An amazing deal when you use DragonPass at the DIH Ahlan First Class lounge in Dubai

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• Simon says:

  2 Jul2 July 13:45

  I’ve been enjoying using my DragonPass at the Air Canada lounge at Frankfurt Terminal One. It doesn’t take Priority Pass, the only lounge that does is a pretty dire land side lounge. There are no signs in the lounge I could see about accepting DragonPass but it appears on the DragonPass App.

  When I asked at reception they said they only take certain types of DragonPass, not sure what the criteria is, I got mine via the Groupon offer just before Christmas.

• Kevin says:

  2 Jul2 July 14:43

  Ham Yard is lovely and has one of London’s nicest cinemas. Never been bowling there though so quite jealous.

• steve says:

  2 Jul2 July 16:58

  Could someone please confirm how many zeros you need to add in front of the Starwood account number for setting up an account for Amex MR points transfer?

  • Stu N says:

    2 Jul2 July 18:17

    Four, I think. If that gives an error message try five. Linking seems to take 24h and points showed in SPG 24 hours after that. Balance seems to refresh around lunchtime UK time.

• Nick_C says:

  2 Jul2 July 17:00

  O/T. Just check my BAEC account, and a mysterious “Special Promotion” of 500 Avios posted on 29 June. I treat all my Avios as currency, and log all qualifying transactions, but I’ve no idea what this is for. Has anyone else had it? (The only thing missing is the Aer Lingus sign up bonus, but that was 18 months ago!)

  • Lumma says:

    2 Jul2 July 17:42

    I’ve got the same thing. No idea what it’s for, I did sign up for a Aer Lingus thing, but surely that would have went to avios.com instead.

    If you look at the transactions on a computer and not on mobile it says “special promotion – avios e store”

  • Ray. says:

    2 Jul2 July 20:07

    I got 500 as well, no idea why.

  • BJ says:

    3 Jul3 July 01:12

    Could it be IHG hotels flight offer if you had your earnings preferences set to avios? On the same day I got 1500 IHG points having opted for the points.

• the real harry1 says:

  2 Jul2 July 18:37

  O/T this might help anybody here with the cancelled Tel Aviv flights, I feel a tad guilty as I highlighted it and some people bought tickets: [HT onobond FT]

  ‘After 2 emails to Omega without replies, I ried to phone them. Contrary to the day when every flight was cancelled, I had a hard time getting someone to talk to. After many calls ( actually 12 attempts) with 2 busy line signals, 3 disconnects before anyone answered, and 7 disconnects after giving my name and Omega booking reference and/or BA booking reference, I called Amex to request a charge-back. No need for any documentation, they thought this was the correct step to take, especially since the time limit when re-imbursement should have been cleared was promised 3-5 working days, and 14 already passed.

  The voucher problem was of course nothing to discuss with Amex, but they promised to let Omega know I waited for re-imbursement, and if not cleared fast enough, they could cut Omega out from using Amex in the future. In the mean time I called BA GGL, not for the money, as that definitely was on Omegas business, neither for the voucher, as BA had informed TAs to offer this compensation to pax with cancelled flights. Instead, I wanted to say how the whole situation was tarnishing the BA brand, as some of the TAs neither paid back nor sent any vouchers. I have never done business with Omega before,and do not see them as a future partner in my travel, but did not plan to jump the BA ship for this incident.

  3 hours later Amex called and said they now had the correct amount credited to my account. The next morning an email response from BA with a personal voucher, with original ticket # as reference, valid for 12 months, with no restrictions on needing to book before end of use, fully usable on ba.com website, thus no need to do business with Omega again. They made this as some sort of exception, but did not elaborate if done to others as well.’

  • Jovanna says:

    2 Jul2 July 19:36

    Well done, H.

• CV3V says:

  2 Jul2 July 19:50

  Fascinating stuff, and on a global scale.

  i tried to log into Iberia this morning and it didn’t work, so i tried again and it did. Was such a drama.

  • the real harry1 says:

    2 Jul2 July 20:04

    it’s going crazy out there in the IB FF blogosphere

    a/cs getting blocked!

    IB asking people who opened up 5 a/cs to get 450,000 points asked to prove ID with passport!

• Marcw says:

  2 Jul2 July 20:12

  Time to get the popcorn out!

• Anna says:

  2 Jul2 July 20:36

  Lol, they really are hardcore on there aren’t they?!

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