Insane TP run this weekend
Sep 29, 2017, 6:02 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA Exec Club (Bronze)
Posts: 63
Insane TP run this weekend
With just days remaining to save Silver status, this weekend is devoted to the following slightly crazy TP run with the husband: LCY-GLA-LHR-DUB-LHR-MAN-LHR. Six flights in 48 hours all in Club (240 tier points each). Just enough time for a drink in Glasgow, dinner and a drink in Dublin and Sunday lunch in Manchester!
This seemed a good idea at the time of booking (when CE had just returned to domestic flights) but now feels like a slight ordeal! Hopefully it will least provide a good test of all the usual CE hot topics: priority boarding, food availability, temperature of champagne etc.
Will report back when completed...
This seemed a good idea at the time of booking (when CE had just returned to domestic flights) but now feels like a slight ordeal! Hopefully it will least provide a good test of all the usual CE hot topics: priority boarding, food availability, temperature of champagne etc.
Will report back when completed...
Sep 29, 2017, 7:12 am
#11
Join Date: Jun 2016
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 1,163
WHAT???! Really just for the weekend? Are you staying over / doing anything? Is this just a TP run?
I know everyone has their own 'break' point (mine is low: I'll do a "TP efficient" trip I had to do anyway; but I'll never get on a plane purely for the sake of TPs...)...but that's serious!
Sep 29, 2017, 7:19 am
#13
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 305
WHAT???! Really just for the weekend? Are you staying over / doing anything? Is this just a TP run?
I know everyone has their own 'break' point (mine is low: I'll do a "TP efficient" trip I had to do anyway; but I'll never get on a plane purely for the sake of TPs...)...but that's serious!
I know everyone has their own 'break' point (mine is low: I'll do a "TP efficient" trip I had to do anyway; but I'll never get on a plane purely for the sake of TPs...)...but that's serious!
Sep 29, 2017, 7:21 am
#14
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: London
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold & GGL & CCR, HH Diam, Bonvoy Titanium, IHG Spire, Tastecard
Posts: 7,549
nothing too crazy about that.
I did SFO LAX MIA CUN MIA LAX MIA CUN MIA LAX SFO non-stop a few years ago (when I was even younger). that was tough. two B2B's at CUN on two consecutive mornings at CUN and a 45 min connection in LAX from a flight from MIA to a flight to MIA......
I am not sure I would that again as a mis-connect meant that none of the flights had a flat bed....
I did SFO LAX MIA CUN MIA LAX MIA CUN MIA LAX SFO non-stop a few years ago (when I was even younger). that was tough. two B2B's at CUN on two consecutive mornings at CUN and a 45 min connection in LAX from a flight from MIA to a flight to MIA......
I am not sure I would that again as a mis-connect meant that none of the flights had a flat bed....
Sep 29, 2017, 7:28 am
#15
Join Date: Jun 2016
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 1,163
nothing too crazy about that.
I did SFO LAX MIA CUN MIA LAX MIA CUN MIA LAX SFO non-stop a few years ago (when I was even younger). that was tough. two B2B's at CUN on two consecutive mornings at CUN and a 45 min connection in LAX from a flight from MIA to a flight to MIA......
I am not sure I would that again as a mis-connect meant that none of the flights had a flat bed....
I did SFO LAX MIA CUN MIA LAX MIA CUN MIA LAX SFO non-stop a few years ago (when I was even younger). that was tough. two B2B's at CUN on two consecutive mornings at CUN and a 45 min connection in LAX from a flight from MIA to a flight to MIA......
I am not sure I would that again as a mis-connect meant that none of the flights had a flat bed....
Wow. You earned that lifetime Gold...
I just couldn't do it. I'll go as far as perhaps picking a holiday based on TPs...(so our annual "beach" holiday tends to be CE to ACE or TFS rather than AGP...) and possibly even looking at QR to the Fat East over a direct BA flight, but any more than that is beyond me.
I can just about see how a weekend TP run in a flat bed would be quite restful - but hopping on/off 6-8 CE sectors in a weekend?
To the OP - enjoy if that's your thing and hope it goes well! You'll certainly be the experts on domestic CE by the end of the weekend!