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

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• 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.

  • 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.

• Russell Evans says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:48

  OT – See Curve Instagram. Suggestion AMEX linkage may return “soon”….

• mike says:

  9 Oct9 October 13:18

  NEWSFLASH – QATAR AIRWAYS WILL BE LEAVING ONEWORLD IN MID-2019.

  so get your cheap tier points and silver status now while it lasts people!

  • E says:

    9 Oct9 October 13:52

    Thought this sounded just like a threat not actually leaving at this point.

  • KevMc says:

    9 Oct9 October 13:53

    I thought they were only threatening to do this? Where have you seen it confirmed?

  • Memesweeper says:

    9 Oct9 October 15:07

    This has been suggested before. Any swift exit from Oneworld by Qatar would not be too bad for UK collectors/frequent fliers, as there is a deep and deepening partnership between Qatar and BA which I’m certain will continue.

• Mycity says:

  9 Oct9 October 14:39

  Have just had an email from Virgin, they’ve increased reward availability and reduced the miles needed by 25%, not sure if it all classes and seems it’s from London only to New York and Florida book by end October.

• Crafty says:

  9 Oct9 October 15:27

  OT: Is there an equivalent to BA Redemption Finder for other airlines that take Avios as a currency? If not, what’s the best way to search for availability?

  For transparency, I am looking for availability on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Hanoi (and will also be interested in other Avios reward flights around Asia, as we are doing a 3-month trip!).

  • pauldb says:

    9 Oct9 October 16:13

    The Qantas website may be useful to you: it shows CX flights and will show you about a month at a time, but you may have to join the programme.

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