Bits: BA launches Dublin and Edinburgh flights, new BA Milan routes, new BA strike dates

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• Roger says:

  18 Feb18 February 10:28

  OT Hertz

  Has anyone received complimentary Hertz Gold Plus president circle upgrade?

  I haven’t used Hertz for number of years but out of blue they dropped a card today with this upgrade. Just sharing to find out if this is targeted or just another marketing ploy.

  • Alan says:

    18 Feb18 February 10:33

    I received it a while back via their link-up with Accor (previously had 5 Star via Amex Plat).

  • Ian says:

    18 Feb18 February 16:08

    How can we get this today?

    I have Amex Plat and Accor Plat

    Thanks!

• Callum says:

  18 Feb18 February 11:11

  I vaguely recall you complaining about this last time (if it was someone else, my apologies!).

  These people agreed to work for BA with full knowledge of the wage they would receive, and now are refusing to do their duties and costing the company millions. In what way is it “nasty” to punish staff who wilfully damage your business?

  Whether their wage is justifiable is another matter. Assuming BA aren’t lying, £21,000 doesn’t seem morally repugnant for such a low level job when compared to the rest of the job market so I can’t say I’m overly sympathetic. Though being a bleeding-heart liberal, I would personally like to see penalty tax rates on profitable companies that pay close to minimum wage – essentially tying the minimum wage to the profit of the company. So I weirdly agree with BA that they shouldn’t voluntarily give in yet want the government to force them to give in!

  • the real harry1 says:

    18 Feb18 February 19:05

    by ‘nasty’ I merely mean that it will be painful for the crew to give up that perk & hurt them badly in the wallet/ holidays – might make a few of the strikers think again.

    Let’s face it – many of them are pretty young & not that well-educated so they could easily be striking for poor reasons; once it becomes clear to them it’ll cost them a fair bit of money to keep striking, I think many of the strikers will reverse their positions.

    • Callum says:

      18 Feb18 February 20:27

      Ah sorry, I thought you meant BA was being nasty.

      Yeah that seems to be what BA is going for. Hopefully the strikers realise that before it’s too late.

      • Radiata says:

        18 Feb18 February 23:30

        This argument repeated to the point of boredom yet I am amazed that any feel the need to apologise for criticising oppressive behaviour.

        BA is behaving dismally.

        Not because it in dire financial straits. Simply because it can.

        We may not be able to change oppressive behaviour but ought at least to speak out against it or, at a minimum, deplore it within.

        May those of us more fortunate never need to be tested by privation.

      • Callum says:

        19 Feb19 February 06:07

        Obviously I don’t view their behaviour as oppressive though… The cabin crew are damaging BA because they don’t like the wage they’re receiving – despite being fully aware of what that wage would be before joining.

        I fully support their right to strike regardless, but given the rather unjustified reason for striking, I don’t see how penalising them is “oppressive”. How many millions of pounds of damage should they be allowed to get away with Scott free?

• AC says:

  18 Feb18 February 11:52

  O/T – with hotel status gained from the Amex platinum, does the status auto renew each year?

  • Rob says:

    18 Feb18 February 12:34

    Usually, if not a quick call gets it done.

• Nadir says:

  18 Feb18 February 12:33

  O/T – IHG offering 12% discount on the cash element of Points & Cash bookings. Appears to be aimed at Platinum members.

  $40 + 5000 becomes $35.2 + 5000 = $7 per 1,000 points
  $70 + 10000 becomes $61.60 + 10000 = $6.2 per 1,000 points
  $99 + 15000 becomes $87.12 + 15000 = $5.8 per 1,000 points
  $125 + 20000 becomes $110 + 20000 = $5.5 per 1,000 points

  Not as attractive as it might’ve been before the battering the pound’s taken. But if you’re looking to buy, useful and better value for money than going through IHG’s standard ‘buy points’ process.

  Having said that, they regularly run bonus offers when you buy points, with the most recent (100% bonus) having ended yesterday. However, that would’ve required you to spend at least $299 to get the best value (26,000 points + bonus 26,000 points at $5.75 per 1,000). The Cash and Points offer at the top of the range ($110 + 20,000 points) offers better value.

  • Marc says:

    18 Feb18 February 21:18

    5% Club, 10% Gold and Spire 15% it seems.

    • Rob says:

      18 Feb18 February 21:25

      … which is a bit odd, because Club members will have fewer points and are most likely to want to do this. It also isn’t going to be perceived as an extra benefit for Spire unless IHG tells Spire members they are getting more than Club or Gold members, which they aren’t!

• Hingeless says:

  18 Feb18 February 12:33

  It is very strange going on a BA flight that doesn’t take off or land in the uk, I have been to SIN twice in the last year from SYD, I haven’t been to the UK for well over a year so those BA flights are the only time I could spend real £ (on duty free).

• Steve says:

  18 Feb18 February 13:46

  Last time I checked Edinburgh is still in the UK 😉

  • Hingeless says:

    18 Feb18 February 14:35

    Dublin less so

  • Funtime says:

    18 Feb18 February 14:45

    indeed, but Dublin isn’t

• Concerto says:

  18 Feb18 February 19:59

  Rob when you bounce over to Geneva let me know and I’ll come down and see you, if I get the time.

• Kathy says:

  19 Feb19 February 00:57

  OT: and probably a stupid question! Can the Avios call centre see reward flights you have booked through BA.com? I’m struggling to book a flight using Avios.com because it takes half an hour longer for the new flights to show up there than BA.com, and they’re being snapped up in that half hour. But I will need to apply a Lloyd’s voucher to the booking, so I need the booking to be accessible by Avios.

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