The HfP chat thread – Friday 9th October

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• henry says:

  9 Oct9 October 14:36

  Date point IHG free night cert.
  Just received an email from customer services after I sent a complaint saying sorry for the delay in sending the free night certificate out etc all customers should receive it soon

  Very strange

  • Anna says:

    9 Oct9 October 15:19

    It would be nice if they got Lloyds to deal with this issue, we might all get an extra surprise free night certificate!

    • TGLoyalty says:

      9 Oct9 October 16:48

      And £150 in the post

      • Anna says:

        9 Oct9 October 17:00

        And duplicate avios. Those were the days …

• MinR says:

  9 Oct9 October 14:47

  Is there any difference between Hyatt Prive rates/benefits and Amex FHR?

  • Super Secret Stuff says:

    9 Oct9 October 16:34

    Not so much on the benefits front. But the cost is usually a lot less via prive

  • Harry T says:

    9 Oct9 October 19:55

    FHR gets you a guaranteed 4pm checkout. Prive gets you a non defined and non guaranteed late checkout (though you could get your travel agent to confirm a late check out). Theoretically Prive should get treated better but mileage will vary. I’ll let you know after my first Prive stay this month (Great Scotland Yard).

• Maciek says:

  9 Oct9 October 15:14

  Still no luck on my side using Curve on a certain red card – the payment doesn’t even hit Curve. Worldpay playing up again or have reds caught up?

• GT says:

  9 Oct9 October 15:55

  I had the same a couple of days ago. Voucher valid to 7 April 2023

• Jill (Kinkell) says:

  9 Oct9 October 16:39

  Travels plans somewhat curtailed for rest of this year. Lamenting our South America Peru and Galapagos trip which we should have been heading on next week for a month. 2 trips in diary for April and June and finalising an open jaw 241 road trip to USA for September. Bagged F out to Denver, but all F seats seem to have disappeared for all cities in USA as from Monday 25 Sept 21. Anyone know why? I should have taken the plunge for the Sunday, as 5 seats were available for our return leg . Serves me right for hesitating! Consolation at this stage is CW is fine for an overnight flight!
  Let’s hope everyone’s travel plans can go ahead without too much disruption.

  • ChrisC says:

    9 Oct9 October 17:11

    BA don’t always release F seats the same way they guarentee economy and club

    When the avios sale was started 4 days ago the booking window was upto the 25th September 2021 (it’s now the 29th) so they added lots of seats up until the 25th and thought that was enough.

    of course they may release more over the comign months so if they do you can always call them up and upgrade.

    • Jonathan says:

      9 Oct9 October 19:32

      The booking window for the Avios sale is travel up to 30th June so you could never get September flights for 50% off.

      • Jill (Kinkell) says:

        9 Oct9 October 20:30

        Aware of that. Wasn’t looking to book the 50% off, although a great deal. We had already earmarked Sept for our trip anyway…better temperatures.If F seats become available, I know I can phone and change. It was annoying that F seats just disappeared…not released, given the abundance up until the 25th.to USA cities, as I’d been keeping an eye on them.
        Thanks for your comments ChrisC and Jonathan

        • Matt B says:

          9 Oct9 October 21:10

          Yes i noticed the same last week, I booked for July/Aug to LA/LAS in F and i had the choice of almost any day across 6 weeks. Its all gone now and not impacted by the 50% off deal, just happens I guess.

        • Liz says:

          9 Oct9 October 22:47

          Jill – what route are you doing from Denver. We decided to avoid the USA next year and go for Canada. Booked out to Vancouver late Aug and back via Calgary.

        • Jill (Kinkell) says:

          10 Oct10 October 13:26

          Reply to Liz: Denver through Colorado to New Mexico and across ending up in Phoenix. Fly to Chicago and home from there. I have AA credit from cancelled ( by me) flights and the credit element must be used by 31 Dec 21. No chance of a cash refund as it was a non refundable booking. So at least we can use it. Decided to take a punt on USA being open.

• Andrew says:

  9 Oct9 October 16:40

  PR shots of the new First door suite now on Business Traveller:
  https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2020/10/09/the-big-picture-british-airways-first-seat-with-sliding-door/

• Floyd "Money" Mayweather says:

  9 Oct9 October 17:11

  https://hfp2022.headforpoints.blog/2018/09/07/british-airways-launches-a-new-indian-codeshare-vistara/#commentsContent

  Hi HfP & fellow readers. Sorry if its an un-educated question but, if i were to book through BA website & credit the following indirect rtn flight:
  LON>(connect@Delhi)>Amritsar International, to my QatarPrivilege programme, would i gain Qmiles & Qpoints?
  (BA flight to DEL &then Vistara flight to Amritsar)
  Kind regards.

  • Chris K says:

    9 Oct9 October 18:07

    Non One World metal so I would assume not unless the IT fairies work in your favour.

    • Floyd "Money" Mayweather says:

      9 Oct9 October 23:10

      Ok. Cheers.

• Princess says:

  9 Oct9 October 17:13

  hi, reporting something strange, sorry if it has been shared already. My platinum card has been offering 12000 points (when you invite a friends) until a couple of weeks ago when it changed to 18000. I tested and invite my husband and it worked I got 18000.
  Is it a special offer? does anyone know?

  • Andrew says:

    9 Oct9 October 17:23

    Still 12.000 showing for me.

    • Rob says:

      9 Oct9 October 17:29

      Plat Business is still 18k. It is also possible you have a targetted offer – some people got a special BA Amex referral deal recently.

  • Sukes says:

    9 Oct9 October 18:19

    I’ve got 18k referral on Amex Plat personal, have had for a while I think. Says ‘your exclusive offer’ above the referral link in the app.

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