American Express Shop Small is returning in December

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• Genghis says:

  6 Oct6 October 05:08

  I’ve had quite a few CW flights this year and not one has featured food from a trolley.

  • Thywillbedone says:

    6 Oct6 October 07:54

    I’ve had just one…in Club Europe. I was in an aisle seat and I think cabin crew brushed past me 30+ times serving everything individually (on a one meal sector with only a few rows to serve). Completely pointless to my mind anyway.

  • Doug M says:

    6 Oct6 October 12:02

    Me neither. I suspect crews may have given up on it before official

• Roger says:

  6 Oct6 October 05:35

  Yes

  • Ken Middleton says:

    6 Oct6 October 06:23

    How does that work, please? You are saying that you can refer yourself?

    • BJ says:

      6 Oct6 October 06:39

      Yes, just follow the recommend a friend link in your account and … apply yourself 🙂 Nothing guaranteed but most of us are getting the bonus. I usually save the link to a document, clear my cache and then start from my saved link. I doubt that is necessary but I do it anyway.

• BJ says:

  6 Oct6 October 05:51

  So long as they don’t drop the food ( in either sense) that will be fine 🙂 There was no trolley on my last CW flight in July, perhaps the cabin crew decided to drop it themselves, unfortunately the service still took about three hours. I think the ‘m’ in £600m was a BA typo.

  • Nigel the Pensioner says:

    6 Oct6 October 09:37

    +1 !!!

  • Lady London says:

    6 Oct6 October 17:16

    Or maybe, just maybe, British Airways meant 600k rather than 600m would be their actual spend. that would just about cover the White company bedding.

    I am still seeing reports that all of BA’s catering will go ot Do & Co from 2020 though.

• BJ says:

  6 Oct6 October 06:09

  Shop Small: You might have awarded Harry gloating rights, he reported last night that it is open to registration but I’m not sure where he found it, nothing on my amex offers.

  • E says:

    6 Oct6 October 07:48

    I got an email from Amex on Wednesday about Shop Small. It said:

    Thank you for using your American Express® Card to support small businesses.
    Did you know you will be rewarded for supporting this business and many others during Shop Small in December?
    Be rewarded with a £5 statement credit when you spend £10 or more in a single transaction in-store, once at each participating small business.
    To take advantage of Shop Small, simply save the offer to your Card from 1 November 2018, and start shopping from 1 – 16 December 2018.

    • Liz says:

      6 Oct6 October 07:53

      I had an email on 27/9 telling me to support small shop businesses with a link to the small shop map. It didn’t say the dates of the promo or a link to register but assumed it was going to happen.

      • Polly says:

        6 Oct6 October 09:17

        Same here.. am sure we will get the save to offers link soon.

• Seat54 says:

  6 Oct6 October 06:17

  I had Do&Co on my flight last week from LHR-ARN.
  As I was eating it I thought it was quite good then noticed a Do&Co stamped chocolate desert.

  Done my annual requirement though, until they sort coffin world out with some improved seats I will continue to only fly first, so will hopefully see the improvement next year with the food.

  Just done a load of sectors on South Africa BA, where the planes are disgustingly dirty. There is no need for walls, tables and under lockers to have visible dirt on them.

  • Prins Polo says:

    6 Oct6 October 07:47

    That’s technically not BA though I think – if I recall correctly BA only has a minority investment in Comair (to your point, it should still require Comair to clean their planes if they want to use the BA logo).

  • johnny_c-l says:

    6 Oct6 October 09:31

    I had the new DO&CO on CE to IST a couple of weeks ago, so much better and the crew prefer it too as they can serve the entire meal on one tray so it’s much simpler. Normally prefer TK economy to CW but DO&CO now nudges me towards BA again.

    • Rob says:

      6 Oct6 October 11:59

      But come on ….. IST is over 4 hours, loads of time for a keen crew to serve a plate at a time.

      AMS I understand ….

• AG says:

  6 Oct6 October 07:33

  O/T any sign of MR transfers to SPG working again? I requested a transfer just over a month ago and still waiting.

  • Jill (Kinkell) says:

    6 Oct6 October 12:06

    I did a transfer from MR earlier this week, and points in my Marriott/SPG account this morning..However, like everyone else, my Amex SPG credit card points are disappearing into the ether. I’m waiting for 35k to land into my account

• vindaloo says:

  6 Oct6 October 07:38

  Didn’t you say last week that Do&Co was being extended to all (or almost all) long haul routes? Sure it was disappointing that this didn’t happen in the first place but now it seems like a step forward, and ditching the trolley service is just a way of getting the meals served before everyone has died of old age rather than a money saving exercise. Overall the recent news seems largely positive, albeit from a low base!

• Paul says:

  6 Oct6 October 07:41

  Did anyone actually believe that there would be £600. million of investment? ……. well given that people believed in £350 million a week for the NHS was coming I suppose they did.

  For about 7 years now I have consistently said that BA approach is “jam tomorrow” believe nothing this organisation says until it’s delivered. They are masters of spin but haven’t got a clue how to run an airline.

  You surely only use BA when it’s cheaper than everyone else, when it’s ex EU or someone else is paying…….. and set your expectations to low. You will not be disappointed.

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