The Hoover Free Flights Fiasco
Jan 20, 2020, 1:27 pm
#16
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 101
Are you referring to the credit card deal where you spend a £1000 and get a return flight to the US for 20k points. Seems like a great deal. To those that got it. With the new rules around CC merchant pricing I can’t see those deals ever coming back.
Do people think the 2-4-1 deal will be next up for the chop?
Do people think the 2-4-1 deal will be next up for the chop?
Jan 20, 2020, 2:59 pm
#19
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Leeds
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 54
I got one of these Hoover flights and I seem to have been lucky as I had absolutely no problem booking a flight for two of us. We went to LA then took a road trip up the Pacific Coast Highway and over to Yosemite, Vegas, the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest before returning to LA. It was my first scheduled flight and my first trip to the US so pretty special to get the flights for free. I remember being absolutely astonished that the crew encouraged you to help yourself to more beer from the galley.
I only bought one hoover, although I don't actually remember using it. Still, I was a student back then and so even one hoover was a bit redundant.
I only bought one hoover, although I don't actually remember using it. Still, I was a student back then and so even one hoover was a bit redundant.
Jan 20, 2020, 4:22 pm
#20
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: City of Kingston Upon Hull
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 4,940
This promotion caused a bit of a stir back home when a Hoover van was impounded by an angry Cumbrian in Seaton over non-delivery of tickets. It was all over the national news. (link below)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3704669.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3704669.stm
Jan 20, 2020, 7:19 pm
#23
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 236
Jan 20, 2020, 7:37 pm
#24
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Jan 21, 2020, 12:12 am
#25
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: London, Bordeaux, Scottish Highlands
Programs: BAEC, Krisflyer
Posts: 107
Eventually got 2 return tickets to NYC on BA. Waited nearly two years as no charter flights were available. Also bought 2 additional tickets to take two very young children with us.
Jan 21, 2020, 12:27 am
#28
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Dorset
Programs: BAEC Blue, VS Red, IHG Platinum
Posts: 597
Were the 2 children around when you bought the Hoover or did you get bored waiting for the flight tickets to come through?
Jan 21, 2020, 12:32 am
#29
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: near to SFO and LHR
Programs: BA Gold, B6 Mosiac, VS, AA, DL (and a legacy UA 2MM)
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