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• Frank de Jongh Swemer says:

  11 Sep11 September 06:16

  I though flights with Vueling from London to Amsterdam left from Luton and not Gatwick.

  • Rob says:

    11 Sep11 September 06:38

    I went off the online route map. I was not expecting full accuracy to be honest 🙂

    • Bill says:

      11 Sep11 September 07:48

      Vueling don’t do LPL- MAD. That was only for the recent champions league final

      • Anna says:

        11 Sep11 September 09:09

        It’s still showing on their route map, I had a quick look as it would be a good connecting route for me to Latin America.

    • ChrisBCN says:

      11 Sep11 September 10:12

      Luton has Amsterdam and Florence

  • Michael Jennings says:

    11 Sep11 September 09:22

    The Ā Coruna route is from Heathrow, for that matter.

• BJ says:

  11 Sep11 September 07:37

  Congrats on the nominatoons. A little surprised there has been nothing on the strike. I think the articles on it and associated comments have been excelent, providing more practical advice to real travellers than that to be found in other media.

  • Shoestring says:

    11 Sep11 September 07:46

    With the 14 day notice required to avoid paying EC261 compo on the strike-cancelled flights on 27th September, we can expect cancellation emails pretty soon – maybe tomorrow 12th?

    Not much of a window to negotiate a settlement without sending out the cancellation emails – though of course it’s feasible to reverse all those emails if settlement is reached in the next 12 days or so.

    People on long haul BA should actually perhaps welcome getting a cancellation email as you can now re-ticket on LH, AF & KLM 🙂 – so don’t hang around if you get one and fancy trying a different airline. You’ll still get your BA tier points and Avios (original routing credit).

• Robert says:

  11 Sep11 September 07:55

  Does anyone know if I cancel my BAPP AmEx card, will I loose my 2-4-1 voucher?
  I would like to avoid the £195 annual charge due next month.
  Thanks, and good luck with the awards.

  • Titus Adduxas says:

    11 Sep11 September 08:15

    Robert; Once you’ve got your 241 voucher you don’t lose it by cancelling your BAPP card, but remember you must pay any fees with an Amex card.

    • Robert says:

      11 Sep11 September 08:51

      thanks, maybe they’ll charge me anyway, for the previous year, even if I cancel.
      The woman I spoke to when I rang them to make a payment said I would loose the voucher but I didn’t think that was the case. She said I can downgrade to the blue card but don’t see the point in that card.

      • Anna says:

        11 Sep11 September 09:11

        You pay the fee at the start of the card year, so you shouldn’t be charged again if you cancel before the start of the next one. Also, if you’re planning to use your voucher soon you could use your BAPP to pay the taxes and get a few more avios, then cancel for a pro-rate refund. I’ve done this and can confirm nothing happens to your booked tickets!

        • Robert says:

          11 Sep11 September 09:46

          thanks for your advice, I tend to use my vouchers last minute so probably won’t gain the extra Avios by using the BAPP again.

      • Nick_C says:

        11 Sep11 September 10:29

        The advantage of downgrading to the free BA card is that you (1) continue earning 1 Avios / £, which is a decent rate for a free card, and (2) in your next card year, you can spend £9k on the free card, upgrade to BAPP (if its still around), spend £1k to get another 241 voucher for a low fee.

        • Alex Sm says:

          12 Sep12 September 05:46

          This is exactly what I did earlier this year

  • Craig says:

    11 Sep11 September 09:02

    Cancelled a month ago, the voucher is still in the account despite what Amex said when I cancelled.

  • Jim W says:

    11 Sep11 September 09:22

    I also plan to downgrade/cancel the BAPP, are there any benefits of keeping it or should I go ahead and downgrade for now?

    • Benylin says:

      11 Sep11 September 09:50

      No benefits, unless it’s your only Amex, then you will get the Amex offers. And also longer you hold it, the longer you wait to sign up as a new customer to get the bonus

      • Jim W says:

        11 Sep11 September 10:03

        Thought as much, I’ve got the Amex Platinum so have offers through them. Recommend downgrading to blue or just cancel outright ?

    • Robert says:

      11 Sep11 September 09:52

      Currently asking myself the same question, I think only worth keeping if you are going to put a £10k spend through it and therefore pick up a 2-4-1 voucher. As Rob has highlighted many times it is the best offer of any UK credit card and well worth the £195 fee.
      I might just talk myself into keeping it and use it for the grocery shopping.

      • Alex Sm says:

        12 Sep12 September 05:48

        Do you do 10K grocery shopping y year? You must have a very big family or eat only caviar…

    • Nick says:

      11 Sep11 September 10:42

      What is the preferred method for downgrading from BA premium to the standard BA Amex card?

      By Phone? or is it cancel and apply for standard one?

      Also, when uograding – what is best process?

      I still hold an Amex plat – so would like to maximise “self” referrals if possible

      • Alex Sm says:

        12 Sep12 September 05:50

        Call only unfortunately, you can’t do online. When you call, tell them that you are going to up-/down-grade and they will do the rest

    • Genghis says:

      11 Sep11 September 17:52

      If value of points not yet transferred > pro rata fee amount saved by waiting, wait it out till next transfer date

• Marcw says:

  11 Sep11 September 08:02

  Vueling flights (VY) pay Avios into IbPlus based on price. only when your Vueling Booking is an IB Codeshare, you get Avios based on distance in IbPlus.

  • Rob says:

    11 Sep11 September 08:33

    Thanks, updated

• Roger* says:

  11 Sep11 September 08:33

  I looked at Vueling LGW to Vienna using Rob’s link.. A couple of direct flights most days and others with connections at BCN, some overnight. So what is the airline for LGW-VIE direct? Is it Vueling? No, it’s Level, operated by Anisec. What’s Anisec? Apparently an IAG Austrian airline, a subsidiary of Vueling. It has a fleet of 6 aircraft – 3 ex-Air Berlin A321-200 and 3 ex-Vueling A320-200.

  I couldn’t find any €12 flights for anywhere near my preferred dates. My ideal dates produced a basic price of €275.98 return for two. Apparently using Avios could ‘save’ me up to €1,023.92. Er … (I didn’t bother to check.)

  I found my online experience frustrating. The clunky IT beat me. I didn’t buy.

• nick says:

  11 Sep11 September 08:40

  I booked 4 redemption tickets with Virgin and paid the taxes and fees’s on my Virgin Premium Card (to get the bonus miles for Virgin spend)- flight is next month.

  I completely neglected to use my Amex Plat (which I always always use)

  Have I now lost out on potential trip delay, postponement insurance from Amex?

  Any way to still be covered for that? Ie pay for all my accommodation / car hire etc on the Plat?

  • Rob says:

    11 Sep11 September 09:15

    Yes. You are not missing much though. Virgin would sort you out in most cases anyway.

• NICK says:

  11 Sep11 September 08:49

  Re: Kids APD on a Virgin redemption
  In the last 24 hours, I booked 2 kids redemption tickets to join our trip to USA. Myself and spouse already had tickets purchased a while back.

  Phone agent said APD of £70-£80 per child will be refunded to the credit card I used to pay the taxes/charges (how their system work -, they have to charge for it upfront and then refund later).

  Anyone know the exact amount to be returned and when it happens?

  • Charlieface says:

    11 Sep11 September 14:22

    £78.
    Considering APD was remoeved for under 12s on 1 May 2015, and under 16s on 1 March 2016, it’s ridiculous they are taking so long to make that change to the system.

• Dan says:

  11 Sep11 September 08:53

  OT
  Has anyone received more than one bonus on converting Tesco Clubcard points to BA miles? (40% Shell Promotion)
  Thanks

  • Steve S says:

    11 Sep11 September 09:10

    I have only had one bonus.
    Second transfer was 01/08/2019 no bonus yet

  • Liz says:

    11 Sep11 September 09:31

    I was going to ask this as well. I should have had my 2nd bonus today. Not good if Steve S is still missing his from 1/9. I want to transfer a load more but want to get the 2nd batch before doing so.

    • Steve S says:

      12 Sep12 September 06:35

      Bonus points arrived overnight

    • Liz says:

      12 Sep12 September 07:33

      My points also arrived plus 1700 extra ones from a separate transaction I didn’t do. Off to transfer some more.

      • Steve S says:

        12 Sep12 September 10:59

        Perhaps some one from BA read the above and it jogged their memory to push the button.

  • Kiran says:

    11 Sep11 September 10:00

    No – first test batch of £2.50 got the bonus but so far a second £50 batch is yet to get a bonus

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