More British Airways routes getting the new Club Suite business class

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• Ian says:

  14 Dec14 December 05:42

  Just had a seat change message for my flight from LHR to Seattle late July 2020
  Was B747 now a B781 with Club suite layout

• Ian M says:

  14 Dec14 December 05:57

  Wow that’s a very negative change for the Virgin credit cards. Hope that doesn’t spread to other cards!

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    14 Dec14 December 17:01

    Maybe a coincidence but in less than 30 x days time Curve blue charge for recycling and now V money put cap on recycling…

    • jc says:

      14 Dec14 December 18:52

      Curve charge is for paying govt, nothing to do with recycling, unless I’ve missed something. The common theme is that as things get (ab)used more and fin cos mature (and get squeezed elsewhere e.g. interchange) they stop letting you do all the stuff that negatively impacts them. Don’t think there’s any direct correlation beyond that… but I do think we’ll see more avenues closed in the coming year

• henry says:

  14 Dec14 December 06:13

  Still have not received an email from Virgin stating any changes?
  Have they targeted the users who were cycling 2 or 3 times there limit or does it apply to everyone?

  • Shoestring says:

    14 Dec14 December 06:41

    everyone

    check your marketing preferences?

    • EwanG says:

      14 Dec14 December 06:49

      T&C changes such as this need to go to everyone, regardless of marketing preferences as its not marketing!

      They also need to provide notice of the change in line with their T&Cs (typically 1 (regulation-set minimum) or 2 months).

      • Shoestring says:

        14 Dec14 December 06:54

        then check your mothballed email address – plenty of people used a secondary email address to get round the 2x Virgin credit cards rule and/ or the 6 month rule

        • Henry says:

          14 Dec14 December 07:33

          Checked everywhere and every possible avenue and nothing.
          Can anybody else confirm that has been rolled out to everyone or is it targeted?

        • MattB says:

          14 Dec14 December 07:44

          I’ve had absolutely no confirmation of this anywhere.

        • Shoestring says:

          14 Dec14 December 07:53

          come to think of it it, nor have we! (2x Virgin a/cs)

      • BJ says:

        14 Dec14 December 07:11

        OT @EwanG: have you found any good butchers in or around Edinburgh participating in Shop Small?

        • Liz says:

          14 Dec14 December 08:02

          @BJ we have used Minik in St Andrews and Cupar. Also discovered Crieff is fab for small shop. Fantastic Crieff Food Co is a big food shop also with Minik butchers and a nice cafe downstairs. Also a fish shop, sweet shop, another butchers, whisky shop, card shop that prints their own cards next door, delis, fruit and veg in a red and yellow shed! Now done 65 out of 70 transactions. We’ve had to cram our shopping in to one week as MIL having a knee op next week and we will be looking after FIL. Been a crazy busy week! My 3 freezers are full!

        • EwanG says:

          14 Dec14 December 08:12

          @BJ. George Bower in Stockbridge is on the map again this year, except that is not the name it comes under (which is Mark Smith). Worked last year – they used a different terminal for Amex.
          Not checked out any others!

        • BJ says:

          14 Dec14 December 08:56

          Thanks Liz/Ewan, that’s great 🙂 Stockbridge is just down the road, and we may take a run up to Crief this weekend.

        • Alan says:

          14 Dec14 December 09:33

          @Liz you must be winning this year, that’s an amazing number of transactions and it sounds like you’ve found some amazing shops! Still zero for me this year so far lol.

        • EwanG says:

          14 Dec14 December 20:00

          @BJ. Whilst there you could pop across the road to Armstrong’s for some fish if that’s also to your liking!!

    • Alan says:

      14 Dec14 December 09:31

      This is a T&Cs change so marketing preferences should be ignored. Nothing received here and I only have 1 email registered with them. For something this significant I wouldn’t expect them to rely on email anyway, there should be a message on the statement too.

      For those that have received an email what is the effective date of this change?

      • Big Ernie McCracken says:

        14 Dec14 December 09:57

        Mine says 7 January 2020

        • Alan says:

          14 Dec14 December 14:19

          Thanks – if you get a sec would you mind posting a copy of the message? Does the 7th coincide with your billing cycle? I’m wondering if this is why some of us with a later billing date haven’t been informed yet…

• Andrew says:

  14 Dec14 December 06:37

  Bits.

  Just popped up this morning. £1000 back from when you spend £2000 on jewellery at Yoko. I haven’t saved it

• Roger says:

  14 Dec14 December 06:58

  Is this applicable immediately or like curve they have given some advanced notice?

• BJ says:

  14 Dec14 December 07:08

  Don’t really get all the excitement about Club Suites, Qsuites etc. Unless travelling longhaul alone (which is rare for me these days) I would much prefer a better seat in an open cabin. Somebody once commented here that flying a window seat in CW was like flying in a toilet cubicle, wonder what they think of the suites.

  • Dawn says:

    14 Dec14 December 09:11

    I’m super excited by it. I’m horribly chlostrophobic but it affects me when I have lots of people around me/staring at me etc. So the fact I cut shut myself away and forget there is anyone else on the plane makes travelling ok for me. I’m not a good flyer at all unfortunately. I’m the most unsociable person as I don’t want to talk to anyone, music on my head and disappear under my blanket hoping to sleep. But I manage to still fly after years of not getting on a plane.

    • BJ says:

      14 Dec14 December 20:34

      IIRC @Shoestring collected a lot of info on stuff to help sleep on planes so if that would help then drop a comment to him.

• Yemi says:

  14 Dec14 December 07:21

  I believe Amex has also started stopping recycling ones credit limit. This happened to me with the BA premium Amex card.

  • BJ says:

    14 Dec14 December 07:38

    Not in my experience with any amex card.

    • Alan says:

      14 Dec14 December 09:34

      Ditto, plus no stated credit limit on Plat!

• The Original Nick says:

  14 Dec14 December 07:28

  Flying LHR-DXB in January. Aircraft change from A350 to 777 so no suite for me.

  • Rob says:

    14 Dec14 December 09:47

    That was due to A350 No 4 being damaged and delivered late.

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