I've got one of those amex reward vouchers and have found 2 available reward flights, but can't get the exec club to agree to let me use the voucher because it runs out 9 days before the outbound flight, which happens to be end October.
I acknowledge the rules etc but there must be a way around it. Anyone know how?
- do you think it's possible to do something like book an extra leg of the trip before the "real trip" but with that leg early enough and then take a monster stopover in heathrow. E.g. Manchester to Heathrow on 1 Oct, stopover in Heathrow until 31 Oct then fly the return I want to Hong Kong? (Not sure the voucher allows more than redemption against a normal 2-leg return trip.)
- i've heard that the voucher redepmtion validity is checked only at the time it's used, and then the seats are booked as just airmiles/reward seats (i.e. without reference back to the fact one of them originated as a voucher). So I was thinking maybe i could book any date which is avaialble before the expiry date and then just phone and amend the tickets to the real dates. I think they only recheck amendments if you want to completely cancel rather than just amend (and of course there might be a small charge). Any ideas whether that might work.
- i've tried calling the exec club and asking them to be sensible. (i'm a gold card holder who hits the renewal target within 6 months each year but I'm obviously not giving it the big one around that with empty threats etc as that's likely to just hack them off). And they can see my account usage anyhow. they weren't at all helpful.
ideas anyone????
I acknowledge the rules etc but there must be a way around it. Anyone know how?
- do you think it's possible to do something like book an extra leg of the trip before the "real trip" but with that leg early enough and then take a monster stopover in heathrow. E.g. Manchester to Heathrow on 1 Oct, stopover in Heathrow until 31 Oct then fly the return I want to Hong Kong? (Not sure the voucher allows more than redemption against a normal 2-leg return trip.)
- i've heard that the voucher redepmtion validity is checked only at the time it's used, and then the seats are booked as just airmiles/reward seats (i.e. without reference back to the fact one of them originated as a voucher). So I was thinking maybe i could book any date which is avaialble before the expiry date and then just phone and amend the tickets to the real dates. I think they only recheck amendments if you want to completely cancel rather than just amend (and of course there might be a small charge). Any ideas whether that might work.
- i've tried calling the exec club and asking them to be sensible. (i'm a gold card holder who hits the renewal target within 6 months each year but I'm obviously not giving it the big one around that with empty threats etc as that's likely to just hack them off). And they can see my account usage anyhow. they weren't at all helpful.
ideas anyone????
