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• Lev441 says:

  23 Feb23 February 05:17

  Signed my old man up for the card a few weeks ago as it’s been just over 24 months since his last Amex card. No news yet on lower earning rates on his account so are recent applications ‘grandfathered’ for a certain amount of time?

  • Anna says:

    23 Feb23 February 07:02

    The way I read it is that all existing Ts and Cs will be honoured until Feb 26th when the changes kick in.

    • Peter K says:

      23 Feb23 February 07:58

      I applied after the letter was sent out to existing card holders. I saw nothing in the t&c’s when I applied to say it will change on the 26th and I have received no correspondence to say it will do so I’m assuming it will stay at it is. If not then I will politely be contacting Amex.

      • BJ says:

        23 Feb23 February 09:51

        +1

    • Simon says:

      23 Feb23 February 07:59

      But wouldn’t Amex have to notify cardholders of a change in the terms and conditions? I have received notification but my wife, who recently signed up for the card, has not.

      • Peter K says:

        23 Feb23 February 08:11

        Indeed they would. That is why I would politely ring them.

        • EwanG says:

          23 Feb23 February 09:23

          There will be a cut-off on their data for existing card customers who they have already provided the new terms to (the Notice of Variation). Anyone who signed up for a card since that data cut will get their NoV in a mop-up exercise, which will give them the required notice period of the changes.

        • BJ says:

          23 Feb23 February 09:55

          Hopefully they will forget or their famous IT…

  • Charlieface says:

    23 Feb23 February 10:26

    Presumably if he has grandchildren then he’s grandfathered…
    (Yes I know what it really means)

• TGLoyalty says:

  23 Feb23 February 05:55

  Went through T5 on Wednesday and no QR on the liquids bag I picked up at south security

  • Andrew says:

    23 Feb23 February 08:34

    Checked my bag from last weekend via North Security T5. No QR Code on it.

    Was a bit of a shame, the IAD one I had had given up after about 5 years.

• James Black says:

  23 Feb23 February 06:15

  I can transfer avios from Iberia to BA before, then suddenly one day, cannot do it.

• Georges says:

  23 Feb23 February 06:29

  Rob, it has always been like that. Anyone with a household account cannot transfer from Iberia to BA, the facility is blocked. Whether that is by design or a glitch that they’ve never fixed I don’t know. But a while ago I’m sure that you published an article on how to get around this by transferring via an Aer Lingus Avios account. It’s very complicated and certainly not for the faint hearted but it worked as I had to do it for a friend of mine who was stuck with a 300,000 Avios purchase in his Iberia account.

  • Genghis says:

    23 Feb23 February 07:49

    It’s not that hard. I’m in a BAEC HHA. I logged into avios.com on Friday, pulled from Iberia, pushed to BAEC.

    • Shoestring says:

      23 Feb23 February 10:31

      set up AerClub a/c
      log in to http://www.avios.com/gb/en/signin
      pull from IB to AerClub, then send to BAEC

      worked fine last night

  • Rob says:

    23 Feb23 February 10:02

    That’s always been the case:

    IB to BA HHA – not allowed
    Iberia to Avios.com to BA HHA – allowed

    But the latter has started to be troublesome …..

    • Shoestring says:

      23 Feb23 February 10:38

      it’s *always* user error

      use http://www.avios.com/gb/en/signin as the middleman and it works fine with HHAs

      • Genghis says:

        23 Feb23 February 11:54

        Exactly. I’ve not had a problem, but I know what to do. User error.

        • Peter K says:

          23 Feb23 February 12:23

          Or partial user error. Mrs K could move avios merrily with the old avios.com accounts, not now with a new Aer Club one. It seems the problem is with her details in Iberia however, which she has not changed. Go figure.

        • Smith says:

          25 Feb25 February 12:28

          Another data point in case it helps anyone struggling with an Iberia – Avios transfer:
          I had problems transferring from my Iberia Plus account to Avios account this weekend (although it has been successful in past).
          The problem was in a (new) mismatch with my Iberia Plus personal details and my Avios personal details: for some reason Iberia had a new ‘second surname’ field for me which duplicated my surname so I was now Robert Smith Smith.
          So: worth checking your personal details match.
          Avios online chat agent was able to resolve as a one-off but really Iberia need to make the correction.

    • Georges says:

      2 Mar2 March 18:17

      Sorry Rob, I read too quickly. G.

• Will says:

  23 Feb23 February 06:29

  For Iberia, you just need to change the language to Spain – English and it gives you the Euro prices

• MT says:

  23 Feb23 February 06:58

  To change the pricing just change your region to Spain (English), or Ireland. For some reason anywhere outside the Eurozone gets terrible USD pricing.

• Roger says:

  23 Feb23 February 08:10

  OT – Anyone used People’s Energy as energy supplier?
  Any feedback

  • Andrew says:

    23 Feb23 February 08:27

    Nope.

    But if you are supplied by Octopus Energy, you can pay their bills online by using an Amex Card – even though they say Debit Card Only.

    • BJ says:

      23 Feb23 February 10:04

      Datapoint: E.om no longer accepting amex. And for anybody who may not know, E.on refunds go back to payment cards even on account closure. Therefore, if anybody is in the position they want to avoid or minimise such then they should reduce their direct debit to the minimum allowed which is £2.

  • avstar says:

    23 Feb23 February 08:47

    avoid.

    thy are a different company to when first launched, and if you check recent reviews you will see systemic issues, some of which are bordering on illegality re unauthorised direct debit withdrawals etc

    • Roger says:

      23 Feb23 February 09:26

      Thanks for feedback.

  • the_real_a says:

    23 Feb23 February 13:26

    Very cheap. No issues other than they cannot read our smart meter.

  • Crafty says:

    24 Feb24 February 09:55

    Yes. Fine.

• Chelseafi says:

  23 Feb23 February 08:22

  Received my ‘SPG’ card yesterday and it’s the new look card branded Marriott

  • Paul says:

    23 Feb23 February 13:01

    +1. Lets hope the reduced earning rate, sign up bonus etc has not already kicked in prematurely for these cards.

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