Earn 26,000 miles with a new Virgin Flying Club life insurance deal

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• Benilyn says:

  20 Sep20 September 12:36

  OT: Shangri-La Golden Circle
  1) Can I transfer points from partner’s account to mine?
  2) If above is possible, I will be 12 points short of being able to redeem $50 dinner voucher, any ideas how to earn / buy those 12 points?

  • Michael says:

    20 Sep20 September 13:42

    If you need an airport transfer/taxi then try Blacklane. You can credit to Shangri La Golden Circle which is what I did to top up. I found them to be really great and comfortable.

    • Benilyn says:

      20 Sep20 September 15:44

      Ah just realised from research that you can pay with points directly at the restaurant (Ting at Shard), so I don’t need to earn the extra 12pts!

• memesweeper says:

  20 Sep20 September 12:59

  OT: no bits! I’ve got a hotels.com reward night I want to redeem against a cancelable rate on a foreign hotel. If I cancel, does anyone now if I get the reward night back in my account?

  • memesweeper says:

    20 Sep20 September 13:09

    Answer: yes, after 72 hours
    >>> If you cancel a refundable booking before the hotel or vacation rental’s cancellation deadline, we’ll return your reward night to your account within 72 hours. <<<

• Michael says:

  20 Sep20 September 13:51

  O/T and probably a stupid question. I’m shortly approaching the end of my BA tier point collection year. I’ve got 1900 tier points but somehow only managed 2 paid flights on BA this year.

  I have an upcoming business trip to Edinburgh from LCY with BA City flyer which falls within my tier point year. Do BA City Flyer count as BA metal therefore enabling me to retain Gold?

  Thanks in advance.

  • marcw says:

    20 Sep20 September 14:17

    Yes

• Matt k says:

  20 Sep20 September 14:05

  I took out virgin life insurance when the previous offer was active. I’ve cancelled it now.

  Will I still be eligible for the bonus this time round?

  • Shoestring says:

    20 Sep20 September 17:11

    no

• David says:

  20 Sep20 September 14:37

  No OT today, so I’ll ask here. Trying to acquaint myself with the S75 rules in cases of supplier failure (TC flight booked for next month – it doesn’t look good, does it?) and came across a comment by @Shoestring suggesting that I would be entitled to the cost of replacement flights, rather than just the refund of monies paid. Is that correct? Flights were bought Jan for £2,400 on PRG Gold CREDIT Amex, but equivalent Virgin flights are now £4500. Would rather that someone else paid the difference, if possible.

  • Lev441 says:

    20 Sep20 September 14:51

    Yes as it covers consequential losses.

    Claiming for associated costs
    Section 75 covers “consequential losses”, as well as the cost of what you bought. This covers any costs caused by the problem with your purchase.

    For example, if you bought tickets for an event that got cancelled, you may be able to claim back your travel and hotel costs from your credit card company.

    From money.co.uk

    • Nick_C says:

      20 Sep20 September 15:49

      Consequential loss would cover any hotels, car hire etc that you have paid for and is non refundable. I’m not sure that you can just buy flights that cost an extra £2k. Don’t you be a duty to mitigate your losses? If the cost of hotels etc is £1k for example, then I’m not sure you can spend an extra £2k on flights and expect the CC company to pay the extra. But IANAL

      • Shoestring says:

        20 Sep20 September 16:09

        yep if it’s £2000 more you’d be crazy not to discuss your S75 protection with your credit card co and (at least try to) get their agreement

        If they refused, you could push it, buy the tickets etc and take it to the Financial Ombudsman etc – but always better to play nicely as your first recourse and judging by experiences online, the main credit card cos are all fully aware of their liability and quite generous

        • Freddy says:

          20 Sep20 September 16:19

          Thanks – came to here for exactly the same advice. Phew!

        • Nick_C says:

          20 Sep20 September 18:32

          Don’t know what Amex are like in dealing with situations like this, but when I was caught out by Malev going under in 2012, Lloyd’s refused to discuss options with me in advance, saying I should contact them after the date of the flight.

          I’m my case, the cost of the hotel was less than the cost of a replacement flight, so I cancelled the trip and got the flights and hotel refunded. I wasnt out of pocket and I minimised my claim against Lloyd’s. It just seemed like the right thing to do.

        • Shoestring says:

          20 Sep20 September 19:06

          The right thing to do (if you feel like it) is to get the credit card co to fulfil its contract to you, they are jointly & severally liable for contract fulfilment along with the company from which you bought goods or services.

          Seems like a rather small consideration/ cost of doing business (for them) given the advantages the credit card cos hold.

          #Entitledtoitbylaw

        • David says:

          20 Sep20 September 19:52

          I called AMEX earlier and they had no advice. I’ll wait, until I know that they’re under (and hope they don’t get there), but that’s for three people to Orlando in October week – no opportunity to reschedule at all and pretty busy flights. The additional cost of rebooking would be a lot less than the rest of damage otherwise, although I have held off booking any more costs until the weekend is over.

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