Bits: good Virgin West Coast First Class sale, get 2015 free Starwood points on your next stay

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• Ralphy says:

  2 Dec2 December 08:39

  Excellent Rob, thanks for this, I am currently on my seven-monthly SPG points collection regime with AmEx cards referred to various family members that live in my household 😉 and also have a stay booked at a Luxury Collection hotel in Moscow for Christmas (flying BA Club For £50 x 2 + 37,500 Avios and wasting a 241 – can’t user it otherwise) and these bonus SPG points will be the icing on the cake!

• Andy says:

  2 Dec2 December 08:49

  The Virgin first class sale only is for West Coast. London to North West is £30 one way.

  • Andy says:

    2 Dec2 December 10:03

    Considering it’s usually £50 each way for standard class (for my going to Oxenholme, at least), £30ish for 1st is something of a bargain.

• Rob says:

  2 Dec2 December 10:15

  OT. But has anybody seen these ‘Hotel Voucher Shop’ gift cards in Tesco? They are advertised on their website. It just occurred to me these could be an effective way or churning through the Christmas 100 point bonus cut-outs. It seems they are valid in most of the big hotel names.

  • Fenny says:

    2 Dec2 December 20:15

    Not seen those, but I’ve decided the best way of using the bonus point vouchers is to buy £20 Currys vouchers, then using those to buy Now TV and Netflix vouchers.

• Thunderbirds says:

  2 Dec2 December 10:51

  OT: BA sent out an e-mail with a flash sale for Avios 40% bonus

  OT: Anyone received their Ambassador renewal pack lately I’ve been waiting since July. They claim to be still coordinating with their supplier following the recent introduction of Spire…

• Phill Ramsay says:

  2 Dec2 December 12:10

  Another OT

  My flights from Doha to Manchester on Qatar have changed a couple of times recently with regards to what plane will be used, I know this happens a lot with Qatar but if it stays the way it is then it looks like Qatar may be using 787-8s into Manchester after all. So far the flight has gone from a A330-200 to a 777-300 and now shows as the dreamliner. I know which one I would want the most!

  • Leo says:

    2 Dec2 December 12:31

    My HKT flight to DOH in March has also changed from an a330 to a 787…..

• Leo says:

  2 Dec2 December 12:30

  And YET another OT: Completely off thread. Back on the thorny issue of “missing” – ahem – the last return leg on an ex-EU BA flight – I am presuming (on the basis of having hand baggage only), one doesn’t actually check-in for the last flight? To minimise disruption….?

  • Rob says:

    2 Dec2 December 12:55

    Yes, it makes life easier for BA.

    • Leo says:

      2 Dec2 December 13:00

      Message received!

• harry says:

  2 Dec2 December 13:39

  O/T Tesco conversion + bonus.

  Any reports of the bonus being received yet?

  • Rob says:

    2 Dec2 December 14:32

    Nope ….

• Sussex Bantam says:

  2 Dec2 December 16:31

  Massively OT – I just stumbled across “Amex’s preferred shipping partner” – myus.com. Does anyone have any experience with them ?

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