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Fingers crossed this will be accompanying my breakfast tomorrow morning!!

I called when the offer was on my husband’s account but not mine to be told it was targeted so not available for me. A month-ish later I received the offer via email. Despite that, I reckon it’s worth a call!

Excellent, one of ours has arrived. Just waiting on the second lot (unfortunately that’s the card I want to cancel to start the 18 months on the bench again. But good planning / marketing on AMEX’s behalf, it’s kept me as a customer for longer)

Start how you mean to continue! Good luck, safe travels.

Fabulous report! I love Hong Kong, and so have scribbled down some ideas for next time. Itinerary: Food - well that’s my kind of holiday! Great pics as always, looking forward to the next one! Thank you!!

No, that’s an incorrect assumption. I pay for the bulk of my travel which is leisure (work travel wouldn’t get me to silver let alone gold). You nailed it in your last sentence, status credits are there to create loyalty (ie drive the type of business an airline wants) not reward loyalty!

Comfortable isn’t the right word.... maybe pragmatic? I see the (status) scheme a carrot to keep you coming back, rather than rewarding loyalty. I can’t say I’m ‘loyal’ to Virgin (cause outside of work I do consider my options rather than automatically book with them) but they generally works...

You’re right, a forum is no place for discussion. What were we thinking?? :rolleyes:

Interesting. I just re read the velocity page on status credits & the word loyalty doesn’t appear. Maybe I’ve just accepted the status quo, but don’t feel I’m being penalised for gaining / using our swag of points? I see status as a bunch of arbitrary rules which I’m happy to use/ manipulate...

not sure, it wasn’t mine. Good to know, as I was hoping my older one wasn’t a fluke (we’ve still another)

Thanks, I am yet to try their riesling! I think it was the 2012. We had our 2011(? It was a year older) the same night which blew it away. May have been a bottle fault, but there was still some bubble? Did we hold them too long? I am no expert!

@Steady what was the Rockford Riesling like? Had a v disappointing black shiraz a couple of weeks ago

I noticed last week ours is weird too for the second leg, the first is fine. The summary says row 1, but when I got into manage booking it’s definitely row 3 which is what I chose. I keep checking expecting to see an aircraft swap...

Off topic, but 29 flights and you didn’t maintain silver? I’m staggered by that! What proportion were award flights?

Joined & $350 deposited - just in time for EOFY! Offer looks to have been extended to December now

Thanks for sharing the outcome, much appreciated. Have a fabulous trip! We’re thinking of a combined US / Europe trip in a couple of years time, but I fear that booking an itinerary like that may be above my skill set & patience :-( Perhaps I should start researching properly....

Well done. We collect for and donate travel stuff to a women’s shelter at work. But it’s a quandary, as the environmentalist in me hates ALL THE PLASTIC this consumes, but we still do as the humanatiarian wins out. If your idea can check both those boxes, it will be the best thing ever!!

Added an extra day to our UK hire car last night and the price dropped by £29 :rolleyes: Maybe the longer stay switched to a better rate? But I also found that using my hertz gold membership was more expensive than booking as a guest when I did the original booking

Thanks! We’ve a decent transit in Singapore later next month & were planning on book-ending the day with TPR visits.....

Requiring closure??