The HfP chat thread – Saturday 30th January

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• Mco says:

  30 Jan30 January 18:42

  What system did they use to put take countries off the travel corridors. 20 cases per 100k for how long? Was it an average of a number of days?

  Just thinking if they will follow suit for the Red countries.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    30 Jan30 January 18:48

    Hancock and priti will throw darts at a list of countries and shapps will protest against some but accept others until finally the whole global is covered.

    • Mco says:

      30 Jan30 January 19:38

      Haha. They actually will too.

  • Rob says:

    30 Jan30 January 22:53

    Doubt it was 20 when the UK was running at 300+.

• Mouse says:

  30 Jan30 January 19:13

  Great to see Lady London back (after yesterday’s discussions). Seldom agreed with your/her more controversial comments, but one of the great contributors nonetheless and a great joy to have back (under the original name).

  • ChrisBCN says:

    30 Jan30 January 22:13

    She’s always been kinda here.. I don’t think she has been controversial at all, but a great proponent of standing up for you rights – and I applaud that and thank her for everything she does here.

    • Super Secret Stuff says:

      30 Jan30 January 22:27

      +1

      I’ve not seen anything too controvetial, there is a very short list of people who are controvertial or generally very annoying but LL certainly isn’t one of them

      • Polly says:

        30 Jan30 January 23:36

        LL one of the best…

        • kitten says:

          31 Jan31 January 03:52

          I will get LL to pay you when she sees you Polly!

        • Lyn says:

          31 Jan31 January 04:23

          Exactly!

• 747_Brat says:

  30 Jan30 January 19:20

  Received an email from BA saying that my flight to JNB has been cancelled. I had booked the flight in the 50% Avios sale in F cabin.

  Called up BA customer care, and got through to an agent in less than a minute which was very impressive! I wanted to explore the flight availability for December 2020. But the agent refused to book a new ticket departing LHR to JNB in December citing the 1 year ticket validity rule, which was what I was expecting.

  But when I started playing around with the MMB options for my cancelled ticket online, I noticed that BA is showing flight options in December. I haven’t decided yet on the new dates I would like to fly, but can I book the ticket online on BA portal for a date which is after a year of the booking date?

  Thanks in advance.

  • Charlieface says:

    30 Jan30 January 19:23

    No idea, but the 1 year thing is BS. It refers to voluntary changes by passenger, not involuntary due to cancellations. The agent should just rebook and endorse it as INVOL.

    • Polly says:

      30 Jan30 January 23:38

      Flat out refused to do that for our KUL flights. Insisted on the 1nyear rule..read out sale rules to me..

      • Charlieface says:

        31 Jan31 January 00:45

        The sales rules are for VOLUNTARY changes, the agent doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

  • Mco says:

    30 Jan30 January 19:39

    It will error out when you go to confirm flights.

    • memesweeper says:

      30 Jan30 January 21:09

      Mine didn’t. Twice.

      • Matty says:

        30 Jan30 January 21:20

        Mine didn’t either.

  • 747_Brat says:

    31 Jan31 January 00:12

    Thanks guys. Based on the feedback here, I will give a try and report back.

• DJ says:

  30 Jan30 January 19:22

  Hi,

  Just out of curiosity, has anyone managed to use the Amex Platinum hotel status enrolment page? Opened a supplmentary Platinum card for a family member, but every time after pressing the submit button, the page would hang and then an error message stating that the server is not responding.

  Have tried on my account as well, and tried Firefox, Chrome, all the same result. Contacted Amex both in chat and call centre, but they weren’t helpful either.

  Thanks

• Benilyn says:

  30 Jan30 January 19:33

  Bendy Metal fronting + Beardy/IHG to pay Halifax mortgage overpayment – does that work?

  • KP says:

    30 Jan30 January 20:19

    Can we make an overpayment using a card to Halifax mortgage acct?.I can only see the account details option of transfer rather than taking from debit card.

    • Genghis says:

      30 Jan30 January 21:14

      Need to call

• Stuart says:

  30 Jan30 January 21:13

  I can’t remember who was asking about how to find out when a companion/upgrade voucher has been earned, but if you download the Virgin Red app, that tracks all points and vouchers earned by your credit card, as well as listing any flight bookings you have.

  • Stuart says:

    30 Jan30 January 21:13

    That was referring to Virgin

    • Alex D says:

      30 Jan30 January 22:48

      If I download the app I can’t login – says they are gaining new members all the time and to come back soon…seems odd?

      • Stuart says:

        30 Jan30 January 23:25

        I received that message until about a week ago so it is worth retrying a couple of times

• pinperl says:

  30 Jan30 January 21:50

  Hi.
  anyone know if amex platinum offering retention offers at the moment?

• Darren says:

  30 Jan30 January 21:57

  May be a little late in the day to post this but after all of the talk of best UK hotels today, is it worth an article to highlight the best of each brand, split into categories? Best Budget Hilton, Best City IHG outside of London (or in) etc.

  Or a World Cup of…..? Ala Richard Osman.

  • Rob says:

    30 Jan30 January 22:47

    The issue is that we don’t really stay in them, to be honest, so it is difficult for us to do it properly without making it too reliant on readers.

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