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• Zara says:

  21 Oct21 October 09:36

  Hi- does anyone know if Wotton House hotel would be classified as an intercontinental? When I use the ihg filter as IC it comes up in the list of UK IC hotels but it isn’t actually branded as such. Trying to meet and accelerate target which will otherwise not be possible! Many thanks

  • TGLoyalty says:

    21 Oct21 October 10:05

    thought it was staying independent and therefore for accelerate targets it would count as its own brand, i know the other principal hotels do.

    • Zara says:

      21 Oct21 October 10:24

      Thanks and do you think I’ll have any chance at disputing it if it doesn’t trigger based on the fact it comes through under an IC filter?

      • TGLoyalty says:

        21 Oct21 October 10:34

        I don’t think so not listed as an IC on the IC website itself.

        • Zara says:

          21 Oct21 October 11:40

          Hmmm yes thought as much… thanks !

• Lady London says:

  21 Oct21 October 09:47

  IIRC that deal on HEX was previously available to plain Golds as well.

  Kind of reinforces the change over the years – GGL are the new true ‘Gold’.

  • Doug M says:

    21 Oct21 October 10:12

    I thought that was simply about the staff being unaware of the GGL and just accepting gold cards.

    • Rob says:

      21 Oct21 October 10:24

      Correct

      • The Original David says:

        21 Oct21 October 10:42

        I believe it’s still available to Star Alliance Golds, if that’s what you’re thinking of.

        • Lady London says:

          21 Oct21 October 11:13

          You might be right @The Original David. Would be about the time I was thinking of that I would have been both OneWorld and Star Alliance Gold.

    • Lady London says:

      21 Oct21 October 10:43

      Nope. I used it with just Gold after seeing on the internet.

      There’ve been various things for plain Gold over the years.

• Craig says:

  21 Oct21 October 11:04

  I do believe it’s LPGS time! 😁

• Shoestring says:

  21 Oct21 October 11:20

  Boeing’s board of directors and top staff were due to meet in Texas yesterday and today after a 2016 exchange was released which suggested the company had known about problems with the flight control system years before it became implicated in two fatal crashes.

  In the messages, which were between two lead technical pilots on the Boeing 737 Max Programme, one complained the system was “running rampant” and difficult to control.

  • BJ says:

    21 Oct21 October 12:13

    77X launch substantially delayed also. I hope they get it right.

• JD says:

  21 Oct21 October 11:59

  OT: Apologies if this has been mentioned before. Does anyone know if the new BA Accelerating Business card will ever be referable from another Amex? TIA

  • Rob says:

    21 Oct21 October 12:39

    I’d never say never, but if they were planning it I don’t see why it wouldn’t have been possible from Day 1.

• BlueHorizonuk says:

  21 Oct21 October 12:04

  OT – Amex small shop emails going out. Spend £10 and get £5 back but Max cash back is £50 so only on first 10 transactions.

  • Freddy says:

    21 Oct21 October 12:08

    Better than the last shop small which was 1 time use only

    • The Streets says:

      21 Oct21 October 14:35

      that wasn’t the traditional shop small just a cheeky fiver from AMEX

  • BJ says:

    21 Oct21 October 12:09

    Oh @Liz…look what you’ve done 🙂

  • LewisB says:

    21 Oct21 October 12:12

    “Once per participating location, up to £50 back on your Card.”

    • Shoestring says:

      21 Oct21 October 12:22

      looks like they found a reasonable compromise on the ‘gaming it’ aspect

      10x per card is fair enough

      the bigger problem is finding anywhere to use SS down in Cornwall 🙂

      • LewisB says:

        21 Oct21 October 12:32

        Time to get planning the annual Amex sponsored bar crawl.

    • Matty says:

      21 Oct21 October 12:23

      £50 per card or account?

      Still no £200 / £50 off travel offers. From memory, there was one around August of last year and another at the beginning of the year. At least that’s when I redeemed. Things are getting a little tight with Amex.

      • Harry T says:

        21 Oct21 October 12:38

        Yeah, I thought offers might improve to enhance customer retention. I’m not even getting the targeted promotions on my Platinum or BAPP for bonus MR/Avios for spending a certain amount.

        • BJ says:

          21 Oct21 October 12:47

          I think that in some ways they have. I have about 50 offers on two of my four cards while in the past I used to have around 30 at most. That most of the 50 are useless obesity-indusing incentives is another matter.

        • Harry T says:

          21 Oct21 October 18:22

          Mots of my offers are either for designer clothes, jewellery or restaurants/pubs in London. Clearly, if the offers are targeted, they don’t know me very well!

      • Gin and Tonic Please says:

        21 Oct21 October 12:47

        £50 per card, according to the small print on the email

  • Grimz says:

    21 Oct21 October 18:48

    Is that the max including supplementary cards?

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    21 Oct21 October 20:00

    Does this offer work in any local shop accepting Amex like the P.O?

    • Shoestring says:

      21 Oct21 October 20:09

      no

      they have to sign up to SS

      obvs examples: most supermarkets take Amex but are not in SS

      • Shoestring says:

        21 Oct21 October 20:18

        I have a different strategy with my local butchers this year, having been turned away by both on a split over several cards LY

        it wasn’t not trusting your dodgy customer (they knew me to pay properly from previous years SS) but both said Amex charges too much & didn’t want to pay multiple times for effectively 1 transaction

        no point telling them their profit on £10 of sausages justified it

        no point telling them better 1p of profit than no profit

        no point telling them why do you take Amex on £10 transaction from other customers but not from me (split several ways)

        anyway so this year I go in & buy £10 of (say) steaks, pay and put it in the car

        go back & buy £10 of sausages, pay & put it in the car

        etc etc

        • Harry T says:

          21 Oct21 October 21:46

          Thanks, I’ll borrow this strategy. There should be plenty of Shop Small destinations within easy walking distance of my flat.

        • Been Magic says:

          21 Oct21 October 21:47

          Please video it as it would be an excellent viral video of making the most of it!

        • Grimz says:

          22 Oct22 October 00:19

          Do they not sell £10 gift cards?

• LewisB says:

  21 Oct21 October 12:09

  OT: Looks like small shop is limited to only £50 this year.

• Jason says:

  21 Oct21 October 12:15

  OT Flybe just cancelled my outbound flight on jan 17th..and rebooked me after my return.what options do I have ? Can I ask them to put me on any reasonable alternative ? I assume do compensation?
  Cheers
  Jason

  • Shoestring says:

    21 Oct21 October 12:26

    no compo if you get more than 2 weeks’ notice

    your best option is to research a better alternative (on OneWorld would be easiest) – then ring them to get it booked instead – if you simply give them an acceptable / available flight possibility, they generally can be helpful

    • Shoestring says:

      21 Oct21 October 12:27

      sorry missed Flybe but advice still stands only not on OneWorld!

      just look for *any* alternatives and talk it through with them

      • Shoestring says:

        21 Oct21 October 12:31

        if they say they won’t book you on a competitor, throw the CAA’s rulings at them – CAA made it absolutely clear that competitor flights must be offered if the original airline could not find a reasonable alternative

        then there’s always Section 75

        • Aston100 says:

          21 Oct21 October 15:28

          FlyBe are horrible.
          Had to argue with them for ages when they refused to refund me for a flight that THEY cancelled.
          They argued that there was an alternative flight available earlier in the day (which was not suitable to my needs) hence refunds were not necessary.

          I hope they change their wild west mentality under Virgin.

        • jason says:

          21 Oct21 October 18:04

          Brilliant thank you

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