Send your children on the British Airways work experience scheme

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• Jamie says:

  23 Sep23 September 09:13

  Regarding Rewards for thoughts… when do these 625 initial points post to my BA account?

  • AJA says:

    23 Sep23 September 15:08

    They usually post to BAEC within 2 days of appearing on your Rewards for Thoughts account. I do on average 2 surveys every time I do any. Have amassed a tidy sum of Avios this year through the scheme

• PointsCatcher says:

  23 Sep23 September 09:21

  OT – I am looking to book a 2 4 1 to South Africa and have picked up from here that the best chance of my getting a seat is to call a BA call centre at 1:00 AM BST 355 days before.

  I am guessing calling BA in the USA is as good as anywhere or is there another call centre anyone would recommend? I am a Blue card holder and the only number I have been able to find is 1-800-AIRWAYS, is there a separate Executive Club number that should be used?

  Also, if anyone has recently done this can you please share with me the wait time you had before connecting to an operator?

  Cheers!

  • Jason says:

    23 Sep23 September 10:06

    When are you looking to go a availability looks ok on most dates, so can save yourself the hassle

    • PointsCatcher says:

      23 Sep23 September 10:37

      Unfortunately I do not have any flexibility on the departure date and for the last 10 days there are only 2 days with flights available with no flights for the last 4 days. I would normally avoid the hassle but in this case…….

• Anna says:

  23 Sep23 September 09:36

  Interesting anomaly when buying IHG points – 10,000 + 10,000 points costs $136 but 11,000 + 11,000 costs $126.50! These pricings seem to work at the moment.

  On the subject of IHG, I got the Rewards Club MC as a replacement for the Lloyds cards but it’s not proving very useful. More often than not it won’t work with Revolut or Curve and also declines payments to companies which will happily take other credit cards. I’ve asked them to look into it but I’m not feeling it’s great value for the £99 fee.

  • Roger* says:

    23 Sep23 September 09:51

    Anna, I use my Curve card linked to my black IHG MC regularly and have had no problems. I only use it for purchases, not cash, in case that is relevant.

    • Anna says:

      23 Sep23 September 09:58

      Thanks Roger – ironically cash withdrawals Curve are the only consistent transactions for me! The most annoying issue is that I wanted to pay my monthly PCP car payment on the card as Santander Finance accepts MC payments, however IHG keeps declining the transaction whether directly or via Curve, whereas payments from the Lloyds MC or HH visa are fine. I’ve plenty of HH points at the moment and wanted to start amassing IHG ones for a specific stay.

• ankomonkey says:

  23 Sep23 September 09:38

  The BA work experience offer sounds like a positive thing. A rare thumbs-up to BA from me.

• Shoestring says:

  23 Sep23 September 10:17

  Attention boi! Worldremit back at £55 bonus for new customer transfers £500+ (today only)

  • Callum says:

    23 Sep23 September 11:45

    Not sure what this is? Is it with them direct or from the website that shall not be named?

    • Shoestring says:

      23 Sep23 September 12:27

      yep bank to overseas bank transfer – boi was after a good bonus for first time customer

  • Harry T says:

    23 Sep23 September 18:52

    Is it possible to set up a new account under the same name? I used this offer last time it was on the other one of your favourite sites.

• JC says:

  23 Sep23 September 11:22

  O/T – is it possible to use AAdvantage miles to book BA intra-Europe flights on AA website? Doesn’t seem to work when trying to use website.

  • Lyn says:

    23 Sep23 September 12:13

    It should be possible. What problem are you running into?

    I sometimes use the AA web-site to check availability of BA award flights in Europe using their calendar and without bothering to log in to BA. I’ve just tried this to check and it is showing flights. However I’ve never actually tried booking, because it takes more miles than avios for the short flights we usually take and they don’t have RFS. The situation might of course be different for longer flights with connections because they charge a fixed number of miles within Europe rather than per sector / distance with BA.

    • Chabuddy geezy says:

      23 Sep23 September 13:19

      I have booked before

• PaulC says:

  23 Sep23 September 11:33

  O/T Captial On tap – I recently signed up to the COT card before the change came to Visa came in. I’ve just tried to pay my first VAT bill with it and it wont go through on HMRC website unless I pick a card type with a fee. I thought HMRC accepted these cards fee free but the new Visa one’s coming soon wouldn’t?

  • Rob says:

    23 Sep23 September 11:40

    It goes through perfectly well as a Mastercard Debit – at least, always has to date. If you are trying a big number then try a smaller sum.

    • PaulC says:

      23 Sep23 September 11:43

      I get this error message at the top of the screen when selecting Mastercard Debit.
      “Card number does not match card type. This might be because you’ve entered your card number incorrectly or selected the wrong card type. Check that both are correct.”

      • PaulC says:

        23 Sep23 September 11:56

        Apologies, user error although it failed on the last screen after entering a security number that was sent to my mobile but that may have been down to timing out. Have to keep mobiles in a locker outside the office on this job so by the time I’ve nipped out, got a signal and waited for the text to come through before going back in the office to enter it may have been too long.

    • rams1981 says:

      23 Sep23 September 12:11

      Just put through a payment and it was fine. Code sent to phone. Still waiting on details of card replacement so I can hopefully cancel for fee refund.

• Don says:

  23 Sep23 September 12:24

  The press are reporting that TC have 600k pax abroad of which 150k are Brits?

  How is this possible? TC was mostly a British company and the subsidiaries are much smaller. 450k pax across the smaller companies?

  Condor isn’t even bust (yet) so no one from
  there is “stranded”. The Danish one has shut and I think some other small ones?

  Were the management telling pokey’s?

  • Mark2 says:

    23 Sep23 September 12:47

    Who is pokey?

    • ankomonkey says:

      23 Sep23 September 15:49

      That Whinestein guy?

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