Lufthansa launches a very decent Premium Economy deal to Asia

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• Clive says:

  16 Sep16 September 13:29

  There is a comment on another Blog that Amex will allow you to take a new Platinum if you have a Gold CC and get the full sign up Bonus. Not verified but worth monitoring

  • Rob says:

    16 Sep16 September 14:38

    Nonsense. The odd one might slip through, no doubt about that, but the rules strictly block that.

    I know some people who get a bonus on the Business cards despite having a Personal card. I know many many people who did not, which is as per the rules.

    My consumer credit licence wouldn’t last 10 minutes if I publicly recommended that sort of behaviour.

    • N says:

      16 Sep16 September 15:18

      Are you sure you haven’t misread this? Clive seems to say taking out a Plat if you hold a Gold CC, rather than upgrading from the Gold CC to Plat.

      • swhostring says:

        16 Sep16 September 15:35

        I doubt if there’s a misread. Same currency – MR points. Not allowed 2 cards if you want to get second sign-up bonus. Must cancel & wait 6 months.

      • Clive says:

        16 Sep16 September 16:44

        Just saying read it on a UK Blog. Don’t shoot the messenger

• Tom1 says:

  16 Sep16 September 14:50

  My wife has 90k Iberia avios we wish to use with BA 241 on my account.
  How do i get the points from her IB to my BAEC?
  ‘combine my avios’ from her IB to BAEC, Then use household account to book the flights using my 241? Or can BA draw from her BAEC account when I make the 241 booking?

  (risking putting her ib account in to negative on 1st Dec but I’m happy with that)
  Tks

  • swhostring says:

    16 Sep16 September 15:03

    Not sure if you have already set up the BAEC HHA? If not, transfer direct from IB to her BAEC a/c, then set up HHA. BA will draw from both a/cs, perhaps unequally (equally until it can’t, then it just takes from whoever has points left). Or if you can’t transfer direct to her BAEC a/c, send to avios.com first then across to BAEC. You can still set up new avios.com a/cs.

    Not quite sure why direct IB—>BAEC only works sporadically – my wife is in our HHA a/c and could get IB—>BAEC direct, whereas I couldn’t.

    • tom1 says:

      16 Sep16 September 16:54

      great thanks. (off to read the article about HHA…)

      • tom1 says:

        16 Sep16 September 17:25

        Next question..

        I don’t have the 241 voucher yet, but the outbound flights are available and I don’t want to lose them. (I have the necessary Avios to buy 2 x one way outbound flights)

        Can I call BA, book 2x one-way flights using Avios and pay the relevant tax, then call BA once I do have the 241 to add the return and pay the extra tax/avios ?

      • swhostring says:

        16 Sep16 September 19:28

        I think the answer is yes, can anybody help confirm?

        Pretty sure I saw people say they did this.

      • Genghis says:

        17 Sep17 September 04:40

        Officially no. Unofficially perhaps. You buy the 2 x outbound. Then when you have the 241 call to cancel, pay the £35 x 2 (ie not get that bit back) and hope the flights go back into reward inventory.

      • pauldb says:

        17 Sep17 September 12:12

        Don’t think so. BA will let you book the inbound at full price at 12am GMT, then call up in the morning and had it backed into the voucher (50% refund), but this is a special case to let you grab flights which would otherwise be difficult on a 241.
        I doubt they will more broadly allow you to retrospectively voucher a booking.

      • Tom1 says:

        17 Sep17 September 22:20

        For info they let me do it. He had to check but said I could call up to add the return leg once the voucher was in my account, subject to the £35pp change fee, which was worth it to safeguard the outbound tickets. Didn’t mention anything about cancelling the outbound or losing the availability, so let’s see when we get to that point.

        Thanks for all the suggestions – this is our first business class redemption from points.
        Only slightly disappointed when I realised even in J you need to pay £79 for seats if don’t have status, but won’t let it spoil the excitement.

• Roger says:

  16 Sep16 September 15:08

  Hi Rob,

  Are you running Curve article tomorrow or on Tuesday following your interview with Curve boss?

  • Rob says:

    16 Sep16 September 18:56

    Tue – but actually the main reason we are speaking is embargoed for a while.

    • Roberto says:

      16 Sep16 September 21:26

      Amex coming back into the fold?

    • Lev441 says:

      16 Sep16 September 22:41

      Looking forward to hearing some good news hopefully!

    • Lister says:

      17 Sep17 September 11:49

      Curve tweet in the last hour

      ‘Something is coming very soon. 0%’

      ???

      • Ben says:

        17 Sep17 September 15:48

        My guess is they are dropping the 1% on forex. The image behind the 0% looks like someone having some travel fun.

        Good news, but not if the downside is being charged cash advance fees on financial transactions. All are still coming up as ‘Business Services’ still for me.

• Ryan says:

  16 Sep16 September 19:30

  Also do they charge you in Euros??? If so use your GOLD/PLATINUM amex for additional point for spend in foreign currency!

  • Rob says:

    16 Sep16 September 20:31

    Not Platinum …

• Topgunner says:

  17 Sep17 September 14:45

  OT, but related to use of Avios. Anyone here notice that availability JNB-HRE-JNB on Comair, the BA franchisee in South Africa, has dried up considerably. You used to be able to get 4 seats in Economy just about any day as long as you were 3-4 days out. But now weeks in advance you can hardly find Y seats at all for days at a time.

  Maybe the realized the revenue management setting was incorrect??

• Ron says:

  17 Sep17 September 23:36

  Just bought 2000 Avios on Groupon, it seems a lot more straight forward than before and it works first time.

  • Matt says:

    19 Sep19 September 12:44

    I also bought 2000 avios which are now in my Iberia account however I cannot transfer them to my BAEC account. When I go to make the transfer it only says I can transfers BA>IB and not the other way round?

    • Ron says:

      22 Sep22 September 20:42

      Mine hasn’t arrived yet, when did you purchase yours? Is that the only option? Or can you do IB to Avios?

      • Rob says:

        22 Sep22 September 22:17

        This is a long running IT error. Open an Aer Club or Vueling Club (if you don’t have an Avios TRP account) and use avios.com as an intermediary. Go from IB to avios.com and then avios.com to BA.

    • Chris H says:

      28 Sep28 September 14:49

      This is probably NOT an IT error. I had the same problem. I could not login to the BA account on IBERIA when combining the points. The reason is: you cannot transfer the points into a Household account. The answer is easy, but a faff. Remove your BA account from the household account, transfer the points, and re-connect to the household account. Be careful though as (at least it used to be) you cannot do this more than once every 6 months. If you do you will have to wait for 6 months to reconnect into the Household account. Hope it works for you.

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