Etihad goes to FIVE flights per day from London Heathrow

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• Roy Badami says:

  2 May2 May 11:54

  Notable quote from that article:

  “Efrem Berman, Radisson’s head of global loyalty and engagement, said that “concept of recognition” is what’s important at this stage, noting there are no plans to fully integrate or merge the rewards programs into a new entity.”

• Arthur says:

  2 May2 May 13:25

  O/T I know but with the recent closure of Avios Rewards Programme and the (not unexpected) ending of the Flybe relationship where does this leave the “One Platform” project for all IAG loyalty schemes?

  Will we see Iberia / BA accounts being migrated to the platform and operating like Aer Lingus any time soon?

  • Rob says:

    2 May2 May 13:37

    The logic behind it is shrinking rapidly, I agree.

• Nick M says:

  2 May2 May 13:50

  OT – I asked a few days ago about IHG availability rules… thanks for all the advice, I kept searching the hotel I wanted and the night I was looking for became available! In the meantime I had also booked 2 nights at a cheaper property in the same city, so now just need to decide whether we want 1 nice night away or 2 more reasonable nights!

  • EwanG says:

    2 May2 May 14:21

    Nice one, glad it worked out!

• illuminatus says:

  2 May2 May 14:09

  OT – another BA promo, Get 50% bonus Avios when you buy or gift Avios before 21 May 2019.

  • Shoestring says:

    2 May2 May 14:18

    300K for 1.07p
    smaller multiples not much more

    might as well buy a decent stash at this price! 🙂

    • illuminatus says:

      2 May2 May 14:32

      Will Avios purchase count as a BA transaction for the purposes of Amex offers, such as ‘Spend £3000 & get 3000 Avios’?

      • Genghis says:

        2 May2 May 14:35

        No

      • Rob says:

        2 May2 May 16:16

        No, goes through as points.com.

  • PaulC says:

    2 May2 May 16:45

    But counts as a transaction on your AMEX card for Reward points or Avios depending on card presumably?
    Are these worth buying for the sake of it or just if your short and need a boost to make a booking soon?

    • Rob says:

      2 May2 May 16:49

      Not worth buying speculatively at 1.1p – see my article tomorrow – unless you have a decent short term plan for them.

    • John says:

      2 May2 May 17:46

      Remember the upcoming devaluation at end of the month (article a few days ago)

    • Shoestring says:

      2 May2 May 17:57

      Can’t do anything much without a nice stash in the bank.

      I booked 4 tickets out last week start of Easter hols 2020, and 5 of us back on Easter Monday 2020 – all on Avios – massive cash saving vs buying cash tickets – peak hols – value per Avios achieved was well over 2.5p/ point in aggregate – so buying those points for 1p & change/ point would have made a helluva lot of sense.

• Kai says:

  2 May2 May 14:15

  Yes, from what I understand it will be similar to the Marriott-SPG tie-up, at least initially.

• Sarah says:

  2 May2 May 14:39

  Completely OT but does anyone know who to login in to the Accor places app? It continually says I am entering the wrong card number. I only have a membership number (which I am assuming the same). I have got nowhere with customer services.

  • Sarah says:

    2 May2 May 14:40

    *how not who

• Clive says:

  2 May2 May 14:43

  OT – Anyone know when next collection period for Tesco ends

  • Sarah says:

    2 May2 May 15:06

    Says points collected before 3 May on Tesco app

    • BJ says:

      2 May2 May 15:59

      And 2nd May on desktop view so who knows.

      • Shoestring says:

        2 May2 May 16:10

        BJ/ Xcalx/ all – Europcar is glitching & giving over 20% discount, faster paying as well (pays out in about 5 weeks) – can cancel bookings free of charge within 48 hrs of booking

      • tom1 says:

        2 May2 May 18:45

        pay upfront?
        but cancel before 48 hours prior to rental date?

      • Shoestring says:

        2 May2 May 18:50

        that’s it

      • jeremy i says:

        2 May2 May 21:20

        is this anything to do with me being able to get rid of my xmas saver cc vouchers? sorry if thats a dumb question but so many coded messages on here! spent around 300 quid on fuel so far… 400 or so left to spend.

      • BJ says:

        2 May2 May 22:22

        @Jeremy, no. If you want rid of those in a hurry just pick up an iPad, return it and ask them to refund you onto any card you like.

• Tom W says:

  2 May2 May 15:23

  O/T: I referred a friend to Amex Gold several weeks ago pre slashing of bonuses but he only applied using the link yesterday after the cuts, am i likely to get the original referral bonus or the new lower amount?

  • Shoestring says:

    2 May2 May 15:28

    lower (I reckon) – but you never know

    your friend will definitely have linked to the new/ revised T&Cs for joining (ie lower)

    if lower as referrer, if you had a screenshot of the original referrer’s bonus, that’d help

    or you could argue the point for the missing MR points, ie you were offered x but got y

    • Tom W says:

      2 May2 May 15:41

      Good point. I should have known to screenshot everything at the moment! Will wait to see what comes through and speak to customer services if needed.

      Thanks

      • Callum says:

        2 May2 May 21:10

        Amex know full well what the bonus was and when, an incredibly easily faked screenshot doesn’t prove anything so I wouldn’t worry about it.

        In fact, I assume you can still make one now from the cached page on Google, or the Internet Wayback Machine, if you really wanted.

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