Heathrow Airport cuts UK domestic aircraft landing fees again

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• Brusselsprout says:

  3 Jan3 January 04:35

  My Amex Accor Platinum status has now dropped to Gold. Did a few nights stay on it last year but nothing major

  • James says:

    3 Jan3 January 06:48

    They don’t have a soft landing (in general) so had you done enough stays / nights to legitimately earn Gold ?
    Interesting.

  • Gin and Tonic Please says:

    3 Jan3 January 07:49

    I also dropped to Gold, despite having spent only 1 night with Accor last year

• Cheshire Pete says:

  3 Jan3 January 05:04

  My Accor downgraded to Gold on the 1st as shown in the mobile App. Not logged into the full site yet.

• Stuart McIntyre says:

  3 Jan3 January 05:41

  Still showing as Platinum on web and mobile app, but with date of 12/2017. Fingers crossed that Accor take pity on us!

  • Nicola walton says:

    3 Jan3 January 06:12

    Same for me!

    • Tom says:

      3 Jan3 January 07:51

      +1, and hoping it stays there.. have a Sofitel stay next month that the plat would be handy for!

• SydneySwan says:

  3 Jan3 January 05:45

  Was Silver and still Silver – stayed 2 nights in 2017 but both were OTA bookings so non-qualifying.

• Callum says:

  3 Jan3 January 05:47

  OT: Has anyone tried using someone else’s Clubcard Hotels.com vouchers, my family don’t use their clubcard points much and have said I can use them but I wasn’t sure if the names needed to match?

  • Genghis says:

    3 Jan3 January 05:57

    You get a code to enter on hotels.com. Not tried myself but names shouldn’t need to match. I buy Uber credit from my clubcard account a lot for my wife.

• Andrew says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:00

  I’m the same as you, Rob. On the full site, it says “Validity of your [plat] status: 31/12/17”, but validity of status points 31/12/18. Last year it took a few days to recalculate things as I remember, but who knows!!

  • Genghis says:

    3 Jan3 January 06:04

    +1

• Mikeact says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:01

  Will, or should, the reduced UK passenger charges be reflected in the ticket price ?

  • Rob says:

    3 Jan3 January 09:07

    Flight pricing has nothing to do with costs, it is all yield management. The pricing team at BA have literally nothing to do with the purchasing / costing teams.

• Andrew says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:03

  O/T as bits. My BAPP has been loaded with a BA offer today: 1,500 Avios with a £100 spend at BA (by 30 January, first 20,000 cardholders). Not a life changing amount but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

  • the real harry1 says:

    3 Jan3 January 06:41

    & guess who got Xmas hols 2018/19 tickets last night?! 🙂

    I went for the RFS option where you ‘buy’ 20,000 Avios for £160 so would have qualified – Raffles is covering this again this week istr

    anyway, not cancelling & re-booking

    got a 5th HBO fare & credit card fee would have been a less-eye-watering 80-odd pence, thanks to the credit card fee cap – still that’s 1% not 0.3% so what’s happening there? anyway, 80p is / would have been 80p & I try to ‘look after the pennies’…

    • Genghis says:

      3 Jan3 January 07:10

      🙂

      • the real harry1 says:

        3 Jan3 January 07:26

        I’ve got variant spend £100 get £15 back on my free/ Blue card – so thanks for the tip, should be able to use that for the return flights

      • Stu N says:

        3 Jan3 January 07:57

        Got £15 back version too – thanks for the tip, have a holiday balance to pay later this month so will definitely use this.

      • Pid says:

        3 Jan3 January 09:52

        £15 version on my BAPP. Thank you for highlighting!

    • Edd M says:

      3 Jan3 January 08:09

      Amazing I’ve got 1,500 Avios on £100 BA.com spend. Hopefully that’ll include car hire…..

      • Graham Walsh says:

        3 Jan3 January 10:04

        Got the £15 one on my blue card. Handy as I need to book two flights.

    • the real harry1 says:

      3 Jan3 January 12:39

      with my £15 discount and the 20,000 Avios for £160 deal, these Avios are going to cost me 0.725p/ point

  • 1nfrequent says:

    3 Jan3 January 10:10

    Thanks for the tip, Andrew. Had it on my card too – handy as I am looking to book a trip this month to chase away the January blues.

    1F

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