Premium Fare Deals | master thread
Aug 4, 2023, 5:08 am
#438
Join Date: Apr 2023
Posts: 22
Perhaps it’s just me but I’m having problems with the interface between Google flights and the AA website.
Up until a few days ago a Google search yielding an AA multi city itinerary link would direct you to the AA website with the whole trip pre populated and priced accordingly.
Now the same process takes you to the bare bones AA website where you have to rebuild the trip again manually, which takes an age, is despairingly slow if not impossible!
Up until a few days ago a Google search yielding an AA multi city itinerary link would direct you to the AA website with the whole trip pre populated and priced accordingly.
Now the same process takes you to the bare bones AA website where you have to rebuild the trip again manually, which takes an age, is despairingly slow if not impossible!
Aug 4, 2023, 5:12 am
#439
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,379
Years ago people used to say FT was "Where good fares go to die". Nowadays the blogs have well and truly taken that mantle - with the added bonus that at least FT encouraged caution when booking fares with an origin outside your home airport - the blogs today have no such qualms - shouting from the rooftops to one and all, all for the hope someone will sign up for a credit card.
Aug 4, 2023, 8:44 am
#440
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,723
Years ago people used to say FT was "Where good fares go to die". Nowadays the blogs have well and truly taken that mantle - with the added bonus that at least FT encouraged caution when booking fares with an origin outside your home airport - the blogs today have no such qualms - shouting from the rooftops to one and all, all for the hope someone will sign up for a credit card.
Aug 4, 2023, 9:41 am
#441
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
Programs: BA Gold (ex-GGL, maybe future Silver), Hilton Diamond
Posts: 6,227
How about a new premium fare to cheer everyone up?
SOF-LHR/FRA-CMB-MEL on UL (short haul with Lufthansa or Bulgaria Air) for about 2,300. Limited availability and possibly only trip.com.
SOF-LHR/FRA-CMB-MEL on UL (short haul with Lufthansa or Bulgaria Air) for about 2,300. Limited availability and possibly only trip.com.
Aug 4, 2023, 2:50 pm
#442
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 180
The existence of the cheap fare and reason for it were clear from the Tier Point Run thread for days before the deal was posted in the Premium Fare Deals forum. From the moment the Premium Fare Deals posting was made it was obvious to me at least that the deal would be killed, although it enabled a wider group to take advantage of it before the window closed.
Aug 5, 2023, 1:08 am
#443
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Cheltenham
Programs: KLM Plat for Life , BA Gold, HH Silver, (Other half Diamond), IHG Gold
Posts: 2,404
Is any one able to advise me how I can book the CDG to KUL RJ fares at 1500 which show up on Google flights but then reprice when you use a link ? I did buy one of these last year on booking.com but can no longer do . Tx
Edited: Sorry this does not involve a BA flight although useful for TP earning . Please feel free to move Tx
Edited: Sorry this does not involve a BA flight although useful for TP earning . Please feel free to move Tx
Last edited by simonsmith; Aug 5, 2023 at 1:36 am
Aug 5, 2023, 6:35 am
#444
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Wolverhampton
Programs: BA Silver, Hilton Diamond, Marriot Gold, Radisson Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 1,612
The existence of the cheap fare and reason for it were clear from the Tier Point Run thread for days before the deal was posted in the Premium Fare Deals forum. From the moment the Premium Fare Deals posting was made it was obvious to me at least that the deal would be killed, although it enabled a wider group to take advantage of it before the window closed.
Not quire sure why the general west coast small city TP stuff is being referred to as the Palm Springs one though, when it's Flagstaff, and about a dozen other cities (Yuma, Tuscon, Santa Barbara to name a few).
Sep 19, 2023, 1:53 pm
#445
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: The Garden of England
Programs: BA Silver AA Lifetime Gold
Posts: 666
BHX-DOH-AKL-HKG-BHX for around 3.3k on QR/CX.
Sample dates BHX-AKL 26/10, AKL-HKG 4-11, HKG-BHX 7-11.
On some days more TPs to be had routing HKG-CGK-DOH
Found on Kayak and clicked through to payment on a variety of OTA. I didn't try to replicate on QR.com
Can start and end in LON for an extra 300ish.
OK, its nearly three times what some have paid to get to AKL in the past and its nowhere near TP run territory, NZ rarely is, but given current One World fares I didn't think it was too bad.
Spike
Sample dates BHX-AKL 26/10, AKL-HKG 4-11, HKG-BHX 7-11.
On some days more TPs to be had routing HKG-CGK-DOH
Found on Kayak and clicked through to payment on a variety of OTA. I didn't try to replicate on QR.com
Can start and end in LON for an extra 300ish.
OK, its nearly three times what some have paid to get to AKL in the past and its nowhere near TP run territory, NZ rarely is, but given current One World fares I didn't think it was too bad.
Spike
Sep 23, 2023, 3:13 am
#446
Join Date: Nov 2015
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 137
Multi-fare bookings?
Wonder if anyone is able to advise on this. Im trying to book LHR-EWR in Y (Nov 5th) then JFK-LHR-ARN in I (Dec 20th)
I see on ba.com using multi-city the outbound flight for 385, the inbound for 927 - but when I select those two fares it reprices to 3000.
I tried using matrix +CABIN but it didnt bring up the fares either.
Is it possible to book multi fare, multi city bookings and how do I go about it? Thanks all!
I see on ba.com using multi-city the outbound flight for 385, the inbound for 927 - but when I select those two fares it reprices to 3000.
I tried using matrix +CABIN but it didnt bring up the fares either.
Is it possible to book multi fare, multi city bookings and how do I go about it? Thanks all!
Sep 23, 2023, 3:33 am
#447
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,723
Wonder if anyone is able to advise on this. Im trying to book LHR-EWR in Y (Nov 5th) then JFK-LHR-ARN in I (Dec 20th)
I see on ba.com using multi-city the outbound flight for 385, the inbound for 927 - but when I select those two fares it reprices to 3000.
I tried using matrix +CABIN but it didnt bring up the fares either.
Is it possible to book multi fare, multi city bookings and how do I go about it? Thanks all!
I see on ba.com using multi-city the outbound flight for 385, the inbound for 927 - but when I select those two fares it reprices to 3000.
I tried using matrix +CABIN but it didnt bring up the fares either.
Is it possible to book multi fare, multi city bookings and how do I go about it? Thanks all!
Sep 23, 2023, 4:14 am
#448
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: UK
Programs: BA Blue, IC Spire Ambassador
Posts: 5,240
BHX-DOH-AKL-HKG-BHX for around 3.3k on QR/CX.
Sample dates BHX-AKL 26/10, AKL-HKG 4-11, HKG-BHX 7-11.
On some days more TPs to be had routing HKG-CGK-DOH
Found on Kayak and clicked through to payment on a variety of OTA. I didn't try to replicate on QR.com
Can start and end in LON for an extra 300ish.
OK, its nearly three times what some have paid to get to AKL in the past and its nowhere near TP run territory, NZ rarely is, but given current One World fares I didn't think it was too bad.
Spike
Sample dates BHX-AKL 26/10, AKL-HKG 4-11, HKG-BHX 7-11.
On some days more TPs to be had routing HKG-CGK-DOH
Found on Kayak and clicked through to payment on a variety of OTA. I didn't try to replicate on QR.com
Can start and end in LON for an extra 300ish.
OK, its nearly three times what some have paid to get to AKL in the past and its nowhere near TP run territory, NZ rarely is, but given current One World fares I didn't think it was too bad.
Spike
Sep 23, 2023, 5:00 am
#449
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: The Garden of England
Programs: BA Silver AA Lifetime Gold
Posts: 666
Sep 23, 2023, 5:15 am
#450
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Wolverhampton
Programs: BA Silver, Hilton Diamond, Marriot Gold, Radisson Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 1,612