James Hillier is to leave British Airways Executive Club

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• Leafwarbler says:

  14 Mar14 March 14:22

  Another OT, this time with added arrrrgh!

  BA have just replaced our inbound 787-9 flight with an Air Belgium operated 343. Any advice from anyone? It’s only a 7 hour flight; should we just suck it up?

  Thanks

  • Michael says:

    14 Mar14 March 14:28

    What is the class of travel?

    • Leafwarbler says:

      14 Mar14 March 14:42

      CW

      • Michael says:

        14 Mar14 March 14:50

        I’ve not flown them but the seats look better if anything, most seats have direct aisle access. You’ll still get the same food and amenities. Crew and IFE will be different.

  • ChrisC says:

    14 Mar14 March 15:02

    there are threads on the BA board on flyer talk about options available so head over there and have a look

• Thomas Howard says:

  14 Mar14 March 14:23

  Will the STN EK flights be added to the Qantas codeshare (for Avios earning)?

  • Rob says:

    14 Mar14 March 14:33

    Good question. You would expect so, but don’t know either way.

    • memesweeper says:

      14 Mar14 March 18:05

      they are not currently codeshared with Qantas, only LGW and LHR from London.

  • guesswho2000 says:

    15 Mar15 March 02:10

    Not sure how you’d book it, Qantas only recognises LGW/LHR when booking online? STN doesn’t come up as an option.

    • Rob says:

      15 Mar15 March 08:06

      Virtually none of the Emirates Qantas codeshares can be booked via Qantas because the site only recognises certain airports. Need to use Expedia, Amex Travel etc.

• PAL says:

  14 Mar14 March 15:26

  Hi – OT – what’s the best site which shows the cheapest monthly views for business class flights across all airlines. Skyscanner doesn’t support this for business class flights and Kayak misses a lot of airlines out. I’m not that au fait with ExpertFlyer either! Thanks.

  • Lee says:

    14 Mar14 March 15:45

    How about Google flight

    • Rhys says:

      14 Mar14 March 16:16

      +1. Google Flights is very easy to use too.

• Lee says:

  14 Mar14 March 15:30

  OT – Has anyone transferred Amex points to Radisson? Won’t let me link the account, always showing error. Thanks!
  Sorry, there has been an error!
  We regret that an error has occurred and we are unable to process your request at this time. Please try to transfer points to a registered participant at another time or call Customer Service on 0800 917 8053 for assistance.

  • xcalx says:

    14 Mar14 March 16:10

    That’s what I get too.

  • fivebobbill says:

    14 Mar14 March 16:41

    It’s a known issue linking new cards with Radisson, I always had to call CS to have them linked.
    Think they said to leave the first 6 digits off (is it 308147?).
    No sure, maybe better calling to be safe…

    • xcalx says:

      14 Mar14 March 17:07

      Ours start 601599

    • Lee says:

      14 Mar14 March 17:14

      Thanks, it works without first 6 digits. Now showing pending

• Lady London says:

  14 Mar14 March 15:36

  I’d switch to cash. Provided I would still have a use for the saved points. And unless points are ready or low cost for me to earn more to replace.

  • Tracy says:

    14 Mar14 March 15:41

    Thanks Lady London, just what I was thinking. I can always use marriott points and I earn them through amex churns really but can take a long time to earn 320k points.

    • Clive says:

      14 Mar14 March 23:29

      Hope you have also signed up for the latest double points promotion and also checked to see if you have a personal one.

• Liz says:

  14 Mar14 March 16:19

  OT Can anyone offer me some advice. Daughters boyfriends Norwegian flight for Saturday is cancelled due to Boeing issue. He paid and rebooked another Norwegian flight for Monday night and now they have cancelled that. He didn’t take out any insurance. Staying with a friend so no hotel expenses. Can he rebook himself and claim back from Norwegian – flights are £600 or would they not refund him. He can claim and get refunds for the 2 Norwegian tickets. He has been on hold to norweigan for ages and can get through as yet. Does he have to wait for Norwegian to rebook him. Thanks for any help offered

  • Shoestring says:

    14 Mar14 March 17:21

    He has to give Norwegian a chance to re-ticket him. Yes, the risk is that they wouldn’t see £600 as reasonable or necessary, so refuse to reimburse on that basis. (They might enjoy advantageous costs on certain competitor airlines, or have capacity themselves that you don’t know about.)

    So his first task has to be to contact Norwegian to get re-ticketed. If they can’t re-ticket him in a reasonable timeframe, then he could go ahead and book something more convenient and seek reimbursement from Norwegian later – with an excellent chance of winning at CEDR if it came to that. (Must be annoying not to get through on the phone, though.)

    • Shoestring says:

      14 Mar14 March 17:41

      Obvs no compo if it’s a 737 MAX – but he *is* entitled to duty of care until Norwegian re-ticket him, if he is forced to wait a day or so. Could be some free meals in it (no booze).

      Could be a good idea to research flights available then (on the phone to Norwegian) he’d be in a better position to say: no, your offer of a Tuesday flight is unreasonable, how about booking me on this one on Sunday instead xyz?

    • Mikeact says:

      14 Mar14 March 17:58

      No insurance ? Not for anything ?
      Sounds rather foolish to me.

      • Liz says:

        14 Mar14 March 19:28

        He got through to Norweigan eventually and they told him to rebook himself and then put in a claim and they might pay it. He has now paid out for 3 tickets. At least he is rebooked – will try and help him with the claims/refunds when he gets back. Lesson learned for him not to buy some insurance.

      • Shoestring says:

        14 Mar14 March 19:42

        Don’t forget not buying insurance can be a sensible choice. In effect, you can be self-insuring, ie saving the insurance costs you would otherwise have paid, possibly putting them into a pool of money for later use.

        Air passengers in Europe are already well-protected by legislation. Which is a free insurance of sorts. Basically, your provider can’t just cancel a ticket and leave you stranded. They must re-ticket you and pay duty of care costs until you make the new journey.

        Hotel, food, drink (not booze), communications.

• 1967stuart says:

  14 Mar14 March 17:20

  If anyone if thinking about going to FI at Monaco this year (or Barcelona) , Marriott Moments have now loaded onto the website both races.

  A number of them are for auction (so plenty of time to bid especially for the one watching the race from Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport Yacht and Weekend Hospitality Passes ), but there are also a buy it now for 70k point package for race tickets for 2 people . 6 packages are available

  Of course watch out first for flight and hotel ticket prices

  • jason says:

    14 Mar14 March 20:55

    Did this last year all on points, stayed at the Marriott in nice and flew flybe from Birmingham to south of france…excellent deal given the seats are 500 Euros each in grandstand K

• Bill says:

  14 Mar14 March 20:38

  Just noticed boingo is available for signup for those with amex platinum charge card

  • Alan says:

    14 Mar14 March 21:55

    Has been about for a couple of years but isn’t it being withdrawn? It certainly is in the USA – https://onemileatatime.com/amex-boingo-benefit-ending/

    • roger says:

      15 Mar15 March 07:53

      I thought withdrawn at end of March?

      • Alan says:

        15 Mar15 March 10:31

        Existing members get to keep access until end of the year.

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