Originally Posted by
thijsseh
I don’t quite understand your example, but if the time between your arriving and the FIRST available departing flight is more than the minimum AND (not ‘or’) less than the maximum, then you qualify for Dubai Connect. If you choose to take a later departing flight, you DON’T qualify.
Basically, if you have a connection of over 10 (or 6 for J/F) hours, you qualify for DC (but if it’s more than 26 hours you don’t qualify). They look at the FIRST available flight, you can’t game the system by choosing a later one.
Note that there is also a ‘minimum spend’ (I don’t know how much that is), which means that really cheap tickets (like Economy Special) might not qualify.
I don’t think the booking page shows this, but I have never really searched for it. In close to 100 connections in DXB I have only once qualified for and used this service.
my apologies not so good in my explanation….yes you are right. what you have type out is what I mean. So I suppose upon arrival you need to get the 1st connecting flight out to the destination. so probably to go around it I can fly into Dubai on an earlier flight (assuming there’s 2-3 flights a day to Dubai) but I need to ensure I’m on the FIRST flight out on my connecting flight to my destination.
because recently I book a J class tixs out of Singapore to Sofia. There’s 2 flight from Singapore to Dubai (0050hrs & 0140hrs), I am on the 1st flight 0050hrs and connecting time is 6hrs 15min. Manage My Booking prompt me DC is available to me. Connecting flight to Sofia from Dubai there’s only 1 flight. So in this case it quite straight forward. If I were to chose the later flight (0140hrs) out from Singapore the connecting time will be less then 6hrs (J class). So I suppose this option will not qualify for DC. So I’m trying this on my future flights so I can get a complimentary night in Dubai for shopping.
Yes the booking page don’t show till you have make payment.