Important dates for your diary – offers about to close which you shouldn’t miss (April ’19)

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• John says:

  7 Apr7 April 06:49

  Are you sure you can still apply

• Alex W says:

  7 Apr7 April 07:05

  Thanks for this, I hope it works

• pablo says:

  7 Apr7 April 09:06

  Message on my Amex app this morning: Lidl accepts Amex nationwide.

  • Peter 64K says:

    7 Apr7 April 09:19

    That’s useful to know, thanks.

    • Sandra says:

      7 Apr7 April 12:11

      +1. Thank you.

• Prins Polo says:

  7 Apr7 April 09:14

  OT: Looks like United is another airline moving away from a fixed award travel chart and moving to revenue-based awards instead (similar to Delta, where on popular dates a one-way from the US to Europe is often priced at 280,000 miles – remember those are roughly similar in value to Avios and transferred from Amex MR points at 1:1 same as Avios or VS miles):

  “We’re removing our award chart and introducing a broader range of award prices. Here’s what you need to know:

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  For flights on or after November 15, 2019, we’ll no longer publish an award chart listing the set amount of miles needed for each flight.

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  Air awards to U.S. and Canadian destinations that are 10,000 to 12,500 miles today may be available for less moving forward. You might have already noticed these lower award prices, and you’ll be able to get them right away.

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  Other air award prices may be higher than what you see today, especially if you’re traveling at popular times. This will be effective immediately for travel on or after November 15.

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  As a member of the United MileagePlus® program with Premier® status, you can still travel whenever you’d like – there are no blackout dates.

  Increasing award travel prices for the most in-demand flights lets us offer lower prices on other flights. If your award travel is flexible, these updates will help you make the most of your miles. However, we realize this may impact your plans if you need to fly on a specific date or have a set destination in mind.

  You can use the flexible award travel calendar on united.com or in our app to see what’s currently available. Thank you for your continued loyalty to the United MileagePlus program.”

  • Russ says:

    7 Apr7 April 11:22

    I believe this is only for United and not partners at this time. The excursionist perk with partners is useful but annoyingly they’re not an Amex transfer partner.

• Concerto says:

  7 Apr7 April 09:47

  Last day for using Avios to book Flybe? I read somewhere (here?) that the cutoff date will be sometime around the middle of April.

  • Rob says:

    7 Apr7 April 10:57

    30th

• Scallder says:

  7 Apr7 April 14:16

  OT as no bits today but page 6 of The Sunday Times business section had an almost full page interview with Shai Weiss, Virgin Atlantic CEO. Certain bits I found of interest about the revamped cabins on the A350.

  1. Upper class now has forward facing suites and the bar has been replaced by an eight seat lounge which doubles as a lobby style entrance for all passengers.

  2. There are bigger seats and large television screens in the expanded premium cabin.

  3. 36 of the 335 economy seats will have a 34 inch legroom (guessing similar to Delight currently).

  Other bits:

  4. Virgin and it’s partners are investing £100m “to take Flybe to the next level as we rebrand it”.

  5. A return to Tokyo and Mumbai is under discussion, as is a route to Beijing.

  6. Virgin will be reporting a loss when they announce their results this week but not as big as the £28m loss in 2017. He expects to break even next year and be profitable again by 2021, provided there is an orderly Brexit.

  7. Flybe will be rebranded as “Virgin ‘Something’. We have not made up our mind.”

  8. The AF/KLM tie up will help get Virgin profitable again.

  9. He believes the 3rd runway at Heathrow will go ahead and that it will give Virgin the chance “to take on BA and become the most-loved travel company”.

  • Alan says:

    7 Apr7 April 15:16

    Interesting info! Thanks 🙂

  • tom1 says:

    7 Apr7 April 19:33

    is it tomorrow that they launch their new Upper seat?

    • marcw says:

      7 Apr7 April 20:42

      I believe so..l.

      • Rob says:

        7 Apr7 April 22:42

        Tomorrow. Big party, Rhys is going on my behalf.

  • Shoestring says:

    7 Apr7 April 20:47

    Is that the same Shai Weiss who thought there’d be a decent market for seats to Tel Aviv? 🙂

    • Shoestring says:

      7 Apr7 April 20:58

      I think there’s a decent market for Newquay-our place in the sun, but unfortunately I don’t run an airline 🙂

• Simon says:

  8 Apr8 April 14:45

  I just did this on 08/04 and it appeared to have worked. Meant to do it on Friday, thanks.

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