ba calling card
Premier has for some time had a miles-for-calls arrangement with British Airways -- in fact, well before they rolled out the BA branded calling card.
I signed up for a Premiere calling card a couple of years ago and used it a few times... I was stunned at the bills that resulted... a one-hour US-Canada call was more than $75. Those are some expensive miles I earned. Needless to say the Premiere card went into the very back of my wallet.
I got the BA calling card in the mail this summer as an automatic replacement for my long-unused Premiere card. When I called to activate it I asked the rep what the calling rates were... and he was VERY cagey and unresponsive... said there was no "rate card" he could send me, nothing published, and would only quote rates verbally... and he was fairly unwilling to reveal international rates at all... hmmm....
... so I have my doubts about this whole enterprise and have not used my BA Calling Card, nice though it looks.
[This message has been edited by BearX220 (edited 10-14-1999).]
[This message has been edited by BearX220 (edited 10-14-1999).]
I have a feeling that AT&T is behind the BA calling card, as:
* BA is partners with AT&T
* AT&T calling card calls were recently excluded from the standard 5 BA miles/dollar deal that AT&T offers to long distance customers
* Bumph with the card compared its rates (favourably) to those available through Sprint and MCI
(well... this was a shot in the dark guess...)
[This message has been edited by baobab (edited 10-17-1999).]
We use a calling card from VoiceNet that has calling rates that are significantly better than anything the Big Three: AT&T, Sprint and MCI offer and when compared to the calling card from BA, is still much cheaper.
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