The HfP chat thread – Friday 10th September

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• Andrew says:

  10 Sep10 September 11:23

  It seems Virgin haven’t further extended my status matched gold, following the email this week. Are others experiencing the same? Worth contacting them about it, given that they did email to say they would be extending by 6 months?

  • Mouse says:

    10 Sep10 September 14:12

    Same for me

• Roy says:

  10 Sep10 September 11:24

  In a further move to distance themselves from Curve, Creation have now updated their mobile app to ensure their logo is a different colour from Curve’s logo.

  Also, the new Creation app doesn’t work (for me, at least).

  • Roy says:

    10 Sep10 September 11:27

    Ok, worked eventually, after a few attempts, but slow and glitchy….

    • Aston100 says:

      10 Sep10 September 13:09

      Very slow indeed.

• AndyH says:

  10 Sep10 September 11:28

  IHG Ambassador “stay once by Aug 31 to receive a reward night”.
  I signed up to Ambassador for the first time recently, partly to take advantage of this offer, and stayed at the IC The George in Edinburgh on the last night of the promotion (Aug 31).
  I haven’t seen anything to say that this stay triggered the promotion – ie no confirmation email or anything like that and don’t see a reward night popping up in the app.
  Any info on when/how this appears into your IHG account? Or did I misread the promotion and staying overnight on Aug 31 was actually one night too late?
  Thanks!

  • Young L says:

    10 Sep10 September 12:40

    I think you need to check-out by Aug 31 in order to qualify.

  • Anna says:

    10 Sep10 September 12:46

    IHG can be funny with dates, my free night 40k voucher was use by April 30th and wouldn’t let me book that actual night.

• Andyh says:

  10 Sep10 September 11:28

  Anyone know if BA are still using Marhaba lounge in Dubai? Or is the BA lounge open? Flying to Lhr tomorrow

  • ChrisC says:

    10 Sep10 September 11:40

    Very unlikely the BA lounge is open. Best to check the One World Lounge Finder.

    • Blair says:

      10 Sep10 September 12:59

      Marhaba

• Jonathan says:

  10 Sep10 September 11:29

  Has anyone else been sent one of the old style BA Amex cards lately ?

  My blue card was due to expire at the end of the month, Amex told me to expect a new card around the middle of the month, a few days ahead of their projected timeframe, my new card arrived today, but it’s the old style, with numbers embossed on the front instead of being printed on the back !

  I guess they’re going to clear out all their supplies of the old card designs before they start on the new designs

  • Duncan says:

    10 Sep10 September 11:33

    Original or BAPP? I’m due to get a replacement card soon, and I really want one with the new design. 😬 I have a nice new wallet and I want to avoid putting cards with embossed numbers in the outer slots.

    • Duncan says:

      10 Sep10 September 11:34

      Oh, you said blue – I’m an idiot who should learn to read.

  • Tony says:

    10 Sep10 September 11:33

    I upgraded to BAPP over the weekend – new design card arrived yesterday.

  • Rob says:

    10 Sep10 September 11:40

    No – Rhys has got a new style one.

    • Youllnever says:

      10 Sep10 September 12:39

      Got the new one recently as well. Looks like you might just have received one of the last ones they had.

• Allan says:

  10 Sep10 September 11:33

  Just been sent a copy of High Life and Business Life from BA by post. Thought it was going paperless!

• Si says:

  10 Sep10 September 11:43

  I’ve been emailed by Curve asking for prove of income etc do to high volume of Transactions with NSI. Was hoping after yesterday’s developments, I might have dodged that dance but here I am… Curve is now all but redundant to me [again] so it is worth me trying to stump up the info and fight it or should I just try to close account and wash hands of it?

  I’ve actually been fortunate that I’ve come into some money recently (inheritance) so I may be able to blag it, but they already know what I’ve been doing.

  Apart from them closing account, what is worse that could happen? Notes on financial record/credit score etc??

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    10 Sep10 September 11:45

    It’s just a KYC check.

    Provide what they ask for and you’ll be fine.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    10 Sep10 September 12:41

    Nothing will happen just provide the details requested.

  • Damian says:

    10 Sep10 September 13:29

    They could create a SAR protecting themselves from money laundering. Hence why it’s best to provide the info requested. This may be taken into consideration by other banks when they carry out KYC checks.

    • Si says:

      10 Sep10 September 14:23

      I will submit as requested and hopefully all will wash downstream until all is forgotten. The timing may prove either perfect due to lack of future “creative” opportunity, or very unfortunate, as all investigated activities will now be past-tense and the stable door has already been bolted

  • SteveJ says:

    10 Sep10 September 14:31

    Not happened to me yet, but sod them, I’d be opening a card in the other half’s name and just closing the relationship.

  • Char Char says:

    10 Sep10 September 18:02

    Out of interest I assume a metal card?

    • Si says:

      10 Sep10 September 18:34

      The old skool free one. Had it for years and never really used it for anything until certain activities were brought to my attention. Must have jumped in a bit hard

• Nomid says:

  10 Sep10 September 11:53

  Extra 3000 Avios for £500 spend on supp BAPP.
  Has anyone got it?

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