Points mean prizes…

To earn an entire flight to Vancouver on Air Miles, I need to earn 70,000 nectar points. I’m starting at 6,000 points. I think I may have been out by a factor of 10 somewhere(!). Doh!

Anyway, I think I’ll be on about 10,000 points (or more, if I do shopping at Sainsburys) at the end of the placement – if I only spent money on my ‘American Express Nectar card’ I’d’ve had to spend a minimum of 17,500 pounds to get a flight to Vancouver (mind, I’ve not played with dates). So…

If I then carry on commuting, then I’ll continue to rack up points at a shocking rate.

Anyway, it still looks do-able, if not as cheap as I’d hoped. And the cheapest flights, insanely, go via Amsterdam. Obviously I need to fly to Amsterdam *first*…