Norwegian drops lounge access for flyers in the Norwegian Premium cabin

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• Nigel the Pensioner says:

  15 Jan15 January 06:00

  At 15p a mile, UBER should easily reach their target of £3000 by twenty (one) past eight tonight! Its another green tax and I must say that Im not sure that the uber cheap UBER company would price themselves out of the market voluntarily unless it was a condition of continued licencing by Ctiizen Khan
  Many UBER drivers already have a Priuus (other examples are available) whereas its the diesel black cab fleet that need to dig into their pockets and get clean – with fuel and passengers too; but Khan is being very quiet about his comrades innit?

  • Farage the Centurion says:

    15 Jan15 January 07:09

    I think black cab drivers are more centre and right leaning than the mostly 1st/2nd generation migrant uber drivers in London who would traditionally vote labour, so if he is looking to keep his ‘comrades’ happy I would argue that he should be putting uber drivers first

  • David says:

    15 Jan15 January 07:26

    Err, I think it’s £3000 per car, not £3000 total…

  • Lady London says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:14

    Yaaay @Nigel ! That’s kind of how I perceive ‘Citizen Khan’ aka ‘soundbite Khan’. So right-on politically correct.

• Nick says:

  15 Jan15 January 06:15

  OT – Virgin Life Insurance 10k miles. Anyone else not seeing their miles have credited? My suspicion is that having a policy less than £1 per month they only started taking the DD in October (they confirmed last year this was a bug on their side and the policy activated successfully) and this may have confused the system. Thanks

  • filipino_chino says:

    15 Jan15 January 06:37

    i did do no for this offer, but i am sure in the last two days, people have commented saying it got posted.

  • Genghis says:

    15 Jan15 January 06:44

    Our premiums <£1 and DD started late Sep but points have posted as 7.5k and 2.5k with activity date of June.

    • Crafty says:

      15 Jan15 January 07:15

      Same.

      • Matt says:

        15 Jan15 January 07:24

        My policy was 78p and my 10k posted fine

  • Nick says:

    15 Jan15 January 07:28

    Interesting thanks everyone, sounds like a call to VA is on the cards for me thanks

    • Pedantic Pete says:

      15 Jan15 January 09:08

      A call to VS might be more helpful.

      • Lady London says:

        15 Jan15 January 17:10

        🙂

  • Alan says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:20

    Have you checked your statement back to June? VS backdate them. Thankfully Awardwallet noted the 10k balance increase!

• Shona McKay says:

  15 Jan15 January 06:40

  Mine are truly pathetic this time – will actively avoid IHG this quarter I think 😮

  14,400 Discover Our Brands Stay at 3 brands and get 14,400 bonus points
  7,200 Saturday Stays Bonus Stay 3 weekend(s), including a Saturday night and another night, and earn 7,200 bonus points
  4,500 Stay for Less and Earn Book 1 stay(s) using Points & Cash and earn 4,500 bonus points. Points & Cash allows you to book Reward Nights with fewer points
  6,600 Earn More, Faster Earn 6,600 bonus points when you book 2 Bonus Points Package stay(s) and get to your next reward faster
  6,800 Corporate Account Bonus Stay 4 time(s) using your corporate rate and earn 6,800 bonus points. Stays booked through your corporate portal count toward the promotion
  39,500 Your Achievement Bonus

  • BJ says:

    15 Jan15 January 07:02

    When mine became rubbish I run down my points, closed the account, rejoined as a new member a few weeks later and got much easier targets as new customer. The slight downside was the total points on offer were not so high. Closing the accout was somewhat difficult as tgey wanted me to keep it as a dormant account hoping I might stay again in tge future. They only relented when I started pushing the privacy and personal data issues.

  • Lady London says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:18

    All I can say is yours is better than mine @Shona McKay. It’s a pity because I have some nights to book where there are also IHG’s. There are 2 other hotel group offers I expect to participate in with my available nights before I will look at my unrewarding targets for IHG.

  • Ross says:

    15 Jan15 January 12:58

    I’m in a similar boat to Rob this time around – I have a corporate rate target.

    But unusually, I have never had a corporate rate. When I checked, it relates to an error last year. Someone else’s stay was attributed to my account. A stay in Amman at the IC. I had an email thanking me for my stay, to which I responded and never received a reply, then the points arrived and I tweeted them to query what was going on and again had no reply.

    When I recently tweeted about the current promotion and why I had a corporate rate target they looked into things but have still not taken back the points or changed my target!

    • pommy ray says:

      15 Jan15 January 16:53

      a long shot but the MasterCard 30 per cent off rate maybe seen as corporate?

      • Chrisasaurus says:

        15 Jan15 January 20:36

        Could the Business Account (or whatever it’s ed, the small business account thing run by atos) count?

    • tom1 says:

      15 Jan15 January 21:00

      I think someone commented that Amex Travel also counted as corporate stay in the past. (Maybe it was FHR?)

• C77 says:

  15 Jan15 January 06:51

  What are the other Norwegian perks that are wuthering away? The way I see lounge access is that it’s very much a business class or higher perk. Not many premium economy carriers include lounge access based on class as a benefit of the product. The airline is cash strapped and at Gatwick the lounge is an outgoing the airline can probably ill afford. I’m surprised its not happened sooner and equally surprised its been retained as a benefit for Premium Flex.

• BJ says:

  15 Jan15 January 07:07

  OT: Anybody had their 50% points rebate on Nectar LNER redemptions? Did mine the second day of the promotion but no refund so far. Tomorrow will be 28 days from the end of the promotion so hopefully then or soon after.

  • Chris says:

    15 Jan15 January 07:55

    Was going to post to update – nothing hear either. Live chat promised they be in after 28 days when I spoke to them, kept a copy of the chat and will play the game again today

    • BJ says:

      15 Jan15 January 08:28

      I think Nectar has a habit of posting somebpromo points 28-30 days after they end so hopefully tomorrow or later this week.

      • Sussex bantam says:

        15 Jan15 January 09:21

        No – not had mine yet either. Plan to chase next week

• Sammy says:

  15 Jan15 January 07:44

  OT – Does anyone know what happened with the writer job? Just wondering if the posisition ever got filled?

  • Rob says:

    15 Jan15 January 07:55

    Still in process, it was difficult getting everyone in over the Christmas period. Need to get it finalised now as Malaysia has just offered me an F/J trip to Kuala Lumpur which I don’t have time to do myself.

    • Sammy says:

      15 Jan15 January 07:59

      Wow, that’s pretty generous of them! I’m even more jealous now! Not a bad way to start off. Good luck to all those in the running 😊

    • JM says:

      15 Jan15 January 08:14

      Rob – If you don’t get a writer in time, happy to volunteer for Malaysia! I work full time so the job itself wouldn’t be suitable, but I have done a lot of creative/journalistic writing and would be happy to help out! 😉

      • Alex says:

        15 Jan15 January 15:32

        Not a bad idea – to have a pool of writers who works for food, I mean, writes for flights?

      • Lady London says:

        15 Jan15 January 17:12

        🙂

    • BJ says:

      15 Jan15 January 08:20

      Perhaps you could run that as a competition prize with the winner to produce a comprehensive review and photos? Would take the pressure off making the new appointment and be a great competition too.

      • Rob says:

        15 Jan15 January 08:52

        I am hoping we can get a decent competition prize (or party prize) off them at some point this year.

      • BJ says:

        15 Jan15 January 09:14

        Hope so, good luck. There is actually much to commend MAS from the UK avios traveller perspective and they probably get less coverage than they should both in HFP articles and comments. Buying into advertising and prizes could pay dividends for them I think because their profile is weak and they are often overlooked compared to CX, TG and SQ. Shouldn’t really be the case given they are One World, have decent products and services on the latest aircraft, are twice daily from London, competitive premium fares (especially exThailand), KUL a simple transit airport, a decent regional network of their own and an unbeatable one in the region if you factor in onward flights with Air Asia (X).

        • Rob says:

          15 Jan15 January 10:11

          Couldn’t agree more. There is a new team at MAS in London and, unlike the old team, they are very pro HFP.

          The nature of HFP is that airlines (and by that I mean key staff at the airline in London) either love the site, and so want to work with us, or we are simply not on their radar. Virtually everything we have ever done with an airline has started with them contacting us, rather than the other way round.

  • Rob says:

    15 Jan15 January 16:02

    If they want to try to mass-market this stuff, good luck to them. Given that BA now wants £1,400 so you can redeem your Avios for two ‘free’ Club World flights, and you can only go from London, I don’t see that working.

    And if, against my expectations, they do end up expanding the market then that will be positive for HFP because a percentage of these people will gravitate / graduate to HFP. If that also means that there are now enough ‘miles and points’ bloggers in the UK that the travel groups start actively focusing on us, that will also be positive.

    • Russ says:

      15 Jan15 January 19:40

      I can’t see HFP would have too much competition as long as the quality of the content stays useful 🙂

    • Alan says:

      15 Jan15 January 22:31

      Yeah I’ve never followed his blog. Gave up on View from the Wing too – too many credit card adds and didn’t agree with his take on some things too. Would take a lot to match HfP’s unique blend of solid articles and solid (well perhaps quirky?!) comments!

  • Rob says:

    15 Jan15 January 16:06

    That is a US hire to write US stuff, because Gilbert is now based here (and isn’t going anywhere in a hurry given that his British wife is about to have a baby). I’m guessing there is also an element of paternity cover in the decision. We were on a panel together at the Virgin Atlantic Customer Leadership Conference last week.

• Sam says:

  15 Jan15 January 08:37

  Not O/T completely – using Uber abroad, I will need to link a 0% FX card to avoid being charged the FX fees? At the moment it’s my Amex but when I’m abroad will need to change to Halifax Clarity. Is my understanding right? Thanks.

  • Rob says:

    15 Jan15 January 08:50

    Yes

  • Alan says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:22

    Yep, Uber don’t do currency conversion. You can link Revolut OK if you’ve got that.

  • John says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:26

    Can you have two accounts, which would be useful if you are in another country frequently and have a local bank card?

    • Alan says:

      15 Jan15 January 10:31

      You don’t need two accounts, just switch payment card when booking. Only use for a local account I can think of would be for earning/spending credit locally – e.g Tesco Clubcard to Uber is only valid in the UK, not sure if same sort of offer available in other countries and restricted to there too.

    • Genghis says:

      15 Jan15 January 10:37

      Fully agree with Alan. I have my normal UK use card linked and Halifax Clarity (for when abroad and I’m personally paying the bill). Just select the option when booking. It defaults to credits for UK bookings.

  • Alan says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:29

    You can link loads of cards even on your personal a/c – just pick which one to bill when booking your trip (or even change it during the trip)

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      15 Jan15 January 20:39

      You can assign one card to personal and one to business which is the best way to easily select between more than one..

  • Sam says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:58

    Perfect, thank you all.

• Stu N says:

  15 Jan15 January 09:10

  OT – paying Amex. I have a statement balance of (let’s say) £1,500. A refund of (say) £1,000 came through a few days after the statement date. I’d normally pay £1,500 by due date to ensure I don’t pay any interest – can I pay £500 this month as there’s already been a credit to my account, or do I need to pay the full £1,500?

  I’ve never worried about this in the past as any credits or rebates have been small but this is a biggie.

  • Genghis says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:15

    You need to pay £1,500.
    As a separate transaction, ask Amex for a credit refund if you’ve no plans to spend much any time soon.

    • Alan says:

      15 Jan15 January 09:24

      Interesting – payments after statement but before payment due seem to reduce the balance owing OK for me.

      • BJ says:

        15 Jan15 January 09:55

        Yes, this is my experience. A few days before my direct debit is due I receive an email informing me that the direct debit is being adjusted. This adjustment reflects both payments made and other credits to your account. An issue for me this month as no direct debit now being taken so I’ll likely lose the interest on one of my Tesco current accounts.

        • Alan says:

          15 Jan15 January 10:06

          Ah yes, that can be a pain – had that issue with my previous Santander 123 a/c (dropped it after fees went up and interest went down). Thankfully I snuck in before the DD requirement for Tesco so opened two!

      • Genghis says:

        15 Jan15 January 10:03

        It may have changed but I’m 100% this used to be the case.

        • Alan says:

          15 Jan15 January 10:07

          Interesting – seems to be varying views! Certainly I’ve noted recent Amex Offers credits correctly reduce the balance owing.

      • Genghis says:

        15 Jan15 January 10:06

        It has changed, “We’ll treat any credits or refunds to your account as payments made by you.” Apologies for misinformation.

        • Alan says:

          15 Jan15 January 10:07

          Ah cool – that clears it up at least 🙂 Much more sensible system.

      • Nick_C says:

        15 Jan15 January 13:28

        @BJ

        Open a Post Office Money savings account. Set up a weekly DD to fund it (I would suggest £10 a week) from your Tesco current account. Never worry about DDs again.

        You don’t need three separate DD mandates with Tesco, just 3 DD payments every account month.

        • Alan says:

          15 Jan15 January 13:30

          Nice tip, Nick!

        • Alan says:

          15 Jan15 January 13:31

          (am about to get into current account switching bonuses and this could prove very handy)

      • AndyGWP says:

        15 Jan15 January 13:56

        Great tip Nick! Thank you 🙂

      • Genghis says:

        15 Jan15 January 15:23

        Bham Midshires too

      • BJ says:

        15 Jan15 January 15:53

        Thanks Nick, didn’t know that. And Genghis too, I think I might already have a few pounds in an ancient Midshires account so must check.

  • bsuije says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:16

    One of the options when you pay is “Balance”, which on the scenario above would be £500. Your account should then be cleared down. At least that’s how Amex explained it to me a couple of years ago.

  • Alan says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:23

    Yep, after ~3 days you should see the balance update. If paying by DD they’ll email you to let you know they’ve changed the amount they’re going to take to take account of it.

    • BJ says:

      15 Jan15 January 10:00

      Balance normally updates on the account immrdiately after a payyment. However? I think that is just amex cosmetics as process behind the scenes still takes 2-3 days. Seems amex do not charge interest as long as you initiate transaction on or before due date.

  • Stu N says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:19

    Thanks all. I’ve put spend through since statement date so the current balance is not far off the statement balance again, I’ll just pay the statement amount as seems safer.

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