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• Shoestring says:

  14 Nov14 November 07:45

  New statement credit (later expiry) – £30 off £100 Harvey Nichols

• NS says:

  14 Nov14 November 07:52

  My wife has 50k points sitting in her Iberia account. We are trying to move them across to BA but when trying on both sites it says that she is only able to transfer from BA to Iberia. Has anyone else experienced this? (Should probably have sorted this before the avios closure!)

  • Sam says:

    14 Nov14 November 07:59

    I had the same problem with the Iberia site last week but avios.com did allow me to transfer them

    • Stu N says:

      14 Nov14 November 08:05

      Open an Aerclub account that runs on the Avios.com platform. You should then be able to pull the Avios from IB as long as IB account is more than three months old. You can then push them onwards to BA. It’s a known issue if you have a BA Household account.

      • James says:

        14 Nov14 November 09:03

        Does anyone know if Iberia followed through on their threat of negative balances if transferring to BA following the summer 90k promo? Thanks

      • Genghis says:

        14 Nov14 November 09:30

        We’ll know come 2 Dec

      • James says:

        14 Nov14 November 11:44

        @Genghis – nothing public about this then – I thought they conceded on the transfers? I assume the one thing that won’t happen is that they then disappear from BAEC accounts on 1st Dec?!!

      • Genghis says:

        14 Nov14 November 12:16

        I received this email on 10 Nov but doesn’t affect me. Still not too clear.

        “We would like to remind you that the Avios you earned in the promotion last June had special terms and conditions, as we pointed out at the time. As such, please note that the promotional Avios obtained during that campaign will no longer be available in your account if you do not redeem them in the Iberia Plus programme before 1 December 2018.

        We would also like to take this opportunity to remind you that the programme does not include the transfer of Avios, as indicated in the general terms and conditions.”

      • LewisB says:

        14 Nov14 November 12:44

        @Genghis I’m struggling to understand that last paragraph, it’s definitely not clear. I transferred my 90k to my BAEC a few weeks back. Hopefully it stays!

      • Shoestring says:

        14 Nov14 November 17:20

        @James – IB never publicly conceded on the negative balance in IB a/c if you transferred to BAEC.

        And if IB Avios scheme joins up with BAEC platform, you risk bringing over -90,000 balance.

• Matt says:

  14 Nov14 November 07:54

  Hi just noticed that I’ve been charged the £24 annual fee for Lloyds Avios card. Is it carrying on for a while then?

  • Anna says:

    14 Nov14 November 08:07

    You’ll get 65 days’ notice of it being closed according to a conversation I had with them recently. I would guess they will refund the fee pro-rate. You might be able to trigger another upgrade voucher depending on your spending plans!

    • Neil says:

      14 Nov14 November 09:16

      Can anyone report if upgrade vouchers are still being issued? My annual fee is due on the 17th of December and I wouldn’t mind one last cheeky voucher. However without the Avios website, I guess it will be very difficult to keep track if the voucher is issued.

      • Lynx says:

        14 Nov14 November 09:25

        My card renewal date was mid-September, and I managed to spend the £7k on 27th October. The voucher appeared in my Avios account about 3 days later, and the email arrived about a week later.
        Incidentally, the Avios web site is still working for me, in that I can see I have 0 Avios (all transferred to BAEC now) and the voucher is still visible. The app has been dead for weeks though.

      • Simon says:

        14 Nov14 November 10:33

        I got a voucher in October. Not visible in ba account and avios account closed but the avios call centre can see it

      • Neil says:

        14 Nov14 November 11:47

        Thank you very much Simon & Lynx. Looks like I better hold on to that large purchase until the 18th of December.Now to wait for Curve to pull out the magic Amex link

• John G says:

  14 Nov14 November 08:05

  United Airways? Who is this new airline 😉

  • Catalan says:

    14 Nov14 November 08:30

    It’s just a small niche carrier with aspirations of becoming a global entity, just like United Airlines.

• Lynx says:

  14 Nov14 November 09:24

  My card renewal date was mid-September, and I managed to spend the £7k on 27th October. The voucher appeared in my Avios account about 3 days later, and the email arrived about a week later.
  Incidentally, the Avios web site is still working for me, in that I can see I have 0 Avios (all transferred to BAEC now) and the voucher is still visible. The app has been dead for weeks though.

  • Lynx says:

    14 Nov14 November 09:32

    I’ve put this reply in the right place now. I did try to put it in the correct place initially, but due to user incompetence it appeared here instead…

• Kai says:

  14 Nov14 November 09:56

  Terms say HHonors bookings are ineligible, or is that not the case?

• Jim says:

  14 Nov14 November 09:57

  Hi all,

  I’m heading to New York next April. Does anyone know if there are US flash Hitlon sales at all and if so will one be due soon as I’m keen to book accomodation soon.

  Thanks in advance,

  Jim

  • Rob says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:18

    There are from time to time, yes.

  • Jon says:

    14 Nov14 November 13:26

    Flash sales do seem to be prone to put-the-price-up-in-order-to-drop-it-again trick (they also like the sneaky trick of comparing a non-refundable sale rate to a flexible original price). If you see a price/location combo you are happy with I wouldn’t be waiting for the sale worrying about whether it’s in a “sale” or not as this is not necessarily a marker of a bargain.

• BlueHorizonuk says:

  14 Nov14 November 11:48

  BA just dumped 50,000 extra Club World seats into availability

  Additional reward seats will be available on direct one-way and return British Airways operated flights in the Club World cabin only, for travel between 16 December 2018 and 31 March 2019

  between London Gatwick and Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando Las Vegas, San Jose (Costa Rica), New York JFK and Mauritius and between London Heathrow and Abuja, Accra, Amman, Atlanta, Austin, Bahrain, Baltimore, Bangalore, Beijing, Beirut, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Durban, Houston, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Montreal, Moscow, Nairobi, Nashville, New Orleans, New York JFK, New York EWR, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Rio de Janeiro, Riyadh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, CA, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Seychelles, Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Tokyo NRT, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington.

  • BlueHorizonuk says:

    14 Nov14 November 11:48

    Book by December 2

    • Darren says:

      14 Nov14 November 12:29

      Thanks, just checked a couple of destinations and it looks wide open on some routes. I don’t understand the Dec 2nd date though?

      • BlueHorizonuk says:

        14 Nov14 November 12:44

        You have to book by 2nd December and fly between 16 December 2018 and 31 March 2019

      • Darren says:

        14 Nov14 November 12:49

        I get that but reward availabilty is usually there until it’s used up rather than having a time scale imposed. I guess a cash sale in December would need availabilty.

      • KevMc says:

        14 Nov14 November 17:02

        I assume they mean that any of the 50k seats which go unsold will be removed on 3rd December?

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