The new HFP chat thread – Saturday 25th April

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Jason says:

25 Apr25 April 08:44

How easy is it to upgrade and down grade the curve card on a monthly basis?
- Genghis says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 08:52
  
  Officially:
  “If you Downgrade your Curve Metal Account within the first six months of the start of your Curve Metal Subscription (including during the Cooling-Off period), you will be charged the Curve Metal Card Fee of £50 as part of the Curve Metal Services provided.”
  https://www.curve.com/en-gb/terms
  In reality, no idea.
  - Secret Squirrel says:
    
    25 Apr25 April 10:15
    
    If anything comes out of the latest Curve updates, its got me looking at metal in more detail when that fateful day comes!
    The monthly fee can be paid for if your crafty with your purchases!
    - @mkcol says:
      
      25 Apr25 April 17:21
      
      How can that be done?
  - Secret Squirrel says:
    
    25 Apr25 April 10:17
    
    Ouch – £50. Thats eqivalent to 4x months paid up front.
    - Joseph Heenan says:
      
      25 Apr25 April 10:24
      
      Yep, so really it only makes sense if you take the card for 6 months. Need to run the figures and see what is the break even point for spend…
      - TGLoyalty says:
        
        25 Apr25 April 11:00
        
        You can also get the year for £150 right now which is 2 months free, don’t know how long this will last.
        
        I really do like my black card though the red or blue just doesn’t do it for me. Insignificant issues I know.
      - Alan says:
        
        25 Apr25 April 13:09
        
        The break even point will be an interesting calculation.
Craig says:

25 Apr25 April 09:08

Morning all

We have an outbound flight booked for 4 passengers in Club World using 2 x Amex vouchers.

We’re struggling to find any suitable return flights, the best appears to be a flight with 2 Club World seats and 2 economy. Would we be able to book 2 CW and 2 Economy seats on the same booking?

Also,
- Anna says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 09:29
  
  Will the system let you select these seats? Otherwise you could call BA to complete the booking and ask if they can split the cabins. Normally all passengers have to travel in the same class on a single leg but I don’t know if this still applies if you’re using 2 vouchers.
- AJA says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 09:56
  
  Craig I think that’s doable. Just use one voucher to book CW in both directions and the other voucher to book CW one way and WT the other. Draw straws as to who travels in economy.
  - Anna says:
    
    25 Apr25 April 10:00
    
    It looks from Craig’s post as though they’ve already booked the outbound leg, so options will be add the inbound online and call for return of Avios, or call and ask BA to add it.
    
    Normally and if there is a lot of award a availability it’s sometimes easier just to cancel the outbound and start again with a whole booking when the inbound becomes available but at the moment you are stuck with BA’s voucher shenanigans if you try and cancel online.
AG says:

25 Apr25 April 09:35

Data point on a BA refund for a cancelled May flight:
Called on Tuesday, got through in ~45 min on US number without selecting any options, was told refund was processed and would appear on the card I’d booked with in 7-28 business days…
Yesterday I was surprised to see that I’d already received the credit on my (US issued) Amex card.
Jon says:

25 Apr25 April 09:49

Just musing:

I am surprised BA don’t do something like offer the tier points (and possibly Avios) for cancelled flights (so legally required to give a refund if requested) if you take a voucher. It would probably make quite a few people take the voucher. Obviously would have to be for flights booked before a certain date to stop people gaming the system.
- TGLoyalty says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 11:02
  
  They’d much rather keep your money and give you nothing though.
  
  Right now that seems to be working for them …
  - Jon says:
    
    25 Apr25 April 14:20
    
    I’d argue it isn’t ‘working’ for them.
    
    They are generating a lot of badwill, many credit card chargebacks, and customers will think twice before using them again.
    
    Wheras this suggestion would create goodwill, future credit, and probably future loyalty through people wanting to use their status
Secret Squirrel says:

25 Apr25 April 09:53

Amex Gold 10k anniversary bonus:
I’m on 4 x weeks since Y2 start but still no 10k MR been credited.
How much longer do we wait recently?
- John says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 10:00
  
  Mine came shortly after the first statement of year 2
  - Secret Squirrel says:
    
    25 Apr25 April 12:42
    
    Within a week after statement!?
    - John says:
      
      25 Apr25 April 13:18
      
      Yes. You said 4 weeks. More like 5 weeks
      - Secret Squirrel says:
        
        25 Apr25 April 21:49
        
        Well my 10k bonus turned up tonight, sometime between 6.30 – 9.30pm, strange time to credit!
- Rob says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 13:31
  
  My wife got hers in just under a month, credited about 4 days ago. Cut off was 29th March I think.
AJA says:

25 Apr25 April 10:00

Is it just me but I didn’t get the usual emails from HfP in my inbox today?. Not really a huge problem as i log on here anyway.Just flagging in case there’s an issue Rob and the team not aware of.
- Geoff says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 10:04
  
  Have you got some sort of sorting rule in your mail program – mine didn’t get filtered into the usual mailbox because today’s emails came from .com rather than the usual .co.uk
  - AJA says:
    
    25 Apr25 April 10:16
    
    Ah. Rookie mistake, didn’t check junk mail folder, they are there! Thanks Geoff!
    - Rob says:
      
      25 Apr25 April 13:28
      
      Yes, we’ve moved to .com for everything as of yesterday. 10 hours work in total for our IT guy which is why we’ve put it off for years! Ironically this should improve Mailchimp deliverability because they get an extra ‘authentication’ tag attached to them now which wasn’t there before.
Anna says:

25 Apr25 April 10:02

Curve not playing with the seagulls at all for the past couple of days, even after updating. So Viva La Revolucion for me for the moment (and pay it off sharpish).
- FL says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 12:31
  
  You mean even after agreeing to Fronted?
  
  What is Seagulls? Is is the financial product beginning with M?
  - Anna says:
    
    25 Apr25 April 14:40
    
    I’ve not had any messages about being fronted, all my payments just keep saying they haven’t been able to be made at this time.
    - TGLoyalty says:
      
      26 Apr26 April 00:20
      
      You may need to update your app Anna
  - Ali says:
    
    25 Apr25 April 15:23
    
    pls offer some decryption…?
    - Ali says:
      
      25 Apr25 April 15:24
      
      google reveals amex…
      I though curve doesn’t work with amex or does it for some ?
    - Steve says:
      
      25 Apr25 April 17:22
      
      Refering to paying off an amex balance with curve linked to a MC or Visa, not linking curve to amex
- Harry T says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 16:32
  
  @Anna does your interest from Revolut appear immediately or at statement generation?
  
  Also, does Revolut work for paying the seagulls? Seem to remember it doesn’t.
  - TGLoyalty says:
    
    26 Apr26 April 00:20
    
    On statement generation.
Roberto says:

25 Apr25 April 10:19

@Nick.
Following up on yesterdays message regarding transferring VS to Hilton. I texted & whatsapped my request on thursday in pretty much the same format as you and was contacted late last night (friday) to say that the transfer had begun. I had a whatsapp this morning (saturday) confirming that the text team had already started the process so there must be two teams.

Anyways logged into flying club and the miles have gone – fingers crossed its underway.
- roberto says:
  
  25 Apr25 April 17:43
  
  and had the verification email from support this afternoon , saturday.