British Airways moves its Maldives flights to Heathrow airport

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• Stanley says:

  4 Mar4 March 09:19

  50 of 50,000 to 100,000 is 0.1-0.05% ie 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 2,000……

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Mar4 March 09:24

    my bad math, cheers

    • Shoestring says:

      4 Mar4 March 09:31

      though don’t get your hopes up that coronavirus is as mild as that – Professor Ferguson made the same mistake in his interview (link above) and did actually say along the lines ‘and that means a mortality rate of 0.5%-1%’

      • Stanley says:

        4 Mar4 March 09:49

        So he does the maths, then says “ignore the maths” !!?? I guess anything sub 1% is ok in my view

      • Cat says:

        4 Mar4 March 11:00

        I’ll listen later, but if he can’t handle the basic Maths to work out a percentage (which the middle set 11 year olds that I’m teaching in about 5 minutes can do, incidentally), I struggle to consider him an expert in a field that is as Maths heavy as comparing epidemiological risks!

      • Shoestring says:

        4 Mar4 March 11:05

        he was live on air and just made an understandable mistake

        when I wrote down his 50,000-100,000, I immediately thought that sounds a bit high compared to the official WHO figures – but unfortunately didn’t follow my instincts and check the math for myself 🙁

• Luckyjim says:

  4 Mar4 March 09:46

  OT: I don’t think this had been mentioned already. Virgin Atlantic now say they will wave fees for any changes made to new bookings. Changes but not cancellations. Seems to match BAs Book With Confidence policy.

  • Rhys says:

    4 Mar4 March 09:48

    Yep, got it this morning

• Shoestring says:

  4 Mar4 March 09:47

  @BJ the second wave of cheap £100 insurances just went payable – much faster that first round where ISTR it was 9-10 months – this time under 4 months, so only 4x c.£4 – BACS only not Avios

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:12

    Same here SS, 3x instalments @ £2.61.
    Now onto a new policy.

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:29

    Safe to use previous provider just cancelled?

    • Shoestring says:

      4 Mar4 March 11:37

      I was on the 3rd different one for each of us, obvs I went for cheapest first so it might be going up to rather more than £4/ month next – hmmm – I’ll check and see, might be a good idea to leave 18 months before going back to the same provider but they might not notice

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        4 Mar4 March 12:06

        Prob is for me my previous provider @ £2.19 for new quote, closest 2nd quote £5.00 @ month so a considerable jump if takes 10x months to payout.

  • Nick_C says:

    4 Mar4 March 18:48

    Interestingly, my £100 from the first tranche was initially payable as Avios. I kept it in the account, hoping for a bonus, and it has now changed to BACS only.

    Still OT, bought JL GCs in Morrison’s today. Tried to buy 3*£50 and till refused it (this was at the Kiosk). Manager came but could not override. Changed to 6*25 (plus 2*25 Netflix) and it all went through fine.

    Morrison’s also has Redex Diesel additive half price – £2 for a 2 shot bottle.

• Joe says:

  4 Mar4 March 10:02

  OT – I need to change a couple of bookings on BA and struggling to get through (not surprising). Does anyone know what time of day tends to be quieter so I can try again then?

  • Anna says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:22

    Call as soon as they open in the morning.

  • e.thomas says:

    4 Mar4 March 18:47

    BA answered just now – 18.45pm

• Genghis says:

  4 Mar4 March 10:04

  Or 0.05-0.1%?

  • Genghis says:

    4 Mar4 March 10:05

    Bit late to the party!

    • Stanley says:

      4 Mar4 March 10:46

      But yes, fair point !

• pauldb says:

  4 Mar4 March 10:23

  Email from Virgin Money that they are removing 2.99% FX charges for the EEA. Can’t see how that’s defined: then it mentions Sterling, Euro, Krona, Lei. So what about Croatia, Norway, Monaco and more?

  • jc says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:41

    If you’re e.g. in Croatia paying in Kuna you still pay the fee.

    You have to be in EEA AND paying in one of the three currencies listed, to have no fees.

    It’s an EU regulation that came in 15 December 2019 – Virgin mentioned it on statements, and have now followed up with an email too.

    @Rob, still think they’re going to undo it?

    • AlexT says:

      4 Mar4 March 12:02

      I didn’t pay FX on a BGN transaction in Sofia in late December, so looks like the EEA is broadly defined and doesn’t just include Eurozone countries and EUR transactions.

      • jc says:

        4 Mar4 March 14:16

        BGN is one of the currencies listed, and Sofia (Bulgaria) is in the EEA (and EU), so I don’t follow your comment? They’ve said that this would have no fees, and it has no fees…

        • pauldb says:

          4 Mar4 March 15:35

          No they’ve said no fees in the EEA, then gone on to say it’s limited to certain currencies and BGN is not listed.

          From what I can see, it may be confusion where in fact the 15Dec rules extended Euro rules to the whole EEA. Previously other non-Euro countries could add themselves to the grouping with local legislation and only Sweden and Romania had done so. 15Dec widened the rules to the EEA, and the UK with that, but that does suggesting Virgin Money should be making the rule change for all EEA currencies. But I could be reading it all wrong!

      • jc says:

        4 Mar4 March 14:18

        (EEA only has one definition, and the Eurozone and Euro aren’t it.)

        • AlexT says:

          4 Mar4 March 15:40

          I wasn’t suggesting the EEA has multiple definitions – was just saying that what you claimed is wrong…

          “You have to be in EEA AND paying in one of the three currencies listed, to have no fees.”

  • RussellH says:

    4 Mar4 March 16:33

    It is only SEK, not DKK or NOK or ISK.

    It goes back to the creation of the SEPA – all cross border payments in EUR were required to cost no more than a similar domestic payment. Swedish and Romanian govts.decided to require their banks to follow suit. Other EEA govts. did not.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      4 Mar4 March 20:31

      Aren’t they? All of those currencies are mentioned on Virgins link

      • jc says:

        4 Mar4 March 21:41

        Mentioned as ‘from April 16 this website will show the conversion rate for these currencies’. No official word that anything except EUR/SEK/RON has the fees waived – yet

• Lee says:

  4 Mar4 March 10:45

  Hi I’m looking at flying heathrow to istanbal BA business to connect with another flight. Does anyone know if this is a standard business class seat same as economy? Its airbus neo A321-200

  Thanks any help greatly appreciated

  • marcw says:

    4 Mar4 March 10:52

    No, just standard economy seats with free seat in the middle.

  • Michael C says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:36

    …and so no IFE, of course.

• Jack says:

  4 Mar4 March 11:37

  OT

  Am I right in thinking you can earn Avios on if you book the Lufthansa-operated Cathay codeshare from FRA-HKG through Cathay? Similar to the BA-Qantas-Emirates trick?

  • Rhys says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:44

    Nope, Qantas is the exception to the rule

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