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So you were clearly targeted if the person actually called BA to get the 2FA removed from the account. If that happened, the person must have had quite a bit of personal info about you in order to do that.

The person also presumably knew you had a significant stash of Avios in BA.

Do you have any idea how this person knew all this. Have any other accounts been compromised? I’d be thinking about where the breach happened. You have 2FA on email?

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18 year olds don’t generally get massive credit limits.

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I did one last week. Took 2-3 days I think but it was a new link which I assume means I needed verifying.

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Am I reading this correctly? Are you arguing with Finnair over 20 Avios?

Saltrams wrote:

I have also fallen foul of Finnair’s auto-expiry. Luckily it was only for 20 Avios that I moved as a test run but I’m disproportionately miffed by their cavalier attitude.
On 25/2/25 I transferred the 20 Avios from my BA account into Finnair.
On 3/7/25 Finnair marked the Avios as “expired” and removed them from my account.
The time between the two events was 18 weeks and 4 days.
It is clearly written on the FY account membership page “ Avios expire if you have no transactions at least once every 18 months.”
Even when I noticed this error by chance it was not yet 11 months since the transfer, let alone 18 months.
I have been to-ing and fro-ing with Customer Service about this, as a point of principle but they won’t budge. The frustrating thing is that I just don’t understand the basis of their action as it would necessitate a “metadata” file on each single Avios to determine its date of issue & expiry wouldn’t it?
I absolutely didn’t transfer in anticipation that the transfer would extend validity; I don’t need to extend validity as I have a very active Avios life with transactions going on almost daily, certainly weekly.
Does anyone understand this?

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I do a bit of an Avios hokey cokey as I have a BA family account. If I don’t want the “family” plundering my Avios, I store them in Qatar. Would be a disaster if that 36-month expiry kicked in!

I have transferred another 500 over from Amex just to be safe.

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I’ve just checked my Qatar account and it says “Your Avios will expire:
10-February-2029”

I transferred Avios from BAC > Qatar on 11th Feb 26 – so it looks like BAC > Qatar transfers do reset the clock.

AJA wrote:

danimal wrote:

Does this apply to transfers to Qatar in the same way?

From the Qatar website:
Your Avios will never expire if you collect, spend, buy or gift at least one Avios every 36 months.

So more generous but technically possible after 3 years of no Qatar account activity. And transfers in do not count as activity either.

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Does this apply to transfers to Qatar in the same way?

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For Gold at least the superscript benefit has been confirmed as:

“Superscript – receive a 15% statement credit on your first transaction with Superscript once per calendar year. Enrolment is needed”

Maybe there will be an enhanced Platinum benefit!

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The reason to use the private window is not because you don’t have secrets! It’s because it disables any broswer extensions that may be stopping the transfer working, and also removes and errant cookies.

If you can’t / won’t do this AND you are unable to call Amex then I’m not sure how this community can help you.

You do know Amex has a chat facility?

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You can install Chrome on a Mac, Safari has a similar thing called Private Window.

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If you are using Chrome, open an Incognito window – this usually works for me.

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The Superscript benefit is going to be a 15% discount on their insurance policies. I got a quote and it is 3 x as expensive as my current insurer so unlikely to be very useful.

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The current offer doesn’t pay out until the 12 months are up

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Mine arrived on the 4th Feb. I will now ask my existing ISA provider to transfer in the ISA. If you just withrdraw you will lose the ISA wrapper.

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pps197 wrote:

Has anyone here who had a Times subscription in the past successfully enrolled? And/or has anyone successfully cancelled a current sub and replaced with this benefit?

Yes I can confirm I have used many trials of The Times in the past but have now reverted to my OG login for the Amex offer, and it works fine.

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I don’t know about ariport hotels but I stayed at NH Collection Jousten which looks like it’s close to the cruise ship port.

There’s lots of restaurants around the harbour. The hotel was fine – does a good breakfast and is about 30 minutes in an Uber to EZE.

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Uber works great – you can pre-book and give it your flight number; the driver will be waiting when you arrive.

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I saw an earlier post saying Raffles Singapore Gift Cards do not trigger the benefit. Can anyone confirm if this is true or not?

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NorthernLass wrote:

When I see this topic heading I want to burst into “What’s new, Buenos Aires?” a la Elaine Paige!

Literally spent most of my week there singing that song! “Just a little bit of star quality…”

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I just got back from Buenos Aires. My advice would be to get a SUBE card and use the buses to get around – super cheap and the route network is clearly marked on Google Maps. Also, they have a docked bike hire system which is a great way to see the city – traffic is not bad and there are lots of segregated bike lanes. Download the Ecobici app and register as a tourist.

I loved the neighbourhoods of Palermo Soho (bars, restaurants and shops), Recoleta (Parisian chic / Evita’s mausoleum) and La Boca (home to Boca Juniors and great atmosphere on a match day).

If you have an extra few days a trip to Iguazu Falls is magical.

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@northernlass – I was hand luggage only – 6 flights on 4 bookings. Iguazu Falls were AMAZING.

@john – I’d probably do it all again! There’s lots of Avios availability at Madrid, so the worst case is you lose a few Avios and have to rebook. Had it been a different route I might plan differently.

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@northernlass – Ironically, my EZE>MAD flight departed 1.5 hours late last night so I would have missed my original connection! The schedule change actually worked in my favour. Now sat in the Iberia lounge at T4S waiting for the last leg back to LHR.

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JDB wrote:

NorthernLass wrote:

Yes it’s well known about the lower taxes, but the saving is on the ex-UK sector (which is clear from the article). So on the return of a CV booking people just used to book (e.g.) EZE-MAD-LHR until IB got tough about the zones.

The saving in Avios is on both the outbound and return, even if that return is back to London via Madrid The outbound additionally saves cash on the difference between short and long haul APD and PSC if starting in Madrid. It saves around 60k Avios to fly LHR-MAD-EZE-MAD-LHR on one ticket vs the BA direct flight.

And remember BA is not even “direct” – it has a stop in Sao Paulo for 1.5 hours which negates most of the time saving via Madrid.

Any-hoo. I have now been rebooked 2 hours later; they waived the change fee rather kindly.

Thanks all for your advice.

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JDB wrote:

NorthernLass wrote:

Did you actually save anything by booking EZE-MAD and MAD-LHR separately? I thought the issue was more that IB now don’t allow award bookings to start and end in different zones?

It’s not on IB award bookings generally, only ones using a CV as without the voucher you don’t need to have an open jaw but can just book two singles.

It was with a CV.

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NorthernLass wrote:

For example – I booked OPO-MAD-MAN recently on an IB cash ticket. IB moved the MAN departure so that it was quite seriously impacted, but because it was on one PNR, I was offered a full refund or alternative routing. It was annoying, but at the end of the day I didn’t lose anything, unlike if I had booked those flights separately.

Did you actually save anything by booking EZE-MAD and MAD-LHR separately? I thought the issue was more that IB now don’t allow award bookings to start and end in different zones?

Yes a big saving… How to book low tax Avios point redemptions on Iberia https://hfp2026mar.kinsta.cloud/2025/12/01/how-to-book-avios-redemption-flights-iberia/