Earn double Club Eurostar points on Eurostar trains to the Netherlands

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• Ant says:

  17 Feb17 February 09:31

  OT: purchased a return ticket using Avios and £91. If I cancel after 24 hours what is the cancellation fee? Thanks

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 09:47

    Short haul, should be £1. Long haul, £35.

• BJ says:

  17 Feb17 February 10:08

  Scoot business class seat is the same as the SQ regional business class seat which is to say mediocre at best . However, at the prices they charge, and for a 5h flight it is quite adeqate and good value.

  • meta says:

    17 Feb17 February 11:59

    SQ now has 787s with new seats on many regional routes. Flying it mid-April from Fukuoka. I believe I read it is also on Perth route.

    • Nick says:

      17 Feb17 February 12:45

      Yes they do. But not Scoot, which uses different (and very yellow) aircraft.

  • BJ says:

    17 Feb17 February 18:04

    Service is good. With Scoot, AirAsiaX it’s better to focus on what you get for the money as opposed to how they compare to full service carriers.

• George K says:

  17 Feb17 February 10:28

  I’ve got a question around Heathrow slots and curfew. As you say, the 4.45 arrival is curfew busting, yet a slot for that time exists. How does this work, exactly? Do you get penalised/charged extra for securing such a slot, or is there provision for limited arrivals before 6 (and if so, why call it curfew, or why have it at all)?

  I just find the whole concept behind the parallel existence of a Heathrow curfew and that of pre-6am slots… confusing.

  • Rhys says:

    17 Feb17 February 10:31

    There are a limited amount of slots permitted during the curfew

    • Lady London says:

      17 Feb17 February 12:41

      I know. I think that;s the **** aircraft that flew over my house every d*** morning at about 4.35am when I lived in Kew. Rumble… rumble… I had thought it was a third world oldfashioned jet. But the timing is right for it to have been that British Airways one.

      There are a fixed number of slots for planes to land outside of the Heathrow “curfew” (no landings no takeoffs) hours. It may be about 6. Additionally you always get planes that are late incoming and still allowed to land at G** knows what hours in the night. Making life under the flightpath a sleepless one.

      • David the 1st says:

        17 Feb17 February 13:27

        How annoying them building an airport so close to where you had your house. If only you’d known it was to be built before you’d moved there.

        • Lady London says:

          17 Feb17 February 13:59

          Heathrow has never kept promises to local residents.

  • Doug M says:

    17 Feb17 February 10:38

    Pretty certain Heathrow don’t call it a curfew, it’s a restricted time slot. When the early flights from the USA East Coast where arriving near 2 hours ahead of schedule last week they got to land, there is no curfew, just restrictions that can in some circumstances be ignored in a limited way.

  • Nick says:

    17 Feb17 February 12:51

    Heathrow doesn’t actually have a curfew, it’s officially a 24-hour airport. What they do have is a ‘noise quota’ for operations between 2300 and 0600. Airlines have a certain number of points they can use, with noisier aircraft attracting more points (hence fewer 747s on the morning arrivals now) – the limited number of points acts as an effective limiter on night flights. It’s just easier for lazy journalists (!) to talk of a ‘curfew’ than explain this properly. On disrupted days then alleviation can be made which doesn’t take up more points.

    Part of the Heathrow consultation that’s out now is about the possibility of the airport agreeing to a total night ban except emergency traffic – if this happens then these morning flights will have to be retimed.

    • George K says:

      17 Feb17 February 22:29

      Good knowledge guys – thank you

  • Roy says:

    17 Feb17 February 12:54

    From the Heathrow web site:

    * There are two time periods: 11:00pm–7:00am and 11:30pm–6:00am both with restrictions on certain types of aircraft;

    * The more restrictive period (11:30pm–6:00am) is known as the Night Quota Period (NQP) and has limits on the number of movements which are set by the DfT. The limits are set on a seasonal basis: summer and winter;

    * Heathrow is currently limited to 5,800 night flights a year: 3,250 in the summer season and 2,550 in the winter season;

    * Heathrow is also permitted to carry over up to 10% of the ‘left over’ movements from summer to winter, which means the winter season limits vary more than the summer limits. The summer season is defined using British Summer Time. Heathrow is not permitted to accumulate the carry-over from one year to the next.

    https://www.heathrow.com/company/local-community/noise/operations/night-flights

    • ChrisC says:

      17 Feb17 February 23:19

      yes it’s restrictons not an absolute curfew like some airports actually have.

      Time people started calling it what it actually is (same as nt calling carrier surcharges ‘taxes’)

      Accuracy matters

• Ian says:

  17 Feb17 February 10:47

  OT:
  Sorry, I know this has been asked a million times before.

  To try to secure a return trip for 2 with 241 voucher can I:

  Call and book Outgoing Flights and pay full Avios for them.

  Wait a couple of weeks then call to add Return Flights and 241 voucher to the booking and just pay the extra tax? (subject to availability materialising obviously)

  Thanks

  • Spurs Debs says:

    17 Feb17 February 10:56

    You got that all wrong … either call or book online your outgoing journey use 241 then, you can’t add it retrospectively. Then call when it’s time to book return flights and they will add it to booking.

    • Ian says:

      17 Feb17 February 10:58

      Phewph! Glad I checked!!

      Thanks

      • Spurs Debs says:

        17 Feb17 February 11:02

        Indeed lol

• George K says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:17

  A Hilton related question: If I buy points during this promotion, do they keep my points from expiring?

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 13:08

    Yes

• Secret Squirrel says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:19

  Avios Points back at 1p a point on 200k + 100k bonus.
  https://www.iberia.com/es/iberiaplus/partners/ocio-compras/compra_regalo_y_transfencia_avios/

  • Shoestring says:

    17 Feb17 February 13:09

    it’s a great price – almost exactly 1p/ point if you go for 100K + 50K [1,800 Euro equals
    1,498.52 Pound sterling]

    nearly as good if you go for 80K + 40K = 1.024p/ point

    load up if you are low on Avios, can’t do much without a big chunk in your bank

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      17 Feb17 February 13:13

      Thought you would like that SS! 😉

      • Shoestring says:

        17 Feb17 February 13:39

        I do worry that the last year saw our combined Avios balance decline – harder to go for big points earning opps these days – but 2 of my kids have hit 15 & 17 and don’t want to spend every school holiday out at our place in the sun any more 🙁 – so I won’t need to replenish 300K+ Avios / year any more, which was our old burn rate

        • Harry T says:

          17 Feb17 February 14:54

          @Shoestring
          How do you generate 300k a year?! Buy some?

        • Shoestring says:

          17 Feb17 February 15:41

          I bought £1000 worth a few years ago at 1p/ point via Iberia but never again

          I *do* buy them on Avios + Money (when getting a reward flight) when that was 0.8p/ point but the last few flights the price had shifted to 0.86p so I declined

          I wanted to cut our exposure a bit and I reckon we’ve net burned 300K over the last few years, ie maybe burned 900K but only earned back 600K over 3 years, something like that – I was just mildly uncomfortable about getting hit by a devaluation but now I’m getting mildly uncomfortable about not having enough in the bank! (still got enough by normal standards)

          but my usual advice pertains: don’t listen too hard to the people who say only buy if you have a firm use in mind/ earn & burn is the best strategy/ there’s always a devaluation coming which is a FF constant – to all this I say possibly true but what a load of cobblers: if you don’t have enough Avios to grab opps as they arise, you are destined to miss out

          easy to ensure you *always* use your Avios profitably, ie if you can’t get more than 1p of value, then use cash instead

        • xcalx says:

          17 Feb17 February 17:05

          Yeah that sounds about right, my eldest son at 15 got fed up of every Christmas ,Easter and Half terms in Teneriffe followed by 3 weeks in Orlando in the summer. That was through the 80s and 90s, happy days.

• BJ says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:26

  OT: 50% buy avios bonus back on IB+ if anybody needs some in a hurry.

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 13:07

    Thanks!

  • Donny says:

    17 Feb17 February 13:38

    Can you transfer them into BAEC even with household account?

    • Shoestring says:

      17 Feb17 February 15:44

      yes, you’d have to transfer IB—>Aer Club (ie http://www.avios.com/eu/en/signin) —>BAEC

      but easy enough to open an Aer Club a/c

      • Donny says:

        17 Feb17 February 15:56

        Thanks Harry

• Natalie Meyer says:

  17 Feb17 February 11:26

  I don’t see anything about the Eurostar deal yet online. Is there a way to activate this deal / register for it, or can I just book any tickets and it will be applied automatically?

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 13:07

    Automatic

    • Alex Sm says:

      17 Feb17 February 23:54

      how far back does it stretch? I booked tix for this period some time ago – do i need to cancel and rebook?

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