British Airways suspends Oakland flights for the Winter timetable

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• Daftboy says:

  3 Apr3 April 10:35

  Thanks for the Sixt tip, very useful for an early AM flight on the first May bank holiday weekend, and came in at around half the price of Addison Lee (best comparison for me, as you can pre-book AddLee but not Uber)

  • Anthony says:

    3 Apr3 April 16:07

    I now use Sixt for all my airport transfers – you can’t really beat their prices – and they have a code SAVE10UK, which will take a further £10 off the fare. I just booked my transfers for May Bank Holiday,

    • HAM76 says:

      3 Apr3 April 18:22

      It’s CHAUFFEUR10 for bookings in Euros such as Paris. Gets 10€ off.

      • Daftboy says:

        4 Apr4 April 12:31

        Thanks both for those codes!

• RussellH says:

  3 Apr3 April 10:48

  I would personally be sorry to see OAK go. It is actually much nearer to downtown San Francisco than SFO (too BART last year from OAK to SFO) and as a smaller airport I find that one gets through much more quickly. No trekking for miles just to find a gate.

  It is also much more convenient for anywhere north of the Bay Area – Marin / Sonoma / Napa / Mendocino etc. Picking up a hire car is easy – no real crowds.

  OAK is also very convenient for Berkeley and U Cal. Yes, Oakland has its rough bits, it is a working class town, but then San Francisco has some very rough areas too, and a major homelessness problem! And it is good to be remionded of this sort of thing occasionally.

  Jack London Square in Oakland is well worth a visit, and you have regular ferries across the bay to San Francisco if you want

  • JohnT says:

    3 Apr3 April 12:37

    Nice to hear – we are using LGW-OAK in September (BA 241 Club trip) as live in south east so much prefer LGW! Also found good Avios availability. Hope they don’t start running service down early!

    • JamesB says:

      3 Apr3 April 13:00

      To add to Russells comments, it is also very convenient for getting to Sacramento, Tahoe, and Lassen National Park if venturing further afield. Ages since I was there but Spengers fish restaurant in Berkeley used to be very good. norther California is fantastic, enjoy your stay.

• RussellH says:

  3 Apr3 April 10:53

  Apropos of Sixt mydriver; does anyopne have any experience of minicabit.com? I have an Amex offer for this, but had never heard of it before (not least because I am a taxiphobe).

  • JPV says:

    5 Apr5 April 07:39

    I’ve used them six or seven times. It’s not exactly a premium service, and you sometimes have to wait for ten minutes at arrivals depending, but I’ve never had a major problem and the prices are competitive.

    • RussellH says:

      6 Apr6 April 22:33

      Thanks

• John says:

  3 Apr3 April 12:00

  OT: Virgin Atlantic cards are not coming today, sometime this week…

  https://twitter.com/VirginMoney/status/981117853473615873

  • Rob says:

    3 Apr3 April 14:32

    All in hand 🙂

  • Rob says:

    3 Apr3 April 14:33

    All in hand, what do you think I’ve doing all day instead of answering comments?!

• Gill says:

  3 Apr3 April 12:48

  OT
  Anyone know if you can upgrade an avios booked using Lloyd’s voucher? Have a PE outbound and wondering if its worth keeping an eye on J availability. Thanks

  • JamesB says:

    3 Apr3 April 13:10

    Not sure I understand you fully but sounds like you already used the voucher to book WTP for WT avios? If so, just call avios if CW becomes available and ask them to change it for you to CW for WTP avios.

    • AndyR says:

      3 Apr3 April 15:31

      JamesB any idea if you have to pay the £35 change fee for that?

      • Polly says:

        3 Apr3 April 17:30

        If they allow it, yes change fee applies.

      • JamesB says:

        3 Apr3 April 17:36

        Yes IM E, seems to go on just about everything. I recently changed dates on a cash WTP flight that I had UUA, I was charged £150 pp and the £35 pp was applied on top of that too.

    • Gill says:

      3 Apr3 April 18:10

      Thanks James
      Yeah – i have used the voucher WTP booked for WT avois. I’ll keep an eye out and hope my avios stash is sufficient should they appear.

      • JamesB says:

        3 Apr3 April 19:13

        I should add for clarity that when I changed a Lloyds voucher flight the agent said she would allow changes but not cancellation otherwise I would lose the voucher so take care not to fall into that trap.

• Andrew says:

  3 Apr3 April 12:50

  OT used my other half’s PRG to pay for our holiday and we want to split the Avios we got. She is in my household account for BAEC but only for the purposes of the 2-4-1 voucher we used. We were otherwise hoping to keep finances including Avios separate (I know… we’re a sweet couple…). So what are my options to end up with the Avios in my BAEC?

  – How is Amex on matching details of either Iberia or BAEC? I have both accounts. Would they pick up on me changing my name, receiving, changing my name back?
  – I understand another option used to be set up an Avios.com HHA and then dissolve it and request Avios to be apportioned as you wish. Still an option?
  – Neither of us are gold so don’t believe we can transfer for free within BAEC.

  Thanks in advance.

  • Genghis says:

    3 Apr3 April 12:58

    I sent (genuinely by mistake) avios from my MR account to my wife’s IB+ account (or was it the other way around) a few years ago. Went through OK. Same surname and same address. Could be worth a 1k tester?

  • Anna says:

    3 Apr3 April 13:02

    The details on your BAEC account need to match your Amex or they won’t let you move Avios in. I don’t know if you can move them to Avios.com from SPG.

  • mark2 says:

    3 Apr3 April 15:02

    Iberia are very touchy on details. I managed to put my wife’s second name in the second last name box so cannot do transfers as name does not match Avios/BAEC.
    But they did not object a few months ago.

• Wivus says:

  3 Apr3 April 13:23

  O/T but Bits. Sorry if these have been answered a hundred times before but I have looked but cannot find:
  If you have an Amex Platinum Supplementary can you also upgrade from your own Gold to Platinum and get the bonus?
  If you have a supplementary is that part of the 6 months too or only if you are the primary holder?

  Thanks in advance

  • Genghis says:

    3 Apr3 April 13:36

    1) Yes. Holding a supplementary on someone else’s account and having your own accounts are completely independent
    2) No, same reason as above.

    • Wivus says:

      3 Apr3 April 14:01

      Thanks G. Much appreciated

• Richard Saunders says:

  3 Apr3 April 13:25

  So if you want to fly BA Manchester to Last Vegas you’ll have to get from Heathrow to Gatwick by train or bus. BA is useless

  • TGLoyalty says:

    3 Apr3 April 14:16

    Use one of the 7 Heathrow flights?

  • Matt says:

    3 Apr3 April 14:19

    Not necessarily – there will still be a daily flight from LHR to LAS – there are three weekly flights from LGW in addition to the LHR service.

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