The new HFP chat thread – Tuesday 2nd June

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• Andrew M says:

  2 Jun2 June 16:01

  The Virgin Flying Club website is back.

• Umba says:

  2 Jun2 June 16:11

  Not sure if it helps anyone and notwithstanding:

  Coronavirus
  Tension in USA
  UK 14 day quarantine
  Ban on UK nationals entering USA

  It looks like BA have added lots of First availability for LHR to/from LAX for July & August 2020.

  • Andrew says:

    2 Jun2 June 18:06

    You missed off the list – £800 of BA surcharges!

    • Umba says:

      2 Jun2 June 18:11

      And we have a winner:-)

• Anna says:

  2 Jun2 June 16:22

  Publishing of quarantine details being delayed until tomorrow; Home Sec possibly bending to pressure from the travel industry?

  • Harry T says:

    2 Jun2 June 16:52

    Maybe another member of the government has been caught journeying to Barnard Castle and they need another headline to run interference?

  • marcw says:

    2 Jun2 June 16:54

    While Germany is lifting EU “non-essential travel recomendation within EU” from tomorrow 🙂

  • Lee says:

    2 Jun2 June 17:50

    With today’s death rate, most countries would ban British anyway

    • Anna says:

      2 Jun2 June 20:35

      They’re actually not. Plenty of them seem desperate for British tourism cash, regardless.

    • Pat the Postie says:

      2 Jun2 June 22:38

      why you think that is?

  • Andrew says:

    2 Jun2 June 18:08

    Today BA cancelled my late July flight to JFK, reducing frequency to twice daily. So it seems BA aren’t optimistic.

• Enda says:

  2 Jun2 June 18:43

  I have a flight from Belfast via Heathrow to San Francisco on 30 June. Any idea of whether British Airways will operate the flight?

  • Rob says:

    2 Jun2 June 19:30

    It might go, but unless you have a US passport I can’t see you getting in. Very unlikely the US will change its rules within 4 weeks.

• BS says:

  2 Jun2 June 19:10

  OT: Does anyone know how the complimentary Gold/Siver cards work for GGL members? Do they upgrade current Exec club accounts? Do they last for exactly 12 months, or the rest of the exec club year?
  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    2 Jun2 June 19:34

    Better than that. You get all of the current membership year PLUS all of the following year.

    However, due to a quirk in how they are processed, you should only do it after the end of persons current card year. What do I mean? If the person has a year-end of 8th June and a card year-end of 31st July, don’t do the upgrade until 1st August. If you do it in the first 7 weeks of the membership year, it will only process as one year and not two.

    Important – in theory you don’t get a soft landing with these, it is straight back to Blue. In reality, if you do the 4 x cash segments on BA in your second year, you seem to get a soft landing.

    None of the above is BA policy but is how they work in practice.

    • BS says:

      2 Jun2 June 19:35

      Thanks very much

• Wally1976 says:

  2 Jun2 June 19:38

  Formula 1 have announced a race schedule today with two races at Silverstone, the first of which (weekend of 31st July – 2nd August) does not have a 14 day gap following the Hungary race. I’m interested to know how they’re getting around the UK quarantine!?

  • JPa says:

    2 Jun2 June 20:19

    F1 and cricket has special exemption from the government.

• BJ says:

  2 Jun2 June 20:11

  Came across this photo of a BA 777-200 with some sests removed to carry cargo. Personally I found it sad, and mildly eerie too for some reason.
  https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/british-airways-strips-out-b777-seats-to-boost-cargo-capacity/

  • BJ says:

    2 Jun2 June 20:13

    *seats

  • Andrew says:

    2 Jun2 June 20:31

    Yes it’s a sad truth that’s all passenger aircraft are good for now.

• Anna says:

  2 Jun2 June 20:40

  I’d hired a classic car for a weekend away for my husband’s birthday in July. Just had an email from the hire company asking for the full balance as the Yorkshire Dales will be open from July 4th! Have they got access to inside information, or perhaps a crystal ball? Or has it been decided that North Yorkshire is near enough to County Durham that we can go to test our eyesight?

  • BJ says:

    2 Jun2 June 20:58

    Perhaps they sent the email to test your eyesight Anna.

  • Navara says:

    2 Jun2 June 21:03

    Yorkshire Dales are open now you can have a drive around but you will have to go back home to sleep

  • Darren says:

    2 Jun2 June 21:58

    You can have a haircut, made an appointment at my usual place for the 5th July. Not too far from Barny either.

    What car have you hired, something old or something new?

    • Aston100 says:

      2 Jun2 June 23:41

      Something borrowed or something blue?

      • Darren says:

        3 Jun3 June 01:22

        Now there’s a connection, see below

    • Anna says:

      2 Jun2 June 23:47

      I don’t think that’s been officially announced yet, has it? Surely they will have to wait and see if infection rates continue to fall.

      But Aston Martin DB7. Bond is our guilty pleasure!

      • Darren says:

        3 Jun3 June 01:20

        It was a suggested earliest opening date, so not official as such but many are gearing up for a start on that date.

        Very nice choice, if it was me I’d keep the booking and explore the winding roads

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