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• xcalx says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:26

  OT If booking flights on an Amex SPG card will the flights be covered by Plat insurance or do I need to book on the Plat card.
  Thanks.

  • Rob says:

    14 Feb14 February 10:11

    If the SPG Amex is in your name, you’re covered.

    • xcalx says:

      14 Feb14 February 10:32

      Thanks. It would be flights for me and mrs xcalx booked on her SPG. Should I book mine on the Plat.

      • Rob says:

        14 Feb14 February 10:54

        If the SPG is not in your name then yes. But remember that if your wife has status and you don’t (or vice versa) you won’t both get free seat selection if you are on separate bookings.

• Scallder says:

  14 Feb14 February 09:48

  OT would anyone be kind enough to check the load factors of flight BA0185 tomorrow (LHR-EWR) please? My wife and MIL are booked into Premium Economy but can’t select seats ahead of 24 hours, so thinking they might get downgraded?

  Couldn’t remember if it was Expert Flyer or some other tool required to check these?

  • Anna says:

    14 Feb14 February 11:01

    Are you trying to select seats based on status or do you mean it’s now less than 24 hours before your flight time? You may have been selected for extra security screening – this happened to my OH last summer when he was on a separate booking to IAD from me and our son. When I called BA to ask why he couldn’t complete online check in they told us this in advance, which sort of defeated the object of having extra checks!!

  • lawyerboy says:

    14 Feb14 February 11:03

    tl;dr don’t worry

    UK POS is showing (breaking the cabins into separate lines).

    F7 A6
    J9 C0 D0 R0 I0
    W8 E0 T0
    Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N0 Q0 O0 G8.

    In short, plenty of availability. The W cabin is probably overbooked but that can (and will) be solved by upgrading people out of it into J (and, if necessary, upgrading J into F where there are 7 seats free). But until those upgrades are processed (or your wife and MIL are upgraded) there won’t be seats for them to select.

  • Scallder says:

    14 Feb14 February 14:23

    Hi both – thank you for your responses. It was that we looked last night and even to try and pay for a seat selection every single seat was blocked out (bassinet seats were fair enough). Turns out at T-24 BA had auto selected 2 seats on opposite sides of the plane for my wife and MIL, but a call to them managed to get them 2 bulkhead seats opened up as not needed for parents with infants.

    Clearly going down the Ryanair route of deliberately splitting up groups…

• RussellH says:

  14 Feb14 February 10:03

  OT:
  Telegraph is apparently reporting that EasyJets ays it is in talks with Italian State railways FS and Delta Air Lines to form a consortium in an attempt to rescue Alitalia.

  I found this on Hargreaves-Lansdown’s news pages today.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    14 Feb14 February 12:59

    Haven’t Emirates been pouring cash into alitalia?

    • RussellH says:

      14 Feb14 February 14:55

      Them or Etihad. I can never remember which is which from one minute to the next.
      But I would not be surprised that after getting badly burnt by Air Berlin they may well have cut their losses?

      • Benylin says:

        14 Feb14 February 21:52

        It’s Etihad, who own, or used to own 49% of Alitalia. Not sure what the structure looks like now since government got involved.

• Doog1000 says:

  14 Feb14 February 10:18

  Not too OT – has anyone received the bonus miles from the previous Virgin Insurance deal – have paid 6 instalments over a month ago and still nothing in my account?

  • Shoestring says:

    14 Feb14 February 10:22

    +60 days (up to)

• PAL says:

  14 Feb14 February 11:08

  OT – LHR oneworld T3 lounges – was there a site which entitled enabled you to ask other solo Gold card holders to guest you into lounges? I am wondering if BA F lounge would allow 2 guests as always never busy anyway.

  • Grant says:

    14 Feb14 February 11:11

    I think this is one of the things that BA97 does

• Russ says:

  14 Feb14 February 11:31

  Another OT, I’s hoping someone who keeps their amex longer than churn time and be kind enough to share the benefit of their experience.

  I have an Amex Gold CC which I use just for travel, all other spend goes on non amex CC. I clear the balance every month, rarely subscribe to any amex offers, cancel after picking up the 15,000 spend bonus and referring partner for same Gold CC card. Lately and quite frequently when I log in I’m getting a drop down screen asking me if I’d like to raise my credit limit significantly higher then now. My current limit is artificially low because I changed it. My concern is are Amex getting tired of me and hinting they’re not making enough from me to keep me as a customer? Am i inadvertently gaming the system by only using it for travel?

  • Mr Dee says:

    14 Feb14 February 12:31

    The higher the limit the more potential you will spend, they don’t care about individuals only when you claim back fees or go over limits.

    • Russ says:

      14 Feb14 February 14:21

      Thanks Mr Dee.

• RakishDriver says:

  14 Feb14 February 11:57

  @Rob
  You’ve had the Platinum for a while now without any churns, right?
  Have you noticed missing offers compared to posts here over the years?
  I’ve got 36 offers saved on Plat, 11 on SPG. Just wanted to gauge if I’m missing out here..There are a few decent ones (mainly travel related ones, few dining) but the majority are almost useless, for me at least.

  • Rob says:

    14 Feb14 February 12:13

    33 offers showing on my Plat, 8 on SPG, 13 on BAPP.

    • RakishDriver says:

      14 Feb14 February 12:25

      Ok, thanks, not miles off then. I plan to keep Plat long term after the upgrade from gold charge; just wanted to make sure not taking a hit on potentially lucrative amex offers.

  • S**mo says:

    14 Feb14 February 15:32

    Damn I fee like I’m missing out now…. only 25 showing on my plat. (mostly restaurants in London)

    • Bazza says:

      14 Feb14 February 18:51

      I got 33 on the plat, I like nice restaurants and nice clothes so lots of good ones here

• Mr Dee says:

  14 Feb14 February 12:34

  O/T Curve enabled rewards again, so a good time to cash out just incase!

  Still waiting for response to support enquiry after nearly 3 weeks!

  • Genghis says:

    14 Feb14 February 12:38

    Yep. Emptied mine to Amazon top up (exact amount) this morning.

    • EvilDoctorK says:

      14 Feb14 February 12:53

      Mind still shows as unavailable in the App ? – you can access it elsewhere or ? .. Don’t have a lot in it , but given the circumstances withdrawal to Amazon sounds like a good idea!

      • Mr Dee says:

        14 Feb14 February 13:04

        You need to update the app, if using Amazon they will take a £1 pending payment charge if you add a card so you need to wait a few days for the £1 to come back

      • Lumma says:

        14 Feb14 February 13:04

        They say you need to update the app for it to work

    • Mr Dee says:

      14 Feb14 February 13:05

      I suspect many will have a similar idea after they emailed everyone about it

    • Craig says:

      14 Feb14 February 16:44

      +1, rewards and a small Amex balance all emptied.

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    14 Feb14 February 13:39

    Thanks. Just zeroed my rewards balance using monzo.me

    • EwanG says:

      14 Feb14 February 14:07

      Zeroed my Curve Rewards with a payment to Brighton!!

    • Nick M says:

      15 Feb15 February 14:49

      Interesting – thank you… my card has been dormant since they stopped allowing you to top up directly

    • Alan says:

      17 Feb17 February 23:32

      Yeah it’s pretty handy 😛

  • FastEddie says:

    14 Feb14 February 17:28

    +1 I’d hate to guess how long the latest around of funding will keep the lights on!

    • Shoestring says:

      14 Feb14 February 18:06

      zeroing Curve Rewards balance seems an obvious prudent move!

      let’s hope they don’t go bump in the night!

      • Mr Dee says:

        15 Feb15 February 01:17

        Well for every 100k referee customers it’s costing them a cool 1m so hopefully they have some revenue coming in somehow!

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