Bits: Amex Plat ends Royal Academy partnership, MyFlights is back, Homebase drops Nectar

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• Metatone says:

  8 Jun8 June 08:04

  Shame about the RA. Only used it a couple of times, but it was a pleasant benefit.

• Ahop says:

  8 Jun8 June 08:09

  OT but any ideas for the best transfer to make for under 100 MR points. Any partner of worth requires multiples of 100.

  • harry says:

    8 Jun8 June 08:25

    Nectar? https://headforpoints.com/2016/02/21/how-to-get-waitrose-gift-cards-or-pretty-much-any-gift-card-from-amex-membership-rewards-points/

    • Raffles says:

      8 Jun8 June 08:40

      Carlson has a minimum transfer of 3.

  • Alan says:

    8 Jun8 June 08:42

    Nectar is your answer! Not the most fun redemption but no issue re minimum

• Capecam says:

  8 Jun8 June 09:51

  Just signed up for myflights, interestingly amadeus / myflights is not recognizing the QR R class discounted business class bookings as being business class. They show as economy, although the booking code and seating is correct. A glitch somewhere – otherwise a great app

  • Frankie says:

    8 Jun8 June 11:35

    Hi. There is no glitch in myFlights it’s in Amadeus. I’ve already asked Chris about this a few weeks ago and he replied immediately to tell me that Amadeus is not get updated to recognise the R class as business. myFlights is just reading data from Amadeus so until Amadeus is correct…. Great to have myFlights back. Great job Chris

    • Rob says:

      8 Jun8 June 13:09

      SAS told me last year that Amadeus requires 18 months notice (!) of changes to fare classes in order to implement them properly!

  • sohan says:

    8 Jun8 June 18:22

    I booked business class on swiss a few weeks ago, on the amex plat travel website. Didn’t notice til departure that my p class booking was being labelled as “economy”. Phoned Amex and they confirmed was indeed business class but the system wrongly tags it…

    btw swiss business was amazing on a short haul from Zurich to Athens – proper lie-flat seats, great IFE with large screens, and of course amazing food and champagne. Wondering how many routes they do this on as I may need to book future holidays via Zurich… 🙂 Other business class short haul cabins just don’t compare.

• James A says:

  8 Jun8 June 12:19

  Wonder if the suddenly flurry of negative reviews for checkmytrip helped? 🙂

• Bob says:

  8 Jun8 June 12:51

  Re Amex – interesting article in this month’s Fortune magazine: http://fortune.com/ken-chenault-american-express/?xid=nl_daily

• Scallder says:

  8 Jun8 June 16:44

  Certainly off topic, but the BBC showed the first part (of three) of a series called City in the Sky looking at the aviation industry. Quite interesting viewing and perhaps of some interest to others here!

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07g710g/city-in-the-sky-1-departure

  • Alan says:

    9 Jun9 June 23:53

    Agree, quite enjoyed it – watched it in-flight too, which only seemed appreciate! Am guessing LHR tied up with ITV documentary, hence lots from other locations. Some good behind the scenes stuff, eg with DXB luggage system.

• harry says:

  8 Jun8 June 18:38

  O/T benefits of booking T-355 – maybe Raffles could do an article sometime?

  So I got 4 tickets out to our place in Europe, 2 days ago, timing: May half term next year, T-355. On the day my RFS redemptions were worth 1.5p/ Avios vs cash – today, 2 days later – they are worth 2p/ Avios vs cash price of ticklets. People like us don’t have that much choice on dates as dates are dictated by school hols. So tickets are selling & prices have already gone up. Avios redemption availability still looks good though of course I have knocked off the 4 seats available on 1 particular flight timing.

  I’m sure other posters go to far more exotic and long distance destinations eg Maldives, Australia etc & get up @ midnight to secure the old T-355 redemption. Must be a few anecdotes in it?

  But we don’t often see it mentioned on HFP – is it worth an article – with examples of savings by getting in early? Probably a lot of people never even thought about T-355?

  Plus the old heart palpitations when you don’t know if you’re going to get a flight back lol

  • Rob says:

    8 Jun8 June 19:10

    Get up at midnight? What time do you go to bed?!

    • harry says:

      8 Jun8 June 19:16

      Unfortunately I have to get up @ 6am so in the absence of a siesta…

      • James67 says:

        8 Jun8 June 21:42

        Good morning Harry…further to your comment I have now narrowed down your secretive place in Europe to most likely being someplace in Spain!

    • Genghis says:

      8 Jun8 June 20:13

      For the early bird to catch the worm, he needs to go to bed early!

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