New British Airways First and Club World sale launched, for travel into 2017

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• F says:

  4 Mar4 March 09:45

  Assume the Dublin sub £200 fares aren’t out of Gatwick since BA don’t fly to Dublin from there!

• VP says:

  4 Mar4 March 10:44

  OTP: Got an Email from Amex offering 3,000 MR for additional card holder on Gold Amex (1st is free). Doesn’t mention any minimum spend. Is that the case usually? You just add someone on the card and get the points and no minimum spend required by additional card holder?

  • idrive says:

    4 Mar4 March 12:27

    yes, just add

    • VP says:

      4 Mar4 March 13:32

      Thanks. It seems a no brainer to add my wife in that case.

      • rams1981 says:

        4 Mar4 March 16:05

        Can a person who already has an AMEX qualify as a supplmentary card holder? I’d like to add my wife but she already has the gold card!

        • Genghis says:

          4 Mar4 March 16:11

          Yes. I am a supp on my wife’s cards and vice versa. It increases the opportunities for offers and great when Amex small shop comes around.

        • rams1981 says:

          4 Mar4 March 16:14

          thank you sir!

  • JamesLHR says:

    4 Mar4 March 12:32

    Is this a targeted offer as I don’t have a supplementary card and haven’t received an email. In addition I once read you get bonus Avios for a supplementary card holder on the BA PP, can anyone confirm?

    • VP says:

      4 Mar4 March 13:34

      Don’t know if it’s targeted or not but it is open for another month so quite possible others will get the email soon.

    • Liz says:

      4 Mar4 March 13:51

      I emailed Amex last week re supps on BAPP and was told it was still valid (500 pts). Waiting.for 1000 pts to post for 2 suppl cards within 90 days. Also still valid on the blue card. We didn’t get the email for the gold card either – we have it in my husbands name only.

      • Waribai says:

        5 Mar5 March 08:03

        I think this is aimed at cardholders approaching the end of the fee free first year

• Alex says:

  4 Mar4 March 11:22

  Doesn’t look like there are any good Ex-EU + Sale fares this time. Anyone know if that’s a conscious decision or if they are to come?

• JFSV says:

  4 Mar4 March 12:29

  Offtopic and not sure what kind of fare code is this based on but I purchased yesterday AMS-MIA via LHR, few days over there in MIA, then MIA-EZE, few days in B. Aires and then back to LHR from EZE via JFK, all on AA for GBP 1250 pp in business class (books in I). From a quick look, similar fares were available for SCL instead of EZE.

  • idrive says:

    4 Mar4 March 13:39

    sounds like you are going to have a good time!

• Gordon says:

  4 Mar4 March 20:46

  I need to burn £1000 very quickly to reach a credit card bonus on starwood amex. Any suggstions on a fully refundable no hassle purchase – BA, other airline, hotel? I want to earn the bonus, clear the points and then request the refund.

  • Rob says:

    4 Mar4 March 21:25

    Fully flex BA ticket then pay £15 to cancel.

    • Ben says:

      4 Mar4 March 22:38

      Do Amex have any issues with that I’ve got another 2 months but if I run out of time, this might be necessary.

    • Alan says:

      10 Mar10 March 10:55

      Why do that though when you could make a fully cancellable Expedia hotel reservation for later in the year then cancel it at zero cost?

  • Polly says:

    5 Mar5 March 00:49

    Or buy Tesco gift cards if you shop there frequently and or buy petrol there…… Knowing you will use them up in a fee weeks…

  • Yuff says:

    6 Mar6 March 09:00

    Book a refundable hotel on Expedia, several months ahead, and when you’ve hit your target properly cancel the booking. I’ve done it several times with no issues.

• Stuart F says:

  4 Mar4 March 21:04

  This afternoon I was looking at LGW-BCN and it was offering me £100 off for 7,500 avios. Now the same search is only offering £100 off for 15,000. What changed? Do I need to follow a specific link to get the double value offer?

  • Tom says:

    5 Mar5 March 23:30

    I am getting exactly the same.. humph

• harry says:

  4 Mar4 March 21:08

  Tribunal’s views
  39. In my judgment, it is quite clear, having considered all the various 5 factors as set
  out below, that the appellant’s PE customers were travelling in a different and higher
  class of travel to those travelling in economy. The PE product was not the “lowest
  class of travel available on the aircraft”. In my view this conclusion is readily
  sustainable on the basis of the positioning of the PE seating behind the business
  10 section and in front of the economy seats with a curtain separating the PE and
  economy sections, and the improved snack made available to PE customers.
  40. While I agree with Mr Ewart that the function of the thin moveable curtain
  divider cannot be about privacy (if it were it might be expected that on flights where
  there was a very large contingent of business and PE customers that curtain dividers
  15 would be placed at regular intervals to break the cabin space up, and as Mr Ewart
  pointed out the divider gives just as much privacy to economy customers), it would be
  wrong to assess the significance of the curtain divider purely in physical terms. To do
  so would be to ignore what, in my view, an objective person familiar with air travel
  would readily appreciate. He or she would know that curtain dividers such as those
  20 described in this appeal however thin or flimsy are deployed for symbolic reasons as a
  sort of “marketing theatre” to differentiate who is travelling in which travel class; so
  much so that the act of having them drawn shut with a flourish after take off has
  become a cliché in the world of commercial air travel. The curtain divider provides
  visible reassurance to those in front of them that they are not an economy passenger
  25 and that others will appreciate this fact too. The fact the curtains are drawn back at
  take off and landing is not significant – it would readily be understood that this is
  done to facilitate heightened safety during those parts of the flight.
  41. The positioning of the PE passengers in front of the curtain with the business
  passengers is consistent with the marketing in relation to PE which suggests that PE
  30 customers are in their own cabin with the business class passengers. Given the layout
  of the business seats (with a maximum of four passengers per row as opposed to six),
  the passenger density in the separated area is also more likely to be lower.
  42. As to the snack which PE customers receive there is nothing in the appellant’s
  point that it is a matter of opinion as to what kind of sandwich filling is to be
  35 preferred. PE customers receive a different snack choice and it is clear that the kind of
  sandwich contents they are offered (the example Mr Jayer gave was salmon) is widely
  acknowledged to be superior to that offered in economy (ham or cheese).
  43. While I take into account that the type of seats the PE customers sit in are
  essentially the same as those which economy customers occupy when this fact is
  40 viewed together with the other facts I do not think it is significant enough to point
  towards PE and economy being the same “class of travel”.

  Lovely summing up of why we wouldn’t dream of paying extra to fly business on a 2 hr flight in Europe, not that m’learned colleague intended it as such

  • Polly says:

    5 Mar5 March 00:51

    Agree completely, never go club to Dublin, just not worth it, ever…

  • Lady London says:

    6 Mar6 March 01:24

    Personally I think BA, in the same court case, could have actually won.

• Ivo says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:42

  Hi Rob, completely OT but was just browsing through BA’s The Club and saw the Harvey Nichols offer of 5 Avios per ￡1 spent and 2,000 bonus if you spent more than ￡1,000 and BA > HN status matching that I thought might be interesting for the audience here. Just not sure if it was on your radar so wanted to mention it here.

  • Polly says:

    6 Mar6 March 00:55

    Ivor, who or what are HN ? Should know but can’t work it out! As you say it may be useful to us folk on site here.! Thank you.

    • Rob says:

      6 Mar6 March 08:26

      Harvey Nichols

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