Chat thread – Tuesday 15th April

[NorthernLass]

@executiveclubber, I don’t think the MCO route has an F cabin 🤷‍♀️ Son just saw this and muttered something about the Mickey Mouse crack house 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

[bungalow]

Greg wrote:

bungalow wrote:

Hi guys, I can’t seem to find anything on this so I’ll ask here.
I have had an Amex of some sort for a long time, and always pay it off with my Curve, however my wife just got her new Amex after 2 years and of course it would be nice if I could pay hers off with my Curve card also.
I do recall reading somewhere on here a while back that Amex now take a dim view of paying off your bill with someone else’s card, indeed it may not now even be possible?
Before I try, is this a bad idea, or will the Amex payment system even accept it?
I wouldn’t want to incur the wrath of Amex and whatever the consequences, hence some advice here beforehand would be welcome.
Thank you

Why would anybody want to use up their curve fronted monthly allowance on anything other than to stick £3k into a savings account then use that to pay off whatever you need to pay off – including the card you put it on – 6 weeks later ?
I guess you’ve had the nickname Bungalow for a while :))

News to me! But then I’ve only been using Curve for about 10 years! 🙂

Will investigate further…

[davefl]

Hertz data breach unfolding https://lifehacker.com/tech/hertz-had-a-massive-data-breach

[Blair Waldorf Salad]

aq.1988 wrote:

2 nights ago, I cancelled a long-haul avios redemption. I mostly only cancel short-haul, which have always returned the avios immediately, and it shows the cash/avios refund (usually only 50p cancellation fee). I’m sure last time I cancelled long haul, the points were refunded immediately.

But, this time, it just said apply for a refund, and had no indication of the avios and cash refund (minus £35 cancellation fee). I got a confirmation email immediately of the cancellation request, but that it was being processed, and card refund to be calculated.

So, my question is, typically how long does it take for the avios to be refunded when it goes through this process?

It was a bog standard one-way redemption, which I cancelled after another seat became available, and I was able to use my newly earned BC upgrade voucher. I posted about this a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t want to cancel my existing booking unless there was an available seat to book with my voucher first.

I have had this before and when I called up about it was told that it indicates that the refund is non-straightforward and gets sent off to back office to calculate. I was waiting about 5 days on that occasionz

[bungalow]

bungalow wrote:

Greg wrote:

bungalow wrote:

Hi guys, I can’t seem to find anything on this so I’ll ask here.
I have had an Amex of some sort for a long time, and always pay it off with my Curve, however my wife just got her new Amex after 2 years and of course it would be nice if I could pay hers off with my Curve card also.
I do recall reading somewhere on here a while back that Amex now take a dim view of paying off your bill with someone else’s card, indeed it may not now even be possible?
Before I try, is this a bad idea, or will the Amex payment system even accept it?
I wouldn’t want to incur the wrath of Amex and whatever the consequences, hence some advice here beforehand would be welcome.
Thank you

Why would anybody want to use up their curve fronted monthly allowance on anything other than to stick £3k into a savings account then use that to pay off whatever you need to pay off – including the card you put it on – 6 weeks later ?
I guess you’ve had the nickname Bungalow for a while :))

News to me! But then I’ve only been using Curve for about 10 years! 🙂

Will investigate further…

Worked it out, no flies on me eh! 😜

[aq.1988]

@Blair Waldorf Salad

Thanks for this. I’ll wait until after the bank holiday then before chasing up.