Excellent LATAM (Avios earning) business class fares to South America for December

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• Matt says:

  9 Aug9 August 07:41

  O/T can reward flights booked through Iberia Plus (for BA flights) using the 90k promotional avios be cancelled for a full refund minus the €25 penalty after December 1st?

  • Chris says:

    9 Aug9 August 07:54

    I would have assumed not, or at least that the refund would be followed by a debit of 90k points for promotional avoid essentially unspent at Dec.

    But as with all these things there’s only one way to be sure – and that is to take the gamble

    In any case of course if anyone did answer your question in the positive, publicly, you can rest assured it’d be a self un-fulfilling prophecy…

    • Matt says:

      9 Aug9 August 08:52

      Hmm ok thanks I’ll probably stick with the bookings then.

  • Lady London says:

    9 Aug9 August 20:39

    I’m expecting to be able to move mine if I need to. Because the promotion didn’t say anything about not being able to move any resulting flights. But they did have to be booked by 1st December
    I’ve sent Iberia a legal notice informing them that I am not accepting the more restrictive conditions they sneakily tried to impose, in an email sent after the promotion when flights under the promotion had already been booked

    If you wanted to refund I think this might be a bit different . But I am fully expecting to be able to change mine. Not that I’m planning to . But as my work and travel can be unpredictable I needed to maintain my right that existed at the time I bought under the promotion, to change the bookings I made using the miles, the same as is normal for any other avios booking.

• Adam says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:15

  I am flying to Brazil with Latam in a couple of weeks, Do you know which planes I should be avoiding so I don’t get stuck without a flat bed?

  • David says:

    9 Aug9 August 22:19

    The 777 is very comfortable, and I didn’t really notice it not being entirely flat. Don’t get a middle seat. Screen is big, service good, best sleep I’ve ever had on a flight.

    Don’t worry too much!

• Frenzie says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:37

  Rob, can you please include how many avios and tier points would these flights earn?

  A lot of your readers will find this very useful:

  Thanks a lot.

  • AAlsc says:

    9 Aug9 August 08:54

    Put your chosen route in here. https://www.britishairways.com/travel/flight-calculator/public/en_gb

  • Alex W says:

    9 Aug9 August 08:56

    There are many variables such as distance, number of stops, status etc. Try using the calculator on the BA website.

• Kai says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:56

  Are we sure Z code is point earning with BAEC?

  Also, my BAEC membership year ends on Dec 9th. If I fly on Dec 8th or 9th will the TP still count towards my status this year? Just fear it might reset to zero immediately before those flights are credited, thanks.

  • Rob says:

    9 Aug9 August 09:11

    Yes we are. It was a BAEC typo – they put R instead of Z online. They don’t have R.

  • Rantallion says:

    9 Aug9 August 09:29

    Your tier point-earning year will end 8 Dec. Flights taken on 8 Dec should be automatically credited to your old year. Flights taken on 9 Dec and later will credit to your new year. If you want flights taken after 8 Dec to be credited to your old year, you can ask BAEC for a fortnight extension and they should allow you to credit flights taken up to a fortnight after your year end to your old year.

    • Kai says:

      9 Aug9 August 10:25

      Awesome, thanks a lot!

    • Benedict says:

      9 Aug9 August 17:04

      And if you’re lucky, they’ll forget to take them off the new year 😉

• Matt says:

  9 Aug9 August 08:57

  O/T I have a £17k settlement fee to pay later this year for BMW finance. They say they accept all forms of payment except credit cards. Does anyone think curve will work backcharged to a credit card? If so any recommendations on which travel reward credit card with offer the best return? Or is there another way to earn a reward on this payment?

  • Anon says:

    9 Aug9 August 09:08

    You could try negotiating with Billhop. Normally this would be an expensive way of paying but they might give you a preferential rate which would be worth it if there’s the possibility, say, of earning one or even two BA companion vouchers. Of course this would depend on how many cards you have in your family and when the spend year re-starts. I’m going to be in a similar position (though less money involved!) next Spring so this is what I would be looking at.

    Also, there is no reason that Curve wouldn’t work if your credit limits are high enough.

    • Polly says:

      10 Aug10 August 09:41

      Or get a tesco debit card account

      • Polly says:

        10 Aug10 August 09:48

        Or the hsbc elite linked to curve…1 avios per £

  • Rob says:

    9 Aug9 August 09:10

    Unless you can pay it online in chunks the Curve day, week, month limits will hit you.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    9 Aug9 August 11:26

    Can you overpay the monthly? Or make a one off payment say 2-3 months before settlement? I paid my monthly for years with my amex then had to settle after a write off and ended up just using a bank transfer / debut card as they wouldn’t accept a credit card and it wasnt worth any fees to chase credit card points.

• Michael C says:

  9 Aug9 August 09:22

  This is an amazing price for GRU, where usually there’s nothing on offer.
  Having said that, if it’s a non-flat, for me you’re getting nearer premium economy, as LatAm isn’t really famed for its food/IFE….Great points, though!

  • Rob says:

    9 Aug9 August 11:15

    Going via Europe means more chance of a flat bed.

• Russ says:

  9 Aug9 August 11:08

  I’ve experienced quite a delay/job getting points credited to my new BA exec account which had gone into my old exec account post flight. Seems they’re not automatically swept over to the new account. Mentioning this because I have 4 flights on Latam coming up which were booked crediting the points to the old BA number.

• LondonFoodie says:

  9 Aug9 August 11:45

  Any idea how to know if the 787 is used?

  • Rob says:

    9 Aug9 August 12:27

    LATAM website shows the aircraft used. A350 also has the fully flat seats I think.

  • Michael C says:

    9 Aug9 August 14:35

    LHR direct is a 777.

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