Primera Air drops flights from Birmingham to North America

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• JPV says:

  8 Jun8 June 12:28

  OT: I’m trying to work out if a purchase on a barclaycard product codes as a cash advance or not. If it did, would it show up as such in the online account straight away (i.e. with cash advance fee)? Or would I have to wait until it was no longer “pending”? Or would I have to wait until the next statement to actually know?

  Thanks!

• Tracy says:

  8 Jun8 June 13:03

  O/T I am looking at a rewards flight and wondering how much extra the taxes should be on a regional connection? The taxes from LGW are £569 and from GLA are £651. Does £82 extra taxes sound about right? Thanks

  • Anna says:

    8 Jun8 June 13:15

    That sounds not far off but if you click through to the next page on the booking system (depending what stage you are at) it sometimes comes down a bit more. At some point I need to check whether the taxes for “free” regional add ons are worth it any more, the only real benefit is being able to check your luggage all the way through, and you can get round that in CW by allocating all your checked bas to 1 or 2 passengers who have the same PNR on both sectors.

    • Tracy says:

      8 Jun8 June 13:25

      That was me at the final booking page so I doubt it was going to change. Its a real pain to have to pay £82 each more for this Club World flight I would never pay for in the first place just so my bags are checked through….

      • Liz says:

        8 Jun8 June 14:36

        We have the same issue flying from EDI. If u want the connection on the same ticket you are forced to pay the CE taxes for the domestic leg. You will probably need to phone if you want economy for the domestic part and CW for the long haul. I am not bothered about sitting at the front of the plane and don’t need to eat on the domestic leg when I’ve just been in the lounge -it’s another added cost which I don’t want.

      • Anna says:

        8 Jun8 June 19:53

        There is a way to book ET onto a CW connection, I’m just trying to remember how! I think you have to use the “choose stopovers” option but put the same date in. Unless it’s changed, you can then select different travel classes.

    • Genghis says:

      8 Jun8 June 13:26

      Protect the connection?

      • Tracy says:

        8 Jun8 June 14:02

        What do you mean Genghis?

      • Genghis says:

        8 Jun8 June 14:34

        E.g. If you book two separate tickets and the first flight is delayed, your connection is not protected (i.e. you turn up to your second flight and it’s then been cancelled).

      • Colin MacKinnon says:

        8 Jun8 June 15:32

        The way we usually do it is buy the flex economy ticket that allows a change on the day up to an hour before departure.

        So buy a domestic flight allowing a but of a layover in London and then as soon as the inbound long-haul lands, phone to rebook on the earlier GLA/EDI flight.

        The other week, coming back from Denver in F, the flight was more than an hour early and we had booked a through ticket because we had some luggage for our children coming home a few weeks later. BA refused to let us check in to the earlier flight (which we had first booked, but it was then moved back by 5 mins so we would miss minimum connection time) and insisted we wait in the CCR for four hours to get our last leg home.

        So back to hand luggage only for our travels!

        ps And, beleive it or not, now looking at Norwegian economy rather than BA F for our next trip!

        (Thinking DEN to NYC and after a day or two there, a direct flight to EDI with Norwegian would be better than the Heathrow hang-about with BA!)

      • Tracy says:

        8 Jun8 June 16:45

        Genghis, Yes I guess that makes sense, put the responsibility back on BA to make sure we get there on time lol.

      • Tracy says:

        8 Jun8 June 16:48

        Liz, I will be using a 241. Can I book online CW for both legs and then call the call centre to downgrade the domestic to economy? Will it actually save much money?

      • Tracy says:

        8 Jun8 June 16:54

        Colin, I can see the logic but there is only one GLA-LGW flight and one EDI-LGW that we could get before the long haul flight anyway and they are within 20 mins of each other. The flex economy return ticket for the domestic leg is about £400 each unless I am missing something. Think I will just have to swallow the £82 each extra for the domestic CE leg…

      • Memesweeper says:

        8 Jun8 June 20:15

        Flex economy isn’t required — just get a regular one for free same day changes

• Mark2 says:

  8 Jun8 June 14:00

  No, Boeing 787

  • Lady Londonh says:

    8 Jun8 June 18:51

    At present isn’t that potentially a flying pig?

    • the real harry1 says:

      8 Jun8 June 19:08

      No 787s have actually gone down or anything near that due to possible engine deterioration earlier than expected. All engines wear out with use – the 787 RR engines just seems to be showing earlier signs of stress than was planned.

      In that situation we have a classic cover backside/ Millennium bug scenario where overkill comes in as nobody in positions of authority wants to be the fall guy for a nasty but possibly predictable failure some time in the future. There might also be people thinking getting a dig in at RR helps GE and P&W.

      Hence withdrawing perfectly serviceable planes with the ‘dodgy’ engines, for remedy, when those engines aren’t really dodgy at all judged by logical methods of assessing risk.

• Londoner says:

  8 Jun8 June 14:22

  OT:
  Promised to get back with regards to gift cards bought at Heathrow for the Heathrow Rewards offer (3000 points for £ 150 spend in one day).

  I spent 78 in World Duty Free which tracked automatically a week later or so. Bought a 75 GBP H&M Gift card at WHSmith which did not track, but upon sending a picture of the receipt, the points were added and the bonus triggered. It was WHSmith at T5, the one just above World Duty Free (close the Galleries lounge).

• Faithy says:

  8 Jun8 June 16:28

  How long until a 241 voucher posts? Where will i see it?
  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    8 Jun8 June 16:52

    Within 5 days of the charge taking you over £10k hitting your Amex. Will hit your BA account first with an Amex email later.

    • Faithy says:

      8 Jun8 June 16:59

      ty

• Nick M says:

  8 Jun8 June 16:58

  Lounges at T5 without status… am I right in thinking that our options are Plaza Premium (accessible with Platinum card – do they swipe it?) and Aspire (accessible with Lounge Club via Amex Gold)?

  We’ll have a 3.5 year old and 1 year old, are either of the lounges flexible on children’s ages? – don’t fancy paying £15 for the older one to have a small bowl of fruit!

  • HAM76 says:

    8 Jun8 June 19:57

    Plaza Premium swipes, but kids are officially free. Great lounge, better than GC and close to GF if you don‘t mind the bar service, the lack of a kids play area and the overall smaller size. We didn‘t bother with Galleries on the return and walked straight to PP with our five-year-old.

• Tracy says:

  8 Jun8 June 17:33

  O/T again, if I want to book a 241 to fly out on Friday 28th June 2019 on a morning flight, I understand it is midnight 355 days before I should see the flights available. So is that 11.59pm on 8th July 2019? As you can probably tell this will be my first 241 and I really want specific dates….

  • Genghis says:

    8 Jun8 June 17:55

    I normally work it out closer to the time by following say from a week before I think it is when exactly it will be. I CBA to count exactly. It’ll be at 1am BST, however (midnight GMT).

    • Tracy says:

      8 Jun8 June 18:58

      I’ll maybe start to track it soon then, will give me an idea how quick they go too….

      • Genghis says:

        8 Jun8 June 19:47

        Note that if v popular route (eg CPT), BA CS on the blower can hold them before they even become available to book online. Call at 12.55am BST.

      • the real harry1 says:

        8 Jun8 June 19:50

        I was always intrigued by the notice that if you require to book your BA tickets more than T-355, please contact CS

      • Lev441 says:

        8 Jun8 June 20:16

        @therealharry1 – I think this is just a generic message. When I’ve called to add the return from CPT in the past before 1am, I’ve been told it’s too early, not been released yet blablabla and maybe 20 seconds or so before midnight she checked again and held them, but there wasn’t much in it.

        @genghis – have you had a different experience?

      • Genghis says:

        8 Jun8 June 20:25

        No

      • Dean Murphy says:

        8 Jun8 June 20:25

        But seconds matter on a popular route

      • the real harry1 says:

        8 Jun8 June 20:40

        Genghis are you also Dean Murphy? lol

• Mark2 says:

  8 Jun8 June 19:10

  OT
  Am I right in thinking that a can just book flights for others on Avios.com (soon) with no other action required please?

  • the real harry1 says:

    8 Jun8 June 19:13

    Sure, I booked tickets for my kids & wife without avios.com knowing we were connected as a family, might as well have been Mr Chips from the Chippy down the road or Jones the Postman

    • the real harry1 says:

      8 Jun8 June 19:29

      Not that I would go on holiday with those two reprobates

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