Save an extra 10% on Qatar Airways sale flights – today only

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• Jody says:

  7 Jan7 January 11:05

  O/T – when booked a hotel through Amex travel, does it charge your card instantly? Am looking to take advantage of the statement credit of £50 when you spend £200, but don’t need a hotel until April.

  • Kai says:

    7 Jan7 January 11:49

    Yes

    • Jody says:

      7 Jan7 January 11:52

      Brilliant, thank you!

• Matthew says:

  7 Jan7 January 11:26

  OT – Lloyds voucher again!! Trying to use it before it expires and i’ve called the number on the email to use the voucher 4 times now in last week. Waited an hour on hold each time and get cut off. Called BA exec club and they washed there hands with it and said nothing to do with them. Going round in circles. Anyone got any tips to get through to use voucher?

  Thanks

  • Ant says:

    7 Jan7 January 11:55

    call 03444933349 and they should be able to book your flights using the voucher. It took me about 10min to get through on Sunday morning and the lady who took my call knew what she was doing and was v efficient.

    • Matthew says:

      7 Jan7 January 11:56

      That’s the number I’ve been on hold for ages :-(. Will try again!

      • Gerry says:

        7 Jan7 January 13:27

        Had same experience. Eventually when I got through I was told late morning/early afternoon was best time to call.
        Good Luck.

        • Matthew says:

          7 Jan7 January 15:30

          Finally got through this afternoon. 2.5hrs total waiting! Lady very helpful and very knowledgeable.

  • Anna says:

    7 Jan7 January 12:00

    BA can certainly do it as the voucher is now in your BAEC account and they booked one for me last February. It sounds as though it’s a bit of a nightmare to use these last vouchers but I think someone posted recently that they managed to get theirs extended after complaining that they couldn’t get through on the phone to book it.

• nwoody2001 says:

  7 Jan7 January 11:56

  OT: 241 BA Voucher Query.

  Looking to book my First 241 voucher and as such and keen to get the tickets for the dates id like. HFP and other websites suggest that reward availability becomes available on line 365T from your flight. However, I’m looking on the BA Website now and there is no option to search any reward availability beyond 26th December 2020…. If its relevant im looking for LHR-MEX flights.

  The dames I’m looking for are in Feb 2021 so a while yet but I thought I’d do my research early.

  Comments welcome.

  Neil

  • Anna says:

    7 Jan7 January 12:04

    Seats are released at T-355, not 365, though they seem to be a day out this year due to the leap year. Anyway, I think availability is currently there up till 26/12. If you do a dummy booking with BA, their calendar shows you the latest date you can book.

    • Anna says:

      7 Jan7 January 12:07

      Also, where do you want to go in Mexico? The Cancun flight departs from LGW AFAIK.

      • nwoody2001 says:

        7 Jan7 January 12:25

        Thanks for the advice Anna much appreciated. Im looking at the LHR-MEX flight not the LGW-CUN.

        • Anna says:

          7 Jan7 January 12:37

          Yes, realised after I posted that MEX is Mexico City! I don’t know what the demand is for this redemption but you could always use your 2 4 1 to the US and connect from there.
          Also – you put “First 2 4 1”, do you mean it’s the first time you’ve use one or you want to fly in First class? F seats not always released at T-355.

• Alex says:

  7 Jan7 January 13:12

  OT: Looking to hire a car in Canada for 2.5weeks in September. I am over 30 however my partner is not and therefore rental prices jump up massively! Is there any sites/deals people are aware of to help keep it down? The only other option is for me to do all of the driving which is not ideal…

  • Kip says:

    7 Jan7 January 16:59

    If you book a car in the US with Avis through BA then you get the second driver free. Might be worth seeing if that applies to Canada too.

• Pat says:

  7 Jan7 January 13:47

  Qatar sale? I was looking at business class fares to SYD or AKL. No discount in comparison with last week prices. In fact more expensive than most other airlines. Have promo prices not yet been loaded?

• Andrew says:

  7 Jan7 January 14:46

  Nothing to see here – fares are all the same if not higher than they were yesterday, even with the so call promo code.

  • Stoneman says:

    7 Jan7 January 14:57

    Yup. Disappointing.

    • ayearinmx says:

      7 Jan7 January 15:10

      Flying LGW-HKT with Qatar is still more expensive booking on Qatar’s website, than booking on BA.com… even with this “discount”

• Ian says:

  7 Jan7 January 15:13

  I posted this previously, but had no response, so thought I would try again.

  Not sure if I am remembering something that never existed, but did BA ever include UK transfers at no extra cost when booking long haul from London. I.e. LHR – JFK would be the same price as MAN – JFK via LHR?

  • Shoestring says:

    7 Jan7 January 15:41

    that’s still true on points redemptions – the extra flight doesn’t cost any points to get to LHR but you do pay taxes/ fees

  • Anna says:

    7 Jan7 January 17:19

    I must have missed this as I would definitely have answered! But yes, you don’t pay any extra avios IF booked on one PNR, but you do have to pay the taxes for the relevant cabin. You can get round this if you’re happy to do the connection in economy (and only pay economy fees) by using the “stopover” option when booking. You don’t actually have to stopover anywhere but you can then pick the cabin individually for each leg.

• Craig says:

  7 Jan7 January 15:28

  Virgin Atlantic credit card points cap – is this applicable to every cardholder? I’ve recently opened the card in December and I’ve had no notification of this new cap. I can’t find a reference to it on the website or in the T&C’s.

  • Rob says:

    7 Jan7 January 15:56

    You are not meant to churn your credit limit, in theory, so it isn’t covered in the T&Cs. You are meant to assume you shouldn’t do it – Virgin doesn’t need to specifically tell you that you can’t do something you shouldn’t be doing anyway!

    • Genghis says:

      7 Jan7 January 17:32

      Why? If I have a credit card with a £5k limit, the company are agreeing to effectively lend me £5k at any one time. If I pay them back intra-month, then I’m not breaking the limit. If something isn’t documented as agreed then it doesn’t exist.

      • memesweeper says:

        7 Jan7 January 18:10

        As Rob says, many card companies just assume you won’t do this.

        It’s not just points earning that can be impacted. Interest free amounts can get messed up if you pay ‘too early’. The IT just isn’t geared up to deal with this correctly, presumably because the banks don’t expect users to behave that way. You can get these things fixed up afterwards, but it will involve a manual intervention.

      • Sussex bantam says:

        7 Jan7 January 18:12

        Plus if I pay back mid month my “available to spend” amount goes back up again. How should I guess that I’m not supposed to spend it ??

      • The Savage Squirrel says:

        7 Jan7 January 19:23

        “You are not meant to churn your credit limit” Eh? I agree with Genghis. If you’re not supposed to repay mid-month and then spend more then why have the card companies added a feature that is specifically designed to let you … er …. repay mid-month and then spend more!

        • Munch says:

          7 Jan7 January 20:54

          Had anyone had problems “churning their credit limit” on the IHG card. Always done it on my Virgin card but never tried it on IHG.

        • Paul Pogba says:

          7 Jan7 January 22:10

          I did this last Feb to pay my corp tax with no problems, earnt points – no issues.

    • BJ says:

      7 Jan7 January 20:40

      My dad has settled all his card balances weekly forever without any grief from any of the card providers, many of which he has outlived.

      • Rob says:

        7 Jan7 January 21:52

        That’s not the same as necessarily spending his full limit each week. Amex, I thought, specically does not like this.

  • Lev441 says:

    7 Jan7 January 21:38

    That has changed! Wasn’t there this time last week…

    • EwanG says:

      7 Jan7 January 22:36

      The thing is this is not enforceable unless they contact customers using a Notice of Variation to advise them that the T&Cs have changed. The also need to give adequate notice too, in line with what the T&Cs say (2 months according to what was mentioned when this came up last week) so if anyone falls foul of this just now without having received an email or letter bringing this change to their attention, they have sufficient grounds to go back to Virgin Money to challenge it.

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