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Great to see teams spending time together to help our customers unlock the potential of their Avios β setting them off on a trip of a lifetime, a new experience or even to visit family and friends. We love to see it! π #LifeAtIAGL
Weβre super excited to share that we are joining forces with the incredible Winston's Wish. A wonderful charity that provides hope and support to grieving children following the death of someone important to them. Speaking about the partnership, our Chief People Officer, Helen Miller says: βI'm delighted that our colleagues have chosen Winston's Wish as our first official charity partner to raise funds and share skills with. Providing comfort, support and reassurance in the most difficult of times to give young people hope is incredibly important work and we're so proud to play our part and help make a difference." Fundraising is well underway with one of our site reliability engineers Zain Malik, fresh from a sponsored Abseil of Orbit Towers in Olympic Park yesterday, raising Β£300 and counting! π
We're big fans of squiggly careers here at IAG Loyalty. Read on to hear about Amanda Raymond's career change from chef to contact centre manager, and new to our Club, Emily Ochoa, who's career has taken her from media, to AI, to loyalty!
One of our values here at IAG Loyalty is a focus on agility π§© For solutions architect Lakshmi Vijayendra, that's about being adaptable and innovating: "I really value #agility and implement it daily, be it in terms of the way I approach designing systems to changing processes, to architecting and building. Continuous small improvements driven by a vision ultimately leads to the big picture." Lakshmi sheds light on life in the IAGL product team in our latest blog with hackajob.
It's all going on in our community Teams channels this week with teammates connecting over the things they love. We've spotted: Snoozing pets πΎ #BrewMonday selfies β Recipe inspo π΄ Fitness challenges π Travel top tips (always!) π And lots of helpful reminders and links on where to find and support one another during the long month of January π Just one of the ways we bring our passion to work! #LifeatIAGL
What a way to start the year! Yesterday, our friends at Amazing If held a workshop led by the brilliant Helen Tupper, to carve out space for our EmpowHer network to pause and find their inner strengths and power to take into the year ahead π The Amazing If workshops are just one element of this development programme that brings together some of the talented women at IAG Loyalty, to share, learn and challenge each other to become the best version of themselves at work and at home. Here's to an EmpowerHering 2023 π
Change is in the air for Reward Flight Saver! This week we had big news to share. We've expanded Reward Flight Saver, offering customers a way of redeeming Avios on a flight without having to pay a large amount in cash to cover charges. Reward Flight Saver covers all our destinations across 100% of the network and includes World Traveller, World Traveller Plus and Club World. Just one of the ways we're bringing more rewarding experiences to our members.
We're super proud to announce our new partnership with UBER UK. British Airways Executive Club members can collect 1 Avios for every Β£1 spent on rides π, coaches π or trains π through Uber in the UK. Simply connect an Executive Club membership through the Uber App and start collecting Avios. To celebrate the new partnership, Members who link their Executive Club and Uber accounts via the Uber app by 31st December 2022 will receive a bonus of 250 Avios.
Exciting news from the cellars of IAG Loyalty β from early October, we are launching a wine delivery business, The Wine Flyer! With... βοΈ products served on British Airwaysβ flights, such as the Teusnerβs 'The Riebke' Shiraz, which has been served in premium cabins πΎ well-known brands like Moet, Penfolds and Whispering Angel πΊ as well as exclusive British Airways products like BrewDog Jetstream π· and much more ...there is plenty to get excited about. Jack Smith, who is managing and launched this new venture, adds: βWine is an area of huge passion for hundreds of thousands of British Airway Executive Club members and I believe we have a unique skill set to build this retail business that can support an already highly engaged customer base.β Go check us out at www.thewineflyer.co.uk and see what vacancies are live at The Wine Flyer: https://apply.iagloyalty.com/jobs/vacancy/find/results/
Benefits that truly benefit We're a club where the love of travel connects us all. So it makes sense that we reward our people with travel-focused perks on top of all the standard benefits and extras you'd expect. With all this at your fingertips, where would you go first?