May 29, 2019, 7:12 am
Last edit by: corporate-wage-slave
Welcome to the Find me a good BA fare ticket clinic.
This is essentially for BA / BA codeshares and partner only. If your booking is essentially on Qatar, Qantas, AA or anyone else, please go to those forums and pursue the matter there. These forums have good subject matter experts to hand.
- Please avoid very vague questions. Specific questions get specific answers. Give exact dates, start point, end point, what flexibility you have.
- As a courtesy to the other forum members, please at least read some of the advice in the posts above, and find one fare as a start point. It's a lot easier to provide constructive feedback that way.
This is essentially for BA / BA codeshares and partner only. If your booking is essentially on Qatar, Qantas, AA or anyone else, please go to those forums and pursue the matter there. These forums have good subject matter experts to hand.
- Please avoid very vague questions. Specific questions get specific answers. Give exact dates, start point, end point, what flexibility you have.
- As a courtesy to the other forum members, please at least read some of the advice in the posts above, and find one fare as a start point. It's a lot easier to provide constructive feedback that way.
Find me a good British Airways fare - ticket clinic [Beta / draft: BA FARES ONLY]
Jul 18, 2019, 3:47 am
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Jul 18, 2019, 3:56 am
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Jul 18, 2019, 4:27 am
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Hi guys, I am about to book an Emirates flight from GLA to HKG due to how cheap it is @ £1900 return in J. I have posted in the CX forum to pick the brains of other forum members and the cheapest exEU flight that was found is OSL to HKG @ £1900. The only thing is that it is a bit awkward for me to fly from GLA - LHR - OSL then from OSL back to LHR and then HKG lol. Just wondering if you guys have any suggestions from GLA to HKG with a cheapish ex EU flight. I probably don't mind paying upto £2500 all in with 2 flight connections. If not, I will probably just book Emirates. Cheers!
Jul 18, 2019, 5:58 am
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I think there's a "cheap tickets" clinic thread banging about.
The cheapest I could easily find for those dates was £1809 BLQ (Bologna) - LHR - HKG w/ BA, without looking for cheeky discounts or potential savings from OTAs etc.
Link: https://www.google.com/flights#flt=/...;sc:b;sd:1;t:f
You'd still need to position yourself to Bologna which would involve cost and time (but, it's a lovely city with some truly excellent food, if that's your thing).
If you're not fussed about an alliance or particular airline you can shave off another ~£200 with some other carriers, but they look to be 2-stop itineraries for that price and are about 8hrs longer (with arguably worse hard product).
The cheapest I could easily find for those dates was £1809 BLQ (Bologna) - LHR - HKG w/ BA, without looking for cheeky discounts or potential savings from OTAs etc.
Link: https://www.google.com/flights#flt=/...;sc:b;sd:1;t:f
You'd still need to position yourself to Bologna which would involve cost and time (but, it's a lovely city with some truly excellent food, if that's your thing).
If you're not fussed about an alliance or particular airline you can shave off another ~£200 with some other carriers, but they look to be 2-stop itineraries for that price and are about 8hrs longer (with arguably worse hard product).
Last edited by pythonisman; Jul 18, 2019 at 5:59 am Reason: Added link
Jul 18, 2019, 6:25 am
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You really just need to spend some time on e.g. google flights looking at options from the usual ex-EU locations - INV, AMS, CDG, CPH, OSL,DUB etc but concentrating on those airports where you can get to/from GLA easily as doing two hop flights GLA-LHr-XXX to get to a starting point for HKG just adds so many complications if things go wrong on the day.
There are sometimes deals ex EDI as well
But remember to add in the costs of any positioning flights and possible extra hotels for over night stays to be safely as your starting airport for your real starting flight to HKG.
Personally for a saving of £600 per person flying ex GLA over any other routing I'd stick to that and won't care about earning avios and TPs from using one world airlines.
There are sometimes deals ex EDI as well
But remember to add in the costs of any positioning flights and possible extra hotels for over night stays to be safely as your starting airport for your real starting flight to HKG.
Personally for a saving of £600 per person flying ex GLA over any other routing I'd stick to that and won't care about earning avios and TPs from using one world airlines.
Jul 18, 2019, 7:34 am
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Jul 18, 2019, 8:36 am
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Jul 22, 2019, 7:44 am
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Am looking at going to Bogota for £779 Economy:
7 Aug 2019: LGW TPA MIA BOG and returning 14 Aug BOG MIA LHR
Any way to get a better cabin without spending thousands? Am flexible within August.
(Have Lloyds upgrade voucher, only 25k Avios, 30k Virgin points, 12k Miles&More)
Thanks
7 Aug 2019: LGW TPA MIA BOG and returning 14 Aug BOG MIA LHR
Any way to get a better cabin without spending thousands? Am flexible within August.
(Have Lloyds upgrade voucher, only 25k Avios, 30k Virgin points, 12k Miles&More)
Thanks
Jul 22, 2019, 8:42 am
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Am looking at going to Bogota for £779 Economy:
7 Aug 2019: LGW TPA MIA BOG and returning 14 Aug BOG MIA LHR
Any way to get a better cabin without spending thousands? Am flexible within August.
(Have Lloyds upgrade voucher, only 25k Avios, 30k Virgin points, 12k Miles&More)
Thanks
7 Aug 2019: LGW TPA MIA BOG and returning 14 Aug BOG MIA LHR
Any way to get a better cabin without spending thousands? Am flexible within August.
(Have Lloyds upgrade voucher, only 25k Avios, 30k Virgin points, 12k Miles&More)
Thanks
Jul 22, 2019, 11:18 am
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Am looking at going to Bogota for £779 Economy:
7 Aug 2019: LGW TPA MIA BOG and returning 14 Aug BOG MIA LHR
Any way to get a better cabin without spending thousands? Am flexible within August.
(Have Lloyds upgrade voucher, only 25k Avios, 30k Virgin points, 12k Miles&More)
Thanks
7 Aug 2019: LGW TPA MIA BOG and returning 14 Aug BOG MIA LHR
Any way to get a better cabin without spending thousands? Am flexible within August.
(Have Lloyds upgrade voucher, only 25k Avios, 30k Virgin points, 12k Miles&More)
Thanks
Jul 23, 2019, 3:55 am
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Hi Guys
Looking to get to Japan (tyo, kix, cts) for around 2 weeks in Feb 2020 in J. Happy to go ex eu, and will UuA..but fares seem quite high..is there a sale looming? Any help would be appreciated. QR fares seemed good too but they've disappeared too
Looking to get to Japan (tyo, kix, cts) for around 2 weeks in Feb 2020 in J. Happy to go ex eu, and will UuA..but fares seem quite high..is there a sale looming? Any help would be appreciated. QR fares seemed good too but they've disappeared too
Jul 23, 2019, 4:47 am
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If you're not fixed on OneWorld then EY has CDG-AUH-NRT for £1500 in Feb.