Flights from Bristol Temple Mead?!
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Flights from Bristol Temple Mead?!
Was just looking via the app into sending the oldies away for a weekend ex BRS (I thought - rightly or wrongly - that BA were using the Embraers on weekends) and was presented with a few options...all ex Temple Meads (aka TPB) on a (sort of) GWR codeshare. Is this for real?
Ive no idea what the TP and Avios might be...although the fare bucket for the train was Y so maybe 20 for the TPB-LHR sector?)
Ive no idea what the TP and Avios might be...although the fare bucket for the train was Y so maybe 20 for the TPB-LHR sector?)
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It's for real. Launched a few years ago although I don't know how long they've been bookable on BA.com.
Not a codeshare, just a through ticket. So you unsurprisingly won't earn any TPs/avios for the train journey.
More discussion here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...t-western.html
Not a codeshare, just a through ticket. So you unsurprisingly won't earn any TPs/avios for the train journey.
More discussion here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...t-western.html
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I thought - rightly or wrongly - that BA were using the Embraers on weekends
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And United still does. UA28xx are Amtrak trains.
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Plenty of rail companies offer this to airlines.
SNCF has the TGV AIR service in France and Deutsche Bahn offers full network access to seemingly every airline you can think of.
I had a CX boarding pass for a TGV codeshare to Lyon the other month. No Avios/TPs but my wife did get AsiaMiles from it.
SNCF has the TGV AIR service in France and Deutsche Bahn offers full network access to seemingly every airline you can think of.
I had a CX boarding pass for a TGV codeshare to Lyon the other month. No Avios/TPs but my wife did get AsiaMiles from it.
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Indeed a speciality of the Lufthansa group. You get their equivalent to TPs and Avios on these train trips, and on DB there is a mini section of the train that you are supposed to sit in, or rather the seat allocation does this. Handy for things like Cologne and the other locations within fast access of FRA.
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Wikipedia has a list of railway stations with IATA codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ilway_stations
Last edited by flatlander; Sep 22, 2017 at 2:40 am Reason: clarify
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It's a jolly good system, and if I were running the Rail Delivery Group I would implement something similar for both rail companies and airlines when the Queen Elizabeth line is opened.
Incidentally TheJayHatch, what exactly were you trying to book when this option came up? I tried to do something on my App and it didn't show anything interesting.