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

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• 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?

    • Graham Walsh says:

      9 Oct9 October 16:14

      https://www.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/flying-club/miles/spend-miles/reward-seat-sale.html

• barry cutters says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:06

  Hi OT But related .

  i am flying to Dubai next month, just looked at the booking to see my BA flight says -operated by Air Belgium. I didn’t even think air Belgium was in one World. Also its definitely a direct LHR>Dubai in club. Its an A340, are Ba doing what virgin did with the air Berlin planes due to same 787 problems…..?

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:10

    Yes.

    These are ex-Finnair planes so, sadly, the seating is actually better than BA Club World! Decent feedback from those who have done it. Alternatively, ring BA and ask to be moved to any other Dubai or Abu Dhabi service – this is a good chance to get better flight times than what you may have booked.

    • barry cutters says:

      9 Oct9 October 10:15

      flight times are perfect as they are. I’m not too bothered about the seat. Will make a change from club world/AA. It is generally all i fly as we have a generally BA/AA only policy. So interesting to try something else.

  • Shoestring says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:12

    Wet leasing

    cf https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1928140-air-belgium-operating-ba-route.html

    • thehornets says:

      9 Oct9 October 22:47

      Spotted the Air Belgium plane hidden amongst all the BA BA-liviried planes whilst taxiing out of Heathrow on Sunday. Looked very out of place!

• Sam Butler says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:36

  Apologies if this has something that has been dealt with on here already but I couldn’t find anything. Has anyone else struggled to log in at all to SPG accounts?

  I was approved for the SPG amex on 27th August, and despite getting emails from SPG with a member number, have never been able to log in. Even trying ‘forgot my password’ is coming back with ‘Please ensure the information you provided matches your Member account information’.

  Any ideas, or do I need to call them?

  • E says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:43

    Do you have a Marriott account as well which uses the same email address? If so, clear your cookies and use a different browser to access each account. There were a lot of problems with that when they first merged. Wouldn’t surprise me if they haven’t sorted that either!

    • Sam Butler says:

      9 Oct9 October 13:07

      Tried this, no luck on different browsers or even on the app. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.

      I’ve sent a strongly worded email in the forlorn hope that they can fix it and see fit to compensate me for not being able to access my points for months.

      • paulm says:

        9 Oct9 October 13:36

        Based on recent experience I would call them, they don’t answer emails!

• paulm says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:39

  Just seen a tweet from Curve saying that amex support is coming ‘soon’

  • Genghis says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:47

    Announced supposedly today at PayExpo

  • Daniel Evans says:

    9 Oct9 October 11:02

    Yes I’ve just been advertised this on Facebook…

  • BJ says:

    9 Oct9 October 11:54

    Awesome, I can put £1400 of factoring fees through amex every month now so that is my 241 sorted as long as it lasts 🙂

• Alan says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:41

  Marriott CS truly woeful. Queries about travel packages or points redirected to SPG, Twitter team promise follow-up and then do nothing. Shame they haven’t spent this promotion money on providing proper customer service…

  • BJ says:

    9 Oct9 October 12:03

    SPG cannot yet attach TP AFAIK but happy to be corrected as it’s weeks since I booked. I wanted W Leicester Square but no joy. Subsequently got them to attach an old Cat 7 to County Hall despite the certificate now only being supposedly worth category 5. Are these certificates getting converted to new certificates at time of bookin? I don’t know whether to shut up, show up and hope for the best or cancel the reservation and use on a cat 5 hotel I don’t need to worry about.

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