British Airways announces Summer flights to Newquay

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• stevenhp1987 says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:09

  OT:

  Spend £5,700 get 1,500 bonus MR on my Amex Gold this morning….

  You may have a better version!

  • Rda says:

    13 Feb13 February 07:14

    Mine is spend £4800 get 1500 points

• MattB says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:13

  OT – looking to stay at the cosmo in Las Vegas in a few months. Already have a booking direct I can cancel, but yesterday noticed a much cheaper rate via Agoda. It’s non refundable but over £50 a night less…anyone had issues not getting the exact room type you booked?

  • Jovanna says:

    13 Feb13 February 08:10

    I searched using Trivago. Agoda came up in the search results. Agoda had a wraparound suite at the Cosmopolitan for half the price of that showing anywhere else, including the hotel website or through Marriott or Autograph.

    I searched online for a discount code with Agoda (or maybe used a cαshback site) to shave a few more quid off.

    When we arrived at the front desk, we were given a choice of rooms. The clerk told us where each room was located within the hotel. He was upfront in saying that with our rate that he couldn’t give us a room with a view of the fountain. We’d not asked about that. It didn’t sound like a hint to slip him a few bucks. We opted for a corner suite overlooking the strip at the front of the hotel. View was incredible, as too was the room.

    • MattB says:

      13 Feb13 February 08:55

      Ok thanks, Agoda are offering a terrace with fountain view, I don’t want to get bumped to a non premium view. I think with wraparound suites you can’t book a premium (fountain) view specifically so that’s why you weren’t offered one.

• Smudge says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:24

  From March I will be travelling London-Kabul every couple of months on Emirates. The default would seem to be to pick up miles/status in Emirates own scheme. However, I would prefer an alliance. I saw that it is possible to book some Emirates tickets on Qantas flight numbers (codeshares). I would be happy to do this (if only on the UK-Dubai leg) but can’t find any Emirates/Qantas codeshares.

  Can anyone help? Thanks.

  • Jonathan says:

    13 Feb13 February 07:50

    Only works if route is UK-Australia.

    • chris says:

      13 Feb13 February 07:59

      Unless that changed recently (8 weeks) that isn’t true. If the EK flight has a Qantas code share you should be ok to get BA tier points / avios

      • Rob says:

        13 Feb13 February 08:25

        Yes, if your boarding pass shows flight number as QF1234 you get Avios and TP.

  • Rob says:

    13 Feb13 February 08:29

    You need to ask a travel agent to book the QF code share. They are hard to book online.

• Bob says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:40

  OT thanks

  Monthly Withdrawals upto £200 on Virgin+ via Curve have been treated as a purchase so far. Could anyone please confirm if this is also case with IHG without additional charges?

  • Andrew says:

    13 Feb13 February 07:45

    Yes always been fine with IHG.

    • Bob says:

      13 Feb13 February 07:53

      Thanks!

    • Alan says:

      13 Feb13 February 07:55

      Presumably though, it had always been fine on Virgin up until this most recent attempt?

      • Bob says:

        13 Feb13 February 07:59

        No charges on Virgin so far, just got the IHG so was checking if the same for that

      • TGLoyalty says:

        13 Feb13 February 13:43

        Curve is unaffected by the Revolut changes.

• Harry T says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:49

  OT:
  My partner has just received the green card which we will upgrade to platinum shortly to get the upgrade bonus. Does spend on the green card before upgrading count towards the 4k spend for the upgrade bonus?

  • Princess says:

    13 Feb13 February 08:34

    No it doesn’t, I’ve just done it.
    Unfortunately for me didn’t count neither a charge I made when the card was update to platinum online (before I received the physical card) and activated it)

    • BJ says:

      13 Feb13 February 08:48

      I would query that with amex, after the card updated online any subsequent spend has always counted.

• Michael C says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:52

  Ha, received a “Would you like to upgrade?” for my HKG BA 32 in April, which we’re just about to cancel.

  Our school is now quarentening up to the end of April, also for Japan (it was our cherry blossom trip, grr), BKK, SIN, etc. etc.

  • Alan says:

    13 Feb13 February 10:00

    Wow they’re quarantining anyone that’s been to those locations but are asymptomatic? That seems a bit OTT of them!

    • Lady London says:

      13 Feb13 February 15:11

      Ask @Callum about that 🙂

      I think the point is it’s asymptomatic but infectious for up to 2 weeks, so better safe than sorry.

• Jonathan says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:52

  OT:

  Can you hold a Green & Platinum simultaneously? Need to keep my MR points when I bin Platinum but will potentially be interested in a Green-Plat upgrade in a few months.

  • Waddle says:

    13 Feb13 February 08:04

    You could downgrade your Plat to Gold charge or Green instead of cancelling. Your MR points will be kept.

    • RTS says:

      13 Feb13 February 10:56

      Wait, you can downgrade Plat to Gold Charge? Can you then re-upgrade to Plat?!

  • Shoestring says:

    13 Feb13 February 08:35

    yes no problem holding both

• AlexT says:

  13 Feb13 February 07:57

  OT: Quick question about loading Revolut with a Creation IHG card. Seeing as both Visa and Mastercard treat the transaction as cash-like, with IHG charging interest from day 1, does that mean those transaction also lower one’s credit score? After all, cash transactions are reported to credit agencies…

  • John says:

    13 Feb13 February 09:31

    The UK doesn’t have credit scores, except as marketing devices by companies that don’t lend money.

    Every lender views cash withdrawals on credit cards differently.

    Frequent cash withdrawals on Halifax Clarity in the past never impacted my approval for Amexes.

  • jc says:

    13 Feb13 February 09:33

    I haven’t seen any impact when making small cash advance transactions here and there, but you are correct that the amount and number of transactions is absolutely reported to the credit reference agencies who are free to factor it in any way they like. I personally avoid any major moves for that reason – I’d be much more experimental with the whole game if just fees/interest

  • Alan says:

    13 Feb13 February 10:01

    Don’t IHG also charge cash advance fees?

    • AlexT says:

      13 Feb13 February 10:29

      I don’t believe so. From general commentary on here it seems like they charge interest but no fees.

      • Michael says:

        13 Feb13 February 10:36

        Correct

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