See ATP tennis very cheaply with Emirates Skywards miles or American Express points

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• ChrisC says:

  23 Sep23 September 04:49

  So in return for price ‘transparency’ people will have to pay more for their flights.

  If you want price transparency just introduce a total price display regulation. No need for this sort of quid pro quo that harms consumers.

  And fuel surcharge is NOT a tax so stop calling it one. Just call it – in the name of transparency -what it is – airline profit fee,

  • John says:

    23 Sep23 September 05:02

    They did introduce a “total price display regulation” if you read the linked article or the comment I posted yesterday.

    As there is no cap on the fare component, or any regulation regarding how airlines allocate the prices they want to charge between the “fare” and the “surcharge”, air tickets remain subject to market forces.

    The big losers will be people making redemptions.

  • Neal says:

    23 Sep23 September 08:31

    Agreed. Rob keep calling it tax which is misleading. At least call it how BA calls it Carrrier Imposed Surcharges.

    • RussellH says:

      23 Sep23 September 11:33

      I think we are all knowledgeable enough to realise the, in the context of airline pricing, “tax” is simply shorthand for “taxes, fees, fuel and/or carrier imposed surcharges and other charges”. It really is not necesary to always breakout in detail all the different ingredients.

    • Lady London says:

      23 Sep23 September 12:23

      Why not just call it Carrier Greed for short.

    • Lady London says:

      23 Sep23 September 12:23

      Why not just call it Carrier Greed for short.

• Ricardo says:

  23 Sep23 September 07:10

  Here’s a sneaky further tip on the Lloyds Avios voucher. Book your one way return frpm say HGK first. Give it a few weeks and then phone Avios to use your oubound part of the voucher. The agent will ask how many of you flying one or two? Reply as required.

  Got this twice HGK – EDI (1 pass) inbound then LHR -SIN (2 pass) earlier outbound. As my next lloyds voucher doesnt start till January 19 thought it was time to share.

  • pauldb says:

    23 Sep23 September 08:10

    I’m not sure what you’re saying you gained: using a voucher one way to the UK, using a voucher for 2×2 instead of 2×1/1×2, or using a voucher 1xreturn but only paying HKG YQ (=0) on the inbound?

    • Callum says:

      23 Sep23 September 08:34

      One voucher covers two “segments” – i.e. 2 one-ways or 1 return. They’ve used it for 3 “segments” – 1 return and 1 one-way.

      • pauldb says:

        23 Sep23 September 09:07

        This is a bit too close to manipulating an agent into a mistake for my liking.

      • Alex W says:

        23 Sep23 September 11:13

        Agreed, or should I say, greed.

  • Anna says:

    23 Sep23 September 12:36

    How can you book a one way return anyway?

    • Ian M says:

      23 Sep23 September 13:22

      What on earth is a one way return?

      • swhostring says:

        23 Sep23 September 13:48

        This means nothing to me
        Oh, Vienna

      • Talay says:

        26 Sep26 September 19:15

        Ultrabollox

• Ricardo says:

  23 Sep23 September 08:34

  2 passengers outbound , 1 passenger return. By booking return single first.

  The voucher redemption booking involves a lot of manual intervention by the Avios phone agents. It was an agent who first offered up the idea to me when I wasnt sure of my outbound dates.

  • Marcus says:

    23 Sep23 September 08:43

    Good. Anything to screw IAG. On the Hong Kong surcharges: Cathay, JAL etc will impose reasonable or minimal fees. BA of course, will hike theirs into the hundreds of pounds. The sooner BA implodes the better.

    • swhostring says:

      23 Sep23 September 17:58

      International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG.LN) said Friday that it improved its adjusted operating profit by 75% in the first quarter.

      IAG, which owns airlines including British Airways and Vueling, said its adjusted operating profit rose to 280 million euros ($335.3 million) in the first three months of 2018 compared with EUR160 million a year earlier.

      Net profit rose to EUR794 million from EUR57 million.

• Nick_C says:

  23 Sep23 September 09:14

  OT, sorry. Is there currently an offer for upgrading gold charge card to plat? And if so, is it targeted, or can anyone get it?

  • swhostring says:

    23 Sep23 September 13:45

    yes, google it

• GabeS says:

  23 Sep23 September 09:18

  OT:Amex related,upgraded from Gold to Platinum.Had a supplementary for my wife which I can see had also turn into Platinum.Do I get the 5000 points for a supplementary or I should have cancelled it first?Is it too late to intervene and ask them not to send it and wait a bit to order the suppl with 5000 points?

  • TGLoyalty says:

    23 Sep23 September 10:23

    You can order a gold for someone else and it should trigger the 5k bonus or you will need to cancel and reapply

  • Munch says:

    23 Sep23 September 16:38

    As long as you didn’t apply for a supplementary card during the upgrade process – just call and complain and they will manually credit the 5000 points. I just told them I purposely didn’t apply for the supplementary card so I could receive the extra 5000 points.

    • GabeS says:

      23 Sep23 September 17:40

      Many thanks,understood,did not ask for a supplementary during upgrade and did not get to cancel my Gold supplementary when I realised that has turned Platinum.I have chat today and cancelled what I told them was the Gold supplementary,all fine,they have not mention that a Platinum was on the way.That appears now as cancelled,I’ll see what happens.

      • Walty says:

        24 Sep24 September 10:30

        Happens all the time with me and it’s a PITA.

        While holding the gold, I get a supp. Weeks before going for the platinum upgrade, I cancel the gold supp.
        When I upgrade, I got sent a Platinum supp and priority passes to go with it. Both useless.

        Last time, I went on chat and got it sorted after numerous credits due to them thinking I applied for a 2nd supp when I didn’t request the 1st one.

• mr dee says:

  23 Sep23 September 09:24

  Don’t use the upgrade vouchers online or even try to as it will come up with an error at payment and then charge you every time and its a big hassle to get it resolved, they need to remove the option to use the voucher off the website as it still shows and breaks their website.

  The call centre staff are still shocked people can still mess around with the vouchers online and attempt booking, you must phone up to book now.

  • Brian W says:

    23 Sep23 September 17:19

    +1

    This got me a couple of weeks ago. I got the error 5 times!! I’ve only just got the extra Avios and monies back.

    To be fair, the agents on the phone were speedy at doing their bit to sort it but it’s taken nearly 14 day’s for the refunds.

    Always call now!

    • DMX says:

      24 Sep24 September 02:02

      +1

• Kevin says:

  23 Sep23 September 09:51

  We enjoyed our trip to the Emirates box at Arsenal on Wednesday. There was a lot of nice food, drink was okay (no spirits) and the staff were really lovely.

  There’s only seating in the lounge area for the right number of people in the box. We got there quite late and we would have had to sit at opposite ends of the space or stand. We stood.

  The seats for the game are excellent. It wasn’t a cold night so I didn’t really need mine to be heated but I expect that will be welcome for the Everton game today.

  • Doug M says:

    23 Sep23 September 10:07

    Surely it was Thursday? Only the better teams play European football on a Tuesday or Wednesday. The second tier teams play Thursdays.

    • Tedious says:

      23 Sep23 September 10:52

      Yawn

    • Kevin says:

      23 Sep23 September 11:51

      Sorry, yes, it was Thursday.

      All the teams my family support would be VERY happy to get into the Europa League.

• Alastair says:

  23 Sep23 September 12:03

  OT But ‘business services’ are now being declined by my Hilton Barclaycard. It was good while it lasted :/

  • mark2 says:

    23 Sep23 September 13:42

    I just paid a small amount off Amex using Hilton via Curve.

    • Boi says:

      23 Sep23 September 13:56

      When do you see if Barclaycard has charged? My recent curve transaction is showing as “fin ancial service”. My statement is not until 18 October so I wonder if things will be ok.

      • Mark2 says:

        23 Sep23 September 15:01

        In my view, we shall not know until the statement appears.

    • Briandt says:

      23 Sep23 September 15:54

      Hi if it’s not a secret…fair enough, but could you please explain how ?.Thanks.

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