The HfP chat thread – Wednesday 17th November

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• LewisB says:

  17 Nov17 November 16:34

  With BA down does anyone have any tips for getting to Peru since LATAM pulled out of One World and BA pulled the route?

  • LewisB says:

    17 Nov17 November 16:35

    300k avios to my disposal and 3 virgin vouchers and 80k VA miles.

    • APPL says:

      17 Nov17 November 16:39

      Iberia from Madrid?

  • e14 says:

    17 Nov17 November 16:38

    Yeah – IB ?

    • LewisB says:

      17 Nov17 November 16:41

      Should’ve mentioned I’m one of those -90,000 with Iberia but I guess I should wait and see what happens when BA comes back live… Looks like I could potentially book AA from Miami as well.

      • Nik says:

        17 Nov17 November 16:57

        I am also in that club (but only to the extent of -18000). Is there any clue on how it will end up? I have not touched my Iberia account for the 35 months, since the deduction in December 2018, and am hoping that after 3 years of inactivity it will be cleared to zero. Am I being realistic? Will the moves towards merging the various Avios schemes risk these being deducted from my BAEC balance?

• AndyGWP says:

  17 Nov17 November 16:45

  A couple of weeks ago, someone posted a nifty trick for recording calls on an iPhone (add voice recording to control centre, hit record, dial number)

  Just tried it. It doesn’t actually seem to work….anyone have any luck?

  • Guernsey Globetrotter says:

    17 Nov17 November 17:33

    I think you had to be on the call first and then hit record?

  • Neil says:

    17 Nov17 November 18:20

    Sadly just not possible on iPhone

    Clunky work around is hold a conversation over speakerphone, meanwhile recording on another device such as another phone, iPad or dictation machine etc.

  • Tracey says:

    17 Nov17 November 19:49

    I posted it. It works for me, you need to actually record the conversation. You should see a coloured bar at the top of your screen when you are on the call.

    • Tracey says:

      17 Nov17 November 19:50

      Did you see the countdown on the screen?

      If something is going wrong you can also try following the same pattern with a video of your screen.

      • AndyGWP says:

        17 Nov17 November 21:34

        If you call and then do the voice recording, it comes up with a message saying you can not record whilst using the phone

        If you record then do the call, the recording auto stops

        Tried the screen recorder and doesn’t record the sound for me

        (iOS 14.8.1)

• John says:

  17 Nov17 November 16:49

  Think I read somewhere that the Marriott voucher ( gained from amex spend) can be topped up with points for a better hotel
  Is that correct?

  • Clive says:

    17 Nov17 November 17:45

    Yes there was a recent change to the rules but it was capped

    • meta says:

      17 Nov17 November 17:56

      From January 2022 though.

• Aston100 says:

  17 Nov17 November 16:51

  Looking at the list of test providers on BA’s site, in regards to testing for the USA.
  Anyone used ‘Screen4’ before? They seem cheapest at £24 for a supervised LFT.
  Their website seems a bit odd, so instead I’m thinking of paying £29.75 to Qured, whom I have heard of.
  Thoughts? alternative suggestions?

  Thanks.

  • Nathan says:

    17 Nov17 November 18:06

    Project Screen (Prenetics) through Virgin/Delta site is £27 if useful.

    • AndyGWP says:

      17 Nov17 November 19:04

      £24 for Screen4 thru the BA site:
      https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/incident/coronavirus/covid19-tests

      (No personal experience tho)

      • AndyGWP says:

        17 Nov17 November 19:05

        (Which is what you said 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤣 … sorry)

    • Aston100 says:

      17 Nov17 November 20:35

      Thank you Nathan.

  • Simon says:

    17 Nov17 November 21:07

    I’ve used them for PCR day 2 post arrival test. No problem. All as expected.

• Grant says:

  17 Nov17 November 16:51

  Flybe v2.0 – HQ moved to BHX and routes to commence from ‘early 2022’

  https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/re-born-airline-flybe-open-22187954

• Happeemonkee says:

  17 Nov17 November 17:31

  Hi all. Is the old AA MBNA card still fee free for foreign transactions? I’ve got this and the old BMI ones and I’m sure I read somewhere one of these was changing

  • happeemonkee says:

    17 Nov17 November 20:45

    Cheers

• aDifferentSimon says:

  17 Nov17 November 17:41

  Anyone know of Wimbledon Morrisons has any jlp or Amazon gift cards?Trying to work out whether I want to add 30 minutes into my commute home. Thanks

  • TGLoyalty says:

    17 Nov17 November 18:13

    The good thing is they will have Morrisons GCs which means your trip wouldn’t be entirely wasted as they can be swapped for JL / Amazon later

    • aDifferentSimon says:

      17 Nov17 November 18:34

      Ah ha.
      But Oh no! I left empty handed as the only vaguely suitable option was (I thought) one4all and of need more than 10% back to entertain those…

      • aDifferentSimon says:

        17 Nov17 November 18:35

        Of = I’d

    • K says:

      17 Nov17 November 19:23

      Really? I never knew that. So, is it just a matter of paying for JL cards with your Morrison’s gift cards, or you have to go to Customer Services to swap them?

      They seem to be cracking down on buying gift cards using credit cards. I seem to come across more and more staff who say NO! Only cash can be used. I reminded them that cash is even worse, you cannot trace fraud. Eventually a manager said that they want to make sure people are not scammed. Have tried 3 stores now, and they all seem to make it harder, but in the end, they allowed it.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        17 Nov17 November 20:39

        Just buy them as Normal and pay with the GC rather than cash/credit card.

      • John says:

        17 Nov17 November 20:43

        Self checkout

  • Paul says:

    17 Nov17 November 20:15

    I’ve never seen Amazon in that branch. Sadly. I bought the last 2 JL ones that were there on Sun, but of course they may have re-stocked since – they do normally have them.

• Louise K says:

  17 Nov17 November 17:45

  I have 2 x IHG nights that need to be booked by 31/12/21.

  Ideally, I want to use these for a trip to NYC next Christmas but the calendar will only let me book 50 weeks or so out.

  Anyone managed to book outwith the calendar dates by calling the hotel?

  • Anna says:

    17 Nov17 November 20:43

    I think the problems you might have is that you have to book on the IHG website and also hotels will want cash bookings at Christmas and probably not feel inclined to help people with free night certificates ( I don’t think they get paid much by IHG). I’d redeem them for something fabulous earlier in the year.

  • Blair says:

    17 Nov17 November 22:58

    Suggest reposting on Thurs morning Louise asking for tips on good IHG free night uses. People will generously offer their favourite suggestions.

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