Bits: BA / Clubcard competition, get 2400 Avios with £60 of LEGO Star Wars

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• Keith says:

  5 May5 May 12:25

  O/T does the House of Fraser Amex offer track with an online gift card. T&C says in store only so unlikely I guess?

  • Steve says:

    5 May5 May 13:23

    I think you’ve answered your own question.

• Callum says:

  5 May5 May 13:20

  I still don’t get why people are messing around with bus map pdfs when you can just type it in Google maps and get an instant timetable and the exact GPS-enabled map for the bus stop location…

  • Genghis says:

    5 May5 May 13:41

    Agreed. I think the PDF is good to give you an idea of how it all fits together but for specifics on how to get from your hotel of choice to the terminal, use Google maps.

    • Nick says:

      5 May5 May 20:53

      Google doesn’t tell you which routes are included in the free zone and which aren’t – and most of the point is to make use of these…

      For reference, most buses around the airport are included, but some (e.g. 222, 81, 90, X26) are not, despite travelling through the freeflow zone and been potentially useful.

• MarkH says:

  5 May5 May 14:27

  OT – I have booked my first 2-4-1 redemption for 11th April next year (CPT in CW) and waiting for the return flights on 28th to open up. I’ve been checking the reward availability each morning when I get into work and there never seems to be any for the direct flights, only the the CPT-JNB-LHR flights.

  I think I’ve read previously that people used to call up foreign BA call centres so they change the booking as soon as the flights are added? Is that still possible?

  If not, then presumably I can do nothing but hope they are still available when the UK call centre opens at 7:30am.

  If those flights are taken would my best option then be to get the CPT-JNB-LHR flight (paying extra avios or cash for the CPT-JNB sector) and then keep checking the availability for CPT-LHR flights and then call up to change the booking again?

  • Genghis says:

    5 May5 May 14:34

    You can either call up Japan and they can do it on the phone for you (call at exactly 1am BST at t-355 as they open at 9am local time IIRC) or call the US.

    Or in my last one I booked two singles coming back and then called BAEC and was put through to Newcastle who then cancelled what I had booked and then rebooked adding those to the 241 outbound I had booked. They warned that the flights may not go back into reward inventory but they did. You also need the avios to cover two singles.

    • Genghis says:

      5 May5 May 14:35

      That should read “Or in my last one I booked two singles online once availability opened and then called BAEC…”

    • MarkH says:

      5 May5 May 16:44

      Thanks!
      I don’t have enough avios to cover the 2 singles so will have to give the foreign call centre a go. Hadn’t thought of calling the US…

• signol says:

  5 May5 May 15:19

  OT. Has anyone heard anything from the avios.com Super Boost promo from January? I was given a target of earn 25k Avios, get an additional 12k, and made it… But no sign yet of the bonus Avios. Thanks

  • Andrew* says:

    5 May5 May 18:15

    Due by end of May

    • signol says:

      5 May5 May 19:32

      Thanks

  • David says:

    6 May6 May 00:09

    Now that is a super boost. 200 and 400 avios (my targets) was not.

    • Wally1976 says:

      8 May8 May 13:41

      I can beat that – my wife and I got 400 and 0 respectively!

• Sussex bantam says:

  5 May5 May 23:26

  Remind what we agreed – 1.30 ?

• BrianDT says:

  6 May6 May 09:07

  Back to the original subject, is it double Avios when you opt in,or not ? Pretty simple question.

  • the real harry1 says:

    6 May6 May 09:19

    so simple, I’d don’t get it 🙂

    double Avios for opting into what? auto-conversion – no

    article was about 2 entries for auto-converts, is that the question?

    • BrianDT says:

      6 May6 May 21:41

      Read the article,again,

      If your Tesco account is set to auto-convert, you won’t miss out. In fact, you will automatically receive two entries for every 500 Clubcard points which are auto-converted.

      Where does it say that in Tesco’s small print?

      • Genghis says:

        6 May6 May 22:00

        You’re either in or you’re out of auto convert for the double chances of winning (not double avios) competition. You cannot now opt in to get the double chance

      • the real harry1 says:

        6 May6 May 22:16

        here

        2.If you are part of the Tesco Clubcard ‘auto-opt-in’ scheme, Eligible Participants will automatically receive double entries into the draw for every 500 points exchanged into Avios between 1 May 2017 and 31 May 2017.

• Boi says:

  6 May6 May 16:47

  OT:
  My brother missed his flight 2 days ago due to delays at security. He was flying Swiss: BHX-Jnb. We checked in around 17:15, flight was 18:50. Then went to get drink and cash for him. Reached security queues at 18:00. Their info boards said it will take 16 minutes to go through so left him there.

  He says his boarding card didn’t scan so he had to wait for an official to let him through, then security held him to search his hand luggage. He got to the gate at the time they were offloading his bags ( the woman at gate told him so). He called me at 18:52-so I know it was marginal.

  Swiss said it wasn’t their fault and charged £156 to change to next day. I also had to rebook his onward flight (JNB-GBE). Do I have a case and to who?
  (The next day it took him just 20minutes to pass through security and he was very early-typical).

  • the real harry1 says:

    6 May6 May 21:56

    no case whatsoever – your bro simply didn’t leave himself adequate time to get through security (50 mins plainly not enough for peace of mind when gates often close 20-30 mins before flight time)

    that’s why most airports advise get there 2 hrs before flight (and these days some say 3 hrs)

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