Win two passes for the United Club lounge at Heathrow Terminal 2

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• Genghis says:

  14 Mar14 March 05:03

  To potentially correct the correction on the Curve article, “The maximum spending limit is £3750 per day”. I have £5k on the personal debit card and others I know even higher but if you’re a new customer £3750 seems the max.

  • Dan says:

    14 Mar14 March 06:50

    Agreed. I’ve held the corporate version since (almost) day 1 and my daily limit is £5k.

  • Rob says:

    14 Mar14 March 08:38

    You are going to be reduced. Curve sent me an email, which is why I changed what I originally wrote (ie that I got £5k and others would eventually).

    • Carl says:

      14 Mar14 March 08:48

      That’s a shame. I literally just got upgraded (on request) to a £5k limit yesterday.

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  14 Mar14 March 05:41

  More info on the ‘densified’ BA A321 (G-MEDN). Based on the seatmap (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7fN_-U1h2o ) I’ve deduced the following.

  There appears to be one extra row before the 1st emergency exit. The ex-bmi midhaul fleet (which G-MEDN was one) only has one toilet in the front whereas the current BA shorthaul fleet has two. That means there’s extra space for a row here.

  That means the moving of the rear toilets from just behind the back row of seats to the rear galley only needed to make space for one extra row. The regular BA CY205 seatmap shows 35 rows and the densified 37.

  It should be possible to fit these two extra rows in without affecting seat pitch.

  So perhaps the reason they’ve not installed the thinner seats in this aircraft is they don’t need to. Is it possible that they’ve decided to keep the extra front toilet on the BA fleet that have one so on these aircraft they’ll need to reduce the pitch to fit in two rows? If that’s the case it’s still possible that those that said the rear section of refurbished planes would have the slimmer seats may turn out right when an original BA shorthaul gets refurbished.

  • Lumma says:

    14 Mar14 March 06:34

    I’d be interested to know what’s going on with the exit rows too, looking at the midhaul seatmap on seat guru it looks like these planes had the same exit row setup as the short haul A321 with masses of legroom, but only 1 row in economy due to the front one being in the club world section but that video just shows 2 seats in the exit row.

    Also are all these ex-bmi planes getting converted? What will happen to the routes that they’re on? Considering BA are asking over £500 return minimum in economy on the flight to Amman currently

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      14 Mar14 March 08:30

      I’ll try and find out more about the exit rows as I can only speculate with the seatmaps as they don’t show the space available but it looks like they’ll have the same configuration as the current BA shorthaul fleet just with an extra row at the front (due to no 2nd toilet) and rear (due to relocation of toilets).

      G-MEDN hasn’t been running from Saturday-Tuesday but it is starting service again today and the flights for tomorrow are also on flightradar24

      14 March
      BA1432 London – Edinburgh 06:20 return BA1439 08:35
      BA1440 London – Edinburgh 11:30 return BA1449 13:50
      BA1488 London – Glasgow 16:55 return BA1495 19:15

      15 March
      BA1474 London – Glasgow 07:40 return BA1479 09:55
      BA1332 London – Newcastle 12:15 return BA1333 14:25
      BA1452 London – Edinburgh 16:40 return BA1459 18:55

    • Cate ⛱️ says:

      14 Mar14 March 11:21

      Following this with interest as we have two biz seats booked to AMM on an ex-bmi.

  • Rob says:

    14 Mar14 March 08:37

    I have been sent internal BA seat plans now – I just need to work out what they mean!

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      14 Mar14 March 11:17

      I’m at gate 10A at T5 waiting on a bus to board BA1440. There seems to be a technical issue so I might not get to fly on G-MEDN. Let’s see what happens

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      14 Mar14 March 11:38

      I’m on the plane. CE still has the middle seat tables which considering these are new seats (G-MEDN was a bmi midhaul) seems odd if the plan is to scrap them. Final row (37) has no window and the seats are slightly narrower in rows 36 and 37. It has a new plane smell. Legroom might be slightly smaller not significant (I deliberately chose a seat at the back) I get row 1 or an exit most times so can’t be sure if the legroom is worse.

      Despite no duty free carried on these planes there’s a copy of Highlife Shop magazine and despite being so far back Club Europe would never reach here there’s also a copy of Business Life magazine.

      I’ll write up a more detailed review if I have time.

      • KP says:

        14 Mar14 March 12:42

        Thanks

        I’ve flown every week (almost) since last Aug primarily across LHR, MAN, LBA, FRA and each time there has been a high-life duty free magazine and Business Life – even seat number 8 onwards all the way to the back

• Ryan says:

  14 Mar14 March 07:45

  When booking a lodge holiday, generally speaking they are priced per unit, therefore my question would be “How can kids go free”? If there are two adults travelling, the total cost would normally be the same as two adults and two children travelling.

  Incidentally, when I entered the Promo Code “Kids”, on a dummy booking to Suffolk in April, the total cost was reduced by 40% also.

  • JamesB says:

    14 Mar14 March 10:47

    A bit like the free HIX breakfast they got into hot water over. Might be that there are additional park services that are free for kids.

• a9504477 says:

  14 Mar14 March 07:55

  Best *A lounge at LHR is the SQ lounge…

  • Rob says:

    14 Mar14 March 08:34

    It’s terrible! I even wrote a bad review of it on here somewhere. The F bit is OK but very small.

    • a9504477 says:

      14 Mar14 March 16:08

      Ever since you have been writing about it i haven’t understood why you like the UA lounge so much. It’s always very busy and the food is quite poor. The one thing it has is the bar which has a better choice compared to the SQ lounge (but no Singapore sling). It’s maybe the best UA lounge there is but not the best *A lounge at LHR.

  • John says:

    14 Mar14 March 10:50

    I prefer SQ over UA as well.

  • Pangolin says:

    14 Mar14 March 16:16

    Check out FlyerTalk (Star Alliance forum) for a good discussion that’s ongoing about T2 lounges for *A.

• JamesB says:

  14 Mar14 March 07:57

  Unconvinced about a corrections page as this likely requires cross referencing with one or more articles. Personally I like your current practice of adding corrections, updates etc as an edit under the titles of articles in question. It might look less tidy but information is right where we need it.

  • Rob says:

    14 Mar14 March 08:34

    That will continue to happen. It is just another ‘professionalising’ move ahead of the redesign which will be more serious than the current look.

    • JamesB says:

      14 Mar14 March 09:19

      Ok, look forward to seeing what you come up with. I think there is a natural tendency to resit change but despite that we usually end up embracing it.

    • imbruce says:

      14 Mar14 March 12:14

      I think that sometimes people want the ability to correct/delete their comments on
      the articles as I have seen people say that they have made an error

    • Cate ⛱️ says:

      14 Mar14 March 12:48

      I’d like to go back to the time when we talked more about biz and first seats and luxury hotel i.e. what the amuse bouche was like, on board wine pairings, eggs royale or the smoked haddock for breakfast. We seem to have gravitated to wooden sheds and the lavatories in economy.

• lee says:

  14 Mar14 March 08:24

  IHG has bought 51% stake in Regent Hotels and Resorts and will be bought into the group announced this morning .

  • Rob says:

    14 Mar14 March 08:32

    WTF? That is NOT luxury.

    • lee says:

      14 Mar14 March 08:34

      they are also in the running for another group .

    • JamesB says:

      14 Mar14 March 10:50

      Was thinking something similar, stayed in a Regent that felt like it was abandoned in 70s.

    • John says:

      14 Mar14 March 10:54

      IHG is not luxury! (As in they have other brands besides IC)

      For those who haven’t read the press release, the IC HK, which used to be a Regent, is going back to a Regent. Lots of Regents became Four Seasons.

      • Rob says:

        14 Mar14 March 13:15

        … and some FS became Regents eg Berlin.

        • Rob says:

          14 Mar14 March 14:29

          And Singapore is managed by Four Seasons!

      • Anna says:

        14 Mar14 March 15:54

        OT but IHG. A new Holiday Inn Express is opening in Gibraltar this summer, however the maximum capacity for any of its rooms is 2 adults and 1 child. Is this the future? Most families are going to be forced to book 2 rooms in that situation. I normally like HI for its family rooms and breakfasts and was looking at Gibraltar for next year but not if I have to shell out double for the accommodation.

      • xcalx says:

        14 Mar14 March 18:50

        I can remember when the Marriott Manchester airport was a FS.

• lee says:

  14 Mar14 March 08:35

  InterContinental Hong Kong will become a Regent Hotel in early 2021

• Sarah says:

  14 Mar14 March 09:47

  Rob, I would be very wary about recommending the Dream Lodge Group – I work in the industry and they have a very poor reputation. They offer some very dubious “investment” opportunities without any FCA regulation. A google search of them will throw up plenty of red flags. I’m sure their holiday rentals are fine (although their tripadvisor reviews might suggest otherwise), but I understand that there is often quite a hard sell to buy lodges when guests are there. The group I work for sell lodges, but we would never market them as a financial investment – they are not, they are a depreciating asset, so I would say to anyone considering staying with them, please be aware. I won’t advertise my own company, but will say that there are far better lodge holiday options out there.

  • Ryan says:

    14 Mar14 March 10:23

    Myself also Sarah, hence my surprise at a Kids go free message, which is strange to say the least.

  • JamesB says:

    14 Mar14 March 10:52

    Thanks Sarah, I was going to have a look.

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