Flymaybe... and their sneaky ways

[scooterscot]

I'm a regular business user and the reward points have been quickly building up.

So when on Tuesday night I had a last minute call to fly to a client in the south west (I'm in Edinburgh) I decided to use my points. For this is the whole reason I keep them to spend on last minute calls to a client.

I was very disappointed. When I tried to book a flight using my points the website said they were no available seats on the plane and the flight was full. Yet I could still pay for a seat though at return price of £420! I could go to Thailand for that.

When I got on the plane on Wednesday morning there were 34 passengers, the plane was less than half full.

I refused to pay the return part of the flight instead favouring a return on the train for half the price, a first in while.

Can someone explain to me why there is no mention of the reward points restrictions on the website where it says 1 x flight for 16 points?

Honestly according to Flybe they only allocate a few seats for the points scheme, once they are gone you have to purchase even if they were only a few people on the plane.


You've been warned!

[Pondlife]

Most travel loyalty schemes have restrictions on availability unfortunately.

I just use mine to decrease the cost of holidays rather than trying to reduce costs of working. It's too frustrating otherwise.

[scooterscot]

I just use mine to decrease the cost of holidays rather than trying to reduce costs of working. It's too frustrating otherwise.

Mrs Scooter suggested the same. It's a recompense of sorts, I'll take it for now - otherwise they'll have me super flying tnt

[Turion]

Why are you trying to save the client's money with your reward points?

The client is paying for this, right?

[pmeswani]

Why are you trying to save the client's money with your reward points?

The client is paying for this, right?

1. Maybe his rate includes the expense of getting to their site and wants to maximise his income as much as possible.
2. Maybe he wants repeat business from the client
3. Maybe he has morales.
4. A combination of the above.

[scooterscot]

Why are you trying to save the client's money with your reward points?

The client is paying for this, right?

No. When selling my services I try and not turn up with an invoice on the 1st day of meeting a new client.

But I'll add future ventures, if sucessful, to my quatations - that you can be sure of!

[Incognito]

BA do the same with BA miles, they'll only open up a certain percentage of seats to redemptions, so for example club to the states it's only 10% of seats. Nearer the date, they may open up more seats if they haven't been purchased.

[Turion]

No. When selling my services I try and not turn up with an invoice on the 1st day of meeting a new client.

But I'll add future ventures, if sucessful, to my quatations - that you can be sure of!

What you can do is agree with the client is that they pay your expenses if you do not get the gig. If they take you on, you deduct the cost from your first week, so it's free .

It once saved me a cool 500 and wasted time when after I put the question and the asshole client started umming and aarring and eventually burbled out that they just want some pointers to what they needed doing and that there was no actual budget to pay for this. Agent was none too happy either after I told him.

[EternalOptimist]

Bit of an odd concept this, but I add the expenses for future job-seeking onto the bill for my current client. I'm always a step ahead and if I get the run-around , it's water off a ducks back.

[scooterscot]

Bit of an odd concept this, but I add the expenses for future job-seeking onto the bill for my current client. I'm always a step ahead and if I get the run-around , it's water off a ducks back.

I like it...

A few more hours on to this weeks time sheet should do the trick.