heronb

Malaysian LHR to HKT or BKK or SIN in march for £1200 each.

Is this a good deal? and how many TP's/Avios would this accrue for a lowly blue.

Looking for a little winter sun.

bras0978

Where are you seeing this fare? I can only find things up near £1,500 per person. Given (for me) no need to position, this is quite tempting...

henkybaby

It is the ebookers deal. Discussed in the previous thread and here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premi...0-1500-mh.html

ppp909

The MH sale is pretty decent: book before the end of the month and there are plenty of destinations on the MH web site; most of them in Malaysia plus Thailand, Cambodia, Bali, a few destinations in Oz etc.
Availability is decent, but not fantastic. I just booked a trip for three of us to Langkawi in April. Nice cheap J flight on the way out but had to pick F on the way back, which was cheaper than J due to only flexible fares being left on the day I wanted to return (work commitments limited the return date). Still, F on a daytime flight could be fun (I've only ever done it on BA and QR on night time flights and couldn't see the value over J).

Expedia (and ebookers) provided good deals, as mentioned previously up thread and in the premium fares forum. I booked a swanky hotel as part of the package for a very good price (well under £100 a night) when compared to the flights alone. In my case I booked it for the entire stay.

Expedia's search tool is not the greatest at finding deals across flexible dates. Use google flights and the calendar or flexible dates options to find the best fare for the flight (or use the MH website which also works quite well). Then use Expedia to do the booking. If you choose a mid-range hotel you'll essentially get it for nothing.

If you're chasing tier points, it's not great, as although you'll get 160 to KUL, the second leg will most likely be 40. That's in J of course. A similar flight stopping in DOH would get you 140 per leg. I did look at QR for SE Asian destinations but the longer leg was the daytime one, which didn't appeal. I've done LHR to DOH plenty of times and even if you can get your head down as soon as the seat belt sign goes off, it's not long enough for a proper sleep.

Talking of QR, on Google flights at the moment (or at least last night), they're quoting <2K to DPS, on BA flight numbers (and a BA flight) to DOH then QR to DPS. It says you need to call QR for the deal and both the QR and BA web sites were quoting double that. The timings put me off, so I didn't investigate further but others may be tempted.

heronb

As mentioned earlier it's the Expedia, ebookers deal when booked with a hotel (only one night required), how is the MH business option? Does it compare well with others?

ppp909

I haven't actually flown MH before, so I'm going to find this out. From some quick research it depends on the plane you're on. The A330 have been changed recently and are featured on the MH web site. The A380, which they use to LHR, appears to have a similar configuration to QR's 777 (2-2-2 forward facing). There are threads here on FT that suggest they had an issue early on where they weren't completely flat, but this has been rectified (I'd appreciate it if someone who's actually experienced them could comment.)

Seatguru has details - I presume they're correct.

No idea what the food offering is like but I plan to spend much of the journey asleep.

henkybaby

F&B on MH is really good. Much better than BA IMHO. You can pre-order as well. Service also pretty good.

dolfinco

Sorry made a mug of my wording. Its £2100 per person for 2 people.....if that makes sense. Im assuming the price is 2 for 1 deal.

cosmo74

I'd second that, in particular the satay trolley was fabulous and the service outstanding.

dougzz

The AA MAN to SAT deal at around £1100. I priced one up I liked, and used the book with matrix site. I then did a hold on it. I decided today to confirm and pay, but the AA website insists on jumping to the UK site when I want to use a UK credit card. It then won't either find the flights in multi city, or use the record locator I already have. I phoned AA and they priced it at over £4K so that's not happening. What trick am I missing, I assumed I'd have to pay in US Dollars, and was happy with that.

armouredant

If you can get the fare on ITA Matrix, use the PowerTools to forward you to the AA UK site?

cgtechuk

Probably a POS issue where there is no availability left from UK POS.

The solution I used before was when I was paying on the USA site was to fill in my address accurately but put in a random state and say I was in the USA when I was actually in the UK. YMMV obviously but worked for me. Dont know if that will cause ramifications elsewhere or what .Alternative is call the US number but I would have thought given that the flight originates in the UK it should be £ anyway

If you called them up you could ask what class each of the flights are in you might then find out the flight with no availability.

Misco60

I had exactly the same problem - the US site sent me to the UK site, and the UK site wouldn't offer the same flights or fare that I had found.

I got around it by going to AA's German website and booking it there. I was able to use my UK credit card.

dougzz

Thanks both for the replies. In the end I went with the German option too, based on XE the Euro conversion will be about £20 less than the US$ anyway, but mostly I just wanted to complete the booking without cheating the website.

KARFA

If you are using itamatrix it is worth using ITA powertools http://armouredminds.com/dev/powertools/ which will provide links to drop you straight in to a wide range of AA country specific sites.