Airmiles New Cash Rewards

[cari12]

Anyone else not enthused? Here in BC the only places it is available is Shell and soon to be Rona and Totem. They also said they will be phasing out gift card rewards due to this program. I often use my miles for gift cards. Just not very excited about these changes

 

[Missy_Mouse]

I just cashed mine out for some GCs today. I didn't realize the required points increased. I usually get Sobey's cards, and then buy Visa GCs with it. It was 350 for a $50 card, it was 475 this time!

 

[Disney Addicted]

Phasing out gift cards? I'm not sure I like that. I don't use my points for gift cards, but I use them for tickets to attractions. I wonder if that is lumped in with gift cards. Hope not.

I don't like the cashing out for money either.

 

[dancin Disney style]

Nope not all all enthused about the cash option. I just don't think that getting a few dollars off at check out will seem like much of a reward. Sure, it's always nice to save money but I really enjoy saving my miles and then being able to get my WDW tickets. Doing this has made it affordable for us to visit WDW at least once a year.


I'm very close to having enough miles for another park ticket...which I will need this summer. So, I'm plugging away trying to get enough miles by the beginning of June. I think I'm about 600-700 short right now.

 

[W8n4night]

Having moved from the East to the West, Air Mile vendors disappear faster dramatically so collecting is a huge challenge. We gave up even trying to use them for actual travel, with blackouts and next to no real competition in the airline industry anymore, using them required a crystal ball of epic proportion when it came to planning a trip.

We collect as many as we can of course but find using them for park tickets like Universal a better and far more consistent option them actual travel

 

[sjsjbrook]

nope not enthused here. Really no place that work for airmiles here either.

 

[Carina]

PLEASE if you are not planning to use them for cash rewards, go onto the site and lock the account (Don't worry it only locks the instant cash redemption not the whole account.

Otherwise anyone that found your card could use it instantly at the checkout, as no pin is required.

You can log in online ( with your pin) and unlock it anytime.

Protect those hard earned rewards!.

 

[Disney Addicted]

Thanks for posting that Carina! I was given the option to choose cash or dream rewards before. I thought once I chose dream rewards, that was it. I just checked and sure enough, my account was unlocked. I didn't know the miles could still be taken from my card for cash redemption!

Very misleading of them... Seriously... why have people make a choice of whether they want cash or dream rewards, and then leave the account unlocked when they choose dream rewards??

I was curious enough to look up that information on AirMiles and found the answer. It turns out the preference choice (cash or dreams) just determines where the newly earned airmiles are allocated to. But leaves you with the choice to spend your airmiles as cash. Thanks again Carina!

Hmm... from what I'm reading, it looks like it also automatically locks the secondary card under my account. This way my husband cannot spendthe air miles. He knows how mad I would be if he did, but this way - he can't!

 

[Carina]

We have our cards under our buisness name and actually have 4-5 floating around ( we don't have employees but a few family members have them ) ALL cards will be locked until you unlock them, as it's all one account.

I too was suprised to find the default setting as unlocked, as no pin is required. Which is why I am trying to get the word out.

You can unlock and re-lock them at any point.

I hate the new cash thing especially because all gift cards just went up to correlate with the new points to cash ratio.

Car rental GC's that I had priced for my trip were 650AM for $100 worth are now 900ish
Ticked me right off, thats a HUGE jump.
Only reason I hadn't already ordered them, is because I don't know if we are booking Alamo or Budget yet...