American Express Platinum closes its “UK Hotel Collection” of special deals

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• Andrew Stock says:

  7 Feb7 February 07:28

  Virgin had the chance to operate LHR to Edinburgh, Manchester and Dublin, however they failed.

  • Andrew says:

    7 Feb7 February 10:00

    This is true.

    They were very unhappy that passengers were “only” using their product to travel between London & Edinburgh/Aberdeen rather than travel transatlantic. I was one of those passengers.

    It is one of the occasions when they shouldn’t have used the Virgin Brand. Something new that was affiliated with both Star Alliance and Virgin/Delta would have been very helpful indeed for Scottish passengers who were looking at non-Oneworld connections in London.

    Flybe now take most of the non-BA connections to EDI & ABZ.

• Anonymous says:

  7 Feb7 February 07:59

  O/T I am looking at the current Avis/VS deal for 5.5k bonus miles for a 2-day rental. I actually need a 4-day rental, so does anyone know if i make 2 separate booking of 2 days each, would I qualify to receive the bonus twice? I am concerned that as these are consecutive days I would only qualify for the bonus once. I cannot change my pickup/dropoff locations and would prefer to have less than an hour gap between rental 1 and rental 2 if possible. Any reassurance/guidance would be appreciated…

  • rash says:

    7 Feb7 February 08:08

    I’m also interested in the answer to this question, I have reached out to someone on flyertalk to see if they have an answer and I will let you know if they reply. Jovanna who posts on here sometimes may know the answer to this…

  • Rob says:

    7 Feb7 February 08:19

    I know someone who used to do 3 £18 Hertz rentals per day during a big Virgin promo. You should be ok, for absolute certainty swap over at a different depot.

• John says:

  7 Feb7 February 08:22

  BA can barely hold together an operation at 3 London airports so I’m not sure exactly how things would be better if they flew directly from more UK origins.

  Is AF not really Air Paris?

• mark2 says:

  7 Feb7 February 08:32

  I think we can all have a good guess at that answer.

• mark2 says:

  7 Feb7 February 08:37

  OT
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  The article also explains why you should have an LPA.

  • whiskerxx says:

    7 Feb7 February 09:23

    Thank you Mark – very useful

• Beard McBeardyface says:

  7 Feb7 February 09:20

  At school, the word ‘Beard’ was a synonym for the word ‘lies’ and while the press release isn’t a lie, it is at best, misleading.

  Virgin tried short haul and failed. The dream of holding onto those remedy slots long enough to convert them into something profitable was a bridge too far.

  Give Virgin a slot pair at LHR and they sure as hell won’t be starting flights to Chennai but would likely add another frequency to a North American destination. (See above)

  BA compete with the slew of carriers flying west (albeit with a stop) and Virgin as they fly east. Virgin have chosen their network strategy and represent something that no other European carrier has, competition on direct routes against the incumbent.

  • Alan says:

    7 Feb7 February 09:35

    “BA compete with the slew of carriers flying west (albeit with a stop) and Virgin as they fly east. Virgin have chosen their network strategy and represent something that no other European carrier has, competition on direct routes against the incumbent.”

    Either I have misunderstood what you are saying or you have your east and west the wrong way around?

    Its probably me.

    • Leo says:

      7 Feb7 February 10:12

      Probably me too then!

  • Rob says:

    7 Feb7 February 09:53

    Virgin have spare slots at Heathrow. They are leased to IAG I believe.

    • Stuart says:

      7 Feb7 February 15:04

      How ironic! So they can’t fill the slots they have but want a third runway to open competition and more slots for them not to use?! Maybe they should use their own slots currently / lease them to Delta before they want new ones. They could of used the release to mention what markets they may look at if there was a third runway and they had extra slots

• Grimz says:

  7 Feb7 February 09:40

  Thanks – on my platinum but not on my SPG or BA cards.

• Grimz says:

  7 Feb7 February 09:42

  OT – How long should it take to receive the 20k points for the upgrade to Platinum from Gold once you have spent the £1k. I thought it triggered right away?

  • mark says:

    7 Feb7 February 10:08

    i waited a couple of days and then it hit, too maybe 48h to 72 after the qualifying spend.

    • Grimz says:

      7 Feb7 February 11:29

      So they cant argue I am not due the bonus even if I used the upgrade link from here?

  • Tom Cook says:

    7 Feb7 February 10:42

    Hit within 48 hrs I recall.

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