Bits: earn Avios with new Deliveroo offer, more British Airways cabin crew strikes

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• Little money says:

  5 Jun5 June 04:37

  When is the next BA sale likely? (I read that they often appear in June)

• Rob hutch says:

  5 Jun5 June 05:31

  Avios supporting Deliveroos zero hours contracts based business? They’ll be teaming up with Wonga next. One to avoid this.

  • Lou says:

    5 Jun5 June 06:11

    I could never order anything via Deliveroo until there has been significant organisational changes. My heart is so heavy for those couriers who risk their lives on the road so that they can make ends meet on the pitiful pay offered. It has to stop

    • Mike says:

      5 Jun5 June 06:29

      Their choice to do the job, your choice to not tip them.

    • Gareth says:

      5 Jun5 June 07:22

      Risk their lives?!? Ridiculous.

      • Andrew says:

        5 Jun5 June 11:56

        They are risking their lives given the number I see going through red lights, on pavements or the wrong way up one way streets. Of course that’s all their own choice.

    • CC says:

      5 Jun5 June 09:53

      More like risking pedestrian lives like most other 2 wheeled maniacs

      • Ben says:

        5 Jun5 June 16:36

        Hogwash.

        • CC says:

          5 Jun5 June 17:17

          Poppycock and phooey

  • Mr Dee says:

    5 Jun5 June 07:47

    Forgetting how they treat their workers, the service is unreliable and there as for premium restaurants there is no review system so literally you could be ordering from a low quality burger type van making itself out to be a restaurant (Yes I have seen this)

    • john says:

      5 Jun5 June 10:24

      Well you can always use tripadvisor before you order!

• Genghis says:

  5 Jun5 June 07:16

  OT. Just over 25k cc points added this morning from the ink deal

  • Doug says:

    5 Jun5 June 07:20

    Why do I get 800 per £2.50 not the 600 always mentioned here, not complaining. If I temp switched to Virgin and then back again to Avios would I likely lose the special rate?

    • the real harry1 says:

      5 Jun5 June 07:58

      you have got a ‘grandfathered’ rate – lucky you

    • Alan says:

      5 Jun5 June 07:59

      You’re on the old, more generous, grandfathered rate. I don’t think switching affects this but will wait for someone with direct experience to come along – I’m on the 600pt rate!

    • avidsaver says:

      5 Jun5 June 08:12

      I get the same. This is an old “grandfathered” rate for being a higher spending customer in the deep distant past! I’ve not transferred recently but changing between Avios or BA Exec to Virgin and back again has never effected this 800 rate.

      • avidsaver says:

        5 Jun5 June 08:14

        affected

    • David Ottley says:

      5 Jun5 June 10:38

      It is because you were a premier customer at Tesco Clubcard years and years ago when spending over a certain figure at Tesco’s in a collecting period made you one. The benefits were subsequently preserved for Avios (Air Miles at the time). I too get the increased rate. Don’t worry, you’ve certainly earned it!

      • Fenny says:

        5 Jun5 June 13:09

        I have a Tesco World MasterCard, which is probably the only reason I’m on the old rate. I’ve never spent a bucket load at Tescos, but always got 800 points. And no, it’s not affected by switching to Virgin miles and back again. I mix and match my redemptions depending on offers.

  • Anna says:

    5 Jun5 June 07:27

    Got mine as well.

  • Tom says:

    5 Jun5 June 12:06

    Offer been pulled on Tesco website… No cancellation emails yet but I suspect they are on their way!

    • Roger C says:

      5 Jun5 June 17:13

      Mine’s been dispatched and points already in place.

  • Grimz says:

    5 Jun5 June 12:51

    Nothing for me yet. No email for cancelation of order either yet so still hopeful!

• Jaff says:

  5 Jun5 June 07:21

  Hi Rob,
  I am due to fly my first first ( BA promotion of free upgrade when buying a J ricket) to JFK on 17 June so my heart sank when I read this post regarding cabin crew strike action.

  Is the impact likely to be high on transatlantic services?

  • John says:

    5 Jun5 June 07:28

    JFK is not a mixed fleet route so no impact

    • Bruce says:

      5 Jun5 June 07:44

      Is there a list of which routes could be affected? We’re due to fly to Tallinn…

      • Genghis says:

        5 Jun5 June 07:47

        This might help
        https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1600711-mixed-fleet-vs-non-mixed-fleet-routes-21.html

        • Canuck says:

          5 Jun5 June 15:02

          Thanks for the link. Flying HAM > LHR > YYC on the 18th. Looks like I’ve got a double header of mixed fleet.

        • Bruce says:

          5 Jun5 June 17:49

          Thanks Genghis

        • Samir says:

          6 Jun6 June 08:33

          Thanks for the link. I’m in a similar position (first time flying first class using a 2for1 companion voucher) doing LHR to Beijing on the 16th, so looks like this might be at risk! Is there any precedent for compensation if my flight is affected?

• IslandDweller says:

  5 Jun5 June 07:33

  Gareth. There are clear links to increased accidents if you require workers to complete a task in a set time no matter what the circumstances (and they get zero pay if they don’t hit the deadline). Furthermore, indications from initial Court tests are that they do match the criteria to be counted as employees, but they don’t get any support network (health and safety policies??) from Deliveroo. This is straight back to Victorian exploitation. I won’t touch it with a barge pole.

• the real harry1 says:

  5 Jun5 June 08:02

  O/T split tickets (rail travel)

  might be useful to run this again as a reminder – one of the articles that can give outstanding savings if HFP readers can use the tip

  just bought my kids their latest half-term split tickets – they take the train to school

  the split ticket cost was about £110 vs £130 for not splitting

  £20 x2 kids
  x 6 half terms
  = £240 per annum

  also works on one-hit rail journeys, not just season tickets

• Neil says:

  5 Jun5 June 08:09

  Would love to get the 500 Avios from Deliveroo, but for some very annoying reason they don’t deliver to me. They deliver to basically everyone else in the same area as me (South London), but for some reason my postcode seems to have fallen through the cracks and I can’t get it.

  I even get the drivers going down my road, and they even pickup food from the places that are at the end of my road (literally 20 seconds walk), but have a different postcode.

  Contacted them a couple of times but they don’t seem to understand what I’m on about and just say “We’ll let you know when it’s available in your area”.

  • Crafty says:

    5 Jun5 June 12:31

    I know someone who works there who could get it sorted if you email me.

• Ben says:

  5 Jun5 June 09:37

  Hi,
  I am due to fly back from Johannesburg to London Heathrow on the 16th June (when the strike starts). Do you think as the crew will already be in Johannesburg my flight will be as normal or will I be stuck out there?

  Thanks

  Ben

  • Rob says:

    5 Jun5 June 11:08

    All long-haul flights go out, don’t worry about that. The worst that can happen is that they close down First Class, as they have in the past on some flights, to free up some crew.

    • Ben says:

      5 Jun5 June 12:26

      Ahhh, ok thats great. Its a work trip to defo not flying first 😉

      • Nick says:

        5 Jun5 June 23:24

        More importantly than that, CREW ALREADY DOWNROUTE DO NOT STRIKE. They work their full pattern. Crew in JNB on the 16th would have left London on the 14th, when ops were normal (there’s no dispensation to start striking early!). At the same time, flights back from South Africa will be affected for two days after the ‘official’ strike as these are the return legs of affected sectors. That said, there are far more likely routes to be hit than that, so either way the risk is low.

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