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• BJ says:

  13 Nov13 November 14:19

  OT: Anybody know if we can still refund legacy marriott TP hotel certificates to points? I am considering doing this to transfer the points to Lufthansa for a First redemption.

  • ankomonkey says:

    13 Nov13 November 16:43

    A lot of Marriott CS were saying the surrender points given when refunding TP hotel certs would no longer be available after the August merger. I can’t recall seeing any data points of anyone trying this to see if it is correct or if the points are still being given. You may have to call and ask.

    • BJ says:

      13 Nov13 November 17:14

      I recalled something like that too but wasn’t sure. I called the London number about an hour ago. The CSA said I could do it but she seemed so far from certain that I don’t know if I can take her word for it.

• Lee says:

  13 Nov13 November 14:19

  Hi
  I’m as far from an EC261 expert as you could get and don’t really know. Think I may be entitled to 75% back. EC261/2004 Article 5 covers cancellations and has a 2 week time window but Article 10 which covers upgrades and downgrades doesn’t?
  There may be some debate on the value of the 241 voucher (after all my wife has been downgraded too) but I hope 75% of the Avios fare will be refundable. There’s a confusing mass of differing opinions on places like Flyertalk and a few articles I found on HFP re EC261 but, it’s not easy to find a definitive answer. I’ll post the outcome here whatever it is.
  In any case even if we just get the F->J difference refunded we’ll still get a CW return to St Lucia which isn’t bad!

  • Anna says:

    13 Nov13 November 14:57

    TripRep is the best person to ask about this if he’s lurking!

• John says:

  13 Nov13 November 14:44

  I’ve heard the slot will be used by VS to fly an extra rotation to NYC in December.

  • Rob says:

    13 Nov13 November 17:37

    Could be. The ex airberlin planes will be flying from the end of November – I have my launch invite!

    • ChrisC says:

      15 Nov15 November 15:19

      The ex air Berlin Planes are already flying and have been for months.

      You mean one of the refurbished ones.

• Crafty says:

  13 Nov13 November 15:33

  Thanks. Almost went for the Pullman Bali which has a good rate on this but eventually persuaded myself otherwise.

  Watch out that the stated rates exclude VAT, which is quite a lot to add to get to the true price.

  Anyone found any real bargains?

• S**mo says:

  13 Nov13 November 16:50

  OT/ Curve Card

  I have a Black Curve card (brand new) – It’s been setup to use my Lloyds Avios Mastercard (just to test), and tried to purchase a tour for $275 online. (first ever transaction)

  The transaction was declined? any ideas why? not sure if I’m doing anything wrong? Can it only be used in person?

  I purchased the tour fine using my Loyds card directly.

  • Gill says:

    13 Nov13 November 16:58

    Recently picked up Curve card and somewhere it mentioned the 1st transaction had to be a PIN transaction.

    • S**mo says:

      13 Nov13 November 18:29

      Ah! that could be it! – Will have to try again!

  • Peter K says:

    13 Nov13 November 17:13

    You often need to build limits on using curve. A few smaller transactions are often needed before larger (!) ones like £200 plus. Basically it seems your underlying card wants to know if it can trust curve or not.

    • Lev441 says:

      14 Nov14 November 01:35

      Not necessarily the case. I paid 3 transactions straight off on curve of £2000 x 2 and £1000.00.. no issues

  • Alex W says:

    14 Nov14 November 07:18

    First Curve use needs to be chip and pin I recall.

• Thomas says:

  13 Nov13 November 17:56

  Hi, flights needs to be bought and cheaper on BA website (oneway cmb-ncl) 2 legs on QR metal one on Ba metal. Do you need to pay for seats as per bronze as booked through ba.com?

• jtz says:

  13 Nov13 November 20:35

  How can I move iberia avios to ba now that avios.com does not allow it?
  I tried doing it from iberia, but it only allows ba to iberia, accidentally moved 20,000 like this. ba combine my avios is down.
  Thanks

  • TM says:

    13 Nov13 November 23:28

    Its a glitchy system. You need to try from both BA and Iberia and ensure your details match exactly. I found this immensely frustrating for quite a long period of time, and then suddenly, it just worked the next day.

• Chris says:

  13 Nov13 November 21:24

  Mine now go to my BAEC account and seem to take a day or two longer than before

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