The ‘2,000 free Avios for Christmas British Airways travel’ are posting

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• Swintonowl says:

  15 Dec15 December 14:25

  I had a reward booking but cancelled on Wednesday night (13th) but still got the 2k points for myself and my wife but not for the 2 kids (we were all in the same booking).

• Stingy and Overly Generous says:

  15 Dec15 December 15:13

  Why does BA shift from being stingy to generous? Examples being 1 guest being uplifted to 5 guests per BA Gold cardholder. I suppose on the upside it will keep the children away from Galleries First, but I’d be a bit cross if I was a silver card holder. And 2 years of comped gold status earlier in the year due to a minor inconvenience. And bloomin’ free seats for children – again – on domestics for a quarter of the year. Are there two elves working at BA – one called Stingy and one called Overly Generous?!! Stingy being responsible for the absolutely dreadful BoB operation?!

  • Lady London says:

    15 Dec15 December 16:44

    Don’t worry there are hardly ever any seats spare in the Galleries Club Lounge at Heathrow already. It would be hard for a party of 6 coming into there to even find seats together at any peak time anyway. So Silver card holders that don’t have children don’t need to worry – the parties of 6 that have just been “invited” down from Galleries First by BA;s Christmas largesse won’t be able to sit down in the Galleries Club lounge already.

  • shd says:

    15 Dec15 December 18:58

    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

    • the real harry1 says:

      15 Dec15 December 19:07

      nice one – cock-up before conspiracy 🙂

      anybody who does a City presentation with a ‘Show me the f***ing money’ slide is hardly going to endear himself to consumers

      I do honestly resent BoB – as for RFS redemption users, it was a clear loss of snack + 3x G&Ts etc

      for revenue passengers, I can see there were benefits in fare price

      • shd says:

        15 Dec15 December 19:52

        Except, BA doesn’t actually publish LCC-level fares to/from LHR

        I flew to LGW last week. Base fare was 2 Euros (round-trip!), plus taxes, fees and charges. Came to just over 70 Euros all-in.

        *All through January* there are twice-daily Ryanair flights for a very similar route, for 43 Euros round-trip (including taxes, fees and charges).

        So BA is twice the price of Ryanair.

        I have no idea what BA offers on short-haul that’s better than Ryanair.

        Worse on-time performance? Much more chance of being cancelled “to protect long-haul” if a few flakes of snow fall?

      • the real harry1 says:

        15 Dec15 December 19:55

        Heathrow

      • the real harry1 says:

        15 Dec15 December 20:16

        oh wow – courtesy FT – we’re getting free tea, coffee or water in ET again

        not as good as 3x G&Ts but I’ll take it

• signol says:

  15 Dec15 December 16:33

  Bit of an annoyance, flew out on Wednesday, returning 31st!

• Crafty says:

  15 Dec15 December 17:14

  OT (no bits): How do I go about activating a Hilton Diamond status challenge? I understand it’s usually 8 stays required in 90 days, will pre booked stays count?

  • Rob says:

    15 Dec15 December 19:31

    Yes they count. As do reward stays. There is an online registration page, it may be on our Hotel Promos page – if not, search HFP.

• the real harry1 says:

  15 Dec15 December 18:44

  O/T – hmm – 6/12 Exit seats left empty on tomorrow’s flight – not going to pay £23 and therefore wish me luck @ self check-in machines at LHR 🙂

  not that bothered as we (4) are sitting comfortably – there seemed excellent seat availability when check-in opened up though some fast-fingered beggar beat me by a few seconds when I tried to move the kids up to 7 – we have checked luggage to retrieve anyway so not a biggy

  • the real harry1 says:

    15 Dec15 December 19:13

    btw managed to get another free iPad this year which will be a wee gift for them to share (that makes 3 iPads I got free!)

    currently sitting in my carry-on bag in a black plastic bag – what is my best strategy to keep it secret? I presume go through last & whisper to the security agent? I had to do the same before & hit the gold mine with a truly brilliant agent but you can’t count on that, I don’t want the big reveal on 16th December! nor do I want to put it in checked luggage

    • Genghis says:

      15 Dec15 December 19:53

      How’d you get the free iPads, TRH1?

      • the real harry1 says:

        15 Dec15 December 20:02

        Nescafe promotion once & my eldest son has an ASD disability twice —> I researched a charity that helps him with his communication issues, they seem to have loadsamoney

        nice PC set-up & touchscreen last year as well

• the real harry1 says:

  15 Dec15 December 18:50

  O/T that’s Shop Small over for me this year, then – got the lads a half price set of cod & chips

  not been a stellar Shop Small 2017 for me, I was going to go today & get some half price steaks from another decent butcher a few miles away but gave in to time pressure too easily

  probably only got about £100 statement credits total, bit rubbish so apolllo logies 🙂

  • Genghis says:

    15 Dec15 December 19:02

    Went to a shop today in Farringdon to top up my six oysters with six Amexes. The guy said he did 46 top ups with 46 Amexes with one customer the other day. A HfP reader?

    • mark2 says:

      15 Dec15 December 19:16

      That is truly impressive.
      I only has 18 this year; must try harder next!

    • Rob says:

      15 Dec15 December 22:48

      How can one customer possibly have 46 Amex cards? What am I missing here?

      • Genghis says:

        16 Dec16 December 04:42

        His n hers and additional supps for each Amex card type amount to 6 (just if two people), x Plat, BA, SPG, Nectar etc, add in a few Lloyd’s and MBNA cards plus supps and very possible.

      • Rob says:

        16 Dec16 December 10:27

        Apparently Mayhews newsagents in Belgravia (for those who live round there, just opposite Waitrose) had someone turn up with 40 to do Oyster top-ups.

    • Evan says:

      16 Dec16 December 10:27

      ok I’ll bite why on earth have you got 6 oyster cards?

      • Genghis says:

        16 Dec16 December 13:30

        Erm. I think that’s tiny compared to what others are doing. Now all topped up though after today’s walk around west end.

    • mark2 says:

      16 Dec16 December 14:36

      It seems to me most likely that he was acting as errand boy for friends.

      • Rob says:

        16 Dec16 December 14:57

        I got £5 back from the crazy golf in Battersea Park this morning!

• Peter says:

  15 Dec15 December 23:46

  Hi there. Can someone in the HfP community kindly give me a more specific pointer to where I can find this promotion in my BA account ….’You may want to take a look at your account and see what is there. They are marked as ‘Special Promotion’.’ Thank you

  • Genghis says:

    16 Dec16 December 04:44

    Do you have a BA flight booked over Xmas?

  • Rob says:

    16 Dec16 December 10:26

    It is automatic. Book a BA flight to travel between 22nd and 27th and you get them.

• Peter says:

  16 Dec16 December 09:34

  @Genghis I am about to book an outward flight on Dec 27 (with a return on Dec 29), so does that mean the Special Promotion displays in my BA Exec Account when I have actually booked?

  • Rob says:

    16 Dec16 December 10:23

    There will be another sweep in a week or so and they will post then.

    • Nathan J says:

      16 Dec16 December 13:51

      Does this only go to the person who actually booked or all travellers? My other half got the 2,000 avois and made the booking, but we are on the same flight and I did not get the promo avios – time to contact BAEC?

      • Rob says:

        16 Dec16 December 14:58

        Goes to the booker, it seems. My wife got it (Avios booking made for her parents) and Anika got it (Avios booking made for her boyfriend). None of the travellers got it.

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