Virgin Atlantic launches afternoon tea – on the ground and onboard

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• another_will says:

  19 Apr19 April 09:07

  As long as I can still take my golf clubs for free on RFS tickets, I’ll continue to fly BA short haul.
  When they take that away – and we seem to be on a race to the bottom – then I’ll look at other options.

  • Zild says:

    19 Apr19 April 12:48

    Don’t give them ideas!

• Craig says:

  19 Apr19 April 09:15

  OT: Amex are refusing me 5000 for adding a complimentary credit card and spending the £500. They say I have already received a parallel offer, would adding a supp card at around the same time have blocked it? For info I was targeted through the portal but didn’t take a screenshot.

  • roberto says:

    19 Apr19 April 11:05

    Take a screen shot of https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/content/gold-companion/ and get back to them saying you “found” a screenshot of the deal that you clicked on when you signed for the card. It clearly show you will should get 5000 MR for spending £500. MR points can take up to a month to arrive.

    The terms and conditions dont specifically mention any issues with parallel offers They say :-

    1. Accurate as of 1 April 2017. This is not a promotional rate and does not have a predetermined expiry date. American Express reserves the right to periodically increase interest rates in accordance with the Cardmember Agreement and applicable law. American Express also reserves the right to offer a Credit Card with a lower interest rate at some point in the future.

    2. The 5,000 Membership Rewards points will be awarded onto your Account once you have been approved and you have spent and charged £500 within the first three months of American Express Gold Credit Cardmembership. Please note that it can take up to one month for bonus points to be awarded to your Account. Offer is subject to change and can be withdrawn at anytime.

    3. Membership Rewards points are not earned on Balance Transfers, Cash Advances, American Express Travellers Cheques purchases, Foreign Exchange transactions, interest, any spending in excess of your credit limit, charges for returned payments, late payment or referral charges and American Express Credit Card finance charges. For full Membership Rewards Terms and Conditions, please visit membershiprewards.co.uk/terms.

    4. Terms and Conditions apply. Please see the Insurance Terms and Conditions for full details. Please read this to understand the limits and exclusions that may apply.

    5. Should you choose not to pay in full each month, you will be charged interest on your balance.

    • Craig says:

      19 Apr19 April 11:18

      Thanks, I’ve sent them a link to this page and it is now over a month since I hit the target.

• xcalx says:

  19 Apr19 April 09:17

  OT Just got the curve debit card. do I get curve points for spending on it, I can’t see any points added. If not can’t see any advantage.

  thanks

  • Genghis says:

    19 Apr19 April 09:25

    As a new user or an existing “pre-paid” user? I changed to the personal debit from the previous version and still get Curve rewards at the previous list of selected retailers.

    • Leo says:

      19 Apr19 April 09:37

      How much is a Curve point worth? I’ve no idea…

      • Genghis says:

        19 Apr19 April 09:53

        1 point = 1p. I get 3% back at the selected retailers.

• JPV says:

  19 Apr19 April 09:41

  OT: Are there any clever ways to get cheaper VTEC tickets from KGX to EDB? Either with points or some other scheme I don’t know about? I’m spending a small fortune on these tickets and only getting a pittance in virgin air miles in return

  • Genghis says:

    19 Apr19 April 09:53

    Keep signing up for the Virgin Red app discount code?

    • JPV says:

      19 Apr19 April 10:24

      I had no idea about this, thanks Genghis! Got an invite code? I searched but couldn’t find one from Rob

      • JamesB says:

        19 Apr19 April 16:52

        If you are using any type of railcard you will be unable to use the red code, if not then the red code or sales is the best you can do. Hopefully we will soon be back to something closer to old EC staff run structure, promotions, fares and rewards.

    • Rob says:

      19 Apr19 April 10:31

      That’s what I do for West Coast!

    • Chris A says:

      19 Apr19 April 18:48

      Is it possible to keep signing up for these, Genghis?! I used a code a couple months ago from Virgin Red and had just assumed that would be it.

      • Genghis says:

        19 Apr19 April 19:13

        Yep

      • Rob says:

        19 Apr19 April 21:48

        Delete the app, reregister with a new email.

• Sam says:

  19 Apr19 April 10:04

  OT: Now that Avios is closing and transferring to BAEC, how does one make an Avios booking and have the Avios come out of specific accounts? Previously if I didn’t want to use Avios from one account, I’d move them all from BAEC to Avios temporarily and make the booking.

  • Rob says:

    19 Apr19 April 10:30

    Presumably you can still move them to Aer Club or Vueling Club accounts which are basically avios.com accounts using the avios.com IT platform and website.

• Tom Cook says:

  19 Apr19 April 10:45

  OT:

  I hold the BAPP and the Amex Plat. Around early March I cancelled the SPG card after hitting the spend bonus – I can repay at the end of September. At the moment our BA avios come through my BAPP and Tesco. My Plat card gives MR which is sent through to hotel schemes.

  I’m thinking of keeping the Plat and the BAPP (haven’t churned the BAPP). We have plenty of BA avios and hols are sorted for the year. We want to build our hotel points.

  Would the following therefore be a decent next step – get my other half (or refer self) from plat to AMEX Rewards CC (which I presume I can hold as well). Hit spend target, cancel, then go back to the SPG card at the end of summer. Just conscious that at the moment I’m not benefitting from any sign up bonuses and I have referred a few friends / other half so have run out of options.

  • mark2 says:

    19 Apr19 April 11:49

    I don’t think that you will get new card bonus from ARCC if you hold Plat/Gold.

    • mark2 says:

      19 Apr19 April 11:54

      you can refer for Nectar.

• Anna says:

  19 Apr19 April 11:28

  OT – avios changes. I suspect there are going to be issues. have a BAEC household account where all family members share an email address as we like all our travel bookings to go to the same folder. I have just spoken to avios.com and they have said that to transfer mine and my OH’s avios, we have to have separate email addresses and must change this on our BAEC accounts! I told them I am not prepared to do this as BA don’t require separate email addresses. I was then told that this might prevent the avios from being transferred!

  I’m going to wait and see, but this isn’t mentioned in the notification email from avios.com so presumably people won’t know unless they speak to avios.com about it.

  • Margaret says:

    19 Apr19 April 14:12

    I don’t know if this is true (as the Avios site is still working), but customer services at Avios.com told me that Aer Lingus accounts which merge with the Avios account (and presumably Aer Lingus accounts generally) will allow transfer into a family account, as they have different rules.

• Cate ⛱️ says:

  19 Apr19 April 11:46

  OT as bits, is anyone going to move their stays to another provider from Marriott and to who?. Going through the figures although we can do without lounge access the lack of breakfast plus lack of elite benefits on booking more than room means we’ll probably shelve them for the foreseeable future.

  • Alex W says:

    19 Apr19 April 12:31

    Hilton- free brekkie with gold

    • Cate ⛱️ says:

      19 Apr19 April 12:42

      Thanks Alex W, we’ve dropped Hilton and won’t pick back up for the foreseeable future.

      Anyone who runs a business here got a view? i’m thinking general employees for IHG HIX and biz meetings and entertainment perhaps Hyatt or MO location dependent.?

      • Pangolin says:

        19 Apr19 April 13:19

        Cste, mind saying why you dropped Hilton?

        For me it would be the obvious alternative to someone leaving Marriott.

        Are you sure that 50 nights is out of bounds? Remember that if the Marriott CC comes back in August we will hopefully get the 10 elite nights credit. That would mean 40 nights – the same as for Hilton Gold. Marriott Platinum will be a lot better than having that.

      • Cate ⛱️ says:

        19 Apr19 April 14:23

        Hi Pangolin, short and sweet Hilton took us for granted for too long and mistakenly thought we were loyal….

        It’s not about getting the status back with Marriott, we have plat anyway because we go away most weekends. It’s that the new changes mean it doesn’t matter how many rooms we book for a night only one of those rooms will get breakfast. So if we have nine contractors come down only one is getting breakfast.

  • Alex W says:

    19 Apr19 April 18:48

    I don’t know any chain which gives you 9 breakfasts based on your status?!

    • Cate ⛱️ says:

      19 Apr19 April 20:04

      Three per person booking….

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