Bits: Travelex / Avios, 20% bonus on transfers to Etihad, £4 Manchester passport control fee

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• Trickydicky says:

  11 Oct11 October 15:46

  Fast track security- Does this mean the bags get screened faster too? If so how do they know who’s bags are fast tracked or do they give you a label?

  • Nick says:

    11 Oct11 October 20:30

    You just get a ‘bye’ to the front of the queue, so your bags go in faster, but it’s no faster if they need a ‘rummage’. However, this is entirely within your control if you take responsibility for your own packing and know the rules and what the machines pull it out for. No liquids, however well hidden. All electronics presented separately. Care taken with cables (ideally check them in, but at least have them in different parts of the bag going through x-ray), care taken with metal items as these can flag. It sounds stupid but learning the rules has changed my life, my bag never gets pulled out at any airport in the world. So those whose do have only themselves to blame.

• Paulm says:

  11 Oct11 October 20:36

  OT- on the amex gold, got the card last week but how does lounge club access work, do you get sent a separate membership card or do you have to request?

  • New Card says:

    11 Oct11 October 21:05

    Separate card should be in the post to you now

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 21:10

    You get a card in the post, should arrive any day. My wife’s last one arrived before her actual Amex card!

    • Paulm says:

      11 Oct11 October 21:31

      Thanks both

• the real harry1 says:

  11 Oct11 October 20:39

  it’s the same as 18,000 free Avios, folks 🙂

  combined with my 30,000 free Avios equivalent earlier (Esso)

  worth a try, surely?

  • Genghis says:

    11 Oct11 October 20:42

    Tell us more… where are these numbers coming from?

    • Genghis says:

      11 Oct11 October 20:52

      I’m a Londoner (kind of now I guess), car not needed. I’ll give the Amazon thing a look tomorrow. Cheers

    • the real harry1 says:

      11 Oct11 October 20:52

      I learned something today on Amazon as well – remember the £15 off £25 Amex promotion back in December 2016 would not work with new Amazon A/cs? Well they opened it up to a/cs opened as late as June 2017. So you could have guessed that and opened a new Amz a/c for a family member etc

      Expires Oct 30th so no chance now. As it happens I opened up 1 new a/c in that period as we are 5 & only had 4 a/cs, I’m not into the xc* script stuff lol so only 5 – that a/c is valid for the the Amex promo (tells me at checkout) but can’t make it work, I think Chat will sort it out

      I reckon Amz & Amex will get together again with something similar so bear it in mind

    • the real harry1 says:

      11 Oct11 October 20:55

      yeah guessed that these days Londoners can do better without cars – or Esso

    • the real harry1 says:

      11 Oct11 October 21:13

      looks like I was out by a factor of 10

    • Genghis says:

      11 Oct11 October 21:36

      🙂 is it the same with your 2m avios stash?

• Alan says:

  12 Oct12 October 01:20

  OT – noticed this on my VS account – “VAA Credit Card Companion Flight Qualification” not sure why this is showing but not the upgrade certificate? I thought both might not post until end of the card year but don’t quite understand why one has posted but not the other. Any VS Black cardholders have any prior experience of how the vouchers post? (was more interested in the upgrade than companion cert!)

  • Louise says:

    12 Oct12 October 05:10

    Companion posts when u spend amount, upgrade posts at year end!

    • Alan says:

      12 Oct12 October 12:28

      Ah, damn – thanks Louise. Shame it’s not the other way round!

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