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Old Dec 14, 2018 | 4:26 pm
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Originally Posted by RGS5526
The BA website usually offers a change of flight number in SIN on a LHR-SYD routing, switching between an A380 and a B777, and giving 300TP rather than 240TP for LHR-SYD. Going SIN-PER-SYD gives another 140TP for very little more cash (or did when I investigated a few months ago) and an evening rather than early morning arrival in SYD.
can confirm that. Just done that last week end albeit in Y. Flown BA16 SYD-SIN and changed to BA12 SIN-SYD. They make you disembark anyway in SIN even if you continue on BA16. The advantage of BA12 is that you spend 30min more on the ground in SIN and you have more TP.
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