Aerlingus AerClub/Avios

If i was to get the wife an additional Aer CC would she be eligible for the free flights after the 5k spend? Have the card a year this month and have a big purchase due that will get me the free flights.

I have some big house purchases coming up, what's my best tactic for earning a few points?

I was thinking of maybe revolut Ultra Credit card to avail of 1.5 revpoints for every euro spend, and then convert those points to aer club when the rev 20% bonus next comes around.

But not sure is there something more beneficial? I don't have any aer credit card at the minute, so would consider that if better.

Spend is probably about 40-50k

We couldnt use the automated machines in Dublin airport. Had to manually be checked in

I applied for boi rewards flights and they were approved, however when I checked the dates I see the return date is a day earlier than I'm sure I had requested.

I called their 'help desk' got passed around a bit and was told I have to book those dates and if I don't I lose the benefit and they won't be reinstated back to my account. Is that the case, that if you don't follow through with the booking, you lose the flight benefit and they can't be reapplied to your account?

Has anyone else had this happen where they've confirmed a different date to what you applied for?

Thanks for that. Was hoping the response would say the benefit is reinstated but if it's not I might just book them and use the flight over only, will still save some money. I can't imagine I'll get anywhere other than frustrated trying to battle with them over the dates given my experience with them to date

I thought the most you could pay in Europe was 7,500 avios (15k in each direction)

These would be avios only,so no cash co pay or taxes and everyone on the plane has paid avios for their seat,so there’s a good chance the lounge will be rammed on the day that it operates as most of them will have the BoI credit card

On a map, but for EI it's Zone 3 with the rest of the longer distances in Europe for 8.5 k to 10 k each way.

Interesting, we only flew out at the start of March so not much of a time difference and had no issue manually checking in all 10kg bags. (We did also have a 20kg bag that had to be checked too).

We were able to check both 10kg bags Outbound and inbound too.

WOW EI is offering soft landing for AerClub.

After multiple years as Concierge I did not do a single trip on EI last membership year and this morning I got the "Welcome to Platinium" mail, I was expecting to drop down to nothing but seemingly soft landings are a thing.

Not that this will get me back, but still a nice to have just in case I need to do EI.

Better yet, you'll get a year of silver after that! I was concierge two years ago then pretty much completely stopped work travel. Got a year of platinum and now a year of silver. As you say, very handy on the odd personal flight