Avios seats now bookable on additional British Airways St Lucia flights next Summer

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• David says:

  23 Aug23 August 11:08

  When cancelling BAPP for pro rata refund do the Avios collected for that period still transfer over?

  • Dave says:

    23 Aug23 August 11:50

    No they won’t transfer over if you cancel the card before them leaving your account.

  • Genghis says:

    23 Aug23 August 12:52

    The correct answer is they might, but they might not. If a significant amount of points (ie greater in value than any prorata refund until you can cancel safely), wait.

    • David says:

      23 Aug23 August 13:28

      Thanks

      • EwanG says:

        23 Aug23 August 13:59

        They did not in my recent experience. Refund was much preferable to the 500 points!

        A possible solution would be to downgrade to the free BA card and cancel later, if the refund and number of points are both significant. It’s not like you will be signing up again in 6 months for another bonus!

• Spaghetti Town says:

  23 Aug23 August 11:20

  Any idea when we will see the Hilton promotion to cover October?

  • BJ says:

    23 Aug23 August 12:55

    Soon but it doesn’t really matter as existing stays count. Will be a shock if it is anything other than the usual variation of double points. It better not be ‘starting with your second stay’ again, that really puts me right off. I think it was about this time last year we had the Lufthansa promotion so some more of that would be very welcome.

    • Spaghetti Town says:

      23 Aug23 August 13:55

      Cheers BJ – Got a stay in the conrad bali coming up so really hope it’s not starting with your second stay!

      • Lady London says:

        24 Aug24 August 14:36

        If it is then you will just have to do a 1 night mattress run first.

• Bum says:

  23 Aug23 August 11:35

  If I spent £10k on a credit card per year – which credit card would people recommend for the best return. I looked at amex rewards card but the best I’d be getting is 1% back in airline or raddison rewards – I may aswell go for the cashbk route for the same result.

  No interest in avios as live in the north. Looked at virgin 241 voucher which is useless -a bit underwhelming really. I thought points mean prizes

  • Rob H says:

    23 Aug23 August 11:39

    Loads of article on the site to help you with this. But I’d do AMEX Gold (if you have not had one before the bonus is good) and then a Tandem Mastercard for places that don’t take AMEX and for travelling abroad (as it has 0% transactions fees).

    But there are many different opinions – but this always seemed he simplest to me.

  • Nick_C says:

    23 Aug23 August 11:48

    Amex Plat C@$shback gives you 5% c@$hback in the first three months, and 1% after that. £10k spread evenly through the year would give you £200 c@$hback.

    There is a £25 annual fee, but ask Rob to refer you and you will get an additional £25 c@$hback which covers the year one fee.

  • Harry T says:

    23 Aug23 August 12:46

    Could get the IHG Premium Card. Costs 99£ a year and gives you Platinum status with IHG. You get a free night at any IHG property worldwide if you spend ten grand on the card in a year. Rob reckons this is worth 250£+ at a decent Intercontinental hotel. There’s a good article on this site that compares the best cards for long term spending.

  • Spaghetti Town says:

    23 Aug23 August 14:14

    Avios isn’t completely useless if you live in the North, BA serve MAN/NCL/EDI/GLA/LBA/INV. More useless for me in Wales as I have to get to LHR!

    • Peter K says:

      23 Aug23 August 16:15

      Depends which ends of Wales you live! I thought it was only people who don’t live in Wales that lump it all together as one place.

      • Charlieface says:

        23 Aug23 August 17:27

        I lump it all together as not a place at all

• Anna says:

  23 Aug23 August 12:14

  OT – Curve. I’m just about to hit the annual limit which had me feeling rather despondent for a short while yesterday until I remembered that OH has his own Curve, currently unused in a drawer! My spend year started in February. If I just leave my cars dormant until next Feb will anything happen or will I just be able to start using it again at that point?

  • Anna says:

    23 Aug23 August 12:15

    Card, not cars!

  • Rooster says:

    23 Aug23 August 12:24

    Nothing will happen as Curve want to keep their customer base, however why not request a limit increase to 100k

  • Nick_C says:

    23 Aug23 August 12:39

    You may find Revolut a useful addition if you don’t have it already.

    Also, I believe the £200 a month cash advance is on top of the £50k Curve limit.

    • BJ says:

      23 Aug23 August 12:59

      Yes, cash withdrawals don’t count towards limits, an in my experience more than once a month is also fine.

      • Anna says:

        23 Aug23 August 13:10

        Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. I’ve just signed up for Revolut as after Rob’s most recent article.

        • EwanG says:

          23 Aug23 August 14:23

          @Anna – Curve is rolling 365 days so it also depends when you made those payments and when they start falling off!

  • Grant says:

    23 Aug23 August 14:44

    IME Curve will increase your limit if you ask. They might moan if you are making payments to Brighton etc but like Nick_C said, they are desparate to retain customers so its no more than a polite ticking off.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    23 Aug23 August 20:53

    Well I expect the brake discs will have rusted over and I’d check oil and coolant but otherwise you should be fine

    😋

• Roberto says:

  23 Aug23 August 13:14

  OT..

  If anyone is looking to book flights for NEXT August then the 11th of August 2020 is OFF PEAK and those flights got loaded overnight into the award and cash inventories.. Saves a few avios if nothing else.

  I have no idea why the 11th of August 2020 is off peak prehaps its a PR spin about every month has off peak dates available.

  • Mikeact says:

    23 Aug23 August 13:22

    Because it’s a Tuesday.

    • BJ says:

      23 Aug23 August 13:27

      Quite a few of those odd off peak dates next year, good if you can get the seats.

  • Matt b says:

    23 Aug23 August 14:19

    Was just about to post this myself. After all the faffing around getting up in the middle of the night to book my return home I ended up moving the flight back 2 days and upgrading to F for an extra 10k for both of us on a 241 (plus change fees).

    With the extra time tempted to spend a week of the holiday in Hawaii, but wife is concerned about hurricane season in August (she has been caught up in one in the Caribbean before).

• Benilyn says:

  23 Aug23 August 14:37

  OT: re Revolut, once topped up with points card, how are you utilising the cash, BT withdrawal? Just worried about account getting locked if there is a constant pattern of top-up and withdraw.

  • Mark2 says:

    23 Aug23 August 14:50

    mine was

  • Crafty says:

    25 Aug25 August 11:56

    I pay the rent. Only done it for the last 2 months though.

• BJ says:

  23 Aug23 August 15:53

  O/T: Trading in Eddie Stobart Group shares has been suspended. Possible implications for the airline and airports going forward.
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49445495

  • Shoestring says:

    23 Aug23 August 16:16

    The Woodward kiss of death strikes again

    • AJA says:

      23 Aug23 August 16:53

      I think you mean Woodford? He certainly has the faecal touch.

      • Shoestring says:

        23 Aug23 August 16:58

        yep

• Tom W says:

  23 Aug23 August 16:13

  O/T: Apologies if already mentioned – Several Arsenal games now loaded on to Emirates Redemptions.

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