[AndrewT]

@strickers first part is ‘easy’. Click Membership just below the top of your account home page, scroll down for a while, then View your statements under Your membership and offers. Obvious really! Someone clearly decided that the previous single click at the top of the page was too convenient.

I hadn’t noticed the HHA feature until you mentioned it. Having looked, I’m missing two of mine!

[AndrewT]

No absolutely nothing works. The share price is bombing, no one can buy any tickets, none of the planes can take off – which is just as well as there aren’t any passengers in the first place.

Daft subject lines don’t achieve anything.

[AndrewT]

JDB wrote:

I still can’t get my head around the extensive complaints re BA lounges (in my view not really justified) only now to see people fighting tooth and nail to be allowed access.

Isn’t that the sad side of human nature? If you can’t complain about what you’ve got or what you think you’re missing out on, what else is there to complain about?

[AndrewT]

You’re probably best going for two windows (or two aisles), one behind the other with your daughter in front so you can keep an eye on things. No line of sight aisle – window (unless both people are leaning forward at a strange angle!).

A middle pair gives more direct contact with the partition down, but no physical access without going all the way round via the nearest door or galley cross passage. Depends on whether you want to interact during the flight, or just monitor and be able to intervene if necessary.

[AndrewT]

Gold for two full years, after clocking up an impressive sounding 22,458TP from one trip 🙂 Somebody will probably suggest that people doing that is why the system had to change. The same trip now wouldn’t even get 20% of Gold!

[AndrewT]

Going completely off topic, I’m now sorted for the next two years after BA coughed up for my ORC claim from last month. Bizarrely they gave me the correct 5,601TP for three missing flights (3 * 140 * 13.33), and then added 5,655 for the BAH Double TP bonus. Where the additional 54TP came from I’ve no idea.

[AndrewT]

Yes in that respect you do end up slightly better off at Bronze & Silver levels as the threshold changes varied in percentage terms. The multiplier is derived from the Gold thresholds, 20,000 (new) / 1,500 (old) = 13.33.

Where you get stuffed of course is now needing another £1,500 or so of spend to make up the difference, where as before another £300 160TP CE return would do the job.

[AndrewT]

clucking every bit as much as an RJ metallic fowl – you’re gonna get complaints!

Personally I agree about the interpretation of the rules and said so in one of the threads the other day (or was it this one, I’ve lost track!).

Where I think it can be expected to go wrong is if you have a BP which says ‘RJ tin duck = OW Ruby’ because that’s where you want to earn the points and then try waving someone else’s higher OW status card. OK I admit I did make part of that up.

[AndrewT]

Ringing at T-72 won’t help if the seats haven’t been released, it isn’t an automated process and call centre agents can’t override it. It’s a manual step as part of the handover to airport control.

Either way it’s very likely by that point that some of the previously available non-bassinet bulkhead seats will have been taken, hence getting four is unlikely.

[AndrewT]

I mostly agree 🙂 The Double TP offer was book by Dec 30th for travel by June 30th, the multiplier is 13.33 rounded up.

So the June trip earns 80 x 13.33 = 1,067 each way, 4,268 total with BAH bonus.

The July trip still earns 1,067 each way as it was booked last year, but no BAH bonus so 2,134 total.

[AndrewT]

If no infants have taken them the bassinets are typically released around (but not necessarily at) T-72. Even then it depends on how busy the flight is, so nice when it happens but not something to expect or rely on.

If all four want to sit together you need to choose that now. If willing to take a risk you could book three in the second row if available and one in front, and hope to pick up an additional front row later. Depends on how lucky you feel and/or how badly you want the front row, but getting four is unlikely.

[AndrewT]

When it’s AA (or whoever) metal and on the day it goes pear shaped and they rebook you with an AA flight number instead of a BA codeshare.

Not a normal booking scenario of course, but I’m currently missing over 5K TP and Gold status because of that.

[AndrewT]

Worked fine for me a few months ago on the first visit with a new ESTA. I had used the same passport before with a different ESTA, so not exactly the same as your situation.

[AndrewT]

What you really mean is that it doesn’t always work when they know about each other!

[AndrewT]

But with BA there are clear limitations. You get a personal item / smaller hand bag ‘to be placed under the seat in front of you’ and a larger cabin bag which ‘May need to go in the hold’.

You are not entitled to an overhead bag.

[AndrewT]

NorthernLass wrote:

So we still have to see how this pans out but with some planning it should be possible to construct a BAH containing, for example, cheap economy flights for a short city break, plus a longer hotel stay to be taken another time

I have done exactly that, but have to wait until December to find out whether or not my £95 flight to Oslo earns 2,566 TP 😀

Some earlier data points would be useful.

[AndrewT]

A ‘BA Holiday’ for TP purposes is clearly documented as flight + hotel or flight + car, so no combination with reward flights works.

In principle you can tag an expensive hotel which you want to book along with a reward flight on to a separate unrelated cheap flight booking to make that a holiday and earn TP from the hotel spend, but as far as I know it’s as yet untested under the new regime.

[AndrewT]

Yes if you have the voucher in BA land you can cancel. Any card can be used to pay the cash part when you use the voucher.

[AndrewT]

Paul wrote:

Nico wrote:

Ladyshopper wrote:

Would someone be kind enough to remind me of the same day free change rules on BA please?

If ticket is economy plus, you can change for free with “manage my booking” from 12 a.m. BST.

This may not be true. My flight last week could not be done via MMB because I had upgraded it prior to checkin. this also impacted the ability to SDC the the return. The BA agent I spoke with did it all but only after 1am uk time and told me this is now the time.

As with ticket release at T-355, the SDC ‘day’ starts at midnight GMT, so 0100 in the UK when BST is in force or local time equivalent when elsewhere in the world.

[AndrewT]

It might be related to fare classes. As you say the LHR – GIB fare is pretty high, suggesting a higher fare class. That would force the system to calculate the long haul leg in the same higher class. I’m not sure if they can manually override that or not.

Can you not get a reward flight LHR – GIB? That’s not exactly a prime route, and the net cost would surely be less than £290.

[AndrewT]

@Ladyshopper SDC is available on Economy Plus (with checked baggage), not on HBO tickets.

[AndrewT]

I scrambled my last comment and can’t now edit it, so will try again.

There is nothing in ‘a and/or b or c (xxx)’ to say that one option overrides the other(s), all are valid. Skipping tickets for clarity, you need ‘a boarding pass (showing entitlement)’ or ‘a boarding pass and a membership card (showing entitlement)’.

Equally I completely agree that anyone trying to enter a lounge with a boarding pass which says they are not entitled and a separate membership card saying they are is asking for trouble.

[AndrewT]

While it’s not a debate which affects me (yet) or therefore concerns me, I agree that wording is far from clear.

‘a and/or b or c (xxx)’ – The xxx must apply to c (even though I don’t think status appears directly on a ticket as such), but why would the xxx necessarily apply to b but not a?

Boarding passes from the Android app have not shown status for months, yet I’ve been in an awful lot of lounges. BA lounges work it out, sometimes overseas I have been asked to show my membership card and they’ve been happy with that.

[AndrewT]

Interesting scenario for tomorrow. My flight is no longer on sale, suggesting it’s fully booked (tickets are available for its return trip so not obviously cancelled without yet being announced). However they are still offering ET – CE upgrades, suggesting either a c*ck up or may be that it’s just ET which is overbooked. I think I’ll sit tight and hope for a freebie.

[AndrewT]

achoogirl wrote:

I called the Gold Line and they have moved her to the 20.45. The odd thing is that I can see a seat next to me is free but it shows as not free when I go to check in for her!

If you are Gold it may be blocking the seat next to you precisely because you are Gold! If there are spare seats available you need to move yourself next to your daughter not the other way round. If you’ve both checked in you probably can’t move now, but the airport staff will be able to if the seat is still free.