Good Lufthansa / SWISS business class flight deals to Asia and Africa

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• js54156 says:

  31 Oct31 October 05:11

  any news on Curve with Amex?

  • Rob says:

    31 Oct31 October 05:15

    There is a date in November, yes.

    • Mark says:

      31 Oct31 October 09:56

      Technically, there are actually 30 dates in November 🙂

      • AndyF says:

        31 Oct31 October 10:10

        Would this be a launch date/ I have quite a bit of tax I’d like to pay and I’m not sure whether to get the Virgin credit card or hold off for Amex support?

        • Rob says:

          31 Oct31 October 10:14

          Beta, whatever that means

• Joe says:

  31 Oct31 October 05:28

  Finally a decent reward in the Marriott game – 2000 points 🙂

  • D Cumming says:

    31 Oct31 October 10:06

    started with 2 x 1000 points and assumed thats what i’d keep getting 🙂

    Had lots of entries into the sweepstake – i’lll win that instead

  • Alex Sm says:

    31 Oct31 October 11:42

    I got my first 1000 points today for the first time! Yay!

    Despite a weird question with the _same_ answer option twice (Spirituality) – one of them is correct, one is not %-/

    PS Doers anyone know where one can see a FULL list or table of Marriott properties broken down by category? Looking for 5000 points hotels 🙂

  • S**mo says:

    31 Oct31 October 13:38

    Played each day.

    2 x 500
    1 x entry to draw
    rest all 50 points

    • Alex Sm says:

      1 Nov1 November 14:53

      I guess it is something like this for 90% of people

• Paul C says:

  31 Oct31 October 05:44

  I had the same Heathrow Express offer on my BA card and then on my Platinum card a “Spend £35 or more, get 15% back every time” offer.

  • Oli says:

    31 Oct31 October 06:53

    +1

    • LewisB says:

      31 Oct31 October 08:05

      I also had it on my Amex Gold a few days ago now.

• Matt says:

  31 Oct31 October 06:12

  Hi rob. I haven’t ‘won’ points for the last 3 days I have played. I was winning points before then. Do you have to get all the answers right to win points?

  • Tony says:

    31 Oct31 October 06:30

    I’ve just won 50 points without getting the answers right. In terms of earning from the game there’s a pattern emerging for me, 2 wins and then an draw entry and repeat.

    • Adey says:

      31 Oct31 October 07:08

      It comes and goes for me and doesn’t appear to be dependent on getting the questions correct (nor first time matching the images).

      I didn’t get any points today, 50 yesterday and none the day before!

      BTW today two of the answers are the same on the spa question. I chose ‘Spirituality’ and it came back ‘No, the answer is Spirituality. 🙂

      • Mike says:

        31 Oct31 October 07:14

        Adey – ditto exactly the same happened to me chose “Spirituality” and got the reply Incorrect the answer is “Spirituality.” Do you have to actually get the question right to get the points ? I have been googling the question and sometimes the answer even from the Mariot web site appears to be not the same as the quiz answer……

        • Rob says:

          31 Oct31 October 07:37

          Seems to make no difference.

      • Roger says:

        31 Oct31 October 07:16

        There were two same answers Spirituality as option C and D!

        • Rob says:

          31 Oct31 October 07:37

          And only one is correct!

      • Chris says:

        31 Oct31 October 09:04

        Protip – the bottom spirituality is the correct one 🙂

    • Alex Sm says:

      31 Oct31 October 11:42

      There is no pattern

  • John says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:10

    I had six days of no points, then a couple of 50 points, including one where I gave a wrong answer – the correct answer was listed twice! presumably only one of them is accepted as correct

  • Crafty says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:10

    It’s a lottery.

    • Alex Sm says:

      31 Oct31 October 11:43

      I didn’t know that, tell me more (c)

      Unbelievable how people try to find patterns where there are none!

      • Russ says:

        31 Oct31 October 14:30

        Just human beings being human Alex. We’re programmed to see shapes and patterns in things so we know how to interact with stuff. I’d agree that Marriott is stretching that somewhat.

  • online lottery games developer says:

    31 Oct31 October 11:48

    It’s a free draw – that means getting the answers right is not required. You don’t even have to give an answer, just click submit and then continue.

    The prize is selected randomly as soon as you start the game.

    If you play earlier in the day before the daily prize pool is consumed you have better odds of winning.

    Play late in the day and you are almost sure to get nothing.

    • Mark2 says:

      31 Oct31 October 11:54

      which time zone for the day?

      • Lady London says:

        31 Oct31 October 16:06

        Maybe we just have to get up sooner than America?

    • Alex Sm says:

      31 Oct31 October 12:47

      I’m pretty sure the prizes are evenly distributed between the hours though you might know better

      • chris says:

        31 Oct31 October 12:56

        If they were to be evenly distributed through the hours then it wouldn’t be random.

        I’m sure they’re random, so it makes no time when you play – you have a 1 in x change, each time, every time, any time

      • online lottery games developer says:

        31 Oct31 October 14:48

        Incorrect. There is a limited number of daily prizes. When they’ve all gone for the day, you have zero chance.

        • Rob says:

          31 Oct31 October 17:59

          But if I was Marriott I would adjust based on the previous day. If I had 100 prizes yesterday and 400 entrants, today I would give a prize to every 4th entrant. If I messed up and got more or less than 400, I would adjust next day and so on. You may actually more chance later in the day on this basis.

    • RussellH says:

      31 Oct31 October 22:27

      Played today after 20.30 and got 50 points. Normally play in the morning and have had several with zero points

      • Alex Sm says:

        1 Nov1 November 15:00

        I always play for me and my partner at the same time and almost always get different rewards (one of which is almost always a s/s entry). Which only confirms that there is no pattern!

• NS says:

  31 Oct31 October 06:18

  I need to get from Colombo to HKG which is an overnight flight. Ideally business which is £500 each. Is anyone aware of a neat way of doing it cheaper? Avios is working out at equivalent cash price based on 1p/avios.

  • TripRep says:

    31 Oct31 October 06:29

    Any good deals routing through DOH or even MLE?

    • Matt says:

      31 Oct31 October 07:37

      £492 for J on CX seems pretty reasonable to me. Also the 140 tier points may be handy?

  • BJ says:

    31 Oct31 October 11:14

    Air Asia for peanuts via BKK if there is no direct budget options. What is Sri Lanka pricing at? You might get lucky and get full flat bed with them versus regional J on CX.

    • Matt says:

      31 Oct31 October 15:06

      The CX flight is an A330-300 and appears to be full flat bed in 1-2-1 config.

• SG says:

  31 Oct31 October 06:34

  Hi Rob
  Will the “some” Amex cards definitely not going to be the fee free ones?

  • George says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:06

    I would suggest that it’s likely to be the ones which are subject to the interchange fee cap – so probably not the Platinum, Gold, ARCC etc. This would seem the only sensible reason for supporting some but not all.

    • Memesweeper says:

      31 Oct31 October 07:39

      Co-brand cards only? That would make a lot of sense.

      I don’t know why everyone desperately wants Amex back on Curve. Personally I want enhanced limits more than anything else right now. Got a useless card in my wallet following a tax paying spree in the summer…

      • Graham Walsh says:

        31 Oct31 October 13:52

        I’d prefer it if I could do more than £200 a go on certain payments.

• Craig says:

  31 Oct31 October 07:23

  OT: Could someone with an IB account please see if the ‘buying or transferring avios’ page displays?

  • MD says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:58

    Just loads a blank page for me.

    • Craig says:

      31 Oct31 October 08:04

      Me too, thanks. IT at their end again then.

      • Londoner says:

        31 Oct31 October 08:14

        Just transfer via BA instead. Worked when I did it yesterday, points were in my BAEC account instantly.

      • Craig says:

        31 Oct31 October 08:47

        Both BA and Avios tell me my Iberia logon details are wrong which they most definitely aren’t.

      • Mark says:

        31 Oct31 October 11:55

        I find CMA generally flaky. Via BA if often tells me I’m not authorised to use CMA, whereas topping up my Iberia account for a redemption using CMA on Iberia’s site worked fine. I am in a BA household account, which is presumably the root of the issue, but as per the terms and conditions that only prevents direct transfers in to BA from Iberia which Iberia’s site was correctly enforcing.

        One of the very rare examples where Iberia’s IT seemed to work better… Otherwise it takes a lot of patience to achieve anything with all sorts of weird and wonderful errors generated, often in Spanish even when accessing the site in English.

        Considering BA’s security issues I wouldn’t have a lot of confidence in IB on that front. Fortunately my bookings were made with a card that is likely been compromised by BA anyway…..

  • Worzel says:

    31 Oct31 October 08:04

    Grrr- “thanks” for the reminder Craig! 🙂 .

    Same as yesterday-blank.

    Tried yesterday, shifting(pushing/pulling) from Iberia by every means-have given up!

    Will probably end up having to make a phone call at some stage.

    • Craig says:

      31 Oct31 October 08:51

      The really annoying thing is that you shouldn’t have to work around their IT incompetence.

• Simon says:

  31 Oct31 October 07:30

  The trouble with going via the Heathrow Express Avios Landing page is you don’t get any of the cheaper advance fares offered, just the standard fare.

  • Rob says:

    31 Oct31 October 07:36

    Correct – but if that’s what you’re after it is a nice bonus.

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