The HfP chat thread – Wednesday 16th September

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• Fred S says:

  16 Sep16 September 15:35

  Parking rates for Terminal 5 for a couple of nights are shocking at the moment. Does anyone know of any good offers?

  • Aston100 says:

    16 Sep16 September 15:41

    Would you consider parking on someone’s driveway?
    There are a number of sites and apps, such as https://www.parkonmydrive.com/ and https://www.justpark.com/

    I think some of the owners even offer an airport pickup / dropoff service too.

    • Amber Lynn says:

      16 Sep16 September 18:32

      I stayed for a night in the Moxy Bath road a year ago and left the car for two weeks, they were not at all bothered, when i returned no problem at all. Always a ton of space as well.

  • Pablo says:

    16 Sep16 September 16:11

    Hounslow West Station car park; £6.50 per day, weekends are free, pay with PayByPhone app which makes it easy to add parking time remotely in case of flight delays.

    • Fred S says:

      16 Sep16 September 16:30

      Super tip! Cheers

    • Ross says:

      16 Sep16 September 17:23

      Great tip that one. If it is the one I remember though, be careful not to park in the “market area” if you are leaving your car over a weekend.

    • RussellH says:

      16 Sep16 September 17:56

      Parked there for our first ever Airmiles trip, paid for in paper vouchers over the counter at AT Mays in Stirling (saved the fee for Registered post).
      No charge to park back then, but perhaps it was just free because it was over New Year. Came back to find that the car parked next door had had its window smashed in, but mine was fine.

• DK says:

  16 Sep16 September 15:46

  I’ve been waiting for a refund for cancelled flights for 2 months now.
  When is it reasonable to approach Amex for S75?

  • Harry T says:

    16 Sep16 September 16:07

    It’s reasonable now, I’d say.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      16 Sep16 September 16:59

      Agree

• Andrew says:

  16 Sep16 September 17:13

  In case anyone was wondering, as I think it was asked recently – Avios bookings with partner airlines DO count under booking with confidence. Just rang to change the date of an Avios booking with Cathay with no change fee. Avios availability is still required as the flight hasn’t been cancelled and any change in taxes is due.

• Ross says:

  16 Sep16 September 17:22

  Any news on the T3 BA weirdness? Looking at some BA October flights in half term (w/c 26 Oct) to Gibraltar and a box pops up: “Your flights will operate from T3, do you want to continue”. This is both weird (because I thought they’d moved everything to T5) and annoying (because I am a Gold and the Cathy lounge is shut in T3, and no First wing, etc.)

• Sukes says:

  16 Sep16 September 17:25

  If the rerouting offer is i) 1 connection more, ii) departure is on same day as booking; and iii) total journey time is not excessively longer than original I don’t see anything to suggest KLM are not complying with UK reg’s interpretation of Art8 of EU261. Whether you consider their suggestion reasonable is a different subject. In fact it is likely that KLM is offering precisely this itinerary because it would adhere to EU261 whereas your sister’s request potentially might not. p5-7 of CAA‘s (pre Covid) guidance for airlines on compliance with re/routing is useful, note when regulator talks about being rerouted ‘via the same route’ it means maintaining the origin and destination airports of your booking: https://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/CAA/Content/Accordion/Standard_Content/Our_work/Annex%201Reouting%20under%20Regulation%20EU261%20and%20the%20CAAs%20view%20on%20compliance.pdf

  • Sukes says:

    16 Sep16 September 17:40

    + formatting gone crazy for some reason, plus that was a reply to Charlieface.

• Harry T says:

  16 Sep16 September 21:18

  South Africa is opening international borders from October 2020. I knew it was a load of bollocks when a February 2021 date was thrown out.

  • Rob says:

    16 Sep16 September 22:02

    This assumes a) UK is not on the ‘risk’ list which will remained banned and b) you want to do 2 weeks quarantine on your return.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      16 Sep16 September 23:01

      Majority of the world will be on the risk list if the UK is.

    • Harry T says:

      16 Sep16 September 23:55

      Hoping the situation will have improved by January!

  • Aston100 says:

    16 Sep16 September 23:06

    That’s interesting Harry. When were you due out there?

    • Harry T says:

      16 Sep16 September 23:56

      January, so fingers crossed! Thanks for asking.

      • Aston100 says:

        17 Sep17 September 00:03

        I’m supposedly going at Xmas and new year.
        I’ll start a HfP graffiti wall in Cape Town.

• DJ says:

  16 Sep16 September 22:17

  Finally got matched to Platinum with Marriott. Will the existing “future dated” bookings count as part of challenge?

  Thanks

  • Pangolin says:

    16 Sep16 September 22:20

    Yes

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