🚀 Major Positive Changes to the Aer Lingus Credit Card

Hello, Adventurous Travellers, and Happy Thursday!

This week, we have two ways to earn plenty of Avios. Boost x6 with Qatar Airways or earn up to 43,333 by meeting the €10,000 annual spend with the new, improved Aer Lingus credit card.

Let's get started:

• 🚀 Major Changes to the Aer Lingus Credit Card: Including better Avios earning rates, new benefits, and a generous spend bonus.

• 🎯 Boost Your Avios Up to 6x with Qatar Airways: Double what you can boost with British Airways.

• 📱 Fly Smarter with Flighty + £50 Discount: Discover how the Flighty app can help you fly smarter with real-time updates and how to save on your subscription.

Changes to the Aer Credit Card by Aer Lingus

If you live in the Republic of Ireland, you're in luck. There will soon be some big changes to the Irish Aer Lingus Credit Card! The changes mean this card will have the best benefits and highest Avios earning potential out of all the UK Avios earning credit cards.

At the moment, there are lots of benefits to having the card, but you won’t earn many air miles from it. 

These amazing benefits will replace the old benefits and come into effect on 23rd October:

• A signup bonus of 5,000 Avios

• Multi-trip worldwide family travel insurance.

• 1 Avios per €3 spent (the current card has 1 Avios per €4 spent).

• Two fast track and priority boarding passes each year.

• Two lounge passes. Passes can be used at Aer Lingus lounges in Dublin, Cork, Shannon and Belfast.

• A 40,000 Avios annual spend bonus when you spend €10,000.

This is by far the best benefit. With the 1 Avios per €3 spent, you could earn 43,333 Avios every year just by meeting the minimum spend.

This is also better than the current two-free flight benefit because you can choose how to spend your points, whether that's on two or more short-haul flights or saving for a bigger trip.

You can also use Avios to book reward flights on other Oneworld airlines like Finnair and British Airways rather than only being able to redeem 'free flights' with Aer Lingus.

If you already have the card and decide to stick with it through the changes, you will receive a one-off loyalty bonus of 5,000 Avios on 7th January 2025.

If you're interested, the card costs €6.50. To be eligible for the card, you must have been a resident of the Republic of Ireland for six months or more.

Boost Your Avios Up to 6x with Qatar Airways

You can now boost your Avios by six times with Qatar Airways.

This is double the current 3x boost offer with British Airways. You can also boost Avios earnt within the last three months as opposed to 30 days with BA.

With BA, Avios can be bought via a boost from £0.092, depending on how many Avios you’re boosting. The Qatar example above shows that Avios can be bought for £0.012, which is a cheaper rate, AND you can boost up to 6x.

With British Airways, boosting Avios is usually the best value compared to buying Avios outright or getting an Avios subscription (although you'll only be able to collect the points monthly and not get them all at once).

Boosting Avios works the same way as Qatar Airways, although you will need to credit the transactions to your Qatar Privilege Account, meaning you won't be able to earn BA tier points.

Notes and Terms:

• You can boost a maximum of 250,000 Avios each year.

• You must have a minimum of 500 Avios to boost

• Some transactions are excluded from boosting, including gifted Avios, Avios balance transfers and bonus Avios.

Fly Smarter with Flighty + £50 Discount

Flighty is an app that allows you to track your flights day-to-day, including delays and cancellations and keeps a record of your travels.

The recent upgrade means you can now see why your flights were delayed and even helps predict delays hours in advance, allowing you to get ahead and decide whether to swap your flight to a different time or even not fly. 

Free features include:

• Unlimited flight tracking. Get real-time data, routes, weather, and aircraft details.

• View past flights and routes on a map (up to 12 months for free members).

If you upgrade to the paid version, you can view a summary of your travels at the end of the year. You’ll also have the following features:

• Syncs flights from your calendar automatically.

• Imports flights via email or TripIt sync.

• Supports all airlines worldwide, up to 365 days in advance.

• Monitors cancellations and schedule changes, starting 365 days ahead.

• Live flight tracking starts 48 hours before departure.

• Provides alerts for airport delays, late arrivals, and other issues.

• Displays taxi, takeoff, and landing times.

• Updates on arrival gate and baggage claim carousel after landing.

If you buy via the Flighty website as a gift card, you can get a £50 discount off the lifetime membership and £11 off the annual.

Subscription Costs when bought on the website:

If you purchase via the app, you can purchase a weekly subscription for £3.99. There’s also the option of a flexible monthly family plan for £9.49.

Final Words

That’s all for this week! We hope these tips help you maximise your travel rewards and have better experiences.

Safe travels, and always aim for the upgrade!

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