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• Rob says:

  28 Aug28 August 09:43

  OT – My wife has the free IHG Creation Card. We want to get her the premium one but for some reason when doing the eligibility checker it turns her down, her salary is over £40k so it’s a bit confusing. She has a £20k credit limit which i guess might be affecting it?

• mike says:

  28 Aug28 August 11:44

  OT

  alex cruz has left BA – it has now been confirmed

  • Spaghetti Town says:

    28 Aug28 August 11:51

    source please

  • Rob says:

    28 Aug28 August 12:35

    No it hasn’t.

    • Shoestring says:

      28 Aug28 August 15:21

      if he wanted to keep his job, Alex Cruz should have given a bit more ground to the pilots & not messed up so badly with the strike emails (sabotage?), I can’t see it’s his money anyway so no skin off his nose

      • Spaghetti Town says:

        28 Aug28 August 15:31

        Give him credit, he has held the line on not switching to a revenue based FF scheme and dynamic redemption… + Personally Scrapped the old club world (which they were going to modernize instead). But there are also so many things wrong with BA currently

• Benilyn says:

  28 Aug28 August 12:00

  OT: Embarrassingly missed the minimum payment (0% for 2Y card) of c£80 on one of my credit cards, paid about 5 days late. Late fee refunded as it was a one off (but don’t care much about that). How material do you think that is for credit score? ;(

  • AndyW says:

    28 Aug28 August 16:50

    I missed like £2 on my halifax clarity when I mistakenly had it as the selected card on curve and didn’t notice. It did actually have a little impact for a while (though not much) and score is now back to pretty much perfect (helped by stopping churning AMEX cards) after maybe 6 months. If it’s a one off, based on my experience, I wouldn’t be concerned.

• BSI1978 says:

  28 Aug28 August 12:30

  OT – looking for any advice/experience on the best seat within WTP (apologies to those HFP’s who would never countenance such a thing 🙃) on the 787-8 to Rio.

  Or are they are much of a muchness? Seatguru appears split…

  Cheers

  • Grant says:

    28 Aug28 August 15:01

    Flyer Talk is generally pretty good for this sort of thing – they have a dedicated thread with a wiki for the each aircraft type. The 787 thread is here:

    https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1645350-seating-guide-boeing-787-8-9-a.html

    The wiki suggests that 21 A, B, J and K are ones to avoid on the 787-9 because they are ‘missing a window (last window in cabin near row 20’s head) + near toilets’

    The 43 pages of individual posts may have more / other thoughts.

    • BSI1978 says:

      28 Aug28 August 15:52

      Appreciated Grant.

• Keith says:

  28 Aug28 August 16:59

  can anyone please advsie whether a cancelled platinum card still lets you in eurostar lounge?

  • Rob says:

    28 Aug28 August 17:14

    May well do 🙂

    They don’t (can’t) swipe them.

  • tom1 says:

    28 Aug28 August 21:20

    I went through this weekend – they checked the name on the card matched the boarding pass, but that was it.
    Tip for food – take your own! A few crisps was all that was available. The cocktail bar was closed at STP and just opening as I left in Paris.
    Another tip – don’t get there too early – the ticket says arrive 75-90 minutes before. I was around 2 hours early because I travelled from the Midlands on the train, and they wouldn’t even let anyone through security until 70 mins before the departure time, so ended up in the station bar. (Apparently you can go early if you have business seat – but guess you haven’t if you are using Amex Plat for the lounge ?)

    • Genghis says:

      28 Aug28 August 21:46

      The almond croissants at breakfast are very good

      • Keith says:

        29 Aug29 August 07:09

        Thanks all 😀

• Aeronaut says:

  28 Aug28 August 17:25

  O/T – is the Europcar one-way £1 offer no more, in the UK at least?

  It seems to be – the specific URL for the offer (referenced on many other sites including an older HFP post) now leads to a 404 error page.

  • Shoestring says:

    28 Aug28 August 18:08

    it’s now all about the Hertz £1 deal – best availability is not on their site but on another
    driiveme.co.uk

    • Yawn says:

      28 Aug28 August 23:46

      Yes, I recently tried Driive and it worked well. Note that they have a charge if you don’t pick up the car. I don’t remember Europcar having one. Annoyingly, in Cardiff Hertz is only at the airport. It was weird taking the airport bus to one in order to drive a rental to another!

• Gringo says:

  28 Aug28 August 17:37

  Email from Curve r.e. crowdfunding:

  Over 27,000 of you have registered your interest to invest in Curve.
  Our crowdfunding round will be launching on Tuesday 3rd of September, 10 AM.

  Raise Target – £1,000,000
  Valuation – £158,870,400 (Pre-Money Series B valuation)
  Individual Investment Cap – £25,000

  No mention of any perks for investors etc.

  • Nate1309 says:

    28 Aug28 August 17:51

    What are other HfP’ers thinking about this investment?

    • Rob says:

      28 Aug28 August 17:54

      The biggest problem with Revolut, Monzo, N26 etc is that the number of sign-ups who actually use them is low. Curve has shown investors it has a LOT of people who are putting £50k a year through their cards. But we know why and the investors may not ….

      • Axel says:

        28 Aug28 August 19:01

        Indeed knowledge is power.

        Worth a £500 punt for me.

        • Shoestring says:

          28 Aug28 August 19:11

          £500 is just my hobby punt so I’m not judgemental.

          I can’t see that Curve offers anything very compelling, myself. Or ever will.

        • Shoestring says:

          28 Aug28 August 19:16

          My wife & I are both up £5 (on £400) with Wealthify!

          plus the £40 bonus each, of course.

      • Harry T says:

        28 Aug28 August 23:42

        Missed out on that Wealthify deal…

        I’m still not really sure how people are spending 50k a year on Curve, except by paying HMRC.

        • Simon says:

          29 Aug29 August 15:56

          90% of hfp readers scroll through their curve timeline weekly to see when some limit will free up.
          And for that reason, I’m out.

  • Also says:

    28 Aug28 August 17:52

    Other than an “Investor” branded card

  • Nate1309 says:

    28 Aug28 August 17:52

    You will get a different design card I think. I was sent a survey this week.

    • Mark2 says:

      28 Aug28 August 22:48

      That must be worth £500 of anyone’s money!

• Shoestring says:

  28 Aug28 August 19:00

  15 year gilts – at a high

  happens to be what your pension transfer value will be measured by

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