Uber ticketing

[pokemonsuper9]

As in 1000 for my first eligible journey, in addition to 500 for each eligible journey?

That doesn't really explain the "That means up to 6,000 bonus Avios, from as little as 6 Uber rides, are up for grabs this month." which would imply 1000 bonus for each journey up to a maximum of 6000.

1000 per Uber Reserve, Uber Travel (including coach, rail, and Eurostar) and premium Uber (Exec or Lux) trips
500 per UberX, UberXL, Uber Assist, Uber Access, Uber Comfort, Uber Pet, Uber Green

So 6 train journeys would hit the 6k limit
Or 3 train journeys (3*1k=3k) and 6 UberX journeys (500*6=3k)

I think the "500 or 1,000 bonus Avios available to be awarded as part of this offer can only be applied to a BAEC account once" is purely a thing that makes sure a bonus can only applied to one account one time, rather than having the same 1000 from the same train trip there twice. Not entirely sure why it needs to be put into words like that.

 

[Feuillesmortes]

How much is the fee to change a Advance ticket on uber please?

The FAQs just say: "In the case of tickets with an Advance fare, you can exchange your ticket by first booking a new one for the same route but a different date/time, and then claiming a refund on the original booking."

 

[James H]

As I noted in the special offers thread, there have been some improvements to the app recently including Apple Wallet integration for eTickets

 

[Purple Train]

Adverts for Uber tickets have been popping up for it on YouTube. Filmed in Greater Anglia land. With 755s. And the passenger in the advert always has a ticket that shouldn't be used anywhere near Greater Anglia - London to Manchester, London to Glasgow... It's really annoying! One even has the passenger asking the driver if it's the Portsmouth train!

 

[superalbs]

Along with all the other cashback, I'm currently getting 500 BA Avios for every rail journey booked on the Uber App. There's a max of 5,000 Avios per user.

So at the moment, their advertising team's chat GPT will probably be writing a paper on why someone in Bucks is regularly making one way journeys between stations miles away.

How do you get the 500 Avios deal?

 

[Watershed]

How do you get the 500 Avios deal?

It was theoretically by invitation only - in practice I think you just needed to be signed up to marketing emails from BA. It's ended now anyway.

 

[mad_rich]

Are most folk getting their 10% Uber credit quickly? My datapoints are

Bought Advance 23/11, travelled 24/11, credited 25/11
*Bought Off-peak Single 25/11, travelled 26/11, waiting
*Bought Advance 28/11, travelled 28/11, waiting
*Bought Advance 28/11, travelled 28/11, waiting
Bought Anytime Day Single 28/11, travelled 28/11, waiting

* Have been subject to Delay Repay claims via the operator, but I can't imagine that would stop the rebate in any way?

Separately, they've all appeared in my BA statement with the base Avios (1 per £), so I'm reasonably confident that the bonus Avios will arrive within 28 days.

 

[Edvid]

It's been variable in my experience - some arrive quickly, some arrive over a week later (their terms promise no longer than 10 days after journey completion). On one occasion I sent an email to customer services after the window elapsed and they claimed it was 10 working days (I replied to inform them no such qualification was in their terms), but they did manually credit my account the day after.

* Have been subject to Delay Repay claims via the operator, but I can't imagine that would stop the rebate in any way?

Unless I'm mistaken Delay Repay claims do not affect non-TOC third-party retailers like Uber, so I'm inclined to agree.

 

[mad_rich]

Ha, I've seen 'day inflation' like that. 10 days becomes 10 working days in someone's head, which then gets rounded up to 14 days

 

[sot]

If you buy open return svr tickets then it will put the full month before you get credits or the planned return journey if you set that earlier

 

[winks]

Around 7 days for me. Pretty happy with the Uber credits so far. Especially when delay repay can be applied for on top.
Does anyone know when the 10% cash back offer expires ?

 

[mangyiscute]

Around 7 days for me. Pretty happy with the Uber credits so far. Especially when delay repay can be applied for on top.
Does anyone know when the 10% cash back offer expires ?

Its currently end of February but keeps getting extended (it got extended from December to February quite recently)

 

[mad_rich]

There is currently 10% off Uber gift cards at Amazon. Max £150 per transaction, max £200 per day I believe.

The reduced price shows in your basket when you go through to checkout.

 

[setdown]

How much is the fee to change a Advance ticket on uber please?

The FAQs just say: "In the case of tickets with an Advance fare, you can exchange your ticket by first booking a new one for the same route but a different date/time, and then claiming a refund on the original booking."

After booking a new advance ticket, I got a full refund for the original advance ticket that I was no longer using.

 

[CHESHIRECAT]

And buy the Gift card on Amazon through Quidco.. cashback as well !!

 

[mad_rich]

Bonus Avios from the November promotion seem to have posted.

In my case, I only got half what I expected. I was offered 1000 per booking, up to 6000. I made five bookings, but only received 2500 Avios.

I'll give them another week - T&Cs say 28 days from the end of November - then chase it up.

 

[Watershed]

Bonus Avios from the November promotion seem to have posted.

In my case, I only got half what I expected. I was offered 1000 per booking, up to 6000. I made five bookings, but only received 2500 Avios.

I'll give them another week - T&Cs say 28 days from the end of November - then chase it up.

I wasn't aware of any 1000 Avios per booking offers - as far as I knew everyone was getting an offer of 500 Avios per booking, which have posted correctly at 4000 total Avios for me.

 

[MrJeeves]

Woohoo, got my 6000 Avios for my 6x 55p Lichfield tickets

I wasn't aware of any 1000 Avios per booking offers

That was the offer I got. See #28

 

[mad_rich]

I wasn't aware of any 1000 Avios per booking offers - as far as I knew everyone was getting an offer of 500 Avios per booking, which have posted correctly at 4000 total Avios for me.

There were quite a few variations of the offer I think.

Mine was definitely 1000.

 

[paul1609]

I wasn't aware of any 1000 Avios per booking offers - as far as I knew everyone was getting an offer of 500 Avios per booking, which have posted correctly at 4000 total Avios for me.

I take it "associate staff" forum members dont get the "special" deal that "staff members" get from UK Railforum tickets then?

 

[MrJeeves]

dont get the "special" deal that "staff members" get from UK Railforum tickets then

There are no special deals

 

[James H]

Last week I bought an off-peak return from Elephant & Castle to Tonbridge (including cross-London marker) - it appeared that Uber was willing to issue this as an e-ticket. I of course chose ToD so I don't know what would have happened if I opted for an e-ticket but it may be one for @alistairlees to look at

 

[alistairlees]

Last week I bought an off-peak return from Elephant & Castle to Tonbridge (including cross-London marker) - it appeared that Uber was willing to issue this as an e-ticket. I of course chose ToD so I don't know what would have happened if I opted for an e-ticket but it may be one for @alistairlees to look at

Thanks. Something going wrong there clearly. We'll investigate and (I hope) fix next week.

 

[ashley84]

We tried Uber ticketing for the first time yesterday. We bought Anytime Day Singles from Coventry to Selly Oak, for 2 adults + 4 kids with Family and Friends railcard. All seemed fine except that one of the 6 barcodes wasn't accepted by the barcode readers at the barriers at Coventry (the other 5 were fine.) Not sure whether this was a ticket issue or a barrier issue, but was a little disconcerting.

We are also looking to buy some Anytime Returns from Selly Oak to Cheltenham Spa tomorrow (2 Jan), again 2 adults + 4 kids with Family and Friends railcard. CrossCountry's own app offers two prices, £104.20 and £200.80 - not sure what the difference as as they are both Anytime Returns. However Uber is only quoting the £200.80 price.

I can't even see on BRFares where the £200.80 price is coming from. The only Anytime Return it lists is £33.10 adult / £9.50 child which works out to the £104.20 price. So I don't think I'm going to be using Uber for this.

 

[MrJeeves]

I can't even see on BRFares where the £200.80 price is coming from. The only Anytime Return it lists is £33.10 adult / £9.50 child which works out to the £104.20 price. So I don't think I'm going to be using Uber for this.

It appears to match the Railcard undiscounted cost.

 

[ashley84]

Ah yes that's it, thank you. For some reason the railcard had dropped off somewhere along the way.

 

[alistairlees]

We tried Uber ticketing for the first time yesterday. We bought Anytime Day Singles from Coventry to Selly Oak, for 2 adults + 4 kids with Family and Friends railcard. All seemed fine except that one of the 6 barcodes wasn't accepted by the barreaders at the barriers at Coventry (the other 5 were fine.) Not sure whether this was a ticket issue or a barrier issue, but was a little disconcerting.

If you DM me your order details we'll take a look at the barcodes, though I would have thought they would all be the same (other than for fare / passenger differences).

Possible other causes:
- you presented one of the barcodes twice (easily done when there are so many!)
- an issue with the barcode reader, as you suggest

 

[mangyiscute]

Ah yes that's it, thank you. For some reason the railcard had dropped off somewhere along the way.

Yeah on uber, you have to add the railcard each time manually and it is really easy to miss that it isn't there - happens to me all of the time. Although with the amount of "I didn't realise I had a railcard discount applied because it just does it automatically" threads we get, perhaps this is the better system, rather than auto applying whatever was used last.

 

[Adam Williams]

Although with the amount of "I didn't realise I had a railcard discount applied because it just does it automatically" threads we get, perhaps this is the better system, rather than auto applying whatever was used last.

No matter what approach you take, you'll get people bitching about it!

 

[Wallsendmag]

No matter what approach you take, you'll get people bitching about it!

I think having to add the Railcard ever time is by far the better approach.