SriLankan Airlines to increase London Heathrow services

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• Nigel Williams says:

  1 Mar1 March 13:58

  OT -Just received a letter from Barclaycard (odd, since I’ve already cancelled my card) that they will no longer be accepting balance payments via Curve (or other cards which directly charge to a credit card as a purchase.

  Not a massive deal as the Barclaycards are a bit poor at the moment, but those with the Hilton VIsas may be a bit annoyed at the loss of free points through churning…

  • Simon says:

    1 Mar1 March 20:32

    I came home to one of these too. After making a payment earlier. Which is sitting in pending…

    • Anna says:

      1 Mar1 March 21:41

      Are they saying you can’t pay your Barclaycard via Curve, or that you just can’t use Curve with Barclaycard any more full stop? I have one payment which has bounced back and several stuck in pending over the last few days.

    • Simon says:

      2 Mar2 March 07:51

      Can’t pay BC via curve. Gist was that they will no longer accept payments via any method that could be directly or indirectly funded by another credit card.

• the_real_a says:

  1 Mar1 March 14:11

  If Motto is offering 10k redemption’s in such a location – i will be first to try it out! Clever low cost has a market 🙂

• Michael says:

  1 Mar1 March 14:15

  1 night in Dallas coming up – can someone recommend somewhere nice to stay with plenty to do?

• @mkcol says:

  1 Mar1 March 15:05

  Kudos to Tim at Reward Flight Finger https://rewardflightfinder.com/ with the new search for Virgin Atlantic.
  I had an existing Premium booking back from Washington DC but no Upper seats at time of booking. I set up the search and left it to run. Got a notification a couple of days ago of 2 seats coming available, phoned them around 0200 today & got them booked!

  • Tom1 says:

    1 Mar1 March 21:41

    Yep I made an upper for HKG-LHR on VS using RFF too.
    Well worth the £3 a month.

    Only problem at the moment is you can’t see your Vs alerts.

  • Alan says:

    10 Mar10 March 15:04

    Nice – found it great booking a VS redemption recently being able to browse so easily.

• Jonny says:

  1 Mar1 March 15:22

  OT: Amex offering 20% bonus when you pay with points. One MR point is worth 0.54p ,rather than 0.45p when you use towards purchases during March. I know not the best use of points, but may be of interest to some.

• paul says:

  1 Mar1 March 21:01

  O/T, sorry…i currently overpay my Halifax mortgage by Standing Order…any way that i can pay it via curve/other method to earn some miles? thanks

  • Anna says:

    1 Mar1 March 21:37

    Banks generallyinsist mortgage payments come directly from a bank account but I would love to know if anyone has managed to get around this! I don’t know if they would accept a lump sum overpayment on a debit card – I am retiring next year so will enquire about this is no-one finds out in the meantime.

    • paul says:

      1 Mar1 March 22:09

      Halifax do accept lump sum payments via debit card, but only when paying over the phone, however they specifically say you can’t use a debit card starting with a 5… hence my question of any way around this 🙂

    • Jimbob says:

      1 Mar1 March 22:11

      You would have to think of ways to indirectly send money from a credit card to your current account, and pay mortgage from there.

      It’s possible, but you run the risk of the intermediary of closing you down for money laundering (cough….paypal…cough)

      • paul says:

        1 Mar1 March 22:18

        yeah, i do have PayPal but don’t use it a great deal and know they are a pita to deal with…i also want to remortgage early next year so don’t want to do anything to muck that up as that is obviously way more important than earning a couple of miles but just hoping there may be an easy way round it 🙂

      • Shoestring says:

        1 Mar1 March 22:33

        A lot of us don’t even go there because we’re not that stupid…there are bigger fish to fry, easier ways to make a few quid than ruining things that matter more…

  • Mark2 says:

    1 Mar1 March 22:04

    could you not have the standing order coming out of Revolut, which is funded from other cards?

    • paul says:

      1 Mar1 March 22:13

      I don’t have a revolution card so perhaps i should look into one, but based on my reply to the above, do they start with a 5?

      • Jimbob says:

        1 Mar1 March 22:33

        My Revolut card starts with a 5

      • paul says:

        1 Mar1 March 22:42

        ok thanks so looks like its a non-starter. thanks all

      • TGLoyalty says:

        2 Mar2 March 04:07

        Revolut allows bank transfers though

      • Genghis says:

        2 Mar2 March 06:11

        From experience, Revolut don’t allow certain transfers though: paying credit cards and mortgage (both to HSBC)

• Joeb says:

  2 Mar2 March 10:06

  OT Amex Q: BA Black card applied for last year, 241 gained> downgraded to BA Blue card but now nearly at 10k spend again. Can I re-apply (upgrade) for black BA card again and get 241 voucher ?
  cheers!

  • Chris says:

    2 Mar2 March 10:16

    Yes.just done this myself

    • Joeb says:

      2 Mar2 March 10:24

      Great! Thanks for the speedy reply Chris!

      • Joeb says:

        2 Mar2 March 10:27

        oh also Forgot to ask, do you know if this has to be done over the phone or can I get my wife to refer me for some extra points and apply online?

  • Rob says:

    2 Mar2 March 11:33

    If you are in a new card year, yes

    • Joeb says:

      2 Mar2 March 12:12

      Hi Rob thanks for the reply. This is year two, first year was black card, second year (current) blue. I’m assuming your reply was a ‘yes’ to the referral bonus?

      • Rob says:

        2 Mar2 March 15:59

        No, answer was ‘yes’ to a 2nd 241 voucher.

• Joeb says:

  2 Mar2 March 10:22

  mine starts: 45

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