The HfP chat thread – Wednesday 27th October

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• TheInsiderFly says:

  27 Oct27 October 21:07

  DP: successfully managed to get a retention bonus today for the BAPP. 10,000 Avios for spending £3,000 in the next 3 months. I’d never had a retention bonus before and I was successful on the app chat function during business hours.

  • Andrew says:

    27 Oct27 October 21:48

    Not quite the same as the no strings attached ones they hand out for the Platinum card – I’m surprised they don’t do this for BAPP

  • memesweeper says:

    27 Oct27 October 21:48

    Result 🙂

• J says:

  27 Oct27 October 21:12

  Guessing this might have already been mentioned. but has anyone spotted the 3,400,000 Virgin point Recording Studio redemption? Maybe we finally have the answer to what Rob is doing with his Virgin points: HfP Christmas single!

  • TGLoyalty says:

    27 Oct27 October 21:34

    Thought he swapped them for Hilton to stay at WA the Palm …

  • Mike says:

    27 Oct27 October 21:36

    Title suggestions – “Do HFP know its Christmas” ” All I Want for Christmas is AVIOS”

    • Andrew says:

      27 Oct27 October 21:50

      Bendy Bells

      • David D says:

        27 Oct27 October 22:52

        Che smells, Solihull flew away, oh what fun it is to fly a far, far way away.

• Jody says:

  27 Oct27 October 21:17

  5 days into a 2 week Med cruise and got chatting to a guy today who’s wife is a regular reader on here. So, if you’re on the Sky Princess and recognise this as you, hello! Hope you managed to get some bargains in Barcelona.

  Sad afternoon yesterday, a floating body was spotted by staff on the bridge. Identified as a female, had been in the water a long time apparently. We had to wait for the Spanish coastguard to come and retrieve the body. Not what you expect to happen at sea.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    27 Oct27 October 21:36

    Aren’t bodies floating out in the sea exactly what you expect to see now and again?

  • Phil W says:

    27 Oct27 October 21:48

    It’s dont bodies generally float?

    • Phil W says:

      27 Oct27 October 21:49

      Don’t bodies generally float?

      Bl00dy keyboard.

• Jody says:

  27 Oct27 October 21:48

  Not judging by the crews reaction. Captain said it was very unusual.

  Guess it depends on where you’re sailing?

  • memesweeper says:

    27 Oct27 October 21:52

    Sad to see.. and yes, I think it is unusual.

    On the subject of meeting people I failed to say ‘hello’ to the person struggling to decide between a Chase and an Amex Gold at the hospitality bar at Emirates a few weeks ago… given the venue and payment cards, they have to be from here, right?

    • Aston100 says:

      27 Oct27 October 23:09

      I finally saw someone trying to pay with a BAPP.
      I’ve never seen anyone ever whip one of those bad boys out before.
      The restaurant naturally didn’t accept Amex. Saw him eventually pay with a debit card and I completely sympathised with the tragic look on his face as he did so.

      • QFFlyer says:

        28 Oct28 October 03:57

        Amateur, not having a Visa/MC backup

      • Lady London says:

        28 Oct28 October 12:53

        Oh dear such a pity he couldn’t subtly stick it into a machine himself and finding the machine accepted it anyway.

        That will teach himv to eat at posh restaurants with white tablecloths that present the bill on a plate.

        • Rob says:

          28 Oct28 October 13:12

          Clearly in suburbia. I’d say about 10% of cards I see being used in London Prets are BA.

• Sam B says:

  28 Oct28 October 02:00

  Hello everyone,

  I need to book a one-way flight from London- Singapore for myself, my wife, and son (<2Yo) in Feb next year.

  We have a bunch of Amex 241 vouchers to use up and about 250K Avios (We live in Australia now so don't earn many Avios anymore).

  The only option I can see that works and allows us to use the Amex voucher is Premium Economy to SIN (even then there aren't many flights), so 2 questions:

  At 77K Avios + 241 voucher +circa 650GBP for the 3 of us, is it a bad/good use of my Avios? Should I just save them for a future biz class flight on a future trip to/ from the UK?

  Is it likely BA will release any more biz class seats to SIN for early 2022?

  Thanks!

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    28 Oct28 October 07:12

    SQ has added flights to MAN – cash flights could be even cheaper.

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