British Airways rejigs its A350 launch route

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• RussellH says:

  19 Jul19 July 10:05

  OT as bits…

  A friend of mine and her husband flew Carlisle-Dublin last Friday and came back on the Sunday. They were very pleased with the overall convenience of the trip. No car parking charges at present, and she reckoned that they could have parked the car and got to the plane in 10 mins at the most at Carlisle. Flight was a bit noisy at first, but she said that one got used to it pretty quickly, and it was not a long flight anyway. They were at their hotel in Dublin before 1000.
  Home again just after midday on the Sunday too.
  The 0710 departure from CAX is not much fun, though!!

  • Rob says:

    19 Jul19 July 10:28

    Thanks. Hoping to get a feature on this soon.

• Sofiane says:

  19 Jul19 July 10:40

  O/T, i have a quick question, is it possible to transfer my avios to my supplementary card holder baec’s account ? We’re trying to do a trip together and he has many more points than i do !

  Thanks!

  • Roberto says:

    19 Jul19 July 10:51

    Set up a household account and you can access the shared pool when making any BA booking.

  • Jonathan says:

    19 Jul19 July 10:52

    Nope, apart from paying to gift them which is an expensive solution. Have you thought about a Household Account? Not strictly legitimate if you don’t live at same address but they don’t check.

    • Sofiane says:

      19 Jul19 July 11:17

      Thanks, guess this is what i will do !

      • BJ says:

        19 Jul19 July 12:09

        No worries, cohabiting and communes are rife in the HFP community although it might take a bottle of premium gin or something if you want to move the MIL in.

        • Genghis says:

          19 Jul19 July 14:10

          I paid the MIL in Mr Muscles!

        • ankomonkey says:

          19 Jul19 July 14:38

          @Genghis – bought from Tesco in return for a large amount of Clubcard points?

        • BJ says:

          19 Jul19 July 16:00

          @Genghis… speechless!

        • Genghis says:

          19 Jul19 July 17:18

          Of course. It was £1 for 51 clubcard points and the bottle Mr M kitchen / window cleaner. My colleagues thought I was a right weirdo.

        • Genghis says:

          19 Jul19 July 17:19

          + of course the points for the spend. Those were the days.

        • BJ says:

          19 Jul19 July 17:48

          But they happily paid up for your NOWTV vouchers 🙂 if a deal comes along on the new sticks you’ll need to persuade them to upgrade as the ‘voucher’ is now embedded in the stick.

        • Polly says:

          19 Jul19 July 23:50

          And feed them all on cabbage curry! I was begged not to buy another canbage for months after that campaign. Hilarious…even the cats and dogs are taken care of and highly insured in these communes!

• AJA says:

  19 Jul19 July 11:07

  Does that mean Toronto won’t be getting the A350 now or it still is but won’t be the launch route?

  It would be very annoying if you had booked the Toronto route specifically to fly in the Club Suite and then find it’s the old CW cabin.

  • Rhys says:

    19 Jul19 July 11:15

    Toronto should still get it, but Dubai will get it first now.

    • fivebobbill says:

      19 Jul19 July 15:28

      Can you remind me when that might be Rhys? Am flying BA Business LHR-DXB on 30th Dec…

      • Rhys says:

        19 Jul19 July 16:39

        Well the A350 will be (subject to future changes!) plying the route from early September, but this will only be one aircraft. It will depend on which flight you are on.

        • fivebobbill says:

          19 Jul19 July 17:48

          Thanks Rhys, on the red eye, BA109, fingers crossed

• SimonW says:

  19 Jul19 July 11:22

  O/T – BA strike concerns – Next week I am due to pay the balance of my hotel booking for August trip to Portugal….. Obviously it could be affected by a potential BA strike (we have 4 avios seats to Faro). If i pay the hotel balance on my Amex Plat AFTER BA confirm strike action, will I be uninsured if we lose a day or more of the holiday ?? Or should I pay on my BAPP for some sort of section 75 cover? Not sure what to do in this situation…..

  • AJA says:

    19 Jul19 July 11:46

    Is the hotel booking with BA or another provider? In either case what’s stopping you paying today? Use any credit card and you’ll get s75 protection which you should already have if the deposit and it was £100 or more and you.paid by credit card.

    Paying today will mean you are covered for cancellation due to strike as it will be before the strike is announced. Also your travel insurance should cover you for the same reasoning.(assuming you have travel insurance).

    • SimonW says:

      19 Jul19 July 11:54

      Hotel is through a Travel Agent. And my travel insurance is through Amex Platinum. Thinking about it, the booking was made months ago, the booking is binding, so I should be covered regardless of what date I actually transfer the money. But I think you are right, pay the balance before Monday…. I will put £100 on BAPP and the bulk on the Platinum to hit the spend £5000 get 5700 bonus MR points!

• Luke says:

  19 Jul19 July 12:23

  If you are downgraded from first to club I am right in saying that you are entitled to the 75% refund of the fare (per EU rules)?

  • Rob says:

    19 Jul19 July 13:08

    Does that apply as you are getting substantial advance notice and will be offered a switch to the later flight if you want?

  • Nick says:

    19 Jul19 July 13:31

    Actually i would like to know the answer to this, assuming that it is an involuntary downgrade to which the rules definitely apply. I thought that there were some people getting jack-all for F to J downgrades, it was that just people using the 241?

    • Rob says:

      19 Jul19 July 14:06

      Even more specific, it was the 2nd person on the 241, who BA claimed had a ‘free’ ticket. These were downgrades on the day of travel though, not two months in advance.

• Jacqueline says:

  19 Jul19 July 12:33

  Interesting. So I’ve just had my WTP seat ‘changed’ for a Sept Toronto return to London. Or at least I have the same number seat, but the cabin layout has changed and I’m now two rows forward. I just double checked this on Seatguru and they are showing the original layout for that same 777 plane – anyway I’m happy – my previous ‘window’ seat didn’t actually have a window. Could this be a new upgraded flight? I do hope so.

  • Doug M says:

    19 Jul19 July 15:26

    Seatguru is out of date rubbish for BA. Use thebassource.com for proper BA seat maps.

• Chrisasaurus says:

  19 Jul19 July 13:08

  Sorry, noob question:

  Flights booked by employer on Corp card, how does this impact Amex plat insurance for the trip if at all?

  • Genghis says:

    19 Jul19 July 14:07

    You’ll be OK for big stuff but not the inconvenience stuff. But should you not rely on work travel insurance policy?

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      19 Jul19 July 18:29

      Indeed, am brand new so awaiting policy info but wanted to be happy I’m at least covered for medical etc

      Thanks

• Albert says:

  19 Jul19 July 13:41

  OT – 40% Clubcard avios bonus
  Has anyone successfully transferred points from CC to BAEC and got the 40% ex-Shell bonus?

  My shell drivers club account has transferred to avios in the last 3 years but I didn’t get the promotional email

  I did a test transfer of £2.50 and only got the 600 avios with no bonus

  • Harvey says:

    19 Jul19 July 14:36

    Think bonus takes a month

  • Matt says:

    19 Jul19 July 16:24

    The bonus is supposed to show up later (BA have said 21 days to me)

    Of more general interest, my last Shell transfer was end of the 2nd quarter of 2016, so end of June/start of July. That is slightly >3 years before the promotion started, but BA have confirmed I am eligible for the bonus. I don’t know what the cut-off date is though.

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