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Mar 14, 2019 | 9:03 am

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Just to clarify, though it is in the Stickies in some detail:

- Gold Priority Reward - double Avios to force an award - this applies to all cabins from First to EuroTraveller, but it does require revenue availability. It has to be booked 30 days before travel, can be cancelled if main redemptions become available. At 30 days generally you would be able to get availability on (made up statistic alert) 80% plus of flights, somewhere. You have to call up for this.

- Extra redemption Availability to Gold cardholders - this is just opening up revenue bucket to Golds in the usual way, including for RFS. It easily doubles availability on shorthaul EuroTraveller, up to about a week before departure and away from school holidays. This is for EuroTraveller and Wold Traveller only in revenue V class, if you have ExpertFlyer you can find these quite easily. This is automatic via MMB or the App, you will see availability online.

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