The HfP chat thread – Tuesday 19th October

This article is closed to new posts. Discussion continues in the HfP Forums.

• roberto says:

  19 Oct19 October 12:11

  Adding a car for 5 or more days reduced the net cost? There is massive shortages of hire cars and the rates are generally sky high – not doubting your maths but I would double double check before pressing the button..

  And as for your question, I “forgot” my car recently in Jersey as I was pretty slaughtered after two flights and a 2 hour lounge connection , avis cared not…

  • roberto says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:11

    Reply to MW….

    • FFoxSake says:

      19 Oct19 October 12:16

      …but did you still get the douple TPs from BA Holidays?

  • MW says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:17

    Yup, surprisingly went down by £30 compared with flight only (CE). Tbh if not for the TPs would have probably flown ET for this trip. Will, of course, double-check. Did you get double TPs and BA Hols Avios?

    • Harry T says:

      19 Oct19 October 12:27

      It’s because BA holidays often have access to cheaper fare buckets for the flights.

• Tom says:

  19 Oct19 October 12:28

  Struggling with VeriFLY. I’ve signed up and am attempting to add my flight details. I get as far as the drop down menu to select my airline and the only options are Aer Lingus and American Airlines (I’m flying with BA). Unable to scroll or type manually.
  I’ve deleted the app and reinstalled it to no avail. Any ideas!?

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:31

    Weird. I just downloaded it myself 10 minutes ago for a flight tomorrow and BA was there.

  • Tom says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:32

    Scrap that! My destination is in Spain and it seems that VeriFLY only supports Aer Lingus and American Airlines customers flying to Spain. Oh well! To check it is… (despite travelling HBO!) 😑

    • Pete M says:

      19 Oct19 October 12:40

      Isn’t Spain one of the countries where BA does its own checks via MMB? (It does for Germany on the outbound, for instance)

    • happeemonkee says:

      19 Oct19 October 12:50

      You can use Verifly for the return from Spain

      • Nick says:

        19 Oct19 October 13:33

        BA uses their own verification process outbound from the UK, and Verifly for the inbound. No idea why but that’s what they decided. Or you could save yourself the hassle and just do it at the desk – if you save everything to your iPad files it’ll only take 20 secs to show them all.

        • Chrisasaurus says:

          19 Oct19 October 20:46

          Fwiw in reality they ignore it on the inbound anyway

  • Peter K says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:44

    Someone was saying this yesterday. Seems some routes have an issue.

  • Shaw West says:

    19 Oct19 October 13:05

    Flew with Ryanair over the weekend to Alicante. Filled the Spanish locator form, obtained the qr code, uploaded the vaccine certs and the locator form to Ryanair and that was it. Mobile boarding pass did work. At Alicante there was health dept check verifying the qr code. All in all took 5 mins at the ALC airport to clear security and health check

• TGLoyalty says:

  19 Oct19 October 12:37

  It always says that and always pay out anyway.

  • Anuj says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:42

    Thanks

    • Anuj says:

      19 Oct19 October 12:43

      How long does it usually take for the money to credit on virgin ?

      • Andrew says:

        19 Oct19 October 13:09

        On my Virgin Money account, it’s 30 days, then you choose where you want it to be paid too.

        I’ve got 10% and 5% on BoS and MBNA at the moment.

  • K says:

    19 Oct19 October 14:25

    Do you need to save these offers on Virgin CC (like AMEX) or are all the offers “tailored” and already saved onto your account?

    • Reney says:

      19 Oct19 October 14:45

      No need to save. Yes they are tailored, I don’t have this offer this time round.

• GT says:

  19 Oct19 October 12:38

  I’m considering upgrading to BAPP card to take advantage of increased Club World availability using the companion voucher. I’m wondering if there is indeed increased availability on the LHR-SYD route when you have a new style voucher and would appreciate any reports from contributors here.

  • Harry T says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:59

    If there’s a certain degree of I class availability on that route, then theoretically you should see more Avios seats with the new voucher (see Rob’s recent article).

    Redemptions to Australia are usually poor value vs a decent cash fare though, or at least they were when it was actually possible to fly to Australia easily.

  • Sam G says:

    19 Oct19 October 14:26

    I just clicked through a few weeks in April on expertflyer and LHR-SYD is I9 pretty much every day – so in theory should be good. need someone with the voucher to double check though

    Jury is out on whether they’ll even operate SYD again so could be a nice way to use a 2-4-1 on Qatar 😉

    • Paul Pogba says:

      19 Oct19 October 16:22

      I checked for August/Sept 22 and it was pretty poor, two CW seats each way once per month at odd times (making for a trips of around 5 days or 6 weeks) and they priced at about 315k avios + ~£1600 fees. I’d probably be happy with that as a 241 redemption if I could find better dates but I guess availability won’t get much better when more people start thinking about travel down there.

      • GT says:

        19 Oct19 October 18:04

        Thanks Paul that’s exactly the information I was looking for. It doesn’t look like availability’s going to be much better than with the old vouchers.

• Navara says:

  19 Oct19 October 12:43

  May stack with Airtime

  • Navara says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:46

    Someone being deleting posts?

• Hotinnewcastlesays says:

  19 Oct19 October 12:46

  Staying in Vienna at Marriott Courtyard on the Work Anywhere Stay Rate at the weekend, contacted reservations to confirm early check in and late check out and got told Breakfast not included – this article states breakfast included – is there any official website/link/document (cant find any except hfp article) to persuade the hotel to reconsider.
  Link – https://hfp2022.headforpoints.blog/2020/11/01/marriott-launches-new-work-at-hotel-packages/

  • Memesweeper says:

    19 Oct19 October 14:19

    The Work Anywhere page on the Marriott website has gone too… is this over ???

• Char Char says:

  19 Oct19 October 12:47

  Tesco, Morrisons and Asda all run discounted gift cards through work schemes for between 2-5% and have been for many years, a lot of the schemes like instore and Airtime are basically pocketing the differences.

  The 10% offers are usually limited time offers which must be funded by the stores, no idea why especially when they claim there is a supply chain crisis, unless they are trying to get people to stock up now rather than closer to christmas

  • Toby says:

    19 Oct19 October 13:11

    My suspicion is it’s to help with trading updates — I think they run these to help massage their turnover numbers to hit certain targets/expectation.

    • JDB says:

      19 Oct19 October 16:31

      Tesco’s H1 turnover was c. £27bn; I don’t think a few enthusiastic gift card buyers will make much difference.

• aviosnewbie says:

  19 Oct19 October 12:53

  I have booked a return CW ticket using an FTV that includes a companion voucher. Is it possible to cancel the return leg after we have flown the outbound segment? And will it give me another FTV with the companion voucher again? Thanks!

  • JDB says:

    19 Oct19 October 12:58

    No! The companion voucher is already used on the outbound and bookings also be have to be cancelled 24 hours before the first flight to get the Avios back.

This article is closed to new posts. Discussion continues in the HfP Forums.