The new HFP chat thread – Thursday 7th May

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• Ghosty says:

  7 May7 May 11:20

  Can you book a reward flight for a group (5) with some in a different cabin due to availability on the same ticket

  • memesweeper says:

    7 May7 May 11:28

    You can’t online.

    My only experience of calling up and asking was a ‘no’ – I just don’t think a PNR can have tickets in different classes within it.

    We ended up with three in business and two in first as a result, and had to swap seats (with the consent of the cabin crew) to sort out the mess 🙂

• baecgc says:

  7 May7 May 11:34

  I’ve had two separate bookings cancelled by CX for avios booking made for flights on CX and BA have “selected news flights for me”. I know I have to call to cancel and get the refund, but if I cannot get through if I never accept the new flights surely they’ll just refund me?

  Booking is end of May, so I just wait until 72hours out?

• Kian says:

  7 May7 May 11:35

  Does anyone have any experience when redeeming with virgin using some of your own miles and some of your partner’s miles? I’m sure I’ve seen DP in the comments on hfp in the past that the assistant allowing this when both of the two accounts had enough to cover one way of a return journey, but I can’t recall the details..

  • Dezbez says:

    7 May7 May 13:22

    There’s definitely flexibility with them to use either pot – I think you need to have exact/divisible amounts though eg if cost is 25k each way per person (so 100k in total), you have to split it either 50:50, 25:75, 75:25, etc. You couldn’t split it 67:33 for example.
    Not entirely sure of position with companion voucher – I think the person whose voucher it is has to use their points

    • Kian says:

      7 May7 May 13:37

      Thank you! By any chance, do you know what if I’m only redeeming a return flight for myself, but I’d like to use both my partner’s and my miles? Would they still be flexible in this case?

      • Blindman says:

        7 May7 May 15:37

        Yes, you can so long as Virgin have confirmed you have authority from your partner to do so

        • Kian says:

          7 May7 May 16:32

          Thank you!

• Manny_D says:

  7 May7 May 11:47

  Has anyone had any experience upgrading from the Amex Green card to the Platinum? I am thinking about it in the future, and just wondered how difficult it is?

  • memesweeper says:

    7 May7 May 12:12

    If you have the ‘magic link’ it’s very easy.

    Last time I did it I used this: https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/benefits/upgrade/platinum-charge/index.html

    • Manny_D says:

      7 May7 May 12:20

      Amazing thank you! I will take a look in to that. Do you know whether it is a simple upgrade/product change or would a new credit check be involved?

      • memesweeper says:

        7 May7 May 12:35

        I don’t know if I was checked, I don’t think so, but their systems might check some applicants but not others, so if I wasn’t checked it’s not an indicator to rely on.

  • Harry T says:

    7 May7 May 12:23

    It’s easy peasy. My girlfriend did it a couple of months ago. I did it last year prior to the spend for the upgrade bonus being increased. We just used the link – I didn’t get a spend counter but she did. Both of us got the bonus.

    Unsure if they credit check you. They have the right to do so but may not in this instance. I think Amex care far more about your history with them than your credit “score” anyway. If you have another card, you are usually accepted.

• Smiles says:

  7 May7 May 12:03

  Interesting article from the head of the IATA saying flight prices will increase by 50% after Covid 19
  https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2020/04/22/iata-chief-cheap-travel-is-over/

  • Don says:

    7 May7 May 12:17

    Clickbait. *If Social Distancing is enacted*. It seems pretty logical if 1/3 of your cabin is blocked off.

    Anyway. That’s all in the bin.

  • Helmut Schmidt says:

    7 May7 May 12:26

    these generalisations and false-dawns do not help anyone.
    so often misleading and wrong, only time will tell. many factors will affect the price of a ticket.

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      7 May7 May 12:52

      If we can’t agree that we should pay the appropriate ticket price to enable the flights to happen at all, we will be in trouble…

      I hope, of course, that prices are low. But not at the expense of people losing money, that’s no way to do business with anyone whether b2b or b2c.

      I’ll pay whatever it costs to fly once we have a scenario where doing so is both safe and desirable. And I’ll be greatful that there is anyone there to fly me!

• Don says:

  7 May7 May 12:24

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52569364 “Coronavirus PPE: Gowns ordered from Turkey fail to meet safety standards”

  Perhaps they can be recycled into a pair of BA “First Class” PJs and slippers?

  • Helmut Schmidt says:

    7 May7 May 12:27

    only yesterday my wife showed me that you can use the eyemask to protect the lower parts of your face with a nice fit. i do not know the exact particle size to the nm that these would block out but they are more useful for this purpose. i have about 60 of these things. glad they are finally getting some use.

• Berneslai says:

  7 May7 May 13:36

  What happens to companion vouchers after the cancellation of a Virgin credit card? I’m going to cancel before my annual fee becomes due.

  • Genghis says:

    7 May7 May 13:44

    They remain

    • Alex says:

      7 May7 May 13:46

      Problem is you need to book your tickets using a Virgin credit card

      • Barry says:

        7 May7 May 15:07

        Is that right? Can’t find anything in the T&Cs about that condition.

      • Genghis says:

        7 May7 May 16:23

        Complete misinformation.

• Alex says:

  7 May7 May 13:45

  My sex life has taken a major upturn since the lockdown. Plenty of guys on grindr all bored and nothing to do. I miss flying but at least my downtime hasn’t been wasted.

  • Alex says:

    7 May7 May 13:50

    Wouldn’t you like to know 😘🍆

    • Don says:

      7 May7 May 14:25

      Please let’s not make this like Flyertalk here.

      • Davios says:

        7 May7 May 14:30

        What do you mean? Make it a useful resource with proper forum software?

        • Rob says:

          7 May7 May 15:20

          Forum decision is made, but you need to give us 3 months to get the new-look HFP up and running. Forum is only a small part.

      • Lady London says:

        7 May7 May 18:56

        I really hope I’m wrong and think our responses here should/will be deleted due to being replies to the original post, but I’ve come to realise there may be a problem of medication being missed here? Would explain a lot. Does anyone think this could be the case?

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