Bournemouth Airport is getting an executive lounge

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• S says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:22

  ” if you convert to Iberia Plus (but only 1000 Avios in BA Executive Club”

  Nope.

  https://insideflyer.co.uk/2019/01/accor-le-club-devalues-avios-transfer-rate-iberia-plus/

  • Rob says:

    4 Feb4 February 08:19

    This not true, though. I had an Accor stay go to IB last week and it was 1:1.

    If it was true, I would have covered it.

• TheSkintTraveller says:

  4 Feb4 February 07:19

  What are the chances then that other airlines may start to fly out of Bournemouth now they have a decent lounge?

  • Andrew M says:

    4 Feb4 February 07:38

    I stand to be corrected, but I’d be amazed if having a decent lounge was a major influencing factor when determining whether the economics of a given route make sense, particularly SH. No impact for all Y pax w/o status.

  • Alex Sm says:

    4 Feb4 February 12:08

    Don’t know about BOH but SAS is starting flying from Newquay to Copenhagen in the summer – exciting!

  • Callum says:

    4 Feb4 February 15:15

    I’d imagine exactly the same as they would be without the lounge. Why would it matter that much?

• Andrew M says:

  4 Feb4 February 07:23

  JS commented the other day:

  “Gold credit to plat card with upgrade bonus not possible (or at least they said no on chat and telephone)

  I got around by self referring for green card, the upgrading that green card using the link (which did work)”.

  Anyone actually done this and received the 20k? TIA.

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Feb4 February 07:48

    Or indeed from the basic (blue) card, which is also a charge card but without the £60 annual fee (green)?

    • New Card says:

      4 Feb4 February 08:01

      There may be an advantage to doing this from a feepaying card if it works.

  • Alex W says:

    4 Feb4 February 08:58

    If this works it’s game changing for my cc strategy!

• Oli says:

  4 Feb4 February 08:03

  The lounge at Southend Airport has been refurbished over the summer. It is now twice bigger and is very nice

  • Rob says:

    4 Feb4 February 08:15

    Noted, thanks. If any reader is passing I’m happy to take some pictures.

    Bit of a shame as it got slated in Which? Travel last month.

• K Mcdermott says:

  4 Feb4 February 08:19

  I share your enthusiasm for Southend Airport, it’s a great option but there’s a massive problem with rail access! Most weekends, & it’s been going on for over a year, you have to get a replacement bus to/from Shenfield or Newbury Park which takes well over an hour. Some evenings the train stops about 8.30 & you’re back on buses with your luggage & wasted time. Abellio Greater Anglia’s a disaster. Surprised Stobart’s haven’t warned passengers, or read the riot act.

  • Kathy says:

    4 Feb4 February 14:36

    Ah yes, the engineering work. You can get a train in to Southend Central on the C2C line and then a cab to the airport – or walk up the high street and cross the road to Southend Vic and get the replacement bus to the airport from there (or even a regular bus). Bit of a faff, but not as bad as the rail replacement bus all the way from Shenfield.

  • Callum says:

    4 Feb4 February 15:18

    In what way are they a disaster? They don’t do the engineering work (which I imagine needs to be done and isn’t just for the fun of it!).

• Rash says:

  4 Feb4 February 08:22

  OT: If I have booked a flight for my sister with my Amex Plat charge card. Is she covered in any way with the travel insurance? Or is it specific to me if I am travelling? Just wanted to check before she buys her own travel insurance

  Thanks

  • RTS says:

    4 Feb4 February 10:43

    Does she live with you?

    • Rash says:

      4 Feb4 February 13:58

      She doesnt – its booked for my sister and her husband and two kids. But I’ll go with Robs advice if it is still ok she lives elsewhere?

      • Alan says:

        4 Feb4 February 14:03

        Yep, with the Gold supp card she’ll be covered.

      • Rob says:

        4 Feb4 February 14:39

        Yes, that’s mine. My Mum had a supp on my Plat until she turned 70.

  • Rob says:

    4 Feb4 February 10:53

    Issue her a free supplementary Gold card on your Plat account, then she is covered.

• Mark says:

  4 Feb4 February 09:15

  I book Europcar every week, I have done for over a year and i realised I had never received a single Accor point even though it was connected at the time of booking. So I submitted 6 months worth of back claims and 4 months later still no response and still not receiving points.

  • Thomas Howard says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:28

    I didn’t recieve any AAdvantage points from Europcar for a year, I chased it for six months until they told me to take it up with AA who sorted it within a week. Only problems is it didn’t reset my expiry.

• Ben says:

  4 Feb4 February 09:28

  Does anyone know if you earn TPs on Alaska Airlines? I booked a flight through Amex Travel and the first leg is on BA then on to Alaska Airlines but the BA calculator says no TPs but Avios.
  Is that correct?

  • The Jetset Boyz says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:51

    Sadly that’s correct – you don’t earn any Tier Points on Alaska Airlines, only Avios.

    • Ben says:

      4 Feb4 February 10:00

      Ahh, shame. Thank you. I may consider crediting them elsewhere ill check out options

  • Matt says:

    4 Feb4 February 10:11

    If it’s a codeshare with a BA flight number then you’d get TPs, not if it’s an AS number.

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