Air New Zealand gets £20m for its London Heathrow landing and take-off slots

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• Aston100 says:

  10 Mar10 March 10:24

  Also, is £257pp considered quite expensive for a Club Europe return LHR/CDG?.
  I’m thinking this would enable me to hit silver. Can also reduce the cost by £30 with 3000 avios and I’d get 1500 avios for the booking.
  Sounds expensive to me for such a short flight, but wondering what the experts think.

  • Rob says:

    10 Mar10 March 10:29

    Gatwick to Amsterdam would be cheaper, or Heathrow to Leeds or somewhere.

    Don’t be fooled into thinking the shortest routes are the cheapest ones. Looks at the BA Low Fare Finder.

• Benilyn says:

  10 Mar10 March 10:25

  OT: Kurve – where can I load up an ISA / trading account in cash without charge?

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    10 Mar10 March 10:27

    NS&I

  • Ashan Ramakrishnan says:

    10 Mar10 March 10:27

    I have done HL and Barclays before but not with IHG underlying unless doing £300.

    • Ashish says:

      10 Mar10 March 13:20

      Yes. This is the one to use

• JamesLHR says:

  10 Mar10 March 11:33

  Do the maths on how long cleaners get on an aircraft.

  If the turnaround for a long haul widebody is 90 minutes (reduced ground time) and in that a maximum of 30 minutes is allocated to the cleaning.

  That’s 300 seats in 1,800 seconds with a team of 8-10 including changing pillows and blankets, cleaning the toilets and galleys and the waste.

  It’s a few seconds per seat in actual cleaning.

  All these articles by airlines on their deep cleaning is nonsense at the present time. It doesn’t happen on turnarounds, can only happen when the aircraft stays on the ground for a period of time.

• Scallder says:

  10 Mar10 March 11:34

  Had a survey just sent through by Curve – was asking about what would be missed most if I could no longer use Curve (and whether would go to a competitor). Perhaps they’re trying to get some funding in to keep themselves afloat?

  • Anna says:

    10 Mar10 March 16:29

    There’s something odd going on with Curve this week. I am definitely being allowed to go over the £700 limit, done £700 on IHG via Curve but it’s also letting me top up Revolut in addition. Will proceed with caution and keep paying off Creation as I go along!

  • Tom1 says:

    10 Mar10 March 22:04

    Did you also notice the one feature that was not listed in the “I will miss the most..” question is the one we all use.. being able to use a credit card where only a debit card is accepted?
    Ominous.

    • Polly says:

      10 Mar10 March 22:30

      I added that point in on a comment section.

      • tom1 says:

        12 Mar12 March 23:50

        me too!

• BA-Flyer says:

  10 Mar10 March 16:36

  Is the issue with Revolut transaction codes now fixed?

• Oliv says:

  10 Mar10 March 16:37

  OT – £5 off a £25 order at Amazon by 29th March with the usual conditions with code MYDISCOUNT5

  • Shoestring says:

    10 Mar10 March 17:33

    tried it yesterday in my main a/c & didn’t work for me

    worth a try though, particularly if you can stack it with the M’s 20% off credit, ie you’re getting £10 off £25

    • TGLoyalty says:

      11 Mar11 March 00:57

      I can see the offer via a banner on my account and it says I’m eligible but still couldn’t use the code. Amazon gave me £5 as goodwill. Perhaps the code will start working at some point so I get it again.

      Fuel via GC worked fine at a couple of my local M’s so I’m happy might make a final trip tomorrow for a few more.

• AJA says:

  10 Mar10 March 17:22

  O/T Qantas will close its Singapore first class lounge from Monday 20 April until at least September 2020 as well as halting its Sydney-Singapore-London Airbus A380 flights from the same date. The reason for the lounge closure is the A380 is the only aircraft in the Qantas fleet that has a first-class cabin and no A380s will be flying to or via Singapore.

  Instead, Qantas’ flagship QF1/QF2 service to London will be re-routed via Perth and become a non-stop Boeing 787-9 to London, running alongside the current QF9/QF10 service resulting in two daily Perth-London flights on the Dreamliner.

  Qantas is also replacing the A380 with a 787-9 from late March and then an A330 from 4 May on the daily Melbourne-Singapore service.

  The business class lounge at Changi will stay open.

  • Alex Sm says:

    10 Mar10 March 22:53

    That’s nice

• Secret Squirrel says:

  10 Mar10 March 19:50

  Q:
  At what point does BA release more CW seats for AVIOS redemptions if the cabin is very undersold?
  1-2 weeks prior to departure?

  • Liam says:

    10 Mar10 March 20:02

    Probably around that mark, yeah. I can’t say categorically but I flew LAX to LHR in Club World last month with an Avios upgrade from WT+. There was no Avios availability when I first booked the flight a few months ago but a good number of seats opened up. I booked about five days before flying but I think the seats became available maybe a week earlier than that.

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      10 Mar10 March 20:50

      Thanks Liam, good to hear some first hand experience.
      I’m keeping an eye on seat loads via seatspy regularly, still got 2x months & who knows what is going to happen between now and that point!

      • Lady London says:

        10 Mar10 March 21:05

        If any strategy works then prob it’s what @Liam is saying. That’s exactly how I picked up my last minute F seat from the US last year after IB st*ffed my 90k booking by refusing to offer a reliable reroute after a canceled flight.

        I was forced to move the avios to BA, grabbed Y and crossed my fingers for J or F to come up and it did at @Liam’s sort of timing. I think it varies by route though, would hope it might work for mainstream routes but not for, say, Barbados.

        • Secret Squirrel says:

          11 Mar11 March 17:06

          Of all the destinations you had to single out LL…. We bagged F out but the best on offer was WT+ inbound so hoping for CW seats to come available.

  • Rob says:

    10 Mar10 March 20:38

    No policy – if there was a policy, people would game it.

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