Heathrow Airport cuts UK domestic aircraft landing fees again

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• Optimus Prime says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:34

  Now that we can refer our OH’s from our Amex Plat to any other Amex card – are people reconsidering their churning strategy? – I.e. delaying applying for BAPP and SPG until the referer has got an Amex Plat again so they get 18000 MR.

  Another option would be both holding Amex Plat for a while but that would rack up the annual fees.

  Unless you can successfully refer yourself to another Amex card. I think someone here already tried that. Did it work?

  • the real harry1 says:

    3 Jan3 January 07:56

    fairly sure somebody said it worked, you could increase your chances by using an ID variant, ie definitely different email address, potentially different or slightly different home address/ name

  • Genghis says:

    3 Jan3 January 07:57

    What are you considering? Have you run your numbers?

    • Optimus Prime says:

      3 Jan3 January 08:59

      Need to run them.

      Will try tonight or maybe over the weekend. MiFid 2 go-live is keeping me busy right now! 🙂

  • G says:

    3 Jan3 January 08:02

    I referred myself from Plat to Nectar in mid December. 18k MR posted before the card arrived!

    • Optimus Prime says:

      3 Jan3 January 09:14

      Thanks for the data point!

      Did you use the same full name, email and home address when signing up for Nectar?

      • G says:

        3 Jan3 January 18:08

        I didn’t change any details. Even input a previous Amex card number so they knew who was applying.

  • Jack says:

    3 Jan3 January 10:15

    Is it a bit sad that I think this self-referring oversteps the mark when it comes to “playing the game”?

• James says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:45

  I have the Accor scenario you describe too, except with a higher percent towards Plat showing due to a few of stays.
  I think this is just a New Years hangover in the IT. The expiry date says it all really.

  I would love to have kept it but with the change to bonus points not counting I don’t have a chance as I’m not a business traveller or a retired millionaire !

• Matt says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:50

  My Accor status is also still showing platinum, however, if I try to make a booking I get “Your identification is not valid; please re-enter your details or contact your sales representative.” which disappears if I remove my loyalty card number. I suspect this is just an IT issue!

• Paulm says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:59

  OT- my BA free card has £15 off £100 spend.

• Rob D says:

  3 Jan3 January 07:15

  Mine’s still showing platinum but has rolled over the 612 status points to 31/12/18. I’m expecting it to drop to the base level too!

• Mark says:

  3 Jan3 January 07:17

  My Accor status was showing the same, remaining at (earned, i.e. not through Amex) Platinum yesterday, but today it has dropped to Gold. Which is what I earned with them last year, so fair enough I guess, although I would have requalified as Plat under the old rules.

• Volker says:

  3 Jan3 January 07:27

  “The plan is to increase the number of UK destinations served from Heathrow to 14 from the current eight by 2025.”
  Can you name a few of these new (potential) destinations?

  • the real harry1 says:

    3 Jan3 January 07:58

    Newquay Airport could easily figure (he says, hopefully)

    logically it would stack up at least seasonally – and maybe year round with reduced frequency out of season

  • Stu N says:

    3 Jan3 January 08:06

    At the moment we have INV, GLA, EDI, NCL, BHD, MAN, LBA. Not sure what the other one is. Exeter or Newquay maybe?

    Where else would work? Would BHX/ SOU/ BRS be too close to be viable? East Midlands marginal?

    Norwich? Exeter and/ or Newquay if not already served? Or offshore – Belfast Internationa or Londonderry maybe? Isle of Man/ Jersey/ Guernsey? Scottish Islands probably wouldn’t generate enough traffic, but maybe support a seasonal route.

    Imagine LHR to Barra! That would be nuts!

    • the real harry1 says:

      3 Jan3 January 08:19

      Bristol has the population & plenty of business frequent fliers – might be close but if you could justify it in terms of feeding long haul/ keeping the slots alive, might work

      Exeter definitely do-able, potentially Bournemouth, same logic

      • Alan says:

        3 Jan3 January 13:47

        NQY would make more sense than Exeter. Exeter already has a daily flight to LCY so can’t really see the point of LHR other than for connecting flights.

        Exeter would be good for us, but just can’t see it happening.

      • Alex W says:

        3 Jan3 January 15:07

        Bristol to Heathrow would be brilliant for us. Mrs W works 10 mins from BRS and refuses to travel to LHR.

    • PJS says:

      3 Jan3 January 08:52

      Try ABZ to make it 8, should be more popular after the latest IHG points devaluation!

      • Stu N says:

        3 Jan3 January 08:59

        Ah, forgot ABZ. How remiss of me!

        Thanks.

    • Curious says:

      3 Jan3 January 13:07

      Offshore NI ? You’re ahead of the Brexit curve! #insightful

  • Tom Cook says:

    3 Jan3 January 11:06

    If you plan a flight through the BA website the likes of Liverpool, Humberside, East Mids etc now pop up as options, though no routes yet!

  • the_real_a says:

    3 Jan3 January 13:38

    HUY – Humberside has 3 KLM connections to Amsterdam a day

• Bob says:

  3 Jan3 January 07:31

  Same for me!

  But hey remember France is still on holidays!

  We will have to wait next week probably to see the dashboards updated when people come back to work.

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