Bits: A380s to Iberia and Aer Lingus?, Qatar Airways raises stake in IAG

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• Liz says:

  28 Apr28 April 12:45

  OT email just in from Curve confirming the bug has been fixed for online and CNP transactions.

• mark2 says:

  28 Apr28 April 13:37

  OT
  I need to book a 241 soon and the 241 certificate is on my wife’s BAEC account but most of the Avios are in my name. Should I create a family account in BAEC? If so do I need to move the Avios to my BAEC account first? How easy is it to split the account afterwards?
  Alternatively, I could create an Avios joint account and then split it leaving all of the points in my wife’s name; would that be better?

  • Genghis says:

    28 Apr28 April 13:47

    Hi Mark. Is it you and your wife that want to fly using the 241? If so, create a BAEC household account (HHA) so your avios are pooled in the HHA. Then when you book a redemption, avios are taken from each individual avios account in proportion of the individual’s avios balance. Not too sure how easy it is to split afterwards – Avios accounts I believe are more fiddly.

    • mark2 says:

      28 Apr28 April 17:23

      Thanks Gengis. Splitting Avios accounts is very simple: you just download a form, complete, sign and return it and it happens quickly. You also have complete control over how the points are split.

      • Genghis says:

        28 Apr28 April 17:57

        OT but my MIL has a few thousand avios with no use for them. She lives in a different property to us. What’s the easiest way of transferring them to me?

        • harry says:

          28 Apr28 April 18:35

          She can temporarily live with you then it’s easy, just change her Avios address & add her to HH a/c.

• Sussex Bantam says:

  28 Apr28 April 14:18

  Massively OT but – I took out an Economist subscription 12 months ago via the enhanced Iberia offer for 12,000 Avios IIRC. I want to renew but the current offer is only 4400 Avios.

  Anyone know how often the enhanced offer comes round ?

  • Genghis says:

    28 Apr28 April 14:26

    Not sure exactly but I signed up in Jan 16 for the 12k avios offer. A quick Google of ‘Head for Points Economist’ shows the offer was around in Nov 14 too.

  • mark2 says:

    28 Apr28 April 17:24

    Are you sure that you will get the points on a renewal?
    To make sure, I let mine lapse and took out a new one in my wife’s name.

    • Sussex bantam says:

      28 Apr28 April 20:12

      Yes. I didn’t actually mean ‘renew’ literally !!

• zark says:

  28 Apr28 April 15:26

  Back to the A380 likes / dislikes. I have now flown BA A380 in business class 4 times and once seated I cannot tell the difference between being on an A380 or a 747. The business class seating layout and the actual seat used I think are exactly the same. Perhaps someone can correct me or point out what I am missing.
  However, for boarding and disembarkation, I have found that there are simply more people, so bigger queues for everything and what I find a particular nuisance is waiting for baggage on arrival: more people=more bags=more time.
  As a result, my preference is for anything BUT the A380 with BA long-haul.
  Cannot comment for the apparent excellent in-flight experiences with the likes of Qatar and Emirates which Raffles has described elsewhere, as I’m a regular Amex 2-4-1 long-haul Avios optimiser!

• harry says:

  28 Apr28 April 17:04

  Going back to food on BA in Europe – I agree the sandwich & sweet bun thing are a waste of time – but the salad or veggie option is usually pretty good – at Easter it was a rather tasty cous cous/ Moroccan dish. And they can’t really spoil the booze, it might not be Champagne but of course the spirits are good, the beers are good & the wines are not too awful; coffee perfectly OK.

  I’d miss them!

• harry says:

  28 Apr28 April 17:48

  O/T Amex – applied for Gold on Monday, cards arrived today – is this a record? 🙂

  Naturally for 22000 + 9000 bonus points.

  [Incidentally, DVLA are pretty good at turnaround on driving licence renewals – I did mine online 2 weeks ago, they used my passport photo (ie already held by Govt agency) and the new licence arrived 2 days later!

  For my hat-trick, last year my passport renewal was an amazingly fast turnaround, about 5 working days – pays to apply out of season and they just add on any spare months from the old one to your new 10 years validity.]

  • Genghis says:

    28 Apr28 April 17:55

    I thought you’d be a platinum, Harry? 35k+18k

    • harry says:

      28 Apr28 April 18:12

      I don’t actually like to game it that much with cards, ie I’ll not really churn the Golds, just time it to not pay £140 year 2. With platinum, to make it stack up I’d be obtaining, spending through then cancelling again inside a month (to reduce the fee) – & I’m personally not over-happy with that idea. I know that plenty here do that, no problem you reprobates 🙂 . I know others justify the fee with the insurance & PP benefits plus hotel status – I couldn’t do that either.

      • Talay says:

        28 Apr28 April 19:20

        Pretty much where I am on the Platinum debate. Still not using Gold either so should really rectify that for wife and myself 🙂

  • Callum says:

    29 Apr29 April 10:42

    Not “any spare months”, up to 9. (Not me just being pedantic! My passport will need to be renewed 2 years early as it’s almost full, but will only keep 9 of those months).

• pauldb says:

  28 Apr28 April 20:23

  OT. I got sent some Tesco codes including
  XXJJHJ 500pts for £50 wine (by 22nd May)

• John Wallace says:

  28 Apr28 April 22:28

  O/T. Whilst you are talking about CC . I am fairly new to generating avios via credit cards . I did take out a lloyds dual card 18 months ago and are still using for a very low amount of avios each month. Although I do spend 1K per month. I have read the curve discussions and think I understand the concept . So, my question is if YOU were going to apply for another Amex would it be BA PP or Amex Gold / Plat ? . Who has the best sign up deals at the moment ??? . Then I would need to open Curve also to ensure Amex can be used everywhere ??

  Thanks for the help !

  • Johnnycl says:

    28 Apr28 April 23:06

    Check out the April Credit Cards tab at the top of the page for the current offers. Personally I would go for the BA card now due to the extra points offer then move on to Amex Gold for a free 20k points in a couple of months.

  • mark2 says:

    28 Apr28 April 23:07

    IMO it depends whether you are going to aim for a 241. Remember that BAPP has a £195 annual fee including the first year. The sign up is about the same. Of course you can have the other once you have met the spend requirement.

    • Genghis says:

      29 Apr29 April 06:52

      To add to what’s already been said, depending where you want to go, a 241 is only good to go for if you already (or will) have a stack of avios

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