Bits: Tallinn BA tier point run, 10% Clubcard to Virgin transfer bonus, 500 Avios with Iberia wine

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• JamesLHR says:

  8 Nov8 November 05:30

  Will the VS 10% bonus be added automatically? My auto conversion has already taken place without the bonus, on the 25OCT.

  • Tilly71 says:

    8 Nov8 November 08:03

    Same here, would like to know the answer to?

    • Jonathan says:

      8 Nov8 November 09:53

      I emailed Virgin about the 10% bonus yesterday as I converted my Clubcard points on 31st October. They replied saying that the 10% bonus will be added to my account after the promotion ends on 13th November. Hope that helps.

      • Tilly71 says:

        8 Nov8 November 12:03

        Thanks

  • mart says:

    8 Nov8 November 09:52

    no bonus here either ?

• David says:

  8 Nov8 November 05:39

  On the subject of transferring into Virgin, the following message appears on the Amex MR website as an alert: “Due to changes on Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club system, Cardmembers are temporarily unable to transfer Membership Rewards points to Virgin Atlantic from 9 November at 11.45 PM UK time and ending 15 November 2016 at 11.59 PM UK time. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your patience on this matter”

  So, if anyone needs any MR to VS conversions in the next couple of days, do them before now.

  Hopefully this is just to do with the Flying Club system changes, and not any rate changes. Given the MR conversion rate is currently the same as BA, I can’t see VS making it worse (as it would then be worse than BA).

  • Genghis says:

    8 Nov8 November 05:43

    Aren’t Virgin giving new membership numbers?

    • David says:

      8 Nov8 November 05:51

      And the number will stop changing as your tier changes. As I said, I fully expect this IS simply a systems change as they say, rather than anything unwelcome.

      • Genghis says:

        8 Nov8 November 06:06

        Do we know what will happen with Virgin MBNA credit cards? Any disruption in transferring over miles? Will the new membership numbers be communicated by Virgin to MBNA? Likewise with Tesco auto convert?

        • David says:

          8 Nov8 November 06:15

          Tesco have not announced any disruption, and speculating but I’d be confident MBNA would be fine or only minimal disruption regardless (at most a posting delay depending upon when your month end is.)
          Can only guess the Amex to Virgin systems link is for some reason more intimate, or via a different route that is disrupted.
          They will need to have a system in place to reroute mis-addressed incoming stuff (loads of hotel scheme and car hire partners, etc). Relatively easy to do a lookup and re-write process on incoming stuff. Can only guess something about the Amex link is different.

• Lumma says:

  8 Nov8 November 06:11

  For the finnair a350 flights. Are they the ones that say “Aircraft type unavailable” on BA.Com?

  • Tony says:

    8 Nov8 November 06:51

    I’d previously booked for early May BH and A350 flights were listed as BA6032 and BA6031. Just done a search for flights on BA.com and on almost all dates the Finnair flights aren’t showing just the twice weekly BA ones. V odd!

    • Rob says:

      8 Nov8 November 08:06

      The A350 flights are operated for cargo reasons, by the way. Their timetable slots should be pretty firm. It isn’t Finnair using up a couple of new planes it has sitting around.

  • Mark says:

    8 Nov8 November 08:09

    the finnair A350 flights operate 5 times a week from LHR at 10.20am as AY 832 (BA6032) (not Tuesday or Saturday). Return is from HEL at 08.00 as AY831 (BA6031) (again not Tuesday or Saturday)

    • sprout7 says:

      8 Nov8 November 08:43

      I’m not so sure that’s right (however I’m no expert!)
      I booked return Finnair flights yesterday for Easter Saturday and returning on the following Tuesday both on these flight numbers and they show as being on the A350.
      Maybe the timetable changes for the spring??

      • Mark says:

        8 Nov8 November 09:09

        could be- that’s the winter schedule that I’m aware of.

        • Kinkell says:

          8 Nov8 November 09:25

          I booked the other day for a trip to Tallinn next August. Used BA 6031 ad 2 which are listed as the a350. Went to book seats which takes you to the Finnair site and you can select. Already had a confirnpnation of all our seats on all legs.

• Ian says:

  8 Nov8 November 06:27

  Anyone know how long the avios take to credit for the wine.

  Ordered their previous offer and still waiting for the avios to post to my iberia account.

  • the real harry says:

    8 Nov8 November 07:08

    8 weeks for us

  • Kevin Young says:

    8 Nov8 November 07:26

    I still waiting if it’s any consolation.

    • Liz says:

      8 Nov8 November 08:01

      Still waiting on the wine and the points! They were out of stock but it should be delivered this week!

• Sorin says:

  8 Nov8 November 06:29

  Hi Rob, I can’t seem to get any Finnair flight options on BA. Any idea why that is? I get the direct flights to TLL for the mentioned price but no connection through Helsinki.

  • Rob says:

    8 Nov8 November 08:07

    Search early in 2017, eg Feb.

  • Mark says:

    8 Nov8 November 08:25

    This is not unusual with BA. Once they have direct flights to a place they often will not show connections with partners. Search the period before the BA direct flights start on 28 March 2017 and you’ll see all the options via HEL.

    • sprout7 says:

      8 Nov8 November 08:46

      I agree.
      I booked the Finnair flights yesterday off the BA website with numerous permutations available and none are showing today. However, I checked on ITA this morning and those same permutations are still showing at the same price.

      • Chris says:

        9 Nov9 November 19:40

        If you book via American Express Travel website it gives you the same options and prices and shows you what aircraft

• the real harry says:

  8 Nov8 November 06:33

  for those who are ordering the Vinoseleccion wine offer: don’t forget to click through on Iberia’s Plustore shopping portal to get a few extra Avios

  • Ian says:

    8 Nov8 November 07:10

    Doesn’t show on the portal.

    • the real harry says:

      8 Nov8 November 07:17

      you’d have to click through on the portal then copy & paste the link above & drop it into your address box

• Zoe says:

  8 Nov8 November 06:43

  OT Shop Small seems to include my local post office but it is listed as ‘town name post office’ and therefore does not appear when searching for ‘post office’ . Is there anyone techie enough to extract / explain how to extract details of all post offices included. I can personally interested in Hants and Dorset ones. Thanks in advance and sorry if I’m just being extra blonde!

  • the real harry says:

    8 Nov8 November 07:06

    is your post office a concession inside a shop? ISTR last time round Shop Small purchases from the post office did not get the £5 whereas purchases from the shop did

    actually I know this for a fact, as I was always careful (on my stamps run 🙂 ) to buy stamps from the shop rather than the PO

    • Zoe says:

      8 Nov8 November 07:14

      It was a normal large old style post office until recently. Now I guess it’s half and half with 4 dedicated post office tills at the back. I post eBay items daily so won’t lose out by trying the post office tills.
      I could just do with a few more to exploit.

      • Genghis says:

        8 Nov8 November 07:19

        It might be a manual process of finding POs on PO website and then search on the SS map. However, the map is rubbish and doesn’t really bring up all shops in area.

        I’m ready. I’ve got my shops planned out and 8 Amex fully loaded…

        • mark2 says:

          8 Nov8 November 11:17

          Last December there was a similar statement credit offer for purchases from the Post Office (and Superdrug). Here’s hoping for this year!
          I agree that the map is rubbish (again).
          One Stop Shop seems to have disappeared. This was quite useful for generic purchases at half price.

  • Ian says:

    8 Nov8 November 07:23

    Don’t forget to wait until December for it to start.

    I wonder how many purchase too early.

• N says:

  8 Nov8 November 07:08

  I’m in Tallinn now (flew here via Ryanair!), this place is stunning. Food amazing, people amazing, sights beautiful.

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