The new HFP chat thread – Friday 22nd May

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• Doug says:

  22 May22 May 13:35

  I’ve used a £40 voucher booking a BA flight that was cancelled. They only refunded me the cash element, any chance of getting this voucher back? I earned it by complaining about my IFE not working in a long haul flight

• Graham says:

  22 May22 May 13:40

  I’m BA silver with 1200 points expiring June. Is upgrade to gold automatic or do I have to claim it?

  • Mike P says:

    22 May22 May 13:51

    You will automatically be upgraded to Gold, no need to claim. It may take a bit of time according to reports on Flyertalk

  • AJA says:

    22 May22 May 13:52

    Should be automatically done by BAEC at your TP year end renewal. Nice one to achieve Gold but how useful it will be is another issue.

    • Andrew says:

      22 May22 May 14:00

      Exactly, the lounges aren’t going to open for quite some time.

• steve fred says:

  22 May22 May 13:46

  E-Wallets & Amex Charge (Plat or Gold) Card: Do Amex charge anything for topping up e-wallet such as Skrill or EcoPayz?

  • Michael says:

    22 May22 May 17:14

    Seems to be a purchase. How much have you managed to churn through these lot?

    • steve fred says:

      22 May22 May 17:50

      Haven’t yet hence why I was asking. Only topped up using debit card and paypoint so far. Couldn’t figure out whether it would go thru as a purchase if topping up directly with amex plat charge card. Have you tried it?

      • EwanG says:

        22 May22 May 21:32

        Can either of these be used to top up to Rev?

  • rams1981 says:

    22 May22 May 17:45

    How do you spend the Skrill balance? Bank transfers seem to have a fee

    • steve fred says:

      22 May22 May 17:48

      Skrill can be used to pay COT as well as Creation and a few others without fee

      • rams1981 says:

        22 May22 May 17:49

        Thanks, will check it out.

  • The Urbanite says:

    22 May22 May 18:17

    Amex don’t charge but it will trigger a financial review and you could lose all your Amex accounts!

    • Brian W says:

      22 May22 May 21:26

      Is that simply your opinion @The Urbanite or do you have solid evidence that will occur as your post claims? I’m assuming you are an Amex employee or have a personal case to prove this?

      • S136 says:

        22 May22 May 23:11

        I lost all my amex accounts, as well as those of family members (same address), in no small part due to skrill

• Anna says:

  22 May22 May 14:33

  One of my Amexes has a 15% off at The Wine Flyer offer – AND I’ve just noticed T W F website is also offering 20% off for Blue Light card holders (anyone who works for the emergency services can get one of these).

• Ben says:

  22 May22 May 14:47

  Hi

  If I book Avios flights for somewhere in July that has good availability at the moment and then the flight gets cancelled- I understand that I can rebook at any time even though there might not be Avios availability?

  Is that right?

  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    22 May22 May 14:52

    Correct 🙂

    • Ben says:

      22 May22 May 16:00

      Cheers Rob

• Craig W says:

  22 May22 May 15:43

  apologies if i have missed anything on this

  Ryanair cancelled my flight for July and i have requested a refund via their online system which the email directed me to. Any idea how long this refund is likely to take? I don’t really want to call them and will more than happily do a chargeback even if they blacklist me (in fact i would quite like it so i can’t fly with them and so avoid the lure of their cheap fares) – how long do i need to wait before doing this?

  • Richard says:

    22 May22 May 16:54

    I requested a refund for ryanair flight due to happen on May 3rd, when that was cancelled about April 15th. Haven’t had the refund (or chased for one though)

  • Crafty says:

    25 May25 May 09:59

    They have said they aren’t processing refunds until after Covid-19 has gone away. So basically, be prepared to charge back.

    For courtesy, for each of mine I am waiting until their stated time frame of 20 working days has passed, before applying to the credit card provider.

• Rui N. says:

  22 May22 May 15:55

  Are there any websites that buy Ticketmaster gift cards? I got one from a show that was refunded, and I was wondering if I can sell it somewhere… (it only has 1-year validity, so I might not be able to use it)

  • Baji Nahid says:

    22 May22 May 20:11

    Hey how much you selling for? I wouldnt mind buying it!

    • Rui N. says:

      23 May23 May 11:45

      Hi Rob, it is possible to put me and Baji in touch by email? Otherwise I’m “mikex163” on flyertalk, PM there

      • Rhys says:

        23 May23 May 12:45

        I’ve emailed him your address – up to him to reach out (data protection)

        • Rui N. says:

          23 May23 May 14:36

          Thanks Rhys, appreciate the help 🙂

• Matt says:

  22 May22 May 16:08

  Has anyone put any money into an NS&I account using Curve charging to MBNA Horizon (or any other MBNA card)? Any charges/interest?

  • Prune says:

    22 May22 May 22:27

    No charges paying Brighton

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