British Airways adds lounge access at more European airports including Porto and Reykjavik

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• Pierre says:

  28 Feb28 February 09:23

  UIP will not have a lounge in the near future with so few flights per day out of the airport, and space constraints.

  • Johnny Tabasco says:

    28 Feb28 February 09:59

    will be in the Clubhouse next week for a morning flight. I’m actually tempted to book the room, purely on the basis I might actually get a table or at the very least, some space in there for he first time in years.

• Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

  28 Feb28 February 09:24

  There are some £650 WTP fares to Oakland (and the route tends to have good J redemption availability for avios upgrades).

• JP says:

  28 Feb28 February 10:01

  OT: does anyone have any more info on increasing the Curve 50k yearly cap? Based on current spend I will hit the cap soon. Do I simply have to stop using card until cap replenishes?

  • Matt says:

    28 Feb28 February 11:16

    I think the 50K cap is the maximum they do. Might be worth messaging to ask. I sent them a message asking to increase my cap from the initial ones and they replied saying yes very quickly.

• Anna says:

  28 Feb28 February 10:03

  OT – is there any easy way to check for Qatar redemption seats from MAN or is it a case of checking date by date?

• Alex says:

  28 Feb28 February 10:33

  About Lounges, didn’t BA use to have one in LCY? I’m almost sure I remember seeing one, in the corridor to the right just after all the duty free shops. But it was probably 10 years ago, I haven’t status with them since then.

  I’d be interested though because I’ll most likely make Silver this year.

  • Lumma says:

    28 Feb28 February 11:10

    Other than seat selection on HBO fares and business class check in, silver gets you pretty much nothing at LCY

    • Alex says:

      28 Feb28 February 11:46

      I know, I fly out of Heathrow sometimes too. And there’s usually a lounge for the return leg (I live 20mns away from LCY so it’s not a big deal, I’m pretty consistently at the airport just 30mns before the flight so no time to linger).

      It was more for archaeology’s sake.

• sunguy says:

  28 Feb28 February 11:12

  OT and X/P(from my post at FT) (sorry!)
  Im looking for a bit of advice please…..

  I need to do a tier point run from London to somewhere to make 160TP round trip…

  I’ve so far settled on doing something on IB via MAD to probably ACE or somewhere…, but my main thing is that Id like to use points and money to book the flights.

  However, to use points and money, I have to book via IB and use points from my IB account(no problems there) – however, I’m a little unclear if I book it this way, how I can credit the TP/AVIOS and flights to my BA exec account (Im trying to make silver and need the 4 BA/IB metal flights too…)

  One thought Ive had is to book it, then try to change the enrolled program to BA, but as I’ve never tried this before, and because its points and money, does anyone know if this is possible, or will I endup with the equiv of 160TP credited to my IB account, which is a complete waste of time/money/points ?

  • Rob says:

    28 Feb28 February 11:23

    Remember that Spanish domestic flights in Business do not always generate 40 TPs – some (all?) are 20.

    Somewhere on this list of BA’s 160 TP routes may be easier and cheaper, eg Catania – https://headforpoints.com/2017/06/02/british-airways-club-europe-160-tier-points-routes/

    • sunguy says:

      28 Feb28 February 11:31

      Rob,

      Thanks – so, I was using the BA points checker – it says for Bronze/Iberia LHR MAD 40TP / 1376 Avios , MADACE 40TP / 1712 Avios, so that should be the full 160 for a return….or is BA lying ?

      However, my question is more around, how easy is it to credit to BA when booking and using Avios on Iberia ?

      • Rob says:

        28 Feb28 February 14:38

        If ba.com says that then it will be correct. Iberia will automatically include your IB number if you part pay with Iberia Avios. So, either use cash or – once booked – get the numbers swapped over. This can also be done at the airport if necessary.

    • C77 says:

      28 Feb28 February 14:43

      ACE direct on BA in CE would get you the 160 needed and no faffing around at MAD

      • sunguy says:

        28 Feb28 February 15:29

        Correct, but I need the 4 flights on BA/IB metal too….I have 0 right now…(460TP was earned on AA)

        Thanks for all the help on this though – I was just a little concerned about getting the TP credited to the right account!

      • Lady London says:

        1 Mar1 March 00:20

        If you use an Iberia status card to get into a lounge then beware sometimes lounges will overwrite the frequent flyer number on your booking with Iberia, even if you had previously changed it to BA. So always check a lounge hasn’t changed the frequent flyer number/program on your booking if you used a different card to get into the lounge, than you want to book the miles for the flight to.

        The last opportunity for the frequent flyer number on your ticket to be changed is usually the lounge. It can also be changed by gate staff too. But it’s rare you would do anything at the gate in UK/Europe that would cause that.

• bernardh says:

  28 Feb28 February 11:37

  OT – I used the tricks to convert any number of Accor points into Iberia Avios. How long should it take before they appear on the Iberia side?

  • sunguy says:

    28 Feb28 February 14:06

    Dont know about this in particular, but, to activate my Iberia account via the iberia+ store by buying a song from iTunes took 42 days to authorise, then a further 2 days for the avios to hit my account. So, basically, it took the maximum length of time suggested for both things to happen…(therefore, if they state how long it will take, take the maximum length of time and that will likely be it!).

  • ankomonkey says:

    28 Feb28 February 17:36

    Overnight when I did this multiple times a few years ago. Haven’t done it since to know if anything’s changed.

    • JamesB says:

      28 Feb28 February 18:46

      Overnight to 48h seems to be typical for my few transactions in the last six months.

• Yuff says:

  28 Feb28 February 11:51

  Rob

  I was doing some research on how to get back from Palma last week and saw a photo of you in a lounge at Mallorca airport and it didn’t bear any resemblance to the 2 lounges I’ve been in at the airport at A and C gates. Yours was in the D gate area, it looked a big step up in terms of food etc.
  The two I’ve been in are Valderossa and Meditteraneo I think, poor spelling probably!
  I’ve been accessing the lounges with lounge key but now have priority pass and thought I might have a look at the lounge you used if I can get in…. 😉

  • Rob says:

    28 Feb28 February 14:37

    Not sure where it was but it was down the far, far end of the corridor – eg a lot of passengers end up branching left from the main corridor and down a tunnel. The lounge is not there, you need to keep going and it is at the end, underground (ie there are some stair from the concourse level leading down).

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