British Airways adds lounge access at more European airports including Porto and Reykjavik

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• Craig Strickland says:

  28 Feb28 February 17:32

  OT: Well, off the original topic anyway. Strangely I have just been offered and completed an e-Rewards survey that discussed credit cards that earn status and points!

  • New Card says:

    28 Feb28 February 17:41

    If you had to guess, who commissioned it? 🙂

    • Craig Strickland says:

      28 Feb28 February 17:46

      Without wishing to risk the confidentiality agreements, there were several and none of them would be a surprise to readers of this thread.

• James says:

  28 Feb28 February 18:32

  BA just cancelled my flight to Dublin on Friday 🙁
  Not told me yet but its online when I have a look in my booking.

  I have an airbnb booked which I will not be able to cancel. Do I have to rely on my travel insurance for this ?

  There are other flights BA have not cancelled on that day but they have not proactively moved us onto one of the others – will they ? Or would we need to call up and request that ?
  My Father is thinking he’d rather not go now this weekend so it might be quite a good excuse to bin the whole thing……if BA or travel insurance will cover the AirBnB.

  Hmmm……

  • Anna says:

    28 Feb28 February 19:49

    They have a duty to put you on another flight or give you a refund, your travel insurer might say it was your choice to cancel if you went for the latter option. I had a flight cancelled recently and not re-booked, they said this was an error when they called but they were selling the seats on the alternative flights for a fortune!

    • Bored says:

      1 Mar1 March 01:01

      No way!!! How much were they charging for these flights??? £343 perhaps?

      😉

• Craig Strickland says:

  28 Feb28 February 18:47

  OT. Looking at using the Amex £200 of £600 spend offer. I can find about £450 of experiences for various holidays that look good. Thinking of topping it up with a car hire, does this get charged immediately and will it count? Thanks.

  • KevMc says:

    28 Feb28 February 19:20

    Yes and yes. Everything I’ve ever booked via Amex Travel has been charged immediately

    • Craig Strickland says:

      28 Feb28 February 19:22

      Here goes nothing then, agent just told me Avis don’t charge immediately.

      • Lady London says:

        1 Mar1 March 00:31

        With a car hire normally you can choose between pre-paying online on your card immediately when you book, or paying when you return the car. Both have pros and cons. Prepaying is pretty much always cheaper but very risky if your plans change as it might not be rebookable.

        One advantage of prepaying is that it’s usually in UK pounds if booked on the UK website of a car hire company. Once you’ve paid even if the UK Pound value goes down against the local currency where you pick up the car before the date you pick up the car, you are protected from exchange rate changes if you don’t add extras when picking up the car as you already paid everything. Adding extras when you pick up the car will be in the local currency and might even trigger the whole thing to be revalued into local currency (not done that, but think so!).

  • Craig Strickland says:

    28 Feb28 February 20:11

    For the record, just made one hire car and two excursion bookings. Three separate transactions and have received the thanks for using your offer email.

    • Bill says:

      28 Feb28 February 21:13

      Thanks Craig

• Robin says:

  28 Feb28 February 20:11

  Hi off topic hoping for some help from the community. Does anyone know whether if you book hotels through Amex Travel, will the stay still qualify as a Hilton stay under the Diamond status challenge, where you have to stay 8 stays in a 3 month period. I was trying to use my Amex £50 voucher for £200 spend which expires today.

• The Original Nick says:

  28 Feb28 February 21:50

  O:T, I have an Avis offer on my AMEX BA CC. Spend £125 or more for £20 back. Maybe useful for some.

  • Jay says:

    28 Feb28 February 21:56

    Was wondering if could be used for multiple bookings as might put through couple of Virgin bookings tonight.

    • Jay says:

      28 Feb28 February 21:58

      Meaning cumulative spend by that ^

• w says:

  28 Feb28 February 22:00

  So, what does that mean for the SPG & BAPP Amex? Days numbered as well?

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