The HfP chat thread – Thursday 25th November

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• Safety Card says:

  25 Nov25 November 09:21

  Anyone able to find any good prices with the Qatar Black Friday sale?

  • MQ says:

    25 Nov25 November 09:28

    I did a quick search but nothing appears to be discounted……..

    • Safety Card says:

      25 Nov25 November 09:34

      I price checked tokyo from london in business in the spring which came in at £1.7k which seemed pretty good to me. But the rest is a mystery

      • George says:

        25 Nov25 November 09:54

        Where’d you find that fare? Can only see £2300 lon to tokyo from Qatar in spring?

        Thanks

        • Safety Card says:

          25 Nov25 November 10:22

          Was just searching using promo code access which was sent in an email for early Black Friday access

      • George says:

        25 Nov25 November 12:00

        Even with that promo code I still can’t find them. Must have gone by now. Thanks anyway

• Jon says:

  25 Nov25 November 09:28

  In case this is useful to @Amy C, or anyone else, further to yesterday’s discussion – here are the CAA’s interpretive guidelines re UK/EU261 Article 8:

  https://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/CAA/Content/Accordion/Standard_Content/Our_work/Annex%201Reouting%20under%20Regulation%20EU261%20and%20the%20CAAs%20view%20on%20compliance.pdf

  In particular, at top of page 4:

  “Where the air carrier does not offer the choice between reimbursement and re-routing … but decides unilaterally to reimburse the passenger, he or she is entitled to a further reimbursement of the price difference with the new ticket under comparable transport conditions.”

  (But do read the full section, as there are some caveats.)

  HTH.

  • Amy C says:

    25 Nov25 November 09:38

    Thank you, much appreciated!

  • Toppcat says:

    25 Nov25 November 13:04

    This is really useful, Jon. Thanks for sharing.

    Do you know when this annex was published? It doesn’t say in the document itself.

    • Jon says:

      25 Nov25 November 14:12

      I don’t, sorry, but the document it draws on is this one, which dates from June 2016:

      https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52016XC0615(01)&from=EN

• maccymac says:

  25 Nov25 November 09:37

  Flying to Rome on Saturday with BA. They’ve emailed asking to upload negative test certificate, vaccination certificate and completing all travel declarations in Manage My Booking so that we can check in online 24 hours prior. How quickly do they verify these documents? Could we upload them this evening for example?

  • chris says:

    25 Nov25 November 09:51

    I did it for the maldives a week or so ago and they were verified in less than an hour

    • maccymac says:

      25 Nov25 November 09:55

      Thank you

  • Benilyn says:

    25 Nov25 November 10:42

    Yesterday verified within 10-15mins or so

• Kumar says:

  25 Nov25 November 09:39

  Can we use Randox PCR test at home for travel to India. I am aware the swab needs to be taken in 72 hrs before travel but not monitored .Does Randox PCR test result at home say anything about supervision?

  • LS says:

    25 Nov25 November 09:44

    Not Obviously

  • Shaw West says:

    25 Nov25 November 09:57

    there is no issue about the unmonitored test as long as you are sending them to a lab and the report is provided by the lab

    • meta says:

      25 Nov25 November 12:27

      There is an issue as some countries stipulate that it needs to be supervised and at home tests are not acceptable. My Randox test certificate said unsupervised, so do it at your own risk.

• Anastasia Beaverhausen says:

  25 Nov25 November 10:00

  People who had the £99 refund from Creation: Was this applied in your account or sent by cheque?

  (I’ve had nothing except an interest charge for the day their website was down and I couldn’t pay my bill.)

  • Sam says:

    25 Nov25 November 10:08

    Applied in my account

    • Jim says:

      25 Nov25 November 15:20

      Applied to my account. Now spent the £99 topping up revolut, so the cash has been transferred out of revolut and is now in my current account!

  • Rui N. says:

    25 Nov25 November 10:20

    Did you get that interest charge reversed already? Trying for over a month to get it done.

• Shaw West says:

  25 Nov25 November 10:22

  “Double Rewards. Double the Fun” From Emirate.
  I thought it was going to be double points. But turns out t was a mail highlighting the “YOUR WORLD REWARDS™”

  • Rob says:

    25 Nov25 November 10:51

    I just got a 15% off email from Singapore Airlines and it was for 15% off the miles cost of their terrible value suitcase / costmetics etc redemptions.

• Scott says:

  25 Nov25 November 10:26

  Potentially a tube strike tomorrow for those using the Picadilly line etc. to LHR.

• Peter Taysum says:

  25 Nov25 November 10:40

  E-bay

  I got 5x points for Nectar/e-bay which wasn’t “the hour” x50. Used it, thinking better than nothing for low value item I wanted anyway.

  Yesterday the “app” notified me of the “50x offer” mentioned on here, so might be worth people checking again.

  I’m looking at “apple AirPods Pro” because my Bose QC are dying; has anyone tried both; “Which” has Sony noise cancelling over ear beating all others, but AirPods Pro win overall…

  I first had Bose WC on “the baby bus” and bought them soon after… Good times…

  • Benilyn says:

    25 Nov25 November 10:47

    AirPods Pro are good, but not the best sound quality I’d say. Are you referencing the Bose QC over ears or in ear ones?

    And the Sony Over ears I own too, hands down very good, can pick up sub £200 probably in BF sales

  • Graham Walsh says:

    25 Nov25 November 10:49

    Two very different products/use cases with AirPods Pro vs the Sony’s. I have the Pro’s and use them for when I travel light. I have Sennheiser MB660 or Plantronics 8200 for when I’m flying. I also just given some new Shure Aonic 50, not had a chance to use them yet,

    • Andrew H says:

      25 Nov25 November 13:04

      How many ears do you have?!

  • Anastasia Beaverhausen says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:04

    I have the wireless Bose QuietComfort earbuds. Is that what you have? Dying how? Not still under warranty?
    They are superb in general and were exceptional on flights.
    I tried the Sony XM4 and they were not very good with in-flight noise so I returned them.
    Bose QC earbuds currently £70 off at the Bezos Emporium. If yours are out of warranty Bose also give discounts on new ones if you return the broken ones.

    • Peter Taysum says:

      25 Nov25 November 11:08

      Mine are the “old” QC “over ear” bought around 2015; the left ear “cuts out”; from comments above may be worth buying “pods” and seeing if they can fix the headphones…

      • Anastasia Beaverhausen says:

        25 Nov25 November 11:12

        https://www.bose.co.uk/en_gb/support/self_service/service_and_repair_request.html

  • John says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:11

    I won an auction yesterday that I bid on before the 5x offer appeared. The 5x offer was applied automatically and there was no way to unapply it, though perhaps if I won another item or did a buy it now the offer would apply to the first item paid for.

    Today on the ebay home page there was an ad which let me register for the 50x. I had already registered for 50x via the app.

    Found an item that I want to buy for a reasonable profit, 3 available. If the 50x appears to work I’ll reveal after buying

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