Get 1,000 American Airlines miles at Hyatt Place or Hyatt House hotels

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• Dale says:

  27 Oct27 October 13:51

  o/t but talking about cuts in service – have Virgin slashed it’s Glasgow – MCO service for next year, currently only flying on a Thursday??

• IslandDweller says:

  27 Oct27 October 17:02

  Cityflyer weekend cuts. There’s an assumption in the article that the issue is that the flights were not selling. I thought the issue was crew hours / complicated crew logistics for the services from airports that cityflyer don’t routinely serve.

• Andrew says:

  27 Oct27 October 19:13

  I was on Cityflyer a few weeks back and I thought I heard the Brummie-accented cabin crew say that the airline puts some of them in a taxi back from LCY to BHX! Now, I stress that I may have misheard that but if true then it certainly would certainly add an unnecessary overheard to operating costs.

• Shoestring says:

  27 Oct27 October 20:14

  Have you run this one Raffles? 50% off your first trip on mytaxi using code BALIFE. Got it in High Life mag.

  Must be good for a longish ride to airport etc.

  No idea if they are as good as Uber, anybody know?

  • Rob says:

    27 Oct27 October 20:53

    Saw that, then promptly forgot about it. They are good in London, better than Gett – but the reason is the £10 minimum fare, which makes them a bad deal for short hops. You are more likely to picked up, however, as the driver knows he is guaranteed £10.

    Not sure I’d want to deal with a rattling black cab all the Heathrow though. £35 (half the £70 standard taxi fare, so what you’d pay with this deal) gets you a standard Uber (Prius etc) with a proper boot and a more comfy ride.

• Shoestring says:

  27 Oct27 October 23:31

  https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/uk-airline-passengers-waste-175-million-allocated-seating-civil-aviation-authority-study-a8604581.html
  UK airline passengers are wasting up to £175m a year on unnecessary allocated seating fees, new research suggests. Almost half (45 per cent) of people who pay to sit with their companions would be seated together anyway, according to an investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    27 Oct27 October 23:38

    Flip that around and the CAA found that over half of people (55%) would have been separated.

    Perhaps not such a bad deal but not as good of a headline.

    • Shoestring says:

      28 Oct28 October 00:00

      What they don’t mention is that it’s no big deal (IMV I suppose) if you get separated. As they say, not going to happen anyway with kids under 12. Bit different if you or your partner needs a bit of extra help, also.

      Today my son & I had window seats 2 rows apart, [didn’t fancy the free middle exit seat on offer at check in and as it happens the flight was 20% empty & I got the whole row to myself when 13D went to sit with his wife]. But thought nothing of sitting apart from my son/ he didn’t seem to care either.

      I guess some people are more clingy and a LH flight is more of a separation than a few hrs in European SH.

      • Callum says:

        28 Oct28 October 04:08

        If people are paying £175m extra to avoid being seperated then it implies it is indeed a big deal.

        As to why people can’t bear to go a couple of hours apart on the plane but have no problem ignoring each other while sitting on their phones etc in any other scenario is another question!

      • Mr(s) Entitled says:

        29 Oct29 October 15:34

        Paying £175m doesn’t imply it is a big deal at all. One person paying £175m potentially, but lots of people paying very little to make up a big number?

  • John says:

    28 Oct28 October 05:32

    Did they really examine whether people are paying because they want to sit together, or whether they are paying because they want to guarantee an aisle or window seat or exit row or get off the plane quickly?

• Brian says:

  28 Oct28 October 14:02

  OH I love the Marriott 29 days comp, So far had a 500 point win and 50 point wins but today 20,000 points so I for one am not knocking this comp

  • Rob says:

    28 Oct28 October 14:09

    Best so far, well done.

• Peter says:

  28 Oct28 October 14:37

  Rob has pointed out that if you book a BA holiday with BA you only need to pay the deposit when booking, not the whole cost. But are you still able to reserve specific seats? I found when buying a package tour (assembled for us by a specialist travel company) using BA flights to the West Indies, I couldn’t reserve specific seats until the tickets had been issued, and they were not issued until the flight element had been paid in full. Perhaps it’s different if the holiday is being provided by BA itself. (Of course I hate paying BA to reserve seats but when there is a pair of you flying premium economy it’s most comfortable having a pair of seats by the window – and they are in very short supply.)

  • Brian says:

    28 Oct28 October 16:20

    @ Peter

    I have booked flights and hotels using BA holidays , you can either pay to reserve seats or if you have status you can also do so free of charge. I have done this for up coming trips to HKG if F at Christmas and also SFO at Easter

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