The HfP chat thread – Friday 27th August

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• MattB says:

  27 Aug27 August 09:26

  I’ve just made a 241 LHR to MAN booking and cancelled for a voucher straight away as my 241 will expire shortly and I need to make a booking in the next few days for next year.

  The FTV email I received has 2 codes, is this correct?

  • SteveJ says:

    27 Aug27 August 09:31

    Yes, it’s the two ticket numbers from your original booking.

    • MattB says:

      27 Aug27 August 09:32

      thanks

    • Harry T says:

      27 Aug27 August 09:43

      What Steve said!

• PerkyPat says:

  27 Aug27 August 09:42

  Has anyone been through arrivals at FRA recently? Just wondering what the waiting time might be.

• @mkcol says:

  27 Aug27 August 09:44

  So if I understand the 0ne for Awl T&Cs I can apply Clause 10.1 during Clause 12.1 to obtain a full refund to my bank account.

  Or am I misunderstanding?

  • Memesweeper says:

    27 Aug27 August 12:06

    IANAL … but looks good to me

    I might punt a single card on a test, I’ve found them very difficult to use in the past

• Peter says:

  27 Aug27 August 09:58

  Thailand in the red list.

  I’ve used Avios upgrade voucher to book return flight to BKK in Nov and started thinking that I have to cancel the trip. As currently I have two FTVs in hand so I’m thinking if there is good way to get cash for the upgrade voucher when cancelling it or do I have to hold the upgrade voucher which might be uselss for me?

  Thanks.

  • Sam G says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:02

    Personally I’d sit on it. Pretty good chance those BKK flights will get cancelled and then you can shift them up to a year into the future without needing Avios availability under the new ticket validity rules

  • Harry T says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:19

    Just wait for BA to cancel – then you can move the flights for free up to 12 months from the original departure date.

    • Peter says:

      27 Aug27 August 10:35

      thanks for your both response. but the question is that I have two unused FTV already and this extra upgrade voucher will be useless for me …

      • meta says:

        27 Aug27 August 10:55

        Then if they cancel you can get a full refund. Either way, I’d wait.

• Andrew says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:03

  The Collinson unsupervised antigen self-test – is that’s acceptable for a vaccinated amber arrival? Apart from someone guiding you through the process is there any difference in terms of acceptability between supervised or unsupervised? And I’m assuming that Collinson aren’t rogue traders as they are being promoted by Amex with the 20% off code?

  • Cats are best says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:27

    Collinson are reputable.

    There’s no mention of supervision being a requirement…
    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-for-people-travelling-to-england

  • Lottie says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:28

    I just used an unsupervised test , not Collinson, but prenetics, and it was accepted for a vaccinated amber arrival.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:32

    How does anyone looking at the certificate know it’s supervised or unsupervised?

    • meta says:

      27 Aug27 August 11:01

      It’s usually stated on the certificate. For example, Qured one has a sentence stating supervised by a health profession via video consultation or something similar.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        28 Aug28 August 01:16

        No such statements on the supervised tests I’ve had from collinson or expresstest

        Not anything from Chronomics to suggest it’s unsupervised

  • Andrew says:

    27 Aug27 August 11:08

    Thanks for the reassurances everyone. Seems Collinson only do day 2 tests at testing sites though? Might go with Boots for that one so I can just do postal.

• mark2 says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:12

  Amex offer on Gold: Spend £80 get £10 back.
  or buy One4All at Morrison’s and get 10% back on any amount at B&Q and many others.

• Andrew says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:17

  Just got an email from Amex about the 100MR on £1 spend – they are marketing it as ‘winning’ 100 points – and suggests it’s a monthly thing with ‘September wins’ and ‘October wins’ greyed out at the top. Maybe more generous ‘wins’ to come?

  • Rhys says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:18

    Yes, very weird that they market it as ‘winning’ as it appears to be on everyone’s cards!

    • Cats are best says:

      27 Aug27 August 10:31

      To ‘win’ you need to be one of the first ten thousand to claim it.

      It’s a game of skill 🙂

      • Andrew says:

        27 Aug27 August 11:04

        Maybe this is their way of encouraging everyone to check their offers regularly – my Dad was aghast that I check my offers daily when I had to remind him there was even an offers tab.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      27 Aug27 August 10:33

      Deffo not on everyone’s cards

      Missing from a Plat and BAPP here but can see others have on these cards.

      • SteveJ says:

        27 Aug27 August 13:34

        +1

    • Paul Pogba says:

      27 Aug27 August 11:01

      Its the 2020s, we’re ALL winners; prizes for everybody 🙂

• BuildBackBetter says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:18

  Amex is indeed trolling us. The email for the £1 spend = 100 MR offer states:

  “You can feel like a winner right now”.

  Have they started hiring interns for the loyalty department?

  • Thomas Shelby says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:21

    Took me a while to realise how bad this was

  • mr_jetlag says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:36

    you can *feel* like a winner right now

    …loser

    • vol says:

      27 Aug27 August 10:42

      I feel like a loser – I only got 50 😂

      • Dave says:

        27 Aug27 August 13:32

        I’m a loser too. I’ve got nothing yet.

  • Tariq says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:55

    Looks like there might be sequel offers in Sept/Oct

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