Carlisle Lake District Airport to reopen to scheduled passenger flights

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• Alex says:

  24 Jan24 January 04:20

  Rob… how did you manage to misspell Niki Lauda’s name on two counts when his first name is in the airline!

  • Rob says:

    24 Jan24 January 08:04

    I actually saw it spelt elsewhere as ‘Nikki’ and did note that it was odd it was different, but I assumed that it looked better painted on a plane with just one ‘k’!

    • a9504477 says:

      24 Jan24 January 08:53

      Well, it’s quite an accomplishment to misspell both his first and last names…:-)

• Anna says:

  24 Jan24 January 05:15

  Early OT. I’m thinking about cancelling my 2 4 1 CW booking for August and re-booking with my Lloyds upgrade voucher (there is plenty of availability). If I do, am I right in thinking I will receive back the 2 4 1 voucher, the avios and cash “taxes” on the original booking (minus £35 pp cancellation fee)?

  • Anna says:

    24 Jan24 January 05:16

    Just to clarify, it’s a one way trip and the Lloyds voucher expires much sooner.

    • Frenzie says:

      24 Jan24 January 06:01

      You are correct. If you canc, your 241 booking you will get everything back except £35pp cancellation fee.

      • Anna says:

        24 Jan24 January 06:05

        Thanks!

  • Rob says:

    24 Jan24 January 08:02

    Yes

    • Anna says:

      24 Jan24 January 12:50

      I’ve now re-booked and cancelled so briefly held 6 CW tickets for August – proving that reward availability in peak season can be very good if one is prepared to be flexible with destinations!

      • Jim says:

        24 Jan24 January 14:57

        Where are you flying? (my guess Tokyo)

      • pauldb says:

        24 Jan24 January 15:28

        Did the seats you cancelled reappear?

      • Anna says:

        24 Jan24 January 19:22

        Washington DC. I don’t know if the seats have reappeared as it didn’t say how many were available to start with, which I assume means there were a lot as otherwise it states that there are 6 available or whatever.

• S879 says:

  24 Jan24 January 06:12

  OT: Have people received the 1000 VF auto convert for this quarter? I haven’t and it’s quarter end soon.

  • JamesB says:

    24 Jan24 January 06:33

    IIRC there were numerous reports of it failing last quarter so perhaps FC have tightened up on it.

  • Jonathan says:

    24 Jan24 January 08:04

    I just logged in and it said 1 more day to go…. just just stopped the auto convert as the Mrs wouldn’t of been too happy that i just traded her £52 worth of vouchers in to 12k VS miles.

  • wally1976 says:

    24 Jan24 January 13:32

    Haven’t seen mine this quarter either. This has happened in the past and then been OK again the next quarter.

• Tim_T says:

  24 Jan24 January 06:33

  Yeah, my local airport (but it’s still a 50 mile drive away)????

• Toby says:

  24 Jan24 January 06:46

  OT: following on from yesterday, is the 6 months wait for a new Amex MR card 6 months from the card closure dates, or six calendar months in between, or… I closed my card on July 16th, so I’m wondering if I’m safe to apply again.

  • Toby says:

    24 Jan24 January 06:53

    Brilliant, thanks!

  • Anna says:

    24 Jan24 January 07:49

    Is it true that you have to wait longer if you still have MR points in the account? OH and I have both closed accounts recently with about 30 points we couldn’t get rid of.

• Andrew M says:

  24 Jan24 January 06:56

  OT: There were a couple of reports on here yesterday of people starting to receive the bonus Hilton points re the (targeted) MR transfer bonus. Mine have still not come through (transfer initiated 8 Jan). Can eligible people post transfer date and simple yes/no as to whether bonus now received below, by way of a quick survey? Thanks!

  • G Flyer says:

    24 Jan24 January 08:11

    No. I’ve not received the 50% bonus yet. I made the transfer on 18th Jan.

  • Tracy says:

    24 Jan24 January 08:17

    5th December – yes
    19th January – no

  • John says:

    24 Jan24 January 09:18

    2nd Jan – no

  • Scott says:

    24 Jan24 January 09:28

    27th Dec – Yes (as of 22nd Jan.)

• Boi says:

  24 Jan24 January 07:08

  I was offered 30 000 avios directly from BA via an email. I already have BAPP. I guess I was “lucky” except it was no good for me.

• Philip White says:

  24 Jan24 January 07:24

  I got fleeced by this “offer”. I had been considering taking out the BAPP card for a while and as I was booking some expensive BA flights, when towards the end of the booking process was offered the card. I clicked through but decided not to apply at the time because of the poor offer.

  I latterly applied via other means to obtain the 25k Avios but only received the 6k + £50 credit. When I complained they said it was something to do with the the cookies left on my device and refused to correct it.

  Livid does not come close to describing how I feel about the process.

  • Anna says:

    24 Jan24 January 07:51

    I would be livid too. Did you have any proof of the better deal, e.g. screenshots? Though I am very aware that BA are a nightmare to get to budge on anything!

  • Clive says:

    24 Jan24 January 08:08

    But did you complain to BA or Amex? It’s an Amex application process/cookies and they are usually helpful so I’d try them if it was BA you tried the first time.

    • Rob says:

      24 Jan24 January 08:36

      Why? BA will have created the offer and is presumably being paid much of the difference in value between the two bonuses.

      • Clive says:

        24 Jan24 January 09:30

        Because Amex tracks cookies during their own application process, surely?

        • Rob says:

          24 Jan24 January 10:27

          They track cookies so they can pay BA for the application.

      • Clive says:

        24 Jan24 January 09:34

        … I mean, they said they applied using the Amex 25k offer, and Amex recognised old BA cookies. This isn’t BA’s problem.

  • Nick says:

    24 Jan24 January 20:02

    You’re livid because of your inability/unwillingness to understand how cookies work and/or read the T&C in which you gave permission to be tracked (all EU websites show you the T&C box)? Words fail me. It’s a really simple process to delete cookies and start again.

    • Steve-B says:

      24 Jan24 January 20:19

      That’s a bit harsh… not everyone maybe as IT savvy as you, and most people can’t remember the sites they visited yesterday, let alone a days or weeks ago.

      • Leo says:

        24 Jan24 January 20:23

        +1

    • Philip White says:

      26 Jan26 January 16:41

      @Nick,
      I fully understand how Cookies work and for the purpose of click-through advertising it is always last cookie wins. Having worked within FS and Internet Media buying for over a decade I also understand how difficult it will be to get BA/Amex to accept the issue was their’s.

      Maybe you should consider taking some time to understand how Cookies work.

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