Bits: Luxury Travel Diary auctions, new BA strikes, new Finnair long haul routes

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• Brendan says:

  30 Jan30 January 13:31

  OT but it appears all but confirmed now that Club Carlson EMEA 2 for 1 and 4 for 2 rates are now a thing of the past. No notice given either.

  • Fenny says:

    30 Jan30 January 13:46

    Bugger! I was looking at some of those for a trip in the next couple of months, but hadn’t finalised my leave plans.

  • idrive says:

    30 Jan30 January 14:27

    Apparently this has been confirmed to a flyertalker from CC CS 🙁 madness
    it’s still on the landing page when you type 2for1 or 4for2. arghhh

• Simmo says:

  30 Jan30 January 14:31

  OT //
  Does anybody have any tips for One-Way car rental in the US? – lots of the companies to do not state their one-way fees, only that a fee is payable.

  I’m looking to pick up a car in Nashville, and drop it back in Atlanta 3 days later.

  Do avios.com offer one-way rental?

  • Sam G says:

    30 Jan30 January 15:02

    Try Alamo UK or Holiday Autos .

    Got to watch out that you have the correct insurances as US customers often have coverage through credit card or their car insurance. Booking with a UK company means these are included

    • nate1309 says:

      30 Jan30 January 16:51

      I used Avis via BAEC to go one way San Francisco to San Diego in September. Prices were competitive and came with free additional driver.

  • Liz says:

    30 Jan30 January 18:25

    We do one way USA hires all the time now for our road trips – we use Avios to book Avis- prices are better if you call them and ask for a further 5% discount – there will be a one way fee as you are going from state to state but it shouldn’t be too much – we are hiring a car from Atlanta to Washington DC later in the year and the one way fee is £89. Our Route 66 trip from Chicago to LA wanted $1000 surcharge – for long distance hires you need to break up the hires into smaller distances – we have split our trip in to two for 2 x $300 surcharges. We now Book only a C or D car and hope for an upgrade by flashing the Platinum credit card and Avis Preferred card – worked last year as we were upgraded 3 levels.

• Alan says:

  30 Jan30 January 17:24

  OT (Bits) – I mentioned yesterday, but anyone happen to know the rough timescale for Clubcard points posting after Tesco Current Account debit card transactions?

• Tina says:

  30 Jan30 January 23:44

  Are all these AY flights from HEL or London?

  I rather fancy earning avios/TPs on the HAV route! Waited a long time for that one… 🙂

• Kilburnflyer says:

  31 Jan31 January 11:07

  *BA Strikes in February*

  Has anyone with affected flights been contact by British Airways yet?

  I am due to fly back from AMS-LHR on Sunday (5th Feb) but nothing has come up in manage my booking yet and no notice on the homepage regarding strike as of yet.

  • Rob says:

    31 Jan31 January 11:37

    I’ve not heard anything yet buddy; keep tweeting them as I’m flying LHR – ORD on the 5th for an extremely important meeting on the 6th, and it’s a confirmed MF crew.

    Tempted to call the travel agent and rebook if I’m honest as they’ve not published their contingency plan as yet.

    • John says:

      31 Jan31 January 12:46

      Now midday and still no update on my flights either on 5FEB. ARN-LHR-SFO.

      • Kilburnflyer says:

        31 Jan31 January 13:15

        Cool, thanks for the feedback guys. Will let you know here as soon as I hear anything

        • Rob says:

          31 Jan31 January 17:35

          BA have now updated the web holding page on the strikes:

          [from BA]
          We can confirm the following details:

          All flights to and from London Gatwick will operate as normal
          All flights to and from London City will operate as normal
          All long haul flights to and from London Heathrow will operate as normal
          The vast majority of short haul flights to and from London Heathrow will operate as normal

          As part of our contingency plan, we will be merging a very small number of short haul flights to and from Heathrow.

          This will mean some customers will travel slightly earlier or later in the day than their original booking.

          Customers affected are being contacted with the options available for them.

        • Alan says:

          31 Jan31 January 19:43

          Damn, on LHR-EDI return trip on the 2nd weekend affected – can almost guarantee they’ll start shuffling and merging them round!

        • the real harry1 says:

          31 Jan31 January 20:05

          How’s the skiing?!!! 🙂

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