Bits: World Cup Avios seats available, 400 Avios with Spain’s Uber-clone, 25% off Priority Pass

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• sohan says:

  4 Jul4 July 12:39

  Totally OT:
  Heathrow Rewards: I’m short 23 points for a redemption and won’t be in Heathrow anytime soon. Any advice for a quick way to top up?

  • Rob says:

    4 Jul4 July 13:00

    Ring and ask nicely. Often works.

  • AVM says:

    4 Jul4 July 13:27

    if any of your family/friends will be there soon – ask them to buy smth and quote your number (or give them your card to swipe).

    • sohan says:

      4 Jul4 July 16:14

      Good ideas, thanks both!

• JamesB says:

  4 Jul4 July 15:29

  OT: Anybody here have any knowledge or experience of the club1 hotels booking company?

  • Rob says:

    4 Jul4 July 16:53

    We looked at it when it launched and it was a complete shambles. We were offered a substantial four-figure sum to promote them and turned it down. I was approached last week again about doing something with them, on the grounds that they are now less of a shambles, so I need to take another look. They are not actively ripping people off AFAIK, it is just a scrappy looking site and business model.

    • JamesB says:

      4 Jul4 July 17:12

      Thanks, I had never heard of them and then ran into them twice today via Etihand and Ethiopian. The latter selling membership in conjunction with 10k or 20k sheba miles and a rebate voucher.

  • Lawro says:

    4 Jul4 July 18:36

    Signed up last year when they were offering a year’s free membership. Haven’t actually dared book anything through it partially because the prices seem a little too good to be true and also because I have seen very little coverage of it since all the fanfare regarding free membership last year.

    • Rob says:

      4 Jul4 July 19:57

      That fanfare was based on fat payments per sign up by the people involved, not any objective view of the business.

      • Lawro says:

        4 Jul4 July 23:39

        Right, as was clearly evident from the sheer amount of coverage and number of promotional posts from the majority of US bloggers at the time.

    • JamesB says:

      4 Jul4 July 21:57

      That was my impression when I discovered it today too. Sometimes it’s possible to run into problems at independent hotels even with the more well established names so I would be very hesitant using this. That said, if they are now tied up with major airlines they are likely generating at least some business.

      • Rob says:

        4 Jul4 July 22:40

        Ironically I got a sign-up offer for Club1 via the internal WeWork network last month. They certainly have some serious money to burn on building a customer list, it is a shame they didn’t put more of it into building a decent website.

        • JamesB says:

          4 Jul4 July 22:57

          If you have the time you should maybe give them a hearing. They might have good intentions but lack the know how. They are not the first nor will they be the last to have a trashy website, BA and virgin to name but two. All they need is a simple but beautiful app like Hilton. However, the more fundamental question is whether the business model is sound.

• Optimus Prime says:

  4 Jul4 July 19:22

  OT – if I book an Economy flight with AA for 2 passengers and later on I want to upgrade to Business with points, can all the points come from just one passenger or does each passenger have to provide their own points?

  • Optimus Prime says:

    4 Jul4 July 21:09

    Just spoke to them and the answer is yes I can use just one account 🙂

• MARCELO C CORREA says:

  20 Jul20 July 01:50

  The code MD9ANOS gives 30% discount to priority pass. Website of the promotion: prioritypass.com/melhores-destinos

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