The HfP chat thread – Monday 4th October

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• Mark says:

  4 Oct4 October 16:02

  How do I check / know which plane that BA flies on LHR-SIN has the new Club Suite? Looking at for next year.

  • John says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:05

    I’m scheduled to SIN in February and both ways is old Club World on 777s

  • Rob says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:07

    You shouldn’t trust ANYTHING for next year. Anything more than 3-4 weeks ahead is just a wild guess by BA at this stage.

    Anyway, on ba.com you can pull up the aircraft type. A350 is deffo Club Suite, A380 is deffo not. Some 777 have it. Not sure of the current 787 position. For the latter, do a dummy cash booking and go through to the seat selection page. If the arrows on all the seats are pointing forwards in Business, its Club Suite. If half point backwards, its Club World.

  • Simon says:

    4 Oct4 October 17:55

    Search for the flight on Google flights. It will tell you the seat type. If lie flat then it’s old club world seat. If individual suite then it’s new club suite.

• Rosie says:

  4 Oct4 October 16:19

  A little confused , I’m going to Germany at the end of October , I’m fully vaccinated with Astra , on the sky news website when checking tool to see what country requirements are by adding Germany , it’s saying that I have to take a pcr / antigen test before leaving the U.K. and need to show when arriving in Germany , however looking on other websites it doesn’t mention the need for a test … confused.com don’t want to arrive at LhR and then be denied boarding

  • Ja says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:29

    I was just looking at that. It says for Canada you have to quarantine even if you are vaxxed which I think is wrong

    • Rosie says:

      4 Oct4 October 16:36

      Fco website doesn’t mention it either however if you check on the German federal office advice , it says u do need a test for arrival , plus as the U.K. is classed as area of concern antigen rapid test has to be taken within 24 hours (not 48)

    • Tracey says:

      4 Oct4 October 17:03

      I thought Canada said you had to have a quarantine plan, in case you were in contact with someone positive

  • GeorgeJ says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:37

    Why are you using a Sky news site for something as important as this, these sources are often hopelessly out of date. Use the official German Government site or reopen EU (the official EU site, which in turn accesses national guidance).
    You will need to complete a passenger locator form but vaccinated persons are exempt from testing and quarantine. You will probably be asked to show proof of vaccination, though on my latest journey I was just asked if I had taken the vaccine (though my hotel in Stuttgart asked to see proof).

    • Rosie says:

      4 Oct4 October 16:41

      I looked on the fco website , no mention of a test in the U.K. , looked on the German website and you do need test and as we are high risk area it says to be taken 24 hours before arrival (antigen rapid test)

      • Pete M says:

        4 Oct4 October 16:56

        Definitely no test needed to go from the UK to Germany if fully jabbed. Do the journey every couple of weeks.

    • Harry T says:

      4 Oct4 October 17:37

      Agreed, go straight to the source of the information and guidance. The FCDO is a good starting point as they usually link to the right local resources.

      • Pete M says:

        4 Oct4 October 17:46

        Except that the local source is often unclear and/or in poor English, so people end up even more confused, like in this case 🙂

        • GeorgeJ says:

          4 Oct4 October 18:34

          Its not unclear at all, the English is first rate!

        • Pete M says:

          4 Oct4 October 18:43

          I was trying to be kind GeorgeJ 🙂

  • Mike says:

    4 Oct4 October 17:47

    Hi Rosie,
    I’ve just got back from Germany after 3 and bit weeks there. You just need to be double vaccinated and complete their plf. That’s it. I had the PLF and vaccine cert printed out and the immigration guy thanked me for being organised. I did need to show my vaccine cert at the hotel so worth having ready. You can show your phone instead, but I don’t like giving my phone to people, one slip and I’d be without my phone for the trip (especially problematic if all your certs etc. are on there).

• stevenhp1987 says:

  4 Oct4 October 16:22

  About an hour after I called them it seems I’ve been manually verified!

  Quite quick!

• David says:

  4 Oct4 October 16:25

  Returning a hire car to Heathrow tomorrow evening – any local info on the petrol situation as would prefer not to give Hertz the job of filling at £4/litre.

  • N says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:29

    changing every hour. tesco yeading is regularly popping up on my local fb group as being a station with fuel, but it is a good few miles away from LHR!

  • graham says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:50

    fill up within 40 miles of LHR to the brim and it will still show full on return and even at motorway prices you will save

  • Allan says:

    4 Oct4 October 17:06

    They told me last time they were doing it for 1.24 per litre but the bill seemed higher. Waiting to hear back after contesting it.

    • graham says:

      4 Oct4 October 17:22

      In my experience I think that price is if you buy a full tank on collection and return empty, which is obviously impossible, (they also believe that the tank holds more than the manufacturer of the car does), rather the fill up price on return

      • Allan says:

        4 Oct4 October 17:32

        Ah! So I fell for it!
        The guy made out that it was a better deal. He also failed to remove the extra insurance on one of the 2 cars I hired and charged for an extra driver despite being am Amex plat code booking.

  • Scallder says:

    4 Oct4 October 17:14

    Esso on the Southern Perimeter Road yesterday was all fine – no caps on amount to fill up. Unleaded was 143.9p/litre

  • AL says:

    4 Oct4 October 20:17

    Four quid a litre!?

• Andrew H says:

  4 Oct4 October 16:32

  Is CHE fairly safe with VACC+? Have a Euro deposit to pay for a skiing holiday.

  • Youllnever says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:54

    I believe you’ll get hit with the 5% cash advance fee immediately so no.

    • idontflymuch says:

      4 Oct4 October 16:56

      @Youllnever but if I top up ernie I will be ok with metal bendy?

      • Youllnever says:

        4 Oct4 October 16:58

        I believe it’s still okay for now, but they’ve updated their T&C to say these payments will be charged the cash advance fee – when that comes into effect, nobody knows.

    • Aston100 says:

      4 Oct4 October 17:16

      Have you tried overloading Beardy before paying Che?
      Its fine when doing this with Solihull to Che without any fees (or is when I try it now and again).

      • Youllnever says:

        4 Oct4 October 17:21

        Solihull is different though – they didn’t charge the cash advance fee but rather only the daily interest, hence why it worked – credit balance wouldn’t change this.

        • idontflymuch says:

          4 Oct4 October 17:43

          surely this route is still open until Solihull close the cards on the 3rd Dec no?

  • idontflymuch says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:54

    not for me, topped up CHE with Bendy backed by VACC+ and got 5% cash charge.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      4 Oct4 October 17:04

      Using bendy serves no purpose as they pass through the original MCC and you can use credit cards to top up directly

  • Jeff Greene says:

    4 Oct4 October 20:10

    Use a fruit machine to top up your flake 99 and then use the interest from your Ford Focus to generate some extra points

    • Aston100 says:

      4 Oct4 October 20:35

      Thanks, that worked for me.

    • Lady London says:

      5 Oct5 October 13:16

      Was that fruit machine with the gobstopper selected?

• Thomas says:

  4 Oct4 October 17:18

  Planning next US trip… So with Astra/Zeneca vaccine you are considered “fully vaccinated” or not?

  • Andrew says:

    4 Oct4 October 17:25

    The US have announced a decision on this yet. We wait to see, but probably (hopefully).

  • Sandgrounder says:

    4 Oct4 October 17:44

    The CDC have been advising that WHO authorised vaccines are acceptable for international travel since August (see the final point)
    https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/international-travel-during-covid19.html
    I can’t see why they will change their mind, but it will be nice to see published rules for travel from EU/UK to remove any element of doubt.

• Thomas says:

  4 Oct4 October 17:31

  I believe we should be good: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/travel-during-covid19.html
  “* This guidance applies to COVID-19 vaccines currently authorized for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson (J&J)/Janssen COVID-19 vaccines. This guidance can also be applied to COVID-19 vaccines that have been listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization (e.g. AstraZeneca/Oxford). See WHO’s website external iconfor more information about WHO-authorized COVID-19 vaccines.”

  • Sandgrounder says:

    4 Oct4 October 17:44

    You are too quick for me and my unrefreshed mobile page Thomas 🙂

• markka says:

  4 Oct4 October 17:45

  Anyone having problems logging into awardwallet from a browser? I can’t seem to get rid of the privacy splash screen that comes up (recently cleared cookies).

  • Clive says:

    4 Oct4 October 21:03

    yes same problem here

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