New deals: save £50 on Addison Lee taxi bookings and get 6,000 Avios with Tesco Pet Insurance

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• Pete says:

  10 Jan10 January 08:18

  Note the Addison Lee deal excludes airport drop off and collection. Though it works fine if you set the dropoff as Walrus Road ..

  • PJ says:

    10 Jan10 January 09:30

    Also works if you want to go specifically to the VAT Refunds Centre in T3.

    • Jonathan says:

      10 Jan10 January 11:45

      A pick up from the T5 Sofitel would get round this plus it dodges the £5 surcharge for Heathrow collections as they don’t need to go into the multi-storey. I find it less stressful as well.

      • Graham Walsh says:

        10 Jan10 January 11:52

        Thanks for the tip

• Benilyn says:

  10 Jan10 January 09:04

  OT: 24 hours before Etihad check in, do the Economy space / extra expensive paid seats become free?

  • Benilyn says:

    10 Jan10 January 09:16

    Ok they now don’t anymore. When I flew in Dec-18, you could select the economy space seats for free 24hr before. Call centre telling me that even at check in, you can’t nab them for free.

  • marcw says:

    10 Jan10 January 10:39

    Who flies Etihad nowadays?

    • Rob says:

      10 Jan10 January 11:03

      We did 4 x Business Studio coming back from AUH in November …. was still pretty good!

      • Benilyn says:

        10 Jan10 January 11:37

        Well in Y where there is little differentiation it is comp priced, and also you get 2 nights free stopover in a comp 5* hotel w/ breakfast on the way there / way back home so can’t complain…

        • Lady London says:

          10 Jan10 January 12:25

          Even in Y, @Benilyn? Others like QR seem to do it only in J and sometimes only if asked.

        • Benilyn says:

          10 Jan10 January 13:25

          @Lady London
          Yeah in Y, this is the second time I will be doing it, and recommended it to friends:
          https://www.etihad.com/en/destinations/abu-dhabi/stopover
          The earlier you book your flight, the more availability there is including Ritz Carlton.
          And most for 48hrs from check-in allowed.

        • Lady London says:

          10 Jan10 January 13:38

          Tx Benilyn. I’ll put that into the mix next time I’m going longhaul East.

        • Lady London says:

          10 Jan10 January 13:40

          And only a short taxi ride from Dubai, if anyone likes that kind of shopping.

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      10 Jan10 January 16:43

      People who don’t like BA! Lol..

• Binks says:

  10 Jan10 January 09:23

  Just bought my ticket!!! Looking forward to going to my first hfp party / get together!

• lebron 23 says:

  10 Jan10 January 10:25

  tickets now sold out

• Dev says:

  10 Jan10 January 11:14

  Nothing on my Platinum card, but I have the £50 off for £200 spend on my legacy gold card.

• Boi says:

  10 Jan10 January 11:20

  OT: anyone with 20K upgrade to platinum link?

  • Benilyn says:

    10 Jan10 January 11:35

    https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/benefits/upgrade/platinum-charge/
    first non sponsored result on google

    • Boi says:

      10 Jan10 January 11:59

      Thanks

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      10 Jan10 January 16:39

      Can this link be used from Green Amex (Charge Card) and still get the big bonus on 4k spend if you hold another Amex like a BA Blue card?

      • Shoestring says:

        10 Jan10 January 18:04

        the 20K is for an upgrade to Plat, so yes – irrelevant which other cards you hold

• Oliv says:

  10 Jan10 January 11:24

  OT – if I book myself on HBO and another passenger on an RFS, can I then get BA to link the bookings? As I am Silver, in that case will I be able to select the seats for both passengers for free?

  • Jonathan says:

    10 Jan10 January 11:34

    No. You can only link separate bookings for free seat selection as a Gold and even Golds don’t then get free seat selection if the other passenger is HBO.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      10 Jan10 January 12:54

      even has a gold I would have thought you have to be on the same type of ticket.

      *linkin* as gold still means phoning to change you seat in my limited experience. I always booked together only time i did it on separate bookings was to cash in on the £200 off AMEX deal last year.

      • Shoestring says:

        10 Jan10 January 18:08

        families can do it – and I have successfully done it several times, separate bookings eg 4 Avios RFS tickets + 1 cash ticket – and they sat us all together – kids were much younger though so maybe that helped

        probably the point is: the agent *can* do it but often won’t if you don’t qualify through status – but just ask nicely with a good reason (young kids) and they’ll probably help you out

        • Oliv says:

          10 Jan10 January 18:21

          Thanks, the bookings will actually be for 2 adults and 2 kids, so that should work

• Paul R says:

  10 Jan10 January 12:08

  OT – Hi All. Long-time lurker, first time poster. I have a forthcoming economy booking from IST to MLE with Turkish Airlines. Can anyone offer any advice on the best way to upgrade the booking, either using cash or Miles & Smiles points?

  • Lady London says:

    10 Jan10 January 13:35

    TK is a bit of a special interest so far as most uk flyers are concerned so I’d suggest you take a look at flyertalk which may well have the answer.

  • ankomonkey says:

    10 Jan10 January 16:15

    I’m not an expert, but have redeemed short haul J out of IST a few times. I think you can upgrade using Miles & Smiles points as long as there is redemption availability. There would likely be an additional cash charge to pay too. Log in and search for redemption seats on your flight.

    ISTFlyer on FT knows everything so will be able to accurately advise.

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