The new HFP chat thread – Saturday 11th July

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david says:

11 Jul11 July 18:33

Is something wrong with seat spy ?
Its showing 4 seat availability for first class to LAX on everyday from
25th October – June 2021. The seats aren’t there.
- Brian W says:
  
  11 Jul11 July 18:58
  
  Yes, the routes I’m tracking went haywire about 3 hours again and it’s not showing availability further out than 10months so something is wrong. It was fine this afternoon.
  
  It’s not reliable at all.
  - david says:
    
    11 Jul11 July 19:01
    
    Redemption finder doing the same.
- Secret Squirrel says:
  
  11 Jul11 July 19:43
  
  Think there has been a problem at both sites with First availability for a while now.
  - Rob says:
    
    11 Jul11 July 20:32
    
    4F seats from Abu Dhabi at the end of October half term popped up yesterday – and they DID exist!
    
    Booked them as a fall back in case my Muscat return has to be cancelled due to Oman remaining closed.
    - Grimz says:
      
      11 Jul11 July 22:01
      
      Are you really travelling this year Rob? I just gave up on Arizona in November today do you think BA would give me a voucher?
      - Rob says:
        
        11 Jul11 July 22:11
        
        UAE is open now, hopefully won’t change. The high end resorts are also huge given the number of guests.
    - Andrew says:
      
      11 Jul11 July 23:22
      
      A shame it’ll just be a Pret salad in a box and a mini bottle of wine though. Amenity kits and PJs supplied as normal though.
dezbez says:

11 Jul11 July 22:10

Watching a Live Aid programme on BBC2 just now, with reference to Concorde (Phil Collins flew over to the US on it to perform both at Wembley and Philadelphia). Wondering if the BA Exec Club was around in the days of Concorde and if anyone in this group ever flew on it with points, if so?
- Andrew says:
  
  11 Jul11 July 23:20
  
  Exec Club launched in 1982 – so they certainly were able to collect Air Miles (as they were known then) on Concorde. But don’t know the specifics on redeeming the miles on Concorde.
Chris Heyes says:

12 Jul12 July 00:05

I Think my first Ar miles flight was around 1982/83 but not 100%
I Can remember vaguely flying to New York for New York Marathon around then
Alberto Salazar Won it, i had the qualifying time them days (many moons ago lol)
Americans put all Elite Runners except one from each country behind 1,000 fun runners
to give Alberto a chance which he took (we had no chance if you are a runner you will know how much energy is wasted getting past over 1,000s runners (lol America’s little cheat)
Flight & Hotel plus Breakfast in Central Park was all FREE plus as elite athletes everything was free in eateries around New York pre- Marathon for 3 days
pre-evening party and party after was brill all free
PS i managed top 100 so failed to get in Olympics that was my worst Marathon but enjoyed every bit of it lol
- Chris Heyes says:
  
  12 Jul12 July 00:13
  
  could have been 1980 though age catching up with me lol