RwandAir launches direct Heathrow to Kigali flights

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• lumma says:

  19 Oct19 October 04:46

  My guess of the lounge access policy is you can pay £18.50 to buy lounge passes and you can pay an extra £5 to guarantee that you can get in as you can for no1 lounges on their website but it will allow you to do so for more lounges

  • Colin Thames says:

    19 Oct19 October 09:12

    I think that’s spot on, lumma. The existing Dragonpass for Travelpack members allows pre-booking. In fact No1 didn’t even have a charge for booking last week. And I got free FastTrack at Gatwick thrown in.

    Not all lounges were bookable at all times but the further ahead you book the easier it is. I suspect there are times when lounges have an airline they give priority to. But if there’s more than one lounge at an airport you should be okay.

    When I checked in at No1 I had to show my booking email my card and boarding pass, presumably to check my flight wasn’t more than 3 hours later.

    Adding passes costs exactly £18.50 on the Barclays Dragonpass app, which is why I’m sure this is how it’ll work. So I don’t think you can use your PP card. The stay is debited off your DP account when you book.

    A shame Barclaycard don’t give a few free passes though.

• Mike says:

  19 Oct19 October 04:48

  Rwandair news is good for the home office/ taxpayer.

  • KevinS says:

    19 Oct19 October 07:43

    The government should put thick Lizzie on that plane, never to return

    • sayling says:

      19 Oct19 October 08:06

      She should sit next to Sturgeon, Black and Corbyn

      • KevinS says:

        19 Oct19 October 08:19

        Put that fatso Bozo on it too

        • Londonsteve says:

          19 Oct19 October 12:01

          Must be space Prince Andrew on an A330 neo. What about Pretty Stupid, can she be made to atone for her past failings?

    • sas says:

      19 Oct19 October 13:51

      Why do you always call her thick?

      Is it a mental health issue? low self esteem?

      • KevinS says:

        19 Oct19 October 14:21

        “Why do you always call her thick?”

        Mainly because she is? Moronic is another word I could use?

      • Londonsteve says:

        20 Oct20 October 13:36

        Tin Lizzy, Dizzy Lizzy, thick Lizzy, keep ’em coming. She deserves everything coming her way shortly. I suppose we should actually be grateful, for she has hastened the political burial of the Tories for an entire generation.

  • Genghis says:

    19 Oct19 October 08:22

    When dreams come true (Braverman)

    • KevinS says:

      19 Oct19 October 16:57

      She’s now got more time on her hands 🙂

  • Dubious says:

    19 Oct19 October 10:03

    Do I get Avios if I get deported?

    • DontDeportDubious says:

      19 Oct19 October 10:42

      Only one way to find out..

    • KevinS says:

      19 Oct19 October 11:36

      You’ll get good £ per Avios!

• Sideshowbob says:

  19 Oct19 October 05:39

  Barclays already had a relationship with Dragonpass through their travel plus current account which gave you 6 free lounge passes a year. I’m surprised they can’t do the same offering with Barclaycard

  • Liz says:

    19 Oct19 October 06:55

    I was thinking the exact same thing. I have the Barclays Travel Pack and have 6 free Dragon passes with that.

• SteveJ says:

  19 Oct19 October 06:35

  “Don’t ask why Barclaycard has not opted into the LoungeKey lounge access programme which Mastercard offers”…. But why haven’t they!?

  • Colin Thames says:

    19 Oct19 October 09:32

    Apparently World Elite Mastercards issued in Canada use the Dragonpass card. Could this be a trend, or is it just because of an existing relationship Barclays has through the intermediary Life Style Services?

  • David says:

    19 Oct19 October 23:56

    Barclaycard still pickup the bill.

    There are internal scheme (Visa/MC) booklets which document the policy for the level/value of benefit you need to give for each card type.
    But what they actually are is pretty much up to the issuer.

• The Paw 🐾 says:

  19 Oct19 October 06:58

  Considering that it will take £48000 annual spend to break even on the Avios Plus card, I hope there are more benefits coming (World Elite or otherwise)…..

  • Peter K says:

    19 Oct19 October 07:20

    £48000? How did you get that figure?

    • The Paw 🐾 says:

      19 Oct19 October 08:16

      Spend £48000 on the free card and you get 48,000 avios. Spend £48000 on the plus card and you earn £72000 avios. But there’s a £240 fee for the plus card (so 24k avios worth if you value an avios at 1p). So unless you’re spending over £48k a year you’re better off with the free card (assuming 1p value for an Avios). And unless there’s some decent perks introduced for the plus card, it’s not worth getting the plus card if you’re not spending a lot – *paid* lounge access certainly won’t sway anyone towards the plus card…..

      • Jonathan says:

        19 Oct19 October 12:34

        If you spend over £10k per annum and fully maximise the voucher’s potential, (or get a seat by HfP standards a good return on your Avios points), then the monthly fee is nearly always worth swallowing, this especially true on the routes that give the highest valuation of an Avios point based on how many miles you’ll cover per Avios point

      • Peter K says:

        19 Oct19 October 13:33

        Thanks for that. Make more sense now 👍

    • Rob says:

      19 Oct19 October 08:24

      You earn an extra 0.5 Avios per £1, worth 0.5p. Fee is £20 per month. £4,000 of spend earns 2,000 extra Avios worth £20. Total £48,000 per year.

      • Exon88 says:

        19 Oct19 October 08:59

        Thanks for spelling this out. I should have downgraded long before I did.

• meta says:

  19 Oct19 October 07:48

  I can’t see any availability on RwandaAir through Privilege Club till the end of schedule.

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 08:22

    Can you book RwandAir online? I thought you had to submit a written request for partners apart from BA?

    • meta says:

      19 Oct19 October 11:53

      There is a search box when you click on partner awards and then it says no availability when I did the search; underneath there was also a message saying 170,000 Avios needed (for J return). I only have 1000 avios at the moment in PC, so maybe that’s why it’s not showing.

• Novice says:

  19 Oct19 October 08:11

  Is there still no news whether we can get bonuses without paying in 75k???

  Why is barclays ignoring the question if this is so. Why don’t they just say so.

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 08:20

    No idea, but let’s be honest I would be shocked if they would give it to you without earning £75k as the whole point of the promo is to bring in a new generation of well-heeled customers.

    • yorkieflyer says:

      19 Oct19 October 10:27

      Dear me can’t folk just say nowt

• Colin Thames says:

  19 Oct19 October 09:36

  Rob, is the free Dragonpass offer still available through Regus?
  I notice that lounge visits are £19.50 if your DP card comes that route, £1 more than through Barclays.
  So if you managed 20 lounge visits a month you’d cover your fee for the Barclaycard! 😉

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