Who won the two flights to New York in Premium Economy?

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• Jeremy says:

  21 Apr21 April 09:06

  What about the St Regis Maldives? That also looks to be all-suite.

  • Rob says:

    21 Apr21 April 09:31

    It is not on the list on the Cat 7 page of spg.com. Not saying the list is necessarily correct but I am cutting and pasting from it.

• Alex W says:

  21 Apr21 April 09:10

  According to Wikipedia it’s the 5th time these engines have lost a blade. Although I’m sure they have many millions of hours safe operation too.

• Cate ⛱️ says:

  21 Apr21 April 10:48

  ‘where a fantastic product got slaughtered by you, the HFP readers – shows “why we can’t have nice things”.

  Anika, the researcher in charge of the survey is responsible for controlling the variables – not the participants.

  • Rob says:

    21 Apr21 April 11:33

    I added that line actually – it is one I have been waiting to use.

• Jon says:

  21 Apr21 April 12:01

  Intrigued to see how a product can get “slaughtered” when it was a case of choose your favourite product. Choosing X does not mean I don’t like Y too…. Will read the results with interest, especially as PE is my preferred level if I’m paying for a daytime flight (I just don’t want or need Business to sit and read a book).

  Also in the spirit of science: You’ve prejudged the answer by assuming you already know which product is fantastic. The answer isn’t “wrong” just because it’s different to what you expected 😛

• Lady London says:

  21 Apr21 April 12:56

  OT Does anyone have any experience of using Firefly car rental (Hertz’s LCC car rental brand) in Europe? I’m getting huge prices for a public holiday weekend in Italy.

  For the first time ever, I’m looking at the kind of cheap car hire firms you can find on Skyscanner, but very fearful of what it’s like dealing with Firefly or cheaper car consolidators…

  Does anyone have any advice?

• Dirtyneedlebluesky says:

  21 Apr21 April 16:37

  Of all the things I didn’t think would be mentioned on here…. Enter Shikari!! ????????????????

  • Andy says:

    22 Apr22 April 16:30

    It was at that point I realised that it probably wasn’t Rob writing the article.

• Kevin says:

  21 Apr21 April 17:52

  I got only SPG points collected via few stays. Would it be better value to transfer them to marriot points or leave it as it is?

• Tom1 says:

  21 Apr21 April 17:59

  o/t BAPP

  I am just about to hit the £3k sign up bonus target for 26k Avios, but at the moment I don’t think I’m likely to hit the £10k 241 target in the next 11 months.

  Am I right in thinking I can downgrade to the free BA Amex now, keep an eye on my spending, and then if I am close to the £10k, then I can apply to upgrade to the BAPP again and trigger the 241 at £10k?

  • Jonny says:

    21 Apr21 April 20:43

    Yes you can. You can even upgrade after spending £10k and get the voucher. Though Amex may take a dim view if you do this too many times.

    • Tom1 says:

      21 Apr21 April 23:05

      Great thanks.

      • JamesB says:

        21 Apr21 April 23:20

        There is a potential problem though Tom. With the cobranding issue the BA cards will likely change. The question is , when and in what way? I am due my next BA churn in a few weeks and would like to follow the same plan as you but I am now considering just swallowing the fee and holding onto the BAPP once I have it to be on the safe side.

        • Rob says:

          22 Apr22 April 10:49

          There is a view, as I was discussing with a senior card industry on Friday, that Amex is going to start a very big push on Gold and Platinum. (We, separately, have been talking to Amex about some Plat advertising.) The problem is that Amex presumably cannot – for contractual reasons – have better BA transfer rates via Membership Rewards than it has via the BA Amex.

          If I were Amex I would also be doing deals with United, Lufthansa and American given that those MBNA cards are presumably heading towards closure now they are no longer available to new applicants.

      • Tom1 says:

        22 Apr22 April 07:14

        Very true JamesB.

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