British Airways drops flights from London Gatwick to Fort Lauderdale

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• s879 says:

  27 Apr27 April 10:36

  OT but BA related: I used my first 2 for 1 to book a flight for myself and another family member. My partner used his Lloyds voucher to book two one way flightd to same destination but his taxes were not half of what I paid, they were more. Now he has the miles to book two one way tickets (return flights). Question is do we book online or call BA? Will they ask for any change fees. The return leg is in October so it wasn’t about dates not being available. Lastly, will they adjust the taxes automatically so that in the end both he and I have paid same taxes. Please advise.

  • s879 says:

    27 Apr27 April 10:37

    Forgot to clarify he booked two one way outbound for himself and a family member.

  • Alex W says:

    27 Apr27 April 13:27

    You need to call Avios.com to change the Lloyd’s voucher booking. They may have to cancel the ticket and re-book it, assuming it’s still available. He will get the extra surcharges refunded minus a fee. Not sure if the change/canx fee will be 2 x £17.50 or 2 x £35.

  • Anna says:

    27 Apr27 April 13:45

    Call BA, or the avios number (apparently it’s all the same people now). They can book the return legs and add it to the outbound booking and charge the taxes so the total amount paid is what would have been paid for a return (i.e 2 way) journey anyway. I did this last year – used a upgrade voucher to book me and my son outbound to IAD by calling avios.com and paying £800 ish in tax then when return flights I wanted from BOS were released I called again and these were added on (I used another upgrade voucher but I don’t think that would matter), and was charged £350 taxes. The taxes have gone up since then but it should be the same principle.

    • s879 says:

      27 Apr27 April 14:27

      Thanks Anna and Alex

  • the_real_a says:

    27 Apr27 April 14:58

    The taxes wont be half of a return, because of the UK’s massive departure tax. Outward one way will be much more expensive.

• Simon says:

  27 Apr27 April 10:37

  OT, for the Gold card supp for a Platinum (you can have 1 Plat supp + 3 Gold).
  If you book with that Gold car, are you covered with the car insurance?
  Thanks!

• Andy says:

  27 Apr27 April 10:41

  Man United player of the year dinner!

  I cant stop laughing!

  They should invite Graham Souness and Roy Keane!

• Anna says:

  27 Apr27 April 11:14

  OT – Oh has been given 5,000 avios for not getting any F & B on a recent CE flight from LHR to MAN. We need to make sure we all sit in row 7 from now on because they rarely manage to get this far back during the flight!

  • Lady London says:

    27 Apr27 April 13:03

    Was that 5000 each?

    • Anna says:

      27 Apr27 April 13:48

      We were all seated in different rows and he was the only one that far back! The food was actually very good, but I would rather have 5,000 avios – the flight is only 45 minutes lol.

      • Anna says:

        27 Apr27 April 13:49

        Oh – should read OH, sorry.

      • Lady London says:

        27 Apr27 April 14:03

        5000? Well I suppose BA isn’t giving much else these days other than F&B in Club as compared to Y. But almost a profit centre if this could be relied on.

  • Shoestring says:

    27 Apr27 April 14:21

    result!

• Munch says:

  27 Apr27 April 11:15

  OT Do points from an IHG credit card go towards elite status? Not sure if its worth chasing spire elite for a status match with Hilton for diamond ? Or will Hilton status match Ihg platinum elite to diamond?

  • Rob says:

    27 Apr27 April 11:21

    Bonus does not but points from spend DO count – so you can get Spire for £37,500 spent on the premium card.

  • Lyn says:

    27 Apr27 April 14:29

    Hilton have matched IHG Platinum to Diamond in the past (two or three years ago) but I don’t know if they still do or if this is always the case.

    • meta says:

      27 Apr27 April 15:37

      Yes they do. I got a status match recently.

• Froggee says:

  27 Apr27 April 11:18

  OT: anyone else got the email from Curve saying that they are going to extend the free Curve Black trial membership for an unlimited period of time? They must be struggling…

  • Craig says:

    27 Apr27 April 11:22

    Yes, ironically on a day I’m having problems with them!

  • Alex Sm says:

    27 Apr27 April 12:09

    Yes, I was just about to post here! TBH, this is the least they could do after that massive flop with Amex. I guess, cancelling AXA insurances and potential customer churn proved to be more complicated than just simply let everyone stay on free Black plan for good. I know that many readers here are much more cynical than me but even I thought they were mismanaging the situation pretty badly… So, now they might be on track to repair it

    • Ben says:

      27 Apr27 April 15:07

      Is that for existing Legacy Black customers? I haven’t received the email, but it would be nice to be included.

      • Froggee says:

        27 Apr27 April 15:30

        I think so – I am legacy black i.e, I paid £50 a month before they brought in the new tiers.

      • Liz says:

        27 Apr27 April 17:25

        I got it and I am legscy Black.

      • Alex Sm says:

        27 Apr27 April 23:19

        Yes, as Legacy Black were automatically switched to new Black tier as a free trial which was supposed to end nowish (there was another email about it recently)

• Tracy Regan says:

  27 Apr27 April 12:25

  Just to say thanks to Rob for the info that BA are cancelling the FL route. I got straight on to BA who have rebooked me in business on the Miami flight the same day. I thought this might be more complicated as it was booked with a Lloyds upgrade voucher but the BAEC rebooked me at 6am this morning no problem. Without Hfp I probably wouldn’t even know the BA FLL was cancelled.

  • Nathalie says:

    27 Apr27 April 14:15

    I got an email from BA saying that my flight to FLL was cancelled, I haven’t seen anything here until today, so it’s strange that BA didn’t inform you before reading that your flight was cancelled on this post! Anyway BA should have told you that you can rebook your flight either to Miami or Tampa.

    • Tracy Regan says:

      27 Apr27 April 15:41

      I agree but I haven’t heard a word from BA only Rob. Anyway I’m rebooked on the Miami flight. Perhaps it was Avios who should have informed me as I booked throughout them but not a word from them either!

• N says:

  27 Apr27 April 12:34

  OT: I have 1597 Accor points with no stays planned. Trying to work out how to earn 403 points (without eRewards – i keep doing surveys then get rejected from them!) so I can round up to 2k and use them for a forthcoming booking…

  • Alex W says:

    27 Apr27 April 13:20

    There used to be a way of converting less than 2k to Iberia Avios. Can’t remember how or if it still works!

  • Alex Sm says:

    27 Apr27 April 13:53

    Even if you are rejected, they give you some points, so you can get there eventually!

  • Lady London says:

    27 Apr27 April 13:57

    I thought there was something about signing up with Hertz from Accor recently that gave a little wodge of pts?

  • Ed says:

    27 Apr27 April 15:49

    Accor specific survey site clubopinions.co.uk has some form of bonus for 1st survey completed, you should be able to get pretty close, quickly on that

    • EwanG says:

      27 Apr27 April 19:33

      I’d recommend e-rewards over Clubopinions as you get a token 25 points for most screened out responses on the former but nothing on the latter.

      Plus for me Clubopinions points have stopped posting across to my Accor account. I seldom do these and nothing has come across since last autumn. Been waiting a week so far for support to get back to me.

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