I’m sure their investigators will track you down and take action accordingly 
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For a lot of flights to the US (not NY) if you go economy in an A380 upstairs they have 2-4-2. For a day flight it’s not too bad and costs quite a lot less.
We did economy to San Francisco using a basic 241 voucher, so total for 2 returns:
For a pretty long flight it was great value, and given we weren’t sleeping and it was a small cabin upstairs it felt absolutely fine.
Individual would be good too:
Internal US flights using Avios are insane too. Did a business reward to NY and then got AA from NY to LA for 7,500 Avios and £5.50!
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I was only ever able to redeem anything with Avios when collecting them on purpose through work and personal travel. And in the end only managed to book a few flights.
I was never sure if it was worth it though. Because often had to book BA despite other better cheaper cash fares available. Switched to cashback cards ever since without any regrets.
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Do you use the BA eStore too to when making purchases to get the extra Avios?
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That is a great way to maximise the points but yes - you need to remember as I used to forget sometimes too. I have got into the habit now of checking there first before making any purchase.
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It’s really fairly easy. Once you get into a mindset it’s where you earn the absolute vast majority of Avios.
I subscribe to the Economist, just did it recently again for £189 for the year, £60 cash back from Amex, 15,000 Avios from the store plus 1.5 Avios per £.
Bought a pair of work jeans yesterday, got 995 Avios.
Purchase all my Apple gear through it for sometimes 10 points per £.
It’s really fairly easy to get 20-30,000 Avios if you just use the portal alone!
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Great insight, few ideas I had never thought of.
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It’s good to see Chase actually starting to seriously consider ‘what next’ now.
Although it would’ve probably been better if they’d thought of this back in May/June before the actual end of the original 12 month period…
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I was Beat too! Damn tube journey.
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Now that’s a turn up for the books……
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Their balance sheet mustve dropped a fair bit when the others raised their rates!
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Nice, some welcome news. Every little helps. As a truly easy access account, this is pretty competitive.
Marcus today didn’t go up as much:
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I’m not moving my money back to them yet but if the % goes up some more I might.
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My money staying at 2.75%
Why would I, or others, return to Chase for less interest?
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Just applied for a Santander at 2.75%. Will be moving over from Atom.
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They had to do something after the shambles recently
It’s probably less about attracting others and more about not losing people.
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Can’t decide if it’s worth the hassle moving from Marcus to Chase for 0.1% lmao
I never left my savings from Chase. It’s obvious at the moment that savings will increase across the board so it’s not worth it to be constantly shifting for fractions of percentage points here and there.
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