Norwegian to launch London Heathrow flights from March 2020, it seems

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• Doug M says:

  2 Dec2 December 12:38

  Any thoughts on JetBlue not getting any slots? An airline that would provide genuine choice on North American routes.

  • Rob says:

    2 Dec2 December 12:54

    There simply were not enough slots to go around. JetBlue isn’t interested in running three flights per week. You need AT LEAST 3 per day to New York to provide effective competition and to attract the business traveller.

• aDifferentSimon says:

  2 Dec2 December 14:16

  A did hope this site would never use the term “avgeek”…

  • Alex Sm says:

    2 Dec2 December 21:56

    Why not? What’s wrong with that? Mattress run is much worse, for example

• Navara says:

  2 Dec2 December 14:17

  Rob.
  Could you please give someone at BA a nudge to press the Tesco 40% bonus button. I need the Avios

  • Rob says:

    2 Dec2 December 17:47

    You need a major recession first!

    • Boris says:

      2 Dec2 December 19:28

      Won’t be long once I’ve got my Brexit plan through

    • Navara says:

      2 Dec2 December 19:39

      No just the Shell bonus

  • Navara says:

    5 Dec5 December 08:39

    Someone seems to have taken it on board.
    Bonus showing today

• Jtz says:

  2 Dec2 December 14:28

  OT just wondering is the upgrade to plat link still working?
  Thanks a lot

• Gregg says:

  2 Dec2 December 14:48

  I wait with bated breath to see if the Norwegian flights out of Heathrow will actually be with Norwegian or a wet lease airline like Wamos. This extensive, ongoing transatlantic wet leasing arrangement is doing untold damage to Norwegian Air Shutlle. I certainly won’t fly Norwegian until it is a thing of the past.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    2 Dec2 December 20:40

    Little unfair, if not for the wet lease.you woundnt have been flying at all…

• Munch says:

  2 Dec2 December 14:50

  OT Looking at car hire for Canada in February. I have a Platinum Business Amex – can I use the code 211762 or is this for personal cards only. The platinum code gives a better discount than the current Black Friday.

  • BLt says:

    2 Dec2 December 17:05

    I have a regular platinum card and have used that code a few times in Canada and the US. Never been asked to show it so would assume You would be fine.

• Harry T says:

  2 Dec2 December 15:19

  OT:
  I’ve got a £1500 or so bill to settle for my Mum’s BA Holidays package. I currently hold a BAPP and a PRGC. I’ve already triggered my 241 this year and can’t earn another one until next July. I have to spend 15k on the PRGC by next October to trigger the 10k bonus MR. Will probably be able to spend the rest of the 15k but could be a little tight.

  Is it best to use my BAPP to pay off the £1500 bill and get triple Avios for the BA spend or use the PRGC to pay it and get double MR points and help hit my 15k spend? In the latter scenario, I’m sacrificing 1500 Avios or so.

  • Harry T says:

    2 Dec2 December 15:21

    Should add that it would be helpful to hit the 15k spend on the PRGC before next July so I can switch my spending back to the BAPP to trigger the next 241.

    Maybe I should just cancel my BAPP now and get another one after I’ve spent the 15k on PRGC?

    • Polly says:

      3 Dec3 December 09:27

      Next time, just get the BACC , then upgrade to the BAPP when you are close to the 10k spend. Maybe 1 mth fee, then cancel or downgrade… saves fee. Yes you will possibly miss out on extra BA spend avios, but no big fee outlay.

  • Neil Donoghue says:

    2 Dec2 December 15:31

    Collect 3 Avios for every £1 spent with British Airways flights and holidays. I know which card I would be using…Worry about the PRGC target next year.

  • BJ says:

    2 Dec2 December 16:17

    If mum does not have her own amex already it is about time you referred her following the strategy best suited to new amex rules. Supps are both very convenient and rewarding should mum refuse to fully participate in the family games herself. You also need to ‘move your mum in with you’ and add her to your BA household account if that hasn’t happened. According to @Liz, a regular bottle of gin I think it is, works wonders but YMMV. You will also find that real or imaginary friends, staff and pets join in our hobby too if HFP comments are all to be believed.

    • Harry T says:

      2 Dec2 December 17:33

      @BJ my Mum is in my household account for BA – I collect the Avios from her flights and holidays. I did refer her a free c@shb@ck card.

      I am a bit worried if I referred her for a BAPP and then spent on it for the bonus that it would affect her credit score (I’d pay the card fee too, obviously). Any thoughts?

      • Genghis says:

        2 Dec2 December 17:52

        Assuming your mum’s not doing anything crazy, applying for a credit card is minimal risk to any supposed scoring.

        • BJ says:

          2 Dec2 December 20:08

          Agree, in my own experience credit score for what little it may be worth, has varued minimally as a result of my churning.

    • Genghis says:

      2 Dec2 December 17:50

      As I’ve posted before, bottles of mr muscle I effectively got for free worked for my MIL 🙂

      • BJ says:

        2 Dec2 December 20:12

        Never know whether to laugh or cry when you tell this story…double dipping avios and brownie points for free, it’s scandalous 🙂

      • Harry T says:

        2 Dec2 December 21:10

        @Genghis – please enlighten me! That story sounds hilarious.

        • Shoestring says:

          2 Dec2 December 21:21

          https://headforpoints.com/2016/07/31/last-day-2400-avios-for-60-lego-spend-plus-summary-of-other-tesco-deals/

        • Genghis says:

          3 Dec3 December 03:10

          Tesco had a coupon in the mag for 50 cc points for a Mr M when it was on offer for £1. One coupon per transaction. I got about 50 mags, cut out the coupon and then in separate transactions bought 50 or so Mr Ms over separate days. Heading into work with all this stuff, my colleagues thought I was crazy. I prob was.

          But at 50+1+1 = 52 cc points = 124.8 avios = 0.8ppa i was relatively happy at the time. I got a pile of MMs and gave a load away to MIL who flies BA occasionally but never uses her avios so in exchange I got access to her points and she thought I was a good lad.

          You don’t really get the funny stories these days. Someone else can tell you about the small cabbages…

        • Polly says:

          3 Dec3 December 08:28

          Small cabbages… my OH never ever wanted to see a cabbage in our house again after that one… but it was very lucrative, think as G says it was about 50 cc pts per smallest ever cabbage… tasty too…think we got about 50k avios out of that one…somehow l missed the MM on!
          Those were the days….

• Anna says:

  2 Dec2 December 15:59

  OT – using Curve for ATM withdrawals abroad – is the £200 limit on top of the UK cash limit, and do you get charged by the underlying card? (HH visa and IHG in this case).
  Also – how do you actually set your Curve card to a foreign currency, I can’t work it out?!

  • John says:

    2 Dec2 December 17:12

    You don’t change the currency of curve. You can change the currency of the underlying card, but that would cause it to incur a foreign transaction fee (if you are using Hilton visa or IHG mc).

    If your underlying card was Tandem then you could change its currency to euros when you are in euroland for example – this would avoid Curve’s weekend markup as Tandem would be doing the conversion, but on weekdays Curve’s exchange rate is purportedly better than visa/mastercard’s so you should probably keep it as GBP and let curve do the conversion.

    I have never been charged in the months I withdrew £400 of cash, but this can’t be guaranteed.

  • Anna says:

    2 Dec2 December 21:07

    Thanks – though I’m still confused as the Curve website says, “We do not charge a fee if your payment card is set to the same currency that you are withdrawing” – so it sounds as though either way you could get charged a fee!

    • Roy says:

      2 Dec2 December 21:34

      I think what that’s saying is they don’t charge a fee if they’re not doing the currency conversion. (ATM withdrawal limit aside.)

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