PremiAir is opening on 21st October at Manchester Airport

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• Oliver says:

  1 Oct1 October 08:49

  Premiair at Manchester seems to based on the premise that the customers will be chauffeured to the terminal. Surprised that there’s no provision for Valet parking.

  • FCP says:

    1 Oct1 October 11:37

    There is Valet parking for long term and they have own parking for short stay.

• Shoestring says:

  1 Oct1 October 09:02

  HT HUKD: Virgin Atlantic 1st class return flight to New York – 8th-15th Jan) £1,353 @ Skyscanner / Carlton Leisure (other dates likely tbc) – LHR – Boston – La Guardia

  • Shoestring says:

    1 Oct1 October 09:06

    also BA 1st Class return flight to Philadelphia £1688/ Washington £1793 / Chicago £1825 (Departing LHR @ Skyscanner – various dates Jan-March

  • Rob says:

    1 Oct1 October 09:12

    Virgin got First Class now?!

    • Shoestring says:

      1 Oct1 October 09:19

      heh heh good job I HT’d it

      • BJ says:

        1 Oct1 October 11:38

        Wasn’t it you who posted it on HUKD? 🙂

        • Shoestring says:

          1 Oct1 October 12:07

          I don’t post anything on HUKD these days – they have some of the worst moderators going, very irritating

        • BJ says:

          1 Oct1 October 12:31

          At one time I found it quite useful. Now it seems to be mostly the same (type of) offers posted time after time.

        • f99 says:

          1 Oct1 October 12:52

          The “this isn’t a deal. It was £1 cheaper six weeks ago”. “Do you know where I can get a time machine so I can buy at the lower price?” exchanges were quite funny

• Matthew says:

  1 Oct1 October 09:32

  OT: Has anyone managed to trigger the Emirates spend £1800 get £200 AMEX statement credit on economy flights, rather than the business/first class it required in the terms? Not sure how they would know unless they use the cabin class or fare bucket from the PNR.

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    1 Oct1 October 10:46

    Amex has level 3 reporting on airline transactions.

    That means, among many things, they know your full route and class of travel.

    Check your PDF statements and you’ll see that information on any airline transaction listed on your statement.

    So if you travel in economy, they’ll know.

    • Matthew says:

      1 Oct1 October 23:52

      Good point. Bizarrely I’ve had two of these offers in slightly different format appear on the same card?!

• rams1981 says:

  1 Oct1 October 10:03

  OT Tesco auto-convert bonus. Does it need to b switched off this week to ensure your vouchers aren’t converted?

  • Shoestring says:

    1 Oct1 October 10:29

    The current collection period is 19/07/2019 – 17/10/2019 .

    • rams1981 says:

      1 Oct1 October 12:08

      Thanks Harry

• James says:

  1 Oct1 October 10:03

  OT: I bought 2x vouchers for 55,000 Melia points from Amazon last year when they were on sale. I ended up not being able to use them, and successfully transferred them to Avios recently. Not a great transfer rate but I retained the value I spend on them.

  • maccymac says:

    1 Oct1 October 10:34

    Thats encouraging to hear as I am in a similar position. I remember when buying it the hfp article stating explicitly they couldn’t be converted. What ratio does it work out as if you don’t mind me asking.

    • James says:

      1 Oct1 October 10:43

      It’s 100 Melia to 30 Avios. I had made a reservation with the points and cancelled it after a while, not sure if that affected my ability to transfer the points out.

      • marcw says:

        1 Oct1 October 11:30

        Probably…

        • Rob says:

          1 Oct1 October 12:09

          I booked a stay and found I could move the remaining 6k to Avios ok.

  • Louise says:

    1 Oct1 October 14:06

    Thanks I have 55k not sure what to do with it as plans have changed

• Adam says:

  1 Oct1 October 10:14

  OT Data point that may well have be covered.

  Referred my wife for gold card a couple of months back – she’s had it several times with last 24 months as well as holding BA premium plus card at the time of referral.

  Anyway, I received 6,000 MR points for referral as expected but today she also got 12,000 bonus points. This arrived after spending £3000.

  Anyone else seen this?

  • Rob says:

    1 Oct1 October 12:12

    Amex’s IT is less good than it thinks ….!

• Jack says:

  1 Oct1 October 10:16

  O/T
  Just received email saying Iberia avios about to expire. I do not have an amex at moment to transfer and have no need of Iberia flight.

  Any suggestions to get quick easy Iberia avios ???

  I now realise a transfer from BA or Aer Club does not count !!

  Thanks

  • Matt B says:

    1 Oct1 October 10:24

    If there is a groupon offer but the smallest amount?

    • Matt says:

      1 Oct1 October 10:29

      Transferring them to BAEC would mean they wouldn’t expire (assuming you’ve had activity in the last 3 years) surely? If you haven’t, transfer them and buy minimum amount of avios to refresh the 3 year expiry? I assume that’s right but for my own knowledge can someone confirm if I’m right or wrong?

      • marcw says:

        1 Oct1 October 11:32

        Buying IbPlus Avios does not extend expiration (read T&Cs) (but does in BAEC). Remember that Avios acquire the expiration data of the destination account: if you’r IBPlus account has expired Avios, and you transfer from BAEC to IbPlus, all those transferred Avios will automatically expire.

        • marcw says:

          1 Oct1 October 11:32

          *date

  • Shoestring says:

    1 Oct1 October 10:26

    1000 MR points transfer from Amex is quick

    or log into Accorhotels & sign up to ClubOpinions for 300/ 600 free Avios (set a/c to auto-convert *any* amount to IB)

    • Shoestring says:

      1 Oct1 October 10:26

      just move them to BAEC (via AerClub if you can’t do it direct)

  • marcw says:

    1 Oct1 October 11:34

    My advise: move ALL your Iberia Plus Avios to BAEC, so they are safe (they’ll acquire the expiration date from your BAEC account, they don’t keep the IbPlus expiration date). Then, whenever there’s a good random opportunity to earn a chunk of IbPlus Avios (like an Avis promo or something else), you will have again an active with 3 years expiration account.

  • Jack says:

    1 Oct1 October 11:36

    Not worried about losing the avios as can easily transfer to my BA but I thought I had read I needed to have earned at least 1 avios on the Iberia account to be able to use it ??

    • Rob says:

      1 Oct1 October 12:07

      No, it must have earned 1 Avios. It doesn’t need to sit there.

  • xcalx says:

    2 Oct2 October 15:24

    Ereward transfer to IB only take a few days.

• Jim says:

  1 Oct1 October 10:52

  OT: Looking to downgrade the Platinum card, I’ve been waiting for the £200 back from £600 but haven’t seen it so far. I’m guessing the options are downgrade to Green / Gold charge (heard some success stories with this). What happens to the MR points if you downgrade?

  • Jay H says:

    1 Oct1 October 13:03

    Nothing as long as you still hold a MR earning card they stay put!

  • David says:

    1 Oct1 October 16:51

    The recent pattern for £200 on £600 travel seems to be January.

  • Alex W says:

    1 Oct1 October 21:48

    Watch out. I recently took out a Green and then cancelled a Plat. Amex opened a 2nd MR account, I nearly lost all my points but thankfully they were able to merge the accounts in time.

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