News: HfP on Radio 4, earn Hyatt points with home rentals

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

• Anna says:

  6 Mar6 March 07:12

  OT – I’ve got cash bookings from IAD to GCM via MIA in August on AA, how do I work out how many avios we will get for these?

  • David S says:

    6 Mar6 March 07:50

    Look up the BA avios calculator. Put the airline you are flying (AA in this case) and you BA status if you have one and need to put each leg separately (IAD-MIA and MIA-GCM) and it tells you all the available tickets codes and what avios you will earn. Remember the calculation is for one way.

  • Genghis says:

    6 Mar6 March 07:53

    BA TP and avios calculator

    • Anna says:

      6 Mar6 March 09:49

      Thank you both!

• JamesB says:

  6 Mar6 March 07:58

  OT: Anybody else having problems with BA site this morning? When I go to it I’m getting a captur security request instead of the home page.

• Paul says:

  6 Mar6 March 08:13

  OT: Have just upgraded the Amex Gold to Platinum and now showing as Plat online. Do I need to wait for the new plat card to arrive or will spend on my existing gold card now count towards the £1k spend to receive the 20000 MR bonus offer? Thanks

  • Grimz says:

    6 Mar6 March 08:21

    just use Gold and it goes towards plat spend

  • Tilly says:

    6 Mar6 March 08:45

    Just use your gold until the plat arrives. I used my gold and hit the £1k spend before my new card came. 20k MR posted no problem.

    • Paul says:

      6 Mar6 March 08:59

      Great. Thanks both

      • Yuff says:

        6 Mar6 March 09:33

        My 20k points posted today, I didn’t have any spend accumulator showing so was a bit concerned I might not get the bonus but pleased it’s arrived today 🙂

• Lee says:

  6 Mar6 March 08:46

  OT-Platinum card on AMEX travel
  Spent £600 on AMEX travel on last day of £200 offer, showing pending since 28th. It’s unusual for such long pending period. Today the transaction just disappeared from pending and not showing on processed as well. Hope that’s just a glitch and I will still get the offer

  • Grimz says:

    6 Mar6 March 09:14

    mine also stayed in pending for a while but I did receive the credit even after the expiry date

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    6 Mar6 March 09:28

    Exactly the same has happened to me…

    • Sussex Bantam says:

      6 Mar6 March 09:29

      I mean the same as Lee – 28th transaction in pending and now disappeared entirely !

  • John says:

    6 Mar6 March 09:32

    Hmm I have a weird error, my charge moved from pending today but the amount is wrong! (The statement credit hasn’t come yet)

  • Lee says:

    6 Mar6 March 11:01

    Glad I’m not the only one who experiences this glitch. The trip I booked is in two weeks hoping everything will be fine by then.

  • Rob says:

    6 Mar6 March 11:56

    Aren’t you better off not being charged the £600, than getting the £200 statement credit, in the event that the transaction never posts?

• Alex W says:

  6 Mar6 March 09:13

  I thought he narration was good, in keeping with the radio 4 style. I might get my mum to listen to it so she can understand what I’m spending her Clubcard points on ????

  • Tom Cook says:

    6 Mar6 March 12:46

    How did you persuade her to let you have them?! When I started doing this 15months ago my folks announced out of the blue that they have 250k avios and haven’t ever spent a single one on a flight – apparently they might fancy a big trip one day! I did suggest they could donate them to me! In 15months we now 130k in or HHA and have spent 100k in the past year!

    • Liz says:

      6 Mar6 March 13:21

      I buy my mother-in-laws Tesco points from her – albeit not a big spender (age 85) and she converts my cash into a bottle of rum! Everyone’s a winner!

    • Alex W says:

      6 Mar6 March 15:26

      I think she was telling me what a great deal she got on some F&F socks or something. When I said I could get double the value by converting them to Virgin miles with a 20% bonus she let me use her points ever since! I offered to pay too but she declined!

• Peter K says:

  6 Mar6 March 10:30

  Initially I thought the narration was annoying, them I tuned down my thinking to the level of those who have never flown business and it made sense. It was basically to make the masses who fly economy feel better about their lot or superior to those who have status.

  Basically, it was feeding them all the lines they expect with regard to the “elite” service that “the other half” get like champagne, amuse bouche etc.

  Then it was then basically saying how lucky us “ordinary” people are that we aren’t obsessed with flying pointlessly to achieve status or have to fly 300+ days a year to achieve it.

  I felt the narration was in line with that theme to say that though those in business/first feel they are getting good service, but that it is basically just a bit sycophantic and fake. Also to make the “ordinary” person feel like those who fly business/first look down on economy fliers.

• Martin says:

  6 Mar6 March 10:42

  I listened to the radio 4 programme, quite good and found style a bit of fun. I’m tempted to do a bit of their point chasing and need to get to Kona Hawaii soon. Does anyone have any info on cheap business class from Dublin with max Avios and Teir Points as mentioned on the radio.

  • Rob says:

    6 Mar6 March 11:00

    Offers come and go. BA has some excellent fares from London to Hawaii over December and January in Club World at the moment, but I don’t know if you can abuse the routing.

    You need to break it into chunks of over 2000 miles, since 2000 miles is the ‘long haul’ cut off to earn full tier points. This means something like London New York Los Angeles Hawaii which (if all are over 2000 miles) gets you 840 tier points return.

    The sweet spot used to be from Helsinki and back in the days when the London City BA flight gave F tier points and AA 2-class flights booked into F. This meant you got for Helsinki to Hawaii (AND THIS IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE):

    Helsinki to London – 80
    London City to New York JFK – 210
    New York – West Coast on an AA 2-class plane – 210
    West Coast to Hawaii on an AA 2-class plane – 210
    and repeated

    …. which was 1420 tier points return, and without actually going out of your way.

    • Lady London says:

      6 Mar6 March 11:56

      A pity that’s gone. This would have taken you so close to Gold!

    • Doug M says:

      6 Mar6 March 20:50

      The Dec/Jan Hawaii fare doesn’t allow east coast stops it seems, it’s lhr lax, so fewer TP than is possible at other times on the good fares.

• Michael C says:

  6 Mar6 March 10:45

  I don’t suppose anyone listened to Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel, also on Radio 4?
  The narrator and style reminded me of it!

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.