Wizz Air to launch flights from Luton to St Petersburg and Moscow

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• BJ says:

  18 Jul18 July 13:54

  OT: Are amex still providing a bonus for adding a supp to PRG?

  • Albert says:

    18 Jul18 July 14:19

    yes, got 3,000 a couple of days ago. Offer was on account page after logging in.

    • BJ says:

      18 Jul18 July 14:36

      Thanks Albert, I don’t have the offer but that doesn’t usually matter if I recall correctly.

• nick says:

  18 Jul18 July 13:57

  If you’ve booked one of the £1 RFS flights using more avios – could you ring BA later and tell them to change it for the more traditional £17.50 and less Avios flight?

  ie a change over the phone

  • Polly says:

    19 Jul19 July 00:22

    Cheaper to book new flt, then cancel other one. Lose a quid. They would charge you change fee over the phone or on line.

• Chas says:

  18 Jul18 July 14:25

  OT: looking to buy Fast Track security for LHR T3 on Saturday morning. Is it best to just go through the Heathrow Rewards site, or are there other routes which give cheaper prices (current quote is £12.50 pp), or other benefits which I should consider?

  • SimonW says:

    18 Jul18 July 14:28

    Put a tenner in your passport. Always works for me

    • The Original David says:

      18 Jul18 July 15:24

      T3 fast-track must be one of the worst out there – it seems to disproportionately attract the clueless morons who have somehow made it through the last decade of travel without realising you’re not allowed liquids in your carry on.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        18 Jul18 July 15:50

        In general I try to keep liquids out of my bag but theres always that time when you forget.

        Also LHR should have scanners which don’t need you to remove liquids, especially in fast track and first lanes.

        • BJ says:

          18 Jul18 July 16:14

          Do they have the new scanners anyplace at LHR already or can we expect them soon? I suppose transit security will be last to receive them.

        • Roy says:

          18 Jul18 July 16:49

          Will take until 2022 to roll them out at LHR 🙂

          https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/06/liquids-and-laptop-can-stay-in-your-hand-luggage-says-heathrow

        • BJ says:

          18 Jul18 July 18:41

          Better late than never 🙂

      • Chas says:

        18 Jul18 July 19:20

        Thinking it’s not worth the £50 which it will cost for a family of 4 then….

        • Polly says:

          19 Jul19 July 00:24

          Absolutely not worth it…

      • Nick Burch says:

        22 Jul22 July 22:13

        T3 fasttrack has lots of Americans with TSA-Pre printed on their boarding pass, who assume it works to TSA Pre rules. To be fair to them, I don’t think the T3 fasttrack does enough to explain “we are not TSA Pre no matter what is on your boarding pass”

• Robert says:

  18 Jul18 July 15:43

  OT

  Just recived now from BA what should i do?

  In line with all major companies which operate a financial rewards and incentives scheme, British Airways constantly reviews transactions on its Executive Club members’ database. This is to ensure compliance with the Terms and Conditions of the programme and to protect our members from any activity, which could be considered unusual.

  Our records indicate that tickets in the names of various third parties have been redeemed from your Executive Club account.

  Clause 22.2 of the Terms & Conditions states that any redemption of Avios awarded to another person will constitute a fundamental breach by the Member, a copy of which can be found on the British Airways website: http://www.ba.com.

  Clause 24.1 states that British Airways reserves the right at any time in its absolute discretion to terminate the Membership of any Member and/or the right of any Member to use the Card if a Member commits Fraud.

  In the meantime, until we can resolve this, I have regrettably had to suspend your account which means you will not be able to redeem your Avios on flights.

  If you have any questions about any of this or require more information please do not hesitate to contact me in writing at the above address.

  Best regards

  • nick says:

    18 Jul18 July 15:56

    OUCH!

    Have you been redeeming for people in other countries?
    ie pay to play operation?

    If this is a once-off, you can get out the whole. but If its 10 redemptions to 10 different people …..

  • Rob says:

    18 Jul18 July 16:01

    The only way out of this is to provide BA with details of how you know all these people, and why you would redeem Avios for them without accepting payment.

    • Robert says:

      18 Jul18 July 16:07

      They dont even ask me for any detail’s just that’s its suspended

      • The Original David says:

        18 Jul18 July 16:39

        You must know who you’ve been redeeming for though. You tell us – have you breached those T&Cs?

      • Rob says:

        18 Jul18 July 17:43

        They won’t ask you. You need to approach them and show that every redemption you have done is above board, and that any large Avios deposits into your account are above board. If you stay quiet it stays suspended.

        • Robert says:

          19 Jul19 July 10:45

          It was a direct transfer from my amex. so im good here.
          I gave access to my girlfriend to use the avois as i didnt have any use of the,.

          She booked a gateway for her friends 6 in total under different names but she did not get paid for this.

    • nick says:

      18 Jul18 July 17:14

      I’m convinced this is normally caused by the buyer contacting BA for whatever reason… to make a change on booking etc

      It’s not some sophisticated screening software…

      • Rob says:

        18 Jul18 July 17:40

        Wouldn’t be a very sophisticated bit of IT which looked for accounts with redemptions for people with different names, quickly filtering out surname matches, and prioritising those where the country of departure differs from the country of the booker.

      • Robert says:

        19 Jul19 July 10:45

        I can confirm this was the case.!!

  • xcalx says:

    18 Jul18 July 16:54

    “Clause 22.2 of the Terms & Conditions states that any redemption of Avios awarded to another person will constitute a fundamental breach by the Member,”

    Sounds a bit harsh stating ANY

    • Anna says:

      18 Jul18 July 16:58

      Also completely contradicts the way HHAs work!

      • xcalx says:

        18 Jul18 July 17:04

        Indeed. Also I was of the understanding that NOT having a HHA meant that award flights could be booked for anyone.

      • Rob says:

        18 Jul18 July 17:40

        If there is any evidence you have accepted payment for the Avios then you are in default.

  • Anna says:

    18 Jul18 July 16:56

    Are you saying that you don’t know what they are referring to? Or that yes, you have committed all these breaches of Ts and Cs, and moreover are publicising on this site?!

    • Lady London says:

      18 Jul18 July 18:44

      Or perhaps OP’s Avios account has been hacked?

      • Anna says:

        18 Jul18 July 19:27

        Which would be a reason for him not to know what they are talking about. Not enough info!

        • The Original David says:

          18 Jul18 July 20:12

          Let’s be honest – the fact they’ve posted the message above without any further info basically confirms they were chancing it and hoping to get away with it. If they’d redeemed a ticket for their mother-in-law who has a different surname and has never flown with them, they’d have said that.

          They played the game for a while, now they’ve lost, time to find somewhere else to play. Bad luck.

  • AJA says:

    18 Jul18 July 22:43

    How many flights have you redeemed for other people? Also how many Avios have you got to.be able to do this? And how did you ontain sufficient Avios to be able to redeem for multiple people? Sounds like you’ve either done this legitimately (In which case a call to BA with the explanation should suffice) or you’ve gamed the system and been caught. In which case you’re stuffed.

• Alex Sm says:

  18 Jul18 July 22:16

  Another good thing from Wizz flights to St Pete and Moscow that it would prompt BA to lower their fares which currently are RIDICULOUS! I went to Moscow last week and my return economy ticket with BA was £600! Similar to my trip to St Pete in June (when BA economy was about £600 while business on LH was £450 return). With no normal food, old planes, broken tables, frozen IFE and grumpy stuff. “To Fly.To Serve”
  When easy was flying to Moscow BA kept their prices very low too and £200 return fares were a norm not an exception. I very much hope that competition with Wizz will help to see these fares back soon.

• Alex Sm says:

  18 Jul18 July 22:18

  Another good thing from Wizz flights to St Pete and Moscow that it would prompt BA to lower fares which currently are RIDICULOUS! I went to Moscow last week and my return economy ticket with BA was £600! Similar to my trip to St Pete in June (when BA economy was about £600 while business on LH was £450 return). With no normal food, old planes, broken tables, frozen IFE and grumpy stuff. “To Fly. To Serve”
  When easy was flying to Moscow BA kept their prices very low too and £200 return fares were a norm not an exception. I very much hope that competition with Wizz will help to see these fares back soon.

  • AJA says:

    18 Jul18 July 22:45

    If I read the article correctly BA have dropped St Petersburg as a destination. In which case Wizz Air are not competing but filling the void left by BA exiting the route.

    • Alex Sm says:

      18 Jul18 July 23:35

      That’s true but on Moscow route they will compete and customers will undoubtedly benefit from that. Also, we should thank Brexit for those routes to be opened by Wizz actually

• Sangamesh says:

  20 Jul20 July 16:11

  Hi Rob,

  is there any similar cards like Curve? As there is no way to use it after 50 thousand spend.

  • Rob says:

    20 Jul20 July 23:16

    No.

    You can get a Revolut and cycle cash through that of course via your plastic.

    • Minted says:

      21 Jul21 July 00:10

      Bosh! And another one bites the dust!

• Talay says:

  21 Jul21 July 01:43

  Curve isn’t worth £2.50 and unless taken over with equally worthless shares it will IMHO revert to zero.

  Those of us who have lived through the dot come boom have seen this crap before.

  • Rob says:

    21 Jul21 July 10:53

    I did work through that! I was one of those people who would get mobbed at First Tuesday events because I had a VC badge.

    The Gorillapark (obviously long bust and forgotten) launch party on Brick Lane around 2001 remains the most ludicrously OTT corporate event I have ever attended 🙂

    • Talay says:

      22 Jul22 July 19:20

      Barcap back in 1999 had some place near Horse guards fir the Xmas bash. Full scale dodgems etc. and free flow everything.

      Oh the days of banking to largesse. Ha ha

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