The HfP chat thread – Thursday 14th January

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• Doommonger says:

  14 Jan14 January 19:33

  Is there any connection between the lack of a daily death number being published today, and Hancock crowing about 3m vaccinations. An element of news management going on? Surely not…..

  • Grant says:

    14 Jan14 January 22:09

    IT problems apparently. Late being published.

• Bee says:

  14 Jan14 January 19:35

  But does having the amex reward card affect getting the gold and its bonus?

  • Rob says:

    14 Jan14 January 19:39

    Yes, because it is a Membership Rewards card so you are blocked from Gold and Plat bonuses.

• Anna says:

  14 Jan14 January 19:52

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147557/Travel-concierge-service-charging-members-40-000-private-Covid-jab.html
  Why has this not been featured on HFP?!!

  • TGLoyalty says:

    14 Jan14 January 20:03

    Price seems to be increasing by the day.

  • kitten says:

    14 Jan14 January 22:23

    Anna are you implying this is why Rob took his family to Dubai for Christmas?

• Paul Dryden says:

  14 Jan14 January 20:06

  Has anyone recently cancelled a BA Premium Amex? Are they offering any incentives to stay?

  • Lev441 says:

    14 Jan14 January 21:36

    Additional Avios per £1 spent for 3 months is what I got

    • Mike says:

      14 Jan14 January 22:10

      Anyone have any experience of them offering anything else after the 1 extra Avios per £ spend promo runs out?

• aDifferentSimon says:

  14 Jan14 January 20:28

  reward flight question:
  I want to go to lapland this December – there is economy availability for hel-ivl now.
  If lhr-hel ever becomes available can I get BA to join the reward flights into one booking?
  And if that is possible would that make a difference to the taxes due and / or the cancellation fees?
  Thanks!

  • ChrisC says:

    14 Jan14 January 22:43

    No they can’t do that.

    They will remain as two separate bookings and all that entails.

  • Mco says:

    14 Jan14 January 23:58

    See if you can get a seat on the direct LGW-IVL flight. They run 3 days a week.

    • aDifferentSimon says:

      15 Jan15 January 09:51

      I’m not sure it’s running at the moment – BA aren’t even going to Helsinki at the mo in Dec – just finnair

• Alekun says:

  14 Jan14 January 20:43

  Anybody having issues with converting tesco Clubcard vouchers to a iOS via the Clubcard app?

  Or is it just me.

  • Alekun says:

    14 Jan14 January 20:47

    Scratch that.

    Managed to do it via online Clubcard website.

• GR says:

  14 Jan14 January 21:17

  Thoughts on the best non-Amex to use for funding NS&I? Virgin+ ?

  I see Virgin boosted the sign-up bonus to £25k about this time last year – is there much chance of them doing it again?

  • Rob says:

    14 Jan14 January 21:34

    Virgin Money, if you read its accounts, is doing its best to stop taking on new customers whilst it deals with bad debts from the existing base. Hard to see them doing a big bonus.

  • Johm says:

    15 Jan15 January 11:22

    Use creation card or HSBC Premier card

• Boi says:

  14 Jan14 January 21:24

  So my Amex gold card anniversary is May 2021. Looking online I see the spend count adjusted to November-meaning everything spent prior to November isn’t showing on my tracker (this is over 7K spend. I enquired with Amex and this is the reply I got:
  “Though your account opening date is May 2020, the anniversary date for spending tracker bonus, has been applied as Nov 2020 on the account considering the current covid situation and so that you would have more time to meet the spend criteria and be eligible for the bonus.”

  Anyone got that?

  • TGLoyalty says:

    14 Jan14 January 21:42

    Sounds like someone making stuff up.

    Did you apply for another MR based card in November?

    • Boi says:

      14 Jan14 January 21:51

      ha haa! I agree with that. I have not applied for any new card.

  • 747_Brat says:

    14 Jan14 January 21:58

    Does this mean that even if you hit the bonus before May 2021, you would not be able to receive your 10K annual bonus before Nov 2021? 🙄

    • kitten says:

      14 Jan14 January 22:05

      Yes, this is the danger.
      I think I would manually make sure I met the spend, then call up and demand the bonus when it was originally due (if that suited me).

      Otherwise as you say, much longer till you can get the next one if you are still in a position to meet the target in the original time

  • Grant says:

    14 Jan14 January 22:05

    This explains the problem I thought I was having with the spend tracker. I had been meaning to ask Amex about it but have been tracking my spend manually using statements.

    As 747 mentioned, I won’t be happy if this means the annual bonus is delayed – you bet they won’t delay taking next year’s annual fee!

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