Leeds Bradford Airport is opening a super-premium lounge

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• Nelson says:

  2 Mar2 March 12:18

  OT Amex gold business. I received and activated my card three weeks ago but still haven’t received my lounge card. How long should I wait to get it?

  • Rob says:

    2 Mar2 March 12:36

    Never. It is not a benefit of Gold Business.

    • Nelson says:

      2 Mar2 March 16:43

      Thanks Rob. What would happen with my 20000 points spend bonus if I upgrade to platinum now? I ve spent 1000£ till now.

      • Rob says:

        2 Mar2 March 16:44

        Not sure you’d have any grounds to get the bonus if you upgraded so I’d stick with Gold Business until you have the bonus in the bank.

• Alan says:

  2 Mar2 March 12:32

  Has anyone noticed that Hotels.com doesn’t appear to be a clubcard partner anymore? I’m sure they were up to about 2-3 weeks ago. Must admit I missed it if they are no longer a partner.

• David says:

  2 Mar2 March 13:10

  Is anyone else having problems moving Avios from Iberia to BA and the account is 2 years old ?

• Boi says:

  2 Mar2 March 13:13

  OT: applied for SPG with instant approval on 21/02. Got email saying card in post on 24/02. Still no card received. Should I panic and call Amex?
  I also am hoping I will get old earning rates even if I receive it this week

  • Shoestring says:

    2 Mar2 March 13:25

    give it 2 more days?

  • Donny says:

    2 Mar2 March 13:37

    Applied on 22nd, approved on 26th and received on 28th with new look of Bonvoy card. Prepare to have lengthy complain process with AMEX if you want to have old 3 points/£.

    • Boi says:

      2 Mar2 March 14:19

      Oh no! That doesn’t sound good. Hoping I will be ok as I was approved before change over. But never had to wait over a week after referral bonus hit.

      • Donny says:

        2 Mar2 March 14:20

        Card applied in Jan has been given only 2 points

• The Savage Squirrel says:

  2 Mar2 March 13:34

  Stansted has 26M passengers a year and 1 not-very-premium Escape lounge.

  Leeds has 4M passengers per year and 3 lounges with a 4th opening soon, 2 of which are marketed as very high end.

  OK I know it’s sort of one lounge broken into 3 really but still ……. WTF?

  Are the othe 3 so full there is additional demand, or have they just got another empty space they don’t know what to do with during the redevelopment so will lob in some spare posh chairs that got ordered by mistake, and a few bottles of prosecco and see if it makes a £ or two. Or is it in fact a rebrand of one of the existing spaces. Given the lack of additional directions, I’m guessing on the 3nd option but be intrigued to find out…

  • Shoestring says:

    2 Mar2 March 15:24

    4M is still 11K/ day – which you might consider a captive market for food/ drink/ lounge space

    no idea what the other airport eating/ drinking establishments are like but given the airport monopoly on lounges, I guess they see it as a decent profit opp – there no airline lounges so they also provide lounge facilities for British Airways, KLM, Aer Lingus and Flybe Business passengers

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      2 Mar2 March 19:10

      Fair point (although the food offering even without the lounges isn’t bad at all compared to, say Bristol or Robin Hood) … but in that case surely there’s an opportunity at Stansted which at 6 times the passenger volume must be vastly underserved for lounges?

      • Shoestring says:

        2 Mar2 March 19:16

        I use LHR T3 a lot as you know & it’s completely obvious they could have twice or 3x or 4x the food/ drink offering space, incl doubling the lounges, but also more pubs, some fast food outlets – and all would do extremely well

        too many people moving through, who would prefer to eat/ drink in a bit more comfort – at a very willingly offered good price – instead of sitting outside in the mob

• BJ says:

  2 Mar2 March 13:38

  OT amex: Not sure how new this is as I have not seen it mentioned, and it is certainly new since my last application last month. Their application IT has changed. I went to apply for BAPP (to upgrade from blue). The first thing the application now does is collect a few details and run a credit check. Presumably if you pass this it then takes you to other pages to add further details like BAEC numbers, supps etc. However, I never got that far, it immediately recognised I had BA blue and asked me if I wanted to upgrade it to BAPP. I selected yes, it then requested me to sign in and it displayed info for BAPP and got me to accept t&c. Upgrade wasn’t instant, it stated it was being processed, so I have no idea about the 6000 avios people sometimes get. Anyway, their system is clearly now more sophisticated than before. It remains to be seen if there are still beneficial glitche or not. I hope it does not herald the arrival of the self-referral scanning technology.

  • Lee says:

    2 Mar2 March 14:37

    Noticed that yesterday. Referred OH yesterday, referral points has landed today.

    • BJ says:

      2 Mar2 March 16:01

      Possibly means the end of the random sign up bonuses but they were good while they lasted. I’ll continue to hit bonus spend targets though, no harm in trying 🙂

• Jane says:

  2 Mar2 March 13:49

  OT – had a recent stay at a Hilton which apparently was non qualifying (new cooperate booking system defaulted to booking.com) but I would have thought I should have earned a few points on the incidental spend (bar) and resort fee. I have e-mailed them but no response yet. Can anyone confirm before I start chasing.
  Same thing with an IHG hotel on the same trip but at least they replied to my e-mail. IHG didn’t answer the question (x 3 clarifications) but gave me 2000 points which was more than my bar bill would have got me…

  • Kai says:

    2 Mar2 March 14:19

    No, you don’t earn on incidentals if the stay is non-qualifying.

    • Jane says:

      2 Mar2 March 14:50

      really ! surprised about that. That is rubbish. thanks for the response though.

    • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

      2 Mar2 March 16:25

      I believe you will at Mariott group hotels

• Blindman says:

  2 Mar2 March 14:17

  OT
  Mrs B may have to go to OZ on her lonesome.

  Is Business 125KAVIOS and £480 a good deal for the one way flight?

  • Lady London says:

    2 Mar2 March 15:11

    If you hold off cash prices may improve – if you need any sort of return at all. Not so much for one ways I would guess.

    Problem with the 125,000 its ok if you have enough avios, but there is still the co-pay that’s about what you should be able to get a Y ticket for. Or, can actually more than the half of a Y return ticket these days.

    If she has to fly in Y for cash then SQ and EK are apparently the most OK.
    In Business up to you – hard to beat QR to add to the above.

    f she’s actually coming back at any point in the next year did you know that if you take close look at the rules for a lot of fare classes, your ticket is repriced completely if you make any change before the outward, but not if you’ve flown the outward? checking other conditions for changeability can give pause for thought if she’s not actually going forever. You could save a lot of money that way by taking a return and “buying” the option even if you only know about one way so far.

    • Blindman says:

      2 Mar2 March 15:23

      @LadyLondon

      Thanks for the reply.

      Somewhat complex issue:

      We have a flight booked to return (from RAR) with miles.
      So a single is needed really as I would need to change plans to get a return fare.
      And then she would be flying back on her own again.

      She is a nervous flyer and needs the rest due to a health condition so looking at either Premium or Business seats for such a long trip.

      • Lady London says:

        2 Mar2 March 20:03

        Is there even the availability of avios or other award tix to Oz?

        This is where Amex MR points come in handy – you could get far lower taxes on other airlines – and might find award seats as well.

        • Nigel says:

          2 Mar2 March 20:31

          Hi
          There is tonnes of availabilty on Avios

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