The HfP chat thread – Friday 27th August

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• DR says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:23

  When I priced an avios reward flight for 1 person the tax was £2.00, when I
  changed it for 2 travelling with a 241 voucher, the tax changed to £200.00,
  would that be correct?
  Thanks

  • Andrew says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:25

    Check the “more pricing options” – that will show the correct prices with the standard Avios rate and taxes/charges rather than the higher Avios rate and virtually nil taxes/charges.

    • FatherOfFour says:

      27 Aug27 August 10:57

      When using a 241 it defaults to the standard taxes / charges rate and you don’t get the chance to use more Avios to offset TFCs.

• Ikaz says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:23

  Anyone managed to do payments to NS&I recently? The payment is accepted from my issuing cards (Tried 2 cards) but refused by NS&I “Your debit card transaction was declined.”
  Reverted transaction immediately with one card, pending on the other one

  • StevieKicks says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:29

    Check that your billing address is consistent, I had the same issue with Curve after moving house and forgetting to update with Curve

    • Ikaz says:

      27 Aug27 August 10:39

      Ahh, amazing, NS&I was my old address, transaction now went through, thanks!

• vol says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:32

  Just got an email from Amex saying they’re giving 50 MR points for £1, first 10k to save offer. It’s a small gift, but a gift nonetheless.

  • vol says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:41

    My partner got “spend £1, get 100 points”

  • Sambe says:

    27 Aug27 August 10:51

    Got the email but the offer isn’t showing up for me. I assumed 10k people already took it.

• Sam says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:37

  Hoping for some rebooking advice. 8th to 15th Sept Man to Miami return cancelled. Outbound LHR to Miami is the flight that has been cancelled and I d like to rebook mid Aug 2022 which is now allowed. Do I have to let Ba know before outbound date as eg. MAN to LHR still showing on booking, or can I wait until my return date is T-355 or even later with BA s phone issues. Just thinking if under 300 miles can I change destination to Orlando or even open jaw without issue? Thanks

  • ChrisC says:

    27 Aug27 August 11:14

    The issue is that whilst the long haul has been cancelled the conencting short hail hasn’t and simply not flying that could lead to you being recorded as a no show.

    Personally I’d use the chat function and get the agent to add a note to the PNR that you’ll be calling at a future date to rebook the entire trip for next year.

    Then save the chat as your evidence that you contacted them,

    I think you should be OK using the 300 mile rule.

    • Sam says:

      27 Aug27 August 11:40

      Thanks very much. I live chat now

• Javier says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:50

  Quick question on insurance & vouchers:
  – Is a flight or holiday booked exclusively using vouchers covered by Amex Platinum travel insurance?
  – If not, is there an easy way to pay £10 with my credit card?

• Tim P says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:58

  BA Avios booking to BOS next week (BA0215) but obviously restricted entry and therefore unable to go. Booked in January with a 2-for-1. Take it that if we don’t want to take a voucher then need to take the £70 hit on cancellation charge? Not bothered by the loss of the voucher as we have a small supply now! Any guidance much appreciated.

  • ChrisC says:

    27 Aug27 August 11:06

    Yes if you cancel then you’d have to pay the admin fee.

    • Tim P says:

      27 Aug27 August 11:29

      Thanks ChrisC. Just a shame when unable to travel due to gov restrictions. Cash element is so large, just don’t want to place it in a FTV and risk losing it

• BuildBackBetter says:

  27 Aug27 August 10:59

  Anyone able to confirm Apple store gift cards work for Amex £50 back offer?

  • Andrew says:

    27 Aug27 August 11:02

    Yes. Remember online only though.

  • Will A says:

    27 Aug27 August 11:03

    Yep, worked for me and others. £500 gift card, got £50 back on the amex offer 🙂 didn’t get an instant email confirmation though.

  • Alex says:

    27 Aug27 August 13:39

    Just be careful to buy the Apple Store GC and not the AppStore one…

• John says:

  27 Aug27 August 11:17

  Just wondering how last weekend’s part pay with avios offer (and the ensuing queue of cancellations/refunds) might have affected reward seat availability? Do they come from the same buckets? I noticed CE reward seats on DBV-LHR evaporated even though expert flyer shows v little activity on the seat map…

  • John says:

    27 Aug27 August 11:23

    Ppwa tickets are revenue buckets, not redemption. But if a flight is filled up with revenue bookings then it follows that redemption availability may also decrease. However, if the bookings were vouchered quickly, I would have thought revenue and thus redemption availability would return too.

    • Andrew says:

      27 Aug27 August 12:01

      And if we cancelled our Avios seats in favour of this far better deal, then availability will be up.

      • ChrisC says:

        27 Aug27 August 13:19

        No guarantee that if you cancel a reward flight that it will get put back into the pool for someone else to pick up.

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