Another Qatar Airways flight sale bargain …. to Johannesburg

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• Roger Ramjet says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:03

  I see BA are cutting 50% of their flights to/from Leeds Bradford from April. Down to one flight in each direction on some days. Timings very poor. Could be the end of that route on BA come the autumn.

  • The_real_a says:

    12 Jan12 January 02:20

    Aghhhh.. thank goodness ive banked the virgin miles for upcoming klm partner redemptions.

• mutley says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:08

  Melia White House…..the tiny standard rooms a lovely throwback to the seventies,

• bsuije says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:30

  OT:
  Just looked at my BA Exec club account and it says I haven’t completed 4 BA segments to retain status, which is non-sense. Anyone else come across the same issue?

  • bsuije says:

    11 Jan11 January 10:40

    Nevermind – apparently it’s just the way the system works when you achieve status midway through your collection year.

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:40

    Cash segments? In your current tier point year? Rewards don’t count and BA flights must have been flown on a BA flight number.

    • Kevin says:

      11 Jan11 January 12:05

      On this very topic, do Comair flights count? If they have BA flight numbers?

      • Radiata says:

        11 Jan11 January 22:19

        They do. I achieve my four flights in this manner as long haul and intra EU BA flights booked as redemptions whilst cash J long haul flights never booked on BA.

        Occasionally QR segments to DUR or CPT booked on the same PNR are code share on BA Comair. I have once managed to have this count as one of the four requisite BA flights by calling in as BA is the Operating Carrier (“BA” includes franchises such as Comair) although my BAEC account showed erroneously the flight to be operated by QR.

• Liz says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:31

  OT has anyone else had problems claiming missing small shop credits from Lloyds? Just done battle with them over 2 missing credits. No one seems to know anything about it and I got the usual run around saying it is an Amex problem and not Lloyds. After asking for it to be escalated to a complaint because they manually credited one transaction last year then eventually agreed to credit my £10 but have put a note on our record to say that under no circumstances will they do this again. I will lodge a formal complaint in writing to get this removed – what are others experiences. Still got one to do with MBNA for the same shop.

  • EwanG says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:47

    No experience with Lloyds but some difficulty with my Virgin AmEx. When I called MBNA they advised they were unable to help as the promotion is run by American Express.

    I filled in a form on Amex Connect for this card about a week ago and the missing credits not yet showing.

    The same day I also uploaded evidence for a missing credit on my Amex-issued Amex, and my wife received a letter yesterday (as primary cardholder) to advise of the credit.

    • Liz says:

      11 Jan11 January 16:14

      Great I didn’t realise you could do it that way – I will start sending in evidence of my othe missing transactions. I have written to AMex to try and get an answer from them.

    • Liz says:

      11 Jan11 January 16:27

      EwanG – how did you upload evidence on the Amex issued cards. When you put in Amex issued it says to phone them. Last time we phoned I was told we had to wait 90 days.

      • EwanG says:

        11 Jan11 January 20:41

        Liz
        For my Amex issued card they requested I use the Document Centre to upload my receipt. Log into your account and scroll down to the bottom of the page where you’ll see a link to “Form & Document Centre”. On mobile you’ll need to expand the Important Links menu. That gives you a link to document centre. As there was no facility to add a note, I took a screenshot of a note explaining why I was uploading a receipt. A bit faffy but hopefully worthwhile if you have a few credits missing!
        I was also told to wait up to 90 days when asking about missing credits on my Nectar Amex but they did manual adjustments when asked.
        Ewan

      • Liz says:

        11 Jan11 January 22:27

        Thanks Ewan

  • jovanna says:

    11 Jan11 January 21:45

    I was in a restaurant and I tried to split the bill across my Lloyds Amex and my Virgin Amex. I used the online form. I was knocked back about 10 days later for one of the transactions because I’d already benefitted from the promotion on one card. Fair enough. I found the whole process a bit protracted.

    I also made a similar claim on my Amex Plat card and the Plat supplementary card. Web chat a bit of a pain but 2 x £5 credits applied instantly to my account.

• Clive says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:56

  Can someone please remind me if all BA PE tickets are upgradeable. Thanks

  • JamesB says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:17

    Yes, let’s say virtually all. So long as you are not booking something obscure from a third party then it should be fine. You can cancel within 24h anyway if ut is not upgraded.

    • Rob says:

      11 Jan11 January 11:35

      Not if bought as a package holiday, unless it was via BA Holidays. Fine otherwise.

      • roberto says:

        11 Jan11 January 12:15

        I can only think of one other scenario when they are not and that after using the Lloyds upgrade voucher when booking into PE. The T&C state that further upgrades are not permitted although I bet some exception have slipped through the net.

  • Clive says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:53

    Thanks. It’s an OTA ticket but can not pull up the booking class. Presumption it is T

• simon says:

  11 Jan11 January 11:28

  O/T, BA have put my £170 spend through as 4 x £42.50….. will this still trigger the 1500 bonus Avios offer? Has anyone had this issue?

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:32

    It usually is OK with Amex promotions, yes. Although you should, if your email preferences have been set correctly, have had an email from Amex as soon as the charge went through – I got one yesterday.

    • simon says:

      11 Jan11 January 11:45

      aah yes, was on my wife’s card. will check that first and keep an eye on it. Thanks as always

  • Anna says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:03

    I used the offer on Sunday for an airport hotel we needed anyway. Got 30% off Hilton in the sale and points have posted to BAPP today, very pleased.

• guesswho2000 says:

  11 Jan11 January 11:33

  OT – Just got an email from BAEC for the Amex BAPP – 30k Avios signup bonus for 3k spent in three months – might be targeted, so worth trawling through the junk inbox for those interested. Runs until 31/1.

  • Lady London says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:53

    OT #1 I got one for 10K avios signing bonus for 1K spent in three months.

    Obviously they’ve worked out I’m cheap 🙂

    OT #2 Did anyone else get a grovelly email from Alex Cruz yesterday about BA having “learned some lessons” and “listened” and “BA are now putting things right”? Or was it just me, in response to some of the frank survey comments I’ve given them in the past year?

    • Clive says:

      11 Jan11 January 11:56

      No got it too

    • Radiata says:

      11 Jan11 January 12:43

      I could not bear to read it..

    • Anna says:

      11 Jan11 January 13:05

      Not got any offers or email, but I’m assuming if we wanted a second BAPP it would make more sense for my OH to refer me?

      • JamesB says:

        11 Jan11 January 13:28

        Yes, especially if he refers you from the BALL or platinum. However, if you can meet the spend target on both he could yet get an offer on his BAPP if emails are coming out in batches.

      • Anna says:

        11 Jan11 January 14:00

        I thought it was just a sign up offer? As he’s already got a BAPP my OH wouldn’t be eligible.

      • JamesB says:

        11 Jan11 January 16:01

        @Anna, yes it is sign up sorry. Was reading through them too fast and was thinking extra spend oromotion for some reason…too good to be true.

    • David S says:

      11 Jan11 January 18:13

      Got the Cruz email- promptly deleted since it was a lot of nonsense!!!

• Lady London says:

  11 Jan11 January 12:31

  OT It seems Ryanair didn’t just delay the implementation of their new luggage policy to 15th January to avoid a storm of “Ryanair ruined my Christmas”, they’ve also made the policy worse.

  Previously it seemed you only had to buy Priority Boarding in order to guarantee both your 10kg hand luggage and your smaller bag into the cabin.

  Just noticed on their website today, they’re now saying you have to buy Priority Boarding AND 2 cabin bags, and not just Priority Boarding as they were saying before Christmas.

  Thank heavens I’ve only got 2 more flights booked with Ryanair. Looks like they’re back to their bad old ways…. defo won’t be booking with them. Might even push some flights over to BA now.

  • Anna says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:07

    Presumably they are starting to claw back some of the money they lost during the cancelled flights/pilot’s leave fiasco? I was thinking about booking a half term holiday to the Canaries with them but may have to reconsider.

  • Meadowlark says:

    11 Jan11 January 16:44

    I don’t think there is any change in the previously announced policy, just a renaming of “priority boarding”. The 2 bags bit is to try and make it clear that otherwise you can only take a small bag into the cabin (I.e. One bag). If you want to take a second, larger, cabin bag you have to pay an extra 5 euro for “Priority and two bags”.

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