was the fact that TPs and Flying Club points are awarded in every transatlantic class of ticket - this isn't true for all airlines - especially the TPs.

The other good thing was the availability of reward flights. Twice I was able to book 3 x UC reward seats to the west coast of the USA during school holidays. From what I have read elsewhere, this is very unusual.

I appreciate that UC reward seats on the LGW routes are an issue, because there are so few UC seats on each plane, but that has never bothered me.

Once I had attained gold, that is where the benefits really kicked in for me. I do not fly UC, unless they are reward seats, so the CH access and the very high percentage of op-ups I have been given means the AU card is worth its weight in gold. [:D][:I]

The Flying Club isn't perfect (the Amex card proves that), but reading the other forums on Flyertalk,and the moans that other airlines frequent fliers have, I think it is the best of the bunch - for my flying patterns.

YVMV [;)]

Nick