Aer Lingus moves into London City Airport – so goodbye CityJet

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• Ade says:

  29 Aug29 August 11:49

  O/T – I’m about to embark on some home renovations, which as a big spend I’d like to be point savvy, the major outlay is a kitchen via Howdens, who only except debit card / bank transfers, can anyone point me towards some useful web pages or keywords that may help me in finding a means of pushing the debit card transactions through Amex etc..

  • Graham Walsh says:

    29 Aug29 August 12:05

    Have a look at DIY Kitchens rather than Howdens. I’ve had two kitchens from them and both have been great. Just need to know what you want and order. Great choice of cabinet sizes too. They take Credt cards too. No doubt they will have the same colour/style as Howdens. British made too.

  • N says:

    29 Aug29 August 12:42

    Howdens take Amex.

    They are, however, crooks.

    • Ade says:

      29 Aug29 August 13:04

      Thanks for the note about Amex, when I’d looked online it seemed to indicate no.

      Have a good friend who is a builder/kitchen fitter so hopefully that will negate a lot of the Howdens / builders are crooks worries, but it wont stop me cross referencing the DIY kitchens recommendation above, as they seem to offer a per unit pricing guide (which is the first time I’ve seen that in the kitchen world), so thanks for that recommendation as well.

  • Pid says:

    29 Aug29 August 13:06

    Howden’s defiantly take Amex. Managed to get my fitter to agree to me paying of the kitchen purchase of his account so that I could use Amex. I think he was a bit confused why I wanted to do it rather than do a bank transfer to him 🙂

  • Roger1* says:

    29 Aug29 August 17:06

    Do/will you have a Curve card? It’s treated as a debit card and you would receive points on a linked Visa/MC.

    Potential downside is reduced consumer protection.

• Alex says:

  29 Aug29 August 12:20

  Does that mean the end of Tier Points on that route? Or will there be a BA codeshare?

• Ben says:

  29 Aug29 August 12:21

  OT – Im looking as flights to from ADL to LHR via HKG on cathay. BA.com is showing availability if booked as a through flight, but no availability if booked as 2 singles to save £130 in fule surcharges. any ideas? BA could see the same availabilty as me when I spoke to them. Do Cathay limit availaibitiy subject to departure point? it seems a bit odd.

  • Nick says:

    29 Aug29 August 19:42

    Sounds like married segments to me (or if not then a POS issue). But if so, you’ll need to book both sectors together to get the availability. Yes they can restrict this way – many airlines do (in fact BA is unusual in that they don’t). AA does it on almost every route.

    • Ben says:

      29 Aug29 August 22:31

      Thanks Nick. Any work around you know of?

• Robman says:

  29 Aug29 August 12:49

  Off-topic warning re those of you with a Sunday Times travel magazine subscription.
  I had cancelled my subscription after the first year with Sunday Times magazine and cancelled the direct debit at my bank. I continued to receive the magazine for the next year and was still receiving it without having been charged the annual subscription fee. Yesterday, another £30.00 was taken from my account. I contacted the magazines customer service and was informed that they had taken over the subscription payment service from a previous company and they had reloaded all the direct debits for annual subscriptions as they had realised that the payments for the previous year had not been taken as they should have been.

  Anyway, I have now cancelled the subscription again and the direct debit at the bank. The gentleman at the customer services told me that they would process a refund and send me a cheque in the next couple of weeks. Just wanted to warn anyone who was still receiving the magazine gratuitously to watch out for the reloading of the direct debit on your subscription anniversary.

• Tom1 says:

  29 Aug29 August 13:33

  I’ve completely lost my previous post on this, so here goes again.

  Iberia 90k avios have to be used to book by December, supposedly no refunds if cancel flight thereafter.
  If I move another 90k from BAEC to make a different booking. ( I.e 180k total to make two separate bookings)
  How will Iberia know where the avios came from in order to decide whether or not to refund?

  FIFO? or not that clever?

  I’m not intentionally going to book, and cancel, but the peace of mind knowing I wise

• Tom says:

  29 Aug29 August 14:46

  Would have liked a mention of what aircraft type Aer Lingus will be using.

  I’m sort of picky about types of planes

• Mark1980 says:

  29 Aug29 August 16:58

  Quick question re Hilton’s sale – I know they’re a bit like DFS sales but does there tend to be one which is a genuine sale? If so, does anyone know when this may be? TIA

  • Rob says:

    29 Aug29 August 18:34

    The hotel market is doing so well at the moment that there really isn’t that much need for a blanket sale unfortunately ….

• Roger1* says:

  29 Aug29 August 17:10

  i was already contemplating the £20 off Amazon Prime offer and decided to sleep on it until today.

  Happy to amend my plan knowing that £3 will go to a good home. 🙂 Thanks, Rob.

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