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This is today’s chat thread.
If you have specific questions about Avios, hotels or credit cards, please ask them in the appropriate forum and not here. This thread is a good place to post interesting deals you have spotted or your general thoughts on travel and all things miles and points. Thank you for contributing.
Good morning from the 25h circle hotel cologne.
Very nice hotel in a nice trendy area of the city, everything about the hotel is excellent, except the rooms are so hot as the aircon is terrible, which is a terrible shame, as despite everything else being so good, the aircon, or lack off, is a deal breaker for me.
However, if you don’t mind warm rooms, I fully recommend the hotel, as everything else is excellent.
Booked three of us into club world. We are but a humble blue status now so seat reservations are at a premium! As it’s in the old con fig, are BA obliged to seat us all together therefore guaranteeing us the middle seats together or is it still luck of the draw if you don’t reserve in advance?
Booked three of us into club world. We are but a humble blue status now so seat reservations are at a premium! As it’s in the old con fig, are BA obliged to seat us all together therefore guaranteeing us the middle seats together or is it still luck of the draw if you don’t reserve in advance?
BA isn’t obliged to seat you together but most likely will. If there are children involved, they are ideally supposed to be seated in the same row as a parent but, if not, no more than one row away.
PS Blue will soon be the new cool card.
‘BA isn’t obliged to seat you together but most likely will’ – providing they can.
You do need to keep a regular eye on the seat map. If one or more seats in every set of three has already been selected before T-72 then they aren’t going to move others around to keep you together. If sitting together is important you may need to make an expensive choice if the empty rows start running out.
Polite requests on the day may produce agreements to relocate, but cannot be assumed or expected.
Re paying for seats I think the new BAC gives you tier points for ancillary spend on flights which includes paying for seat selection.
But normally Avios flights don’t earn TP. Does this apply to paid for seating on a reward flight as well or is that an exception?
Pretty sure it’s covered in the rules, but as Reward flights do not earn Avios on seat selection or extra bag fees I don’t think they are going to earn TP either.
Pretty sure it’s covered in the rules, but as Reward flights do not earn Avios on seat selection or extra bag fees I don’t think they are going to earn TP either.
We paid for seats on the outbound. No TP credited so far but it could be post flight?
Pretty sure it’s covered in the rules, but as Reward flights do not earn Avios on seat selection or extra bag fees I don’t think they are going to earn TP either.
This isn’t correct, seat selection fees earn Avios regardless of it being a Reward flight.
Apologies I’d missed that non-trivial change. Having belatedly looked, it says that reward flight airport upgrades will also earn Avios and TP as well.
Datapoint – my South Eastern train was delayed on Sunday, I submitted a delay repay claim on Sunday evening, claim authorised yesterday and money in my account this morning.
I’ve never had a claim settled this quickly.Datapoint – my South Eastern train was delayed on Sunday, I submitted a delay repay claim on Sunday evening, claim authorised yesterday and money in my account this morning.
I’ve never had a claim settled this quickly.I’ve found delay repay to be very quick. Mine have been with Thameslink.
I received an email from Status Match as a BA Club member, offering a match (cost £99) to Flyingblue (Air France/KLM). As a silver BA member, I would match to Flyingblue Gold. I don’t know much about Flyingblue, not sure it is worth the match for me, but might be for others?
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Thanks. I wasn’t aware that delay repay can be very quick.
Hi guys, I can’t seem to find anything on this so I’ll ask here.
I have had an Amex of some sort for a long time, and always pay it off with my Curve, however my wife just got her new Amex after 2 years and of course it would be nice if I could pay hers off with my Curve card also.
I do recall reading somewhere on here a while back that Amex now take a dim view of paying off your bill with someone else’s card, indeed it may not now even be possible?
Before I try, is this a bad idea, or will the Amex payment system even accept it?
I wouldn’t want to incur the wrath of Amex and whatever the consequences, hence some advice here beforehand would be welcome.
Thank you@bungalow Very bad idea, numerous cases of Amex cancelling all cards and consistently one of the issue is the bill being paid from an account not in the cardholders name.
We’re flying to LHR for the early May bank holiday as there’s just no way we can rely on the trains, also much cheaper to get avios flights in economy and hop on the tube into London which will deposit us very conveniently near to the ICPL!
As BA gold, can I use First wing security on the way back? My feeling is that we should be able to but we rarely start at LHR T5 – the only time we’ve used it in the past was when we were on F tickets anyway.
@bungalow – there are other ways to use Curve which won’t get you in trouble with Amex!@bungalow Assume you are using Curve fronted to pay. the limit is £3000/moth. As @strickers suggests paying with a card/account not in your name is a big no now
2 nights ago, I cancelled a long-haul avios redemption. I mostly only cancel short-haul, which have always returned the avios immediately, and it shows the cash/avios refund (usually only 50p cancellation fee). I’m sure last time I cancelled long haul, the points were refunded immediately.
But, this time, it just said apply for a refund, and had no indication of the avios and cash refund (minus £35 cancellation fee). I got a confirmation email immediately of the cancellation request, but that it was being processed, and card refund to be calculated.
So, my question is, typically how long does it take for the avios to be refunded when it goes through this process?
It was a bog standard one-way redemption, which I cancelled after another seat became available, and I was able to use my newly earned BC upgrade voucher. I posted about this a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t want to cancel my existing booking unless there was an available seat to book with my voucher first.
We’re flying to LHR for the early May bank holiday as there’s just no way we can rely on the trains, also much cheaper to get avios flights in economy and hop on the tube into London which will deposit us very conveniently near to the ICPL!
As BA gold, can I use First wing security on the way back? My feeling is that we should be able to but we rarely start at LHR T5 – the only time we’ve used it in the past was when we were on F tickets anyway.
@bungalow – there are other ways to use Curve which won’t get you in trouble with Amex!Yes, you and one guest can use first wing and security which takes you straight into First lounge. If you have more than one person with you, you can check in/ drop bags at First Wing but can’t use security as limit is by ref to guest limit for the lounge.
Thanks – just 2 of us and HBO!
In other news, I can’t help but be thankful it was only a load of cocaine someone managed to conceal in the loo …
So confused, had a Priority Pass arrive saying it’s been renewed courtesy of Amex, but I only have BAPP at the moment and no other cards with them
Hi guys, I can’t seem to find anything on this so I’ll ask here.
I have had an Amex of some sort for a long time, and always pay it off with my Curve, however my wife just got her new Amex after 2 years and of course it would be nice if I could pay hers off with my Curve card also.
I do recall reading somewhere on here a while back that Amex now take a dim view of paying off your bill with someone else’s card, indeed it may not now even be possible?
Before I try, is this a bad idea, or will the Amex payment system even accept it?
I wouldn’t want to incur the wrath of Amex and whatever the consequences, hence some advice here beforehand would be welcome.
Thank youWhy would anybody want to use up their curve fronted monthly allowance on anything other than to stick £3k into a savings account then use that to pay off whatever you need to pay off – including the card you put it on – 6 weeks later ? Same goes for anybody who doesn’t utilise their £1k cash withdrawal limit. £4k = 6000 avios for 5 minutes work. Curve even advise you the best way to use fronted on the app.
I guess you’ve had the nickname Bungalow for a while :))
In other news, I can’t help but be thankful it was only a load of cocaine someone managed to conceal in the loo …
Good to see BA finally competing with Qatar’s bumps of caviar! Is this only for F passengers?
I never imagined that I’d see the day, but tickets for the inaugural Global Airlines flights have gone on sale today. £3,700 return from Glasgow to New York in business, and considerably more in First – but there is only one First seat remaining on the inbound journey, so it’s not an option for couples.
Any HfP readers aboard? And I assume that Rhys has a press pass so we can all learn about the experience?
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