A 40% bonus when you buy World of Hyatt points means a good Mallorca deal

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• mark2 says:

  27 Apr27 April 11:19

  OT
  Does anyone know how to find what food will be served on a flight please?
  Alternatively, has anyone flown on BA0215 LHR to Boston at 1830 and can tell me what is served. I assume that we can have lunch in Concorde.

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    27 Apr27 April 11:38

    You should be able to pre-book your food from LHR so that will tell you what the main choice options are.

  • Mark says:

    27 Apr27 April 11:41

    I would expect the main meal to be served an hour or so after departure, followed by a lighter meal close to arrival. If less than a month away you should be able to see and select main course options for the initial service via manage my booking online.

• Ben says:

  27 Apr27 April 11:24

  OT. I have the plat and I am trying to self refer to the BAPP but it only offers me the AMEX Gold CC or Green Card.
  Have they pulled that now? Or is it an IT error with the new change?

  • Alexey says:

    27 Apr27 April 11:26

    I had the same from office pc but when tried at home had full list of cards , so I suspect as I probably go via US VPN at work they restrict that by region somehow

  • JamesB says:

    27 Apr27 April 12:09

    Somebody reported yesterday or day before that this was a chrome issue if that helps.

• CC says:

  27 Apr27 April 12:31

  Only used Europcar once for this and it was all fine except I forgot to pay dart charge! I was let off the dart charge penalty as first offence but not the Europcar £40 admin charge. So it cost me around about what the rental would have been! That will teach me.

  Still its a scumbag money making scheme from the big firms. My local independent hire firm have Dart charge account and if you go through it they simply take the £2.50 crossing fees at the end of hire.

• Bal says:

  27 Apr27 April 12:37

  There are definitely some strange ones in the Europcar £1. I have seen Hayes to Heathrow. The two locations are about half mile apart (max 3-4min drive). Surely, the cost of moving a car between those 2 locations is cheaper done directly by Europcar staff!

  • Lady London says:

    29 Apr29 April 19:12

    Er… nope.
    There’s also the opportunity cost of having those staff not around to do other things if they have to leave the depot to go move cars. Even locally.

• Crafty says:

  27 Apr27 April 12:57

  OT: Flying BA F from JFK tomorrow. No status, no priority pass nor currently active Amex Plat. BA app says F lounge closed.

  Do we really have to go to Club Galleries as they direct, or does our F ticket give us any better alternatives?

  • Rob says:

    27 Apr27 April 13:08

    If the Concorde Room is open (not sure if that was being refurbished) you should go there. The F lounge is for Gold Card holders, not passengers flying F.

• mark says:

  27 Apr27 April 13:39

  O/T new SPG at the o2 have been released, pretty wide ranging concerts from the muppets, iron maiden to Britney spears.

• KevMc says:

  27 Apr27 April 14:09

  Anybody know of a Europcar which is open on a Sunday (and therefore doesn’t charge a £60 admin fee for picking it up outside office hours)? I have a flight on Monday 23rd July, and would like to do one of these one-way rentals to avoid a parking charge for a week, if possible.

  • xcalx says:

    27 Apr27 April 16:59

    What area

    • Jamie says:

      27 Apr27 April 19:00

      I’ve generally found it’s the airport stations that are open all week, but I’ve noticed these are only ever drop-off’s on the £1 deal, never available for pick-ups. You will find July is too far into the future to find cars anyway – you can generally only find them 4 weeks in advance (at least in my experience).

      By the way – is it just me or is their website/script really slow?

      • Tom1 says:

        27 Apr27 April 20:12

        yes very slow!

      • Londonsteve says:

        29 Apr29 April 21:46

        Agree the website is ultra slow. Does anyone know why only airport drop-offs are permitted, never collections? Does the manufacture undertake to deliver cars to a location of their choosing but will only collect from airports?

  • Lady London says:

    29 Apr29 April 18:57

    Gatwick (at times only at one of the 2 terminals, but it’s only a short train ride to the other one) and Heathrow are reliable 24-hrs mostly for car rentals. I think these rentals are from other places and you’re intended to pick up at the remote location and drop at the airport. Not the other way round.

    Also so far as I can recall on the one way deals they only give you a specified length of time usually 1 or possibly 2 days to drop the car at the other end. So even if they allow a week you might be paying 5 days. 5 days usually costs the same as a week btw most of the time.

• RussellH says:

  27 Apr27 April 14:12

  OT:- Amex puzzle

  Yesterday I hit my spend target (£1000) for my BA Amex; I got 5000 Avios credited, not the 6000 expected for being referred. Phoned Amex and they said I had already received the 1000 bonus back in March, a month ago, when I had only done about half the spend.
  In March I needed to book a room via AirBNB – my sister gave me her AirBNB referral link, which she told me might give me a discount – sadly it did not as the cost of the room was not high enough. I paid using my BA Amex; when the Avios came through there was a bonus 1000 Avios on the AirBNB transaction marked ” Additional `Refer a Friend¿ bonus Avios”. At the time, I assumed that this was an AirBNB / Amex offer, since I had been referred to AirBNB .
  However, when I complained to Amex CS that I was missing the 1000 for hitting the spend target, they insisted that I had already received them – they insist that the bonus Avios I received with the AirBNB booking were the additional bonus for spending £1000, even though it was long before I had qualified for them.

  Anyone else seen something like this?? Am I missing 1000 Avios? Or was it a pure coincidence that I had been referred for AirBNB and my 1000 Avios really did turn up at exactly the same time, only after spending £500?

  • Andi F says:

    27 Apr27 April 14:37

    This sounds like pure coincidence – this is exactly how my last couple of bonuses for the referral have posted.

  • Relaxo says:

    27 Apr27 April 14:39

    Whats the puzzle here? You are not missing any avios…..the 1000 with your ABB transaction would be the referal bonus. Any Airbnb referal credit would only be a £ discount off your booking total……Nothing to do with Avios…..

    • RussellH says:

      27 Apr27 April 15:37

      Thanks both.
      I just assumed that as I got a bonus 1000 Avios marked refer a friend from AirBNB that it was from AirBNB, given that I was nowhere near qualifying for any bonus from Amex.
      Previous referral bonuses from Amex have always posted as part of the transaction that took me over the threshhold, with the main bonus separately on the same date.
      So the puzzle is why did Amex pay a bonus when I was only halfway to the spend target!

      • JamesB says:

        27 Apr27 April 18:31

        This is the way amex typically post the referral bonuses now Russell as others state. I like it as it is usually a good indication things are working as they should

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