British Airways Centenary documentary starts on Channel 5 tonight

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• Joe says:

  5 Sep5 September 05:09

  Virgin Atlantic Card still doesn’t work for Google Pay. Annoying.

• CJ says:

  5 Sep5 September 06:20

  When I buy flights on Amex directly from the airline, the details are itemised on my bill. They seem to get more data from airlines than from other merchants.

  Whether or not they have programmed the Emirates offer to check for travel class is a different matter, but they will probably get the data to check if they want.

  • Mart says:

    5 Sep5 September 06:42

    Anyone know if emiratesholidays bookings are eligible?
    Not sure how you are billed with a booking through them

• Chrisasaurus says:

  5 Sep5 September 06:50

  Flights are the only type of transactions afaik that provide level 3 data , hence allowing Amex to out (considerable) data about your booking on your statement. It would therefore be the only occasion that in fact they would be perfectly able to identify J/F bookings and treat accordingly.

  Just because it would be trivial doesnt mean they’ll do it of course but I would keep in mind that on some level st least Amex will certainly know the details of your booking

• Graeme says:

  5 Sep5 September 07:21

  Completely OT – I need to refer a friend for the Plat. This is the first time I’ve done it since the changes – would I be better off referring from Gold or BAPP for the referral bonus?

  Thanks all.

  • Shoestring says:

    5 Sep5 September 08:13

    we could tell you the answer (and I’m sure somebody will!) but you can see for yourself in about a minute as if you log in to your Amex accounts, it tells you prominently what you’d get for a referral.

    • Graeme says:

      5 Sep5 September 08:15

      Really? I thought the cross-referrals weren’t detailed. Apologies for assuming.

      • Shoestring says:

        5 Sep5 September 08:23

        you get the same referral points whichever card your referee chooses

        • Rhys says:

          5 Sep5 September 08:33

          And from which card you refer from

    • Graeme says:

      5 Sep5 September 11:09

      Blimey. A few months without referring and I apparently forget everything.

      Where’s everyone getting their 3V cards from? 😉

      • ankomonkey says:

        5 Sep5 September 11:48

        In some Tesco stores, people are hiding the 3V cards they don’t buy behind other cards to stop others seeing them and buying them.

        • Lady London says:

          5 Sep5 September 12:28

          Is 3v not dead then?

          That was another one i only caught the tail end of.

        • Shoestring says:

          5 Sep5 September 12:52

          I think we would be first to know if 3V were still going…

      • Graeme says:

        5 Sep5 September 12:42

        Whoops, I was only joking!

        • ankomonkey says:

          5 Sep5 September 15:53

          But the hiding strategy was real – there were people trying to stop others buying by hiding what they couldn’t/didn’t buy, then going back to buy them later.

  • bsuije says:

    5 Sep5 September 09:28

    Per this website, you get 9k Avios on BAPP and 6k reward points on Gold.
    https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/benefits/refer-a-friend.html

    Depends on what you want the points for, but if you want / don’t mind Avios, then the BAPP would be better (unless I’m mistaken that Amex MR transfer into Avios at 1:1?).

    But otherwise, it’s as Shoestring says – you get a referral bonus based on the card you refer from. What card your friend chooses to take out is irrelevant.

• ee says:

  5 Sep5 September 07:28

  OT – has anyone successfully redeemed the most recent HSBC/Visa offer at Morrison’s?

  • DANIEL MACDONALD says:

    5 Sep5 September 10:01

    Oh yes…

    https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hsbc-visa-morrisons10-back-on-your-next-purchase-of-30-or-more-3283812#thread-comments

    My 1k x £1 vouchers were paid for on a Friday and £100 rebated Monday…

    Cher ching

    • ee says:

      5 Sep5 September 10:52

      Mmm my transaction was 12 days ago and not tracked! Might have to contact them!

  • Rich says:

    5 Sep5 September 10:41

    Thanks for this. Beats the 5% I get with SPG Amex.

    Only just switched to HSBC for the £175 switching bonus and was looking in the wrong place for offers. This requires registration at hsbcuk.visaoffers.eu, as opposed to advancemembers.hsbc.co.uk. Somewhat confusing!

    I’ve never had any offers on my Santander or Club Lloyds current accounts. Should I be looking elsewhere for them too?

    • John says:

      5 Sep5 September 20:52

      If you only have current accounts, you need to use the debit card frequently for a few weeks before offers start to appear, which means missing out on lots of CC points for uncertain benefit. I guess you could buy lots of cheap things.

      • Andrew says:

        5 Sep5 September 22:08

        Try and use multiple retaier types (MCC codes).

        Don’t forget that these stack with InStore points

        • Rich says:

          6 Sep6 September 10:16

          Thanks both. I’ve put a few low value transactions through both cards – pub and supermarket. As you say, it’s throwing away CC points for the hope of an unknown offer.

• Alan says:

  5 Sep5 September 07:49

  OT – Is the IHG part of the Creation website down for everybody or is there something dodgy about my system? Go to log in and it says its down for maintenence – was the same yesterday evening.

  • Genghis says:

    5 Sep5 September 07:50

    Working fine for me just now.

    • Alan says:

      5 Sep5 September 07:52

      Thanks – it appears to be back up again between teh time I left for work and the time I arrived.

      Cheers Genghis

      • thehornets says:

        5 Sep5 September 17:27

        It does this almost every other time for me. I just try again straight away (or with a different browser) and it normally works

• Alan says:

  5 Sep5 September 07:50

  RE Virgin CC. Do they still not offer a route to upgrade from the free to the paid card?

  • Genghis says:

    5 Sep5 September 08:00

    They are treated as discrete products

    • Alan says:

      5 Sep5 September 13:30

      Yes but when you try and get a new card they say you can’t apply for one unless you haven’t applied or held one of their products for 6 months. This means that if I want to get a paid card I have to cancel my free card for 6 months before I can apply – which seems madness

• Chris says:

  5 Sep5 September 08:02

  OT/ Heads up. My Creation IHG statement this month awarded the incorrect points for foreign transactions. Hit me as I put a 60k SEK plane ticket on it get closer to my annual spending target; so am missing over 10k points…

  • Mark2 says:

    5 Sep5 September 08:10

    Are they refusing to correct it?

    • Chris says:

      5 Sep5 September 08:11

      Its creation; haven’t heard back yet

  • Genghis says:

    5 Sep5 September 08:15

    Remember it’s “overseas spend” not “spend in non-GBP”. Internet payments in non-GBP not eligible.

    • Chris says:

      5 Sep5 September 08:27

      It’s posted to my bill as “Qantas Stockholm Swe”. Will see what they say…

    • Andrew says:

      5 Sep5 September 08:45

      I used to find my copy of “Scotland on Sunday” under “Overseas News” in WH Smith..

      • Rob says:

        5 Sep5 September 08:51

        If you look at the Sun (Scottish version) today you will see the cover is ‘Boris Johnson is a disaster / idiot / etc’. The English version says ‘Boris Johnson is the son of God and all must worship him / etc’ on the cover!

    • Andrew says:

      5 Sep5 September 09:12

      Lucrative for Isle of Wight residents then?

      • Genghis says:

        5 Sep5 September 17:38

        I got 4 IHGs / £ in Feb in Guernsey with no FX fee, obvs.

        • Roy says:

          5 Sep5 September 20:31

          The Amazon Prime annual fee seems to be billed by some department of Amazon in Ireland, so that gets double points, too.

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