Owners Air - Opinions please

[hedonist]

Hi all.

Do any of you have any experiences with Owners Air?

This is the new company starting off this week.... Fly for free.

Opinions and experiences if you have them please.

Just want to check for a friend.... no really!

Thanks

[Karipentti]

If they actually take off this week your question re. experiences seems a bit premature.

Most of us probably never heard of this company and Google doesn't provide any info either.

Would you have a link to the new company?

[ashtondav]

Here it is

http://ownersair.com/EN/information.html

[hedonist]

Yes.. that's the link..

Free flights etc. Air miles style.

Just wandering ahead of dealing with them. Seems all good, but you never know.

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[laclotte]

Maybe it is old age / wisdom / experience (or all 3!) ...........but there is nothing 'free' in this life..........and certainly not www related.
Call me a cynic but I would rather just book my flight with a regular airline, pay for it and fly!

[pigs-might-fly]

Sounds a bit like Green Shield Stamps, Credit card points et. al.
They don't seem to say how many thousands of points you need to exchange for anything worth while!

[j4mes]

Yes I have heard of them....Read a couple of advertorials they had in a couple of diff mags......Seems like a sensible idea, so may do well...

Have had some business dealings with them, found them to be professional and efficient, which is obviously a good sign!

[mijasmagic]

On the sample ad on their website they show a family receiving their retsaurant bill for 90€, followed by a text informing them they have had 20 Owners Air points added. Flights to the UK "cost" 360 points, so I suppose the total spend required at Owners Air outlets is 18 x 90€ = 1620€. It all depends I suppose on which shops are participating, but unfortunately the part of the site showing these businesses won´t load at the moment!!

[hedonist]

So....

It's started.

Anybody have a flight yet?

[Laslomas]

I just looked at the website - the area showing participating businesses seems to be up and running now. In my local town (Nerja) I have the choice of a Beauty Salon, a Hairdresser and an Optician I can collect points through. I think I will be taking quite a while to get a free flight. Not even a restaurant!!! However there is quite a choice of outlets to the west of Malaga, so it could work!

[peteroldracer]

It may just be my normal cynicism, but this lot reminds me of a UK company a few years back - the Overseas Relatives Reunion Club. They promised cheap flights and accommodation, discounts off this and that, all for £10 per annum. They built up to a membership of 100,000, then, funnily enough just after all the subs had been paid , with them having put a cool million in the bank, they vanished without trace - presumably to some relatives in the Caribbean!

[Kmoppz]

So....

It's started.

Anybody have a flight yet?

Dont think so, do you?

[hedonist]

errrr... no. But that was my point.

Any other experiences?