V-Flyer

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

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

Flying Club and SPG it is....

Regards

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.

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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

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