Carlisle Lake District Airport (finally) opens – but with very few flights

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• Tony says:

  5 Jul5 July 09:27

  I hope Carlisle is a success and not everybody likes or wants to fly Ryanair who have pulled flights now two years runni g from Stansted to both Glasgow and Edinburgh.
  Furthermore once they get fully organised and operational suspect enough people will want to fly from the south east to visit the area as the Lake District and the surrounding area have around 43m visitors a year.

• idrive says:

  5 Jul5 July 09:34

  OT for Rob: RE HFP Party on Monday. I will be probably able to attend at 8pm. WIll i miss some raffle or else if I arrive late?

  • Rob says:

    5 Jul5 July 09:44

    Raffle will be pretty much on the dot of 8pm – email going out today. Bonvoy is funding some post-raffle cakes, however, so you will be around for that!

    • Gringo says:

      5 Jul5 July 09:59

      Raffles’ Raffle

      • bsuije says:

        5 Jul5 July 11:32

        Can I just say how much I appreciate your correct use of the apostrophe in this case, Gringo! Brings tears to my eyes…

        • Mark2 says:

          5 Jul5 July 13:34

          I disagree! I believe it should be Raffles’s as their is only one of him with a name that happens to end in ‘s’ like James’s.

        • Gringo says:

          5 Jul5 July 13:38

          🙂

    • idrive says:

      5 Jul5 July 10:09

      Thanks, I will do my best!

      • Gringo says:

        5 Jul5 July 18:06

        Mark2 you couldn’t be more wrong.

• John says:

  5 Jul5 July 10:23

  Interestingly, the Sun links the alleged orgy to low pay for newer recruits. Not sure Alex and Willie will buy this argument, but it gives the unions something to work with as strike action looms.

  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9440082/british-airways-cabin-crew-naked-drunk-orgy/

  • david says:

    5 Jul5 July 10:31

    Are they to be sacked for the orgy? Or running down the halls?

    • Richard Branson says:

      5 Jul5 July 13:07

      Typical BA behaviour frankly

      • ankomonkey says:

        5 Jul5 July 16:56

        Any news on your credit card 241s being used on Upper Class for Red FC members, Rich?

• tom H says:

  5 Jul5 July 11:00

  RE: HFP Party
  My +1 can no longer attend. Anyone looking for a ticket?

  • Rob says:

    5 Jul5 July 12:22

    Email Rhys at headforpoints.co.uk, he may have someone waiting. (I am not in the office today so don’t know.)

• Stu N says:

  5 Jul5 July 11:03

  OT: BA/Marriott/Avis “Spend X, get Y Avios” offer on BA Amex cards. Has anyone triggered a bonus that relies on Avis online spend? It’s a prepaid US hire car. The T&Cs suggest it won’t count but we know they aren’t always reliable.

  • Charlieface says:

    5 Jul5 July 15:53

    IIRC Avis prepaid is processed by different sub-companies in the US and Europe so presumably wouldn’t work.

    • Stu N says:

      5 Jul5 July 20:49

      Thanks. The merchant name has the hire location in the name so maybe won’t work. Then again it did trigger a statement credit I wasn’t expecting to work as T&Cs suggested it was for UK hires only and it has been billed in GBP so maybe it’s not quite that clever.

      Might pay the small amount towards a BA Holiday booking I’d need if the car hire is included and see what happens.

• Ammar says:

  5 Jul5 July 11:42

  OT – Sorry, I did ask this the other day but was not clear. Re Miles & More Card to pay HMRC for taxes, can I use the Card (pre-paid MC bit of it, not the dIners obviously) linked via my Curve without paying any extra charges or are the data points that no one has had any success?

  • Rob says:

    5 Jul5 July 12:21

    Worked fine for me on PAYE last month and am now ramming my July tax bill on it.

    • Ammar says:

      5 Jul5 July 13:35

      Great. Thanks Rob.

• Stella64 says:

  5 Jul5 July 12:06

  Quick question. Just about to head to France. I have a Curve card linked to underlying Virgin Reward +.

  What’s the current situation regards withdrawing cash? Will Virgin charge a fee?

  I also have a Revolut account – I assume I could also just withdraw cash from that instead at an ATM?

  • MD says:

    5 Jul5 July 12:27

    Virgin reward + do not charge a cash advance fee for ATMs through Curve, in my (and multiple other people on here’s) experience. Revolut would work fine also. Just be aware Revolut give a slightly worse rate at weekends so get it out in a weekday if you can. Of course, you can also use your Virgin (and select other) credit cards to top up your Revolut card anyway with no fee.

• fivebobbill says:

  5 Jul5 July 12:08

  OT, I probably know the answer to this, but if somebody could just confirm please.
  Have just used 2 Lloyds vouchers for me and the missus 2 x 1-way flights, LHR-DXB, then SIN-LHR. (2 of us on one voucher going out, then both on the other voucher coming back).
  I’m aware of the terms re the vouchers if I decide to cancel them, and I know I’ll get the Cash/Avios back, but is the cancellation fee per reservation (£35 x 2), or per person (£35 x 4).
  I fear it’s the latter…

  • fivebobbill says:

    5 Jul5 July 12:11

    * that’s cancel or “amend” booking by the way.

    • Stu N says:

      5 Jul5 July 13:22

      The fee is per person, per booking.

      If I’ve understood your post, you have two single bookings so you’d pay £70 to cancel each bookings = £140 total.

      If you were able to book it as a return, you’d pay £70 total to cancel the entire trip.

      • fivebobbill says:

        5 Jul5 July 15:46

        Yeah that’s what I thought Stu thanks. The 2 sectors are either end of a cruise actually, so I booked it this way deliberately, meaning that if I do have to change/cancel, I will always have either leg of the journey left to use independently – just change the date.

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