Uber to book flights?

[DTR]

Hi all

I’m tempted to user Uber flights to booking an upcoming trip due to the credits and – of course – avios for uber spend.

Has anyone done this and did everything go ok? I’m a little nervous as I’d usually book direct with the airline, but in this case there are no particular benefits to booking direct.

Also it asks for frequent flyer programme and I can enter BA but it’s a star alliance flight so no way to credit to avios. Any idea how Ubers system works – ie do you think you’ll only get FF points if you enter the details of a compatible scheme, or is it separate to the airline scheme and points awarded by uber?

Thanks in advance for any guidance

[Aston100]

I’m sure many of us have been tempted but were too scared to go through with it.
Therefore, I think you should take one for the team.

[NorthernLass]

Okay, now I am imagining summoning a plane on my phone and being notified that Goran in a Cessna Citation Mustang is 4 minutes away from my house.

[DTR]

Aston100 wrote:

I’m sure many of us have been tempted but were too scared to go through with it.
Therefore, I think you should take one for the team.

Haha! I may well do that then…

NorthernLass wrote:

Okay, now I am imagining summoning a plane on my phone and being notified that Goran in a Cessna Citation Mustang is 4 minutes away from my house.

Now that would be fun. Didn’t they actually have Uber helicopter in NYC for a while ?!

[tiberius]

I have used uber for flights, solely as they had £20 off per passenger on your first flight booking. These were Air Arabia return flights between Bahrain and Abu Dhabi, so it took a fairly significant chunk of a short hop on a (relatively LCC). All went through fine and I got a booking confirmation email from Uber and separately direct from the airline.

[JenT]

I too used it when there was a discount on the first booking. Flew with Vueling – no issues.

[ans91]

Did everyone get the £20 Uber credit for booking a flight? I booked a flight through Uber and travelled in early Jan but no credit has appeared.

[DTR]

No issues with the flights but I didn’t get my £20 credit and now uber are telling me it didn’t exist. Apparently I booked on the 4th Feb and the promo started on 19th Feb.

Infuriating but my fault for not taking screenshots!