Air India drops flights from Heathrow to New York – but adds Bangalore

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• xcalx says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:25

  OT Just applied for the SPG card, when asked for my SPG number should I have put in my merged account number (which is my old Marriott number)
  Thanks

  • BJ says:

    9 Oct9 October 08:44

    Can you report back on how this works out please? I’m due to churn SPG in 3-4 weeks but considering a delay in light of the merger shambles.

    • xcalx says:

      9 Oct9 October 09:13

      Will do. I put the original SPG number from previous applications.

      • RakishDriver says:

        9 Oct9 October 15:49

        I too had submitted my original SPG number during the application.
        Brought this topic up after calling amex about an unrelated issue, agent requested my Marriott number. Told points will eventually hit, no ETA was given.

  • RM84 says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:13

    I used my merged account number when I applied at the end of last month, but have no idea whether that will help with the points transfer issues or not! I’ll report back after I get my first statement.

    • RakishDriver says:

      9 Oct9 October 15:55

      amex agent told me today that due to ‘data privacy issues’, marriott were not sharing their customers’ data with amex, so she asked for my Marriott number to update the system.
      Inference is ring amex, and give them your Marriott number..
      Why they can’t just send an email to inform current SPG card holders is vexing.

• Lyn says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:27

  I think the rule in the 2017 post you mention is

  “The geographic distance between your original landing airport and your new departure airport must be shorter than either of the two flights.”

  rather than your interpretation “the open jaw distance needs to be shorter than the longer of the flights”.

  Your examples certainly don’t look like reasonable open jaw fights to me, whereas the FRA / LHR looks perfectly reasonable.

  • KK says:

    9 Oct9 October 07:43

    ahhh seems like thats where the problem is. i misread/ignored the word “either” .

    Thanks everyone!

• Simon says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:37

  241 redemptions must start in the UK

• Matt says:

  9 Oct9 October 08:11

  I’m still trying to decide whether to upgrade my Curve card to the Premium one. Is there any further insight (or rumours) into whether it’s worth £50 in view of the apparent upcoming changes?

  • Alex W says:

    9 Oct9 October 21:18

    If you send a cheeky email they night upgrade you for free.

• Oh Matron! says:

  9 Oct9 October 08:43

  They’ve changed their name: It’s now Bengaluru.

  • BJ says:

    9 Oct9 October 11:45

    BUT, the business model whatever it is has clearly benefited HFP readers to date and hopefully HFP itself so why should we care all that much? Even in light of major changes Rob still seems to be more upbeat than neutral on the card so hopefully there is still more to come.

• Russ says:

  9 Oct9 October 09:11

  As bits just received this from Volotea wanting to know if I’m interested in having my name painted on an aircraft:

  ‘Send us your proposal and, if it is selected, we’ll paint it on one of our new aircraft! You could also win €300 credit to spend on flights and a Volotea A319 model personalised with your aircraft name.’

  Think it’s open to everyone.

• Walty says:

  9 Oct9 October 09:15

  OT – We got our Virgin auto convert points bonus from Tesco today. I got 1000 and my wide got 2000 🙂

  • Walty says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:15

    *wife haha

    • Shoestring says:

      9 Oct9 October 09:57

      Is she on the ‘not size 8’ side? 🙂

      Shame about the timing, I switched away from auto convert to Virgin a few days ago, got nothing of course

• bumper31 says:

  9 Oct9 October 09:53

  It seems VS have a economy miles sale to Miami running, 9300 miles.
  Time to break out the PE upgrade vouchers

  • lev441 says:

    9 Oct9 October 11:04

    link/info?

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