Bits: Atlantis The Palm Avios promo, all food now free at Escape lounges, airberlin closing

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• Nick says:

  12 Oct12 October 15:49

  Stayed at Atlantis in the summer and I have to say it’s the most overrated hotel I’ve ever stayed at… So many better hotels in the UAE for less money too 🙂

• Canuck says:

  12 Oct12 October 16:38

  OT: Received an offer for the BA Visa (with Royal Bank of Canada). 15k Avios on application. 25k Avios on $5000 spend in 2 months and another 10k Avios on first year renewal. Fee is $165 and the 241 kicks in at $30,000 spend.

  Worth a punt? Vastly different from UK Amex version.

  • Old Card says:

    12 Oct12 October 16:46

    Looks good – Canadian permanent residents only tho 🙁

• Liz says:

  12 Oct12 October 17:13

  OT Has anyone tried Combine my Avios recently. We got the AerClub bonus again recently and I just tried moving the 250 Avios from my daughter’s own Avios account to her account in our BAEC household account but it keeps rejecting the info even though I’ve used it several times, the last being in May. Online chat says there has been a security update and now name, DOB, address and email all have to match across the accounts. I use my main email for the BAEC account across our 3 family members so will now need to have individual email addresses for each person.

  • Rob says:

    12 Oct12 October 17:22

    Covered this the other day. New security process means all info must now match.

    • Liz says:

      12 Oct12 October 17:36

      Duh! I must have missed that!

      • Liz says:

        12 Oct12 October 17:41

        Duh – short term memory lapse! Our addresses are all the same so it would appear the email addresses need to match too!

• Andrew Stock says:

  13 Oct13 October 07:36

  The Escape Lounge, the only decent part of Stansted Airport, a truly awful and horrible airport.

  • Mike G says:

    13 Oct13 October 07:51

    Agree with you on Stansted, Andrew. The Escape Lounge is my brief respite from the hell of the rest of the airport.

• James says:

  19 Oct19 October 18:55

  RELATED TO AIRBERLIN CLOSING.
  I forgot I had an AirBerlin flight booked using Avios !! I have today had an email from BA telling me that the flight has been cancelled (surprise, surprise). Should I expect the Avios to be returned to my account ? Should I be refunded the taxes & charges ?

  Anyone know WHEN in the process BA would have actually paid AirBerlin for the flight ? The Avios are obviously administratively removed from my account (so I can’t spend them more than once !) immediately, but when would BA actually pay AirBerlin for the flight ? On the day of booking (several months in advance !), one month in advance, a week in advance, the day of the flight or after the flight ?

  I’m also wondering the same for TopBonus points (As I had some flights booked on AirBerlin using TopBonus points too). When in the process would TopBonus ‘pay’ AirBerlin for a flight booked using TopBonus points ? When would the value of points be transferred from TopBonus to AirBerlin ? On the day of booking (several months in advance !), one month in advance, a week in advance, the day of the flight or after the flight ?
  Cheers.

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 19:56

    Topbonus accounting was reportedly very dodgy – Etihad was playing games to stop money leaching out of AB. See http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/08/22/airberlin-topbonus-problems/

    BA should reroute you. My wife was booked on Qatar Airways to Dubai tonight which obviously isn’t now happening, on Avios, and BA let her pick any BA service of her choice as an alternative which was a result.

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