British Airways adds more flights to Nashville

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• Shoestring says:

  12 Oct12 October 10:18

  O/T Amazon £5 on Amex £20 spend – actually I only got 2 success emails but just checked and all 3 £5 credits have hit the a/cs.

  3 down, 1 to go 🙂

  • BJ says:

    12 Oct12 October 11:24

    If buying goods as opposed to giftcards or topups the emails will probably not come out until order is shipped and charged.

• Lew T says:

  12 Oct12 October 10:55

  OT – Generally, which long haul destinations have the best avios availability for F? I will trigger my 241 in a few months and have about ~ 250,000 avios. I have never travelled F on any airline and I’d love to be able to take my partner somewhere and experience it. Is it likely I will find two redemption seats somewhere desirable e.g. USA West Coast?

  • mark2 says:

    12 Oct12 October 11:21

    I suggest Seattle or Vancouver

    • mark2 says:

      12 Oct12 October 11:23

      Or both. Vancouver is usually A380

      • Lyn says:

        12 Oct12 October 17:08

        Good suggestions. Both Vancouver and Seattle are well worth visiting and the surrounding areas as well. An open jaw with both could be a good option.

    • mike says:

      12 Oct12 October 11:35

      Riyadh and Jeddah also quite good for F availability

  • Matt says:

    12 Oct12 October 11:27

    West coast USA is a good option as you get to experience a daytime flight on the way out and night time on the way back.

    LA availability is very hard to secure. I’d recommend you open jaw it i.e. fly to one destination and fly out of another. You should be able to make something work if you consider San Jose, San Diego, Las Vegas as well as the well known LA and SF routes.

    Good luck and you’ll have wonderful first time in First!

  • Leo says:

    12 Oct12 October 11:36

    San Diego might have better availability – if you want to max out the First experience possibly better to fly out TO SAN as the lounge isn’t anything special – it’s absolutely fine, just the the general lounge for Priority Pass etc.

    • Lyn says:

      12 Oct12 October 15:05

      A good point re the San Diego lounge. American has used it since they closed their own lounge, and people can pay for access, but I don’t think you can actually get in with Priority Pass. It can get fairly crowded before the BA flight. The American Airlines staff at the entry “desk” are delightful, and very helpful, but it isn’t really a first class lounge.

  • KevMc says:

    12 Oct12 October 12:37

    Check out http://www.baredemptionfinder.com – you can check all First Class destinations for the next 355 days within 10 mins or so, so can get a good feel for general availability. You should be able to find dates that work for most, if you are flexible. If you are limited by school hols, specific dates etc, then you may struggle

    • Anna says:

      12 Oct12 October 12:52

      Is there a way of searching multiple destinations at once? The thing I find cumbersome about these search facilities is that you have to search one destination at a time whereas it would be good just to be able to look for general F availability, or all destinations with F or CW on a specific date.

      • Scallder says:

        12 Oct12 October 13:50

        I have to day the BA app is very good for this. You can pick the cabin,how many people you’re looking for and then go by continent (BA do it kind of by continent) and can get a very good overview

  • chris1922 says:

    12 Oct12 October 14:39

    Does it have to be proper long haul ? New York and Boston pretty much always have availability in F in my experience, I’m booked on my second F trip to Boston, a lovely city if you’ve never been. Time it right and you could be on the A380 too.

  • Lyn says:

    12 Oct12 October 17:04

    It might be a good idea to check aircraft types for the routes you are interested in and find out how the First class experience compares on the different aircraft types. Some people have mentioned A380 routes on some routes, whereas San Diego, for instance, is usually a 747.

• George K says:

  12 Oct12 October 11:22

  While I haven’t been affected directly, the two people I referred for the SPG card are having a nightmare of a time trying to get their points posted. Everything from August just goes to a void and I know they’re not the only ones… I’ve told them to open complaints with both Amex and Marriott but does anyone know where the fault actually lies? If it was me, I’d be asking for loads of points from both parties. Isn’t it essentially false advertising?

  • Nick M says:

    12 Oct12 October 13:53

    I finally called Amex to complain yesterday – they are insisting that the problem lies with Marriott. Was offered 1500 points as a gesture of gooodwill, then 3000, then transfered to a different office and was given the choice of 5000 or £50

    • JS54156 says:

      12 Oct12 October 17:56

      I also filed a complaint and missed calls from Amex twice about the complaint. Surprisingly received £50 a few days ago. Now looks like it’s the compensation..

  • RakishDriver says:

    12 Oct12 October 17:25

    amex told me that due ‘data protection’ cited by marriott, marriott are not sharing the data reqd for points transfers.
    Marriott don’t seem to care, but is the onus really on them? amex need to get their finger out – I was quite annoyed when asked by amex tell them my marriott number – proactively ask your spg amex customers for the damned thing then, instead of waiting us to chase this

• Shoestring says:

  12 Oct12 October 14:03

  Damn. I could check in OK for tomorrow but my son got the dreaded ‘Cannot check in online’ notice, I guess he has been random picked for the ‘careful check’.

  • Anna says:

    12 Oct12 October 16:47

    My OH got that in August, but he was only barred from ONCI at LHR. So they obviously weren’t bothered about him being up to anything nefarious on the connecting flight!

    • Shoestring says:

      12 Oct12 October 17:49

      Yep but it probably means he’ll be in a rubbish toilet row seat, I got 9A. Still 1 exit seat free, maybe we can grab that if we get to check in @ T-3hrs (sometimes in Economy they let you check in slightly earlier, but not a lot. Raffles said you can check in T-4 or earlier in CW, I guess that’s right?)

      • Rob says:

        12 Oct12 October 18:48

        From 5am in Club Europe (at Heathrow or Gatwick) ….

      • Shoestring says:

        12 Oct12 October 20:05

        I wonder what the lower age limit is on getting these special security checks – my son’s only 17! – sounds like a SSSS but we’re not going to the States, is it getting common on flights to Europe as well?

      • Nick says:

        12 Oct12 October 22:43

        No. It’s not a security issue, it’s a sync issue between different parts of the booking/ticket. One hint that works some of the time is to remove your APIS and start again, that often does the trick.

      • Shoestring says:

        12 Oct12 October 22:52

        APIS? How would I remove it? Not got a clue what APIS is

      • Shoestring says:

        12 Oct12 October 22:58

        Advanced passenger information?

        But then – how can he check in online?

      • Shoestring says:

        12 Oct12 October 23:12

        Cheers Nick, got him checked in – 10D so not too bad or far away from me. No toilet seat this time! 🙂

        Had to change his passport number with 1 digit change (to wrong number), check in, change back passport to correct number.

        Bad news is: all Exit seats have gone, so no freebie tomorrow.

        But worry lifted, what a strange system.

      • Shoestring says:

        13 Oct13 October 11:35

        All good – they let us check in T-nearly 4 hrs, no problem. Here’s a one – whilst there were no exit seats available (all gone, but I could have had them for free if they were available) – my check in agent said there were another 22 seats available to switch to but that I couldn’t because of my lowly status/ RFS redemption basis (not that she said it so bluntly). Theoretical seating at work. Got 2 good seats anyway so no problem – and I guess a few are CW. Not sure if self check in @ machines in LHR would have freed up all the ET seats, quite possibly.

        Anyway, sitting in No1 T3 (no £5 reservation), if anybody wants to say hello. Pretty full.

    • Shoestring says:

      13 Oct13 October 12:11

      Just briefed a guy about claiming compo on his cancelled TATL Virgin flight (the Trent engine issue) – he was happy enough with his lounge pass & glass of Champers until I told him about the MCOL cases & EUR600 🙂

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