A new Qatar Airways flight discount code is launched

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• G says:

  6 Feb6 February 07:49

  Not sure if this is know, but I have used my Curve Debit Card linked to my Tesco Debit Card to pay off my Amex balance and managed to get clubcard points on Tesco Debit Card. When paying directly with the Tesco Debit Card this would not be the case

  • John says:

    6 Feb6 February 09:21

    …. did paying Amex not work when you linked a credit card to Curve then?

    • G says:

      6 Feb6 February 09:35

      I don’t have a non Amex credit card so could not try. I was happy enough with 0.3 Avios per £

      • Lumma says:

        6 Feb6 February 14:14

        Would Tesco not consider Curve to be a financial institution and not pay the clubcard points on one of these transactions?

        • Rob says:

          6 Feb6 February 16:25

          No.

    • New Card says:

      6 Feb6 February 09:59

      I thought Curve blocked payments to Financial Institutions…….?

      • Alan says:

        6 Feb6 February 12:17

        I’m not sure if that’s just if the underlying card is a credit card rather than a debit card?

      • Mr Dee says:

        6 Feb6 February 16:35

        Would be interesting if this could be clarified as missing out on a good few points otherwise

  • Chris says:

    6 Feb6 February 21:37

    Interesting.. I will have to get myself a curve card for this purpose alone

• Dean Selway says:

  6 Feb6 February 07:49

  I managed to put through £400 on self assessment in £200 transactions but now trying to pay corporation tax, I managed to put through £75 but no joy on anything more, just a payment declined notice, I’ve spoken to curve, HMRC and ihg no blocks on my card.

  Any advice?

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 07:57

    Go and use the card in some shops for offline transactions for a few weeks then try again.

    • Dean Selway says:

      6 Feb6 February 19:57

      It wouldn’t let me do a transaction higher than £200 initially then it would only let me do £75, tried on my partners curve today and no issues.

  • Mr Dee says:

    6 Feb6 February 16:35

    Why only £75 and was this the only payment you have made to your corporation tax?

• John B says:

  6 Feb6 February 08:04

  OT – Anyone found a decent replacement for the now switched off MyFlights app?

  • Geoff says:

    6 Feb6 February 08:30

    Checkmytrip is the best replacement i have found for MyFlights – would also be interested to know if anyone has found anything better.

    • BlueHorizonUK says:

      6 Feb6 February 10:39

      I use Kayak, not a single email has tripped up the system yet whereas I find with TripIt it just goes into unfilled and you have to manually input everything. With Kayak if they don’t recognise what you’ve sent it comes back a little later all done and imported correctly with no interaction from me.

• Boi says:

  6 Feb6 February 08:06

  IF BA decide to use these slots for RSA what time periods are we talking about?
  Here’s to hoping new redemption slots will become available soon….

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 08:40

    Slot becomes free from 20th April and under ‘use it or lose it’ rules it needs to be used for 80% of the season (which starts end of March). BA has little choice but to get a plane in the slot – any plane, any route – pretty soon after that. It simply does not have a spare long-haul aircraft though, in fact BA is short due to 787s out for engineering which is why the Doha flight is pretty much permanently cancelled these days.

    • john says:

      6 Feb6 February 09:43

      Some of the 747’s have ‘missed’ their retirement dates and look to still be going until the end of the year now, presumably to offer cover for some of the 787s. There are 8x new 787’s due this year but they may already be planned in to services.

• rams1981 says:

  6 Feb6 February 08:24

  OT asked late yesterday but in case missed – has anyone had luck booking the 5 night Marriott travel package? If so how did you do it?

  7 nights is too long for a trip I have coming up so be good to do 5 nights and save the points.

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 08:38

    It seems that, after an initial burst on publicity last year about the call centre allowing this, there was a clampdown. It isn’t meant to be possible unless you own a Marriott timeshare.

    • rams1981 says:

      6 Feb6 February 20:47

      For 7 Day certificate, at 330k Marriott points (110k SPG) plus 120k Avios and given the hotel cost of roughly £1050….. got to pull the trigger. That’s decent value isn’t it?

• Will says:

  6 Feb6 February 08:28

  Quick dumb question on Curve.

  If I put my debit card on there, I won’t pay anything for atm fees? I take it the pay ones at 7/11s are a different ball game but normal banks fine?

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 08:37

    Correct.

    • Will Avery says:

      6 Feb6 February 13:09

      Great!

  • Genghis says:

    6 Feb6 February 15:40

    There are still limits though aren’t there?

    From the FUP
    “ATM usage is free for up to 10 domestic (withdrawals in the same currency as your Funding Source) withdrawals per calendar month after which time you may be charged £0.50 (or currency equivalent) per usage for each additional ATM withdrawal.”

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  6 Feb6 February 08:39

  OT (but this is the bits section) you may have heard yesterday that Virgin Trains East Coast has got into more trouble and may be giving up the franchise within months.

  I’ve written about the consequences here: http://saveecrewards.co.uk/blog/future-vtec

  Most important thing to remember (if you can’t remember the previous east coast failures) is that for the passenger it’s business as usual. If the operator of the franchise changes tickets will still be valid and the current timetable will operate. Vouchers issued by VTEC will continue to be valid until expiry. So don’t worry about buying VTEC only tickets, whoever is running the line at the time of your trip is obliged to accept them.

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    6 Feb6 February 08:42

    Oh yeah and a bunch of people have already asked on Twitter if that means we’ll not be getting the Azuma trains. They’re still going ahead as planned. They were ordered and specified by the government, whoever operates the ECML has to use them. However, they may not be called Azuma as Virgin own the brand, their official name is class 800 (or GWR call them InterCity Express Train).

    Trains aren’t usually owned by the operator directly, they are leased so when a franchise changes hands the trains remain.

    • KP says:

      6 Feb6 February 09:06

      As a frequent traveller on the leeds-kgx line, thanks for the info!

    • Gavin says:

      6 Feb6 February 10:56

      Yes you’re definitely getting the class 800 trains, we are making them as quick as we can!

  • Lumma says:

    6 Feb6 February 10:49

    When you were talking about the Virgin red discounts yesterday I’ve noticed another thing that’s changed, I can no longer get the discount on trains to Sunderland unless it’s the one train per day that goes there. Now have to book to Newcastle and pay for the metro separately.

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      6 Feb6 February 12:20

      Did this change happen recently or when they changed the booking engine in August? Officially the rule was the journey had to be 100% operated by VTEC, but often there’s been bugs where the discount has also worked for tickets that include connections. The old booking engine had some bugs like that and I’m not sure about the new one but it did have its fair share of bugs so it wouldn’t surprise me that it allowed the discount with a connection in the past.

      • Lumma says:

        6 Feb6 February 14:22

        The last booking that I got the connection on was booked back in July last year. It really confused me last night as to why the discounts weren’t showing as the booking I was trying to make wasn’t in the exclusion dates.

        Probably just going to push me more to booking with Grand Central instead. Especially as they seem to always send a 20% off my next journey code when booking direct. Their 1st class is not worth the money though

• Briandt says:

  6 Feb6 February 09:08

  And another dumb question…what really are the Curve benefits of getting my card changed to Debit ?

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 09:23

    You can use it as places that accept debit cards but not credit cards.

    The older Curve Cards are technically pre-paid Mastercards and will be rejected at places which only accept debit cards.

    • Pangolin says:

      6 Feb6 February 13:54

      But are the fees abroad (i.e. for the self-employed version) exactly the same? I only pay 1% for FX transactions on the current (non-debit) card, so it’s worthwhile for me.

      If the debit card version had higher FX costs I definitely wouldn’t switch.

      • Genghis says:

        6 Feb6 February 15:42

        Same

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