Bits: BA premium flights and holidays sale, CityJet to launch flights from Southend

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• Roger says:

  1 Nov1 November 05:32

  AMEX SHOP SMALL

  Spend £10 or more, get £5 back
  Save to Card to get a £5 statement credit when you spend £10+ in-store at participating small businesses between 3 December and 18 December 2016. Valid once per Card per business. Terms and payment restrictions appl

  • Rob says:

    1 Nov1 November 06:43

    Excellent!

  • Jovanna says:

    1 Nov1 November 06:46

    I’ve got it on the Platinum card but not on my Lloyds Avios card.

    • Roger says:

      1 Nov1 November 06:50

      This is the only offer on my Nectar card.

      • James67 says:

        1 Nov1 November 07:32

        On both my cards (nectar, spg) and both of dad’s (spg, ba basic). Got email confirmation via amex network so perhaps on that old site or amex connect. I called amex about nectar card offers, they said this card gets relatively few, decision on offers is made my the card partner, not amex themselves.

    • the real harry says:

      1 Nov1 November 06:59

      Amex normally open up Shop Small on all Amex cards, so just sit tight & it’ll pop up

      • the real harry says:

        1 Nov1 November 18:50

        this link is for non-Amex Amex cards https://offerenroll.americanexpress.com/enroll/EnrollmentSitePage?offer=99313ShopSmall

        Amex Amex cards will all get the offer online (ie your statement page—> Offers)

        • the real harry says:

          1 Nov1 November 18:56

          map http://amexshopsmall.co.uk/map/

        • the real harry says:

          1 Nov1 November 19:00

          boo – looks like Spar is not on it this time (for me, anyway) – that’s how I got something like £500 of half-price stamps last year

        • Genghis says:

          1 Nov1 November 19:27

          Cheers Harry

        • the real harry says:

          1 Nov1 November 20:59

          got 3 close-by fish & chip shops on it this year 🙂

          back to the 90s lol

          not checked whether my good Cornwall butchers are on it but I assume, charging an arm & a leg, they will be!

          arm & a leg divided by 2 = cheap top quality Xmas joints!

  • Andy S says:

    1 Nov1 November 07:43

    Trobule is most small shops don’t take amex!

    • James67 says:

      1 Nov1 November 07:57

      This offer is for those that do. They will create a website to help you find them all in your area

      • Simmo says:

        1 Nov1 November 10:16

        *Which is not always 100% accurate 🙂

        • Genghis says:

          1 Nov1 November 12:56

          No – but Amex have always given me the £5 statement credit when a purchase did not track because the map was wrong.

• James67 says:

  1 Nov1 November 05:51

  OT clubcard-avios:

  For every £2.50 in Tesco Clubcard vouchers you exchange between 1-14 November 2016, you’ll not only receive 600 Avios, but also one entry to win one of 25 prizes of 15,000 Avios.

  OT clubcard-BAEC:

  Received an email last week suggesting it was a prize drawfor a trip to Barcelona for conversions through 30 November.

  Given the short duration of these offers I am wondering if a conversion bonus offer might subsequently appear. IIRC that happened in this quarter last year.

  • BrianDT says:

    1 Nov1 November 08:33

    I’m struggling of convert mine manually to Avios. Any one else the same ?

    • ankomonkey says:

      1 Nov1 November 14:17

      I had this around a week ago and just had to keep trying until it processed the right amount. I was getting random amounts rather than my full payable balance, though, so it might not be the same issue…

      • idrive says:

        1 Nov1 November 15:07

        I’ll keep on trying and trying! thx

• Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

  1 Nov1 November 07:01

  Has anyone confirmed that BA Holidays triggers the £500 get £100 Amex offer?

  • JK says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:22

    Can’t even see the sale
    Sorry we regret to advise that this section of the site is temporarily unavailable. (413)

    • Lee Thornton says:

      1 Nov1 November 10:44

      Try using a different browser – sounds like you’re in Chrome

    • Frankie says:

      1 Nov1 November 11:42

      Chome. Does it to me all the time on the BA site.

      • James says:

        1 Nov1 November 11:45

        I was on Safari and it doesn’t work either

• Hugo says:

  1 Nov1 November 07:34

  Have to agree this “sale” is rather underwhelming, didnt surprise me that you hadnt posted anything.

• Rob says:

  1 Nov1 November 08:23

  Amex charge cards are not impacted by the interchange fee cap 🙂

  • Talay says:

    1 Nov1 November 19:46

    Are you saying that Amex credit cards are affected by the cap ?

    As a retailer, we do not see a difference between any form of Amex whereas we have a myriad of various Visa and Mastercard rates.

• Ben says:

  1 Nov1 November 08:45

  I wont be flying out of SEN again at ‘peak’ time again (peak time being 2 flight leaving about the same time i.e. 4:30pm Friday). As people have commented on your review, while its a small airport and easy to navigate, their security seems to have this constant ‘go slow’ mentality and even though there were only about 15 people in the security line (with a good 4 – 5 screening staff), it took me 25 minutes to get through (there is only ever one security lane open).
  I think its a bad combination of both staff and pax thinking its a regional airport so they can have bumpkin chats while they leisurely begin their holiday, staff being regional themselves so working on country time, inexperienced flyers (and staff) and no-one being in a rush. Fine is you live nearby and have all day to get to Spain, not fine if you are coming from London after work. LTN and STN security are very efficient in comparison.

  I also have the same easyjet boarding issue – they make you all line up outside before the incoming plane even disembarks. Ryanair don’t even do that at STN or LTN.

  • Lady London says:

    2 Nov2 November 04:51

    Errrr Ben, Ryanair did just that at both STN and MXP last week – lined us all up on the tarmac when the incoming had barely started deplaning.

    • Lady London says:

      2 Nov2 November 04:52

      oops correction the MXP was, indeed, easyjet. The outgoing at STN was defo Ryanair though.

    • Genghis says:

      2 Nov2 November 05:30

      Why start the planing before the previous deplaning? 🙂

• Kathy says:

  1 Nov1 November 08:58

  I wonder if those new SEN flights will be good for connecting to cheap ex-EU tickets? I have to allow a couple of hours to get to Heathrow from Southend so it would take no longer to fly to, for e.g., Dublin from SEN and then get in a flight to the US.

• Liz says:

  1 Nov1 November 09:26

  OT Been playing around with redemption flights and looking at availability and taxes for Singapore Airlines for dates next summer. We are saving for SIN-BNE which is usually 55K each but at the moment it is coming out at a 15% discount 46750. IS this a current promotion ? I cannot find any emails on this from KF and I cannot find an expiry date on the KF website. THanks!

  • Rob says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:30

    Singapore offers an automatic 15% discount for online booking.

    • Liz says:

      1 Nov1 November 09:41

      Is this a permanent thing. What happens if you have 2 separate KF accounts – I presume you need to make 2 separate bookings? THink I did this wrong and set up 2 accounts instead of one.

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