What are the best value routes currently?
Mar 18, 2020, 12:32 pm
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What are the best value routes currently?
Apologies if this has already been posted, but given the current climate, what are the best value routes for earning TPs at present? Both long and short haul.
Mar 18, 2020, 12:38 pm
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Depends how much value you put on the opportunity to be inadvertently trapped on the other side of the world unable to get home and/or forced to spend 14 days sequestered in a hotel room.
Not to mention the souvenir cough, sweats and clogged lungs that might be on offer.
Seriously, some people need to look up from what they're doing and really see the world around them.
Not to mention the souvenir cough, sweats and clogged lungs that might be on offer.
Seriously, some people need to look up from what they're doing and really see the world around them.
Mar 18, 2020, 12:40 pm
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Without wishing to dampen your obvious enthusiasm to get on a plane, there are two fairly obvious problems with this.
- firstly the UK government advice not to travel internationally, which pretty much puts paid to any long haul plans unless you fancy being stranded for a long while
- the secondary follow on that very shortly BA may well be forced to pull almost its entire schedule as a result
So essentially, unless you really, really need to take a domestic flight - don’t even attempt to plan anything if you need it to come together. Value will become a very relative term ...
- firstly the UK government advice not to travel internationally, which pretty much puts paid to any long haul plans unless you fancy being stranded for a long while
- the secondary follow on that very shortly BA may well be forced to pull almost its entire schedule as a result
So essentially, unless you really, really need to take a domestic flight - don’t even attempt to plan anything if you need it to come together. Value will become a very relative term ...
Mar 18, 2020, 12:43 pm
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Good luck finding routes that are operating, let alone maximising TPs. Think best to leave it a month and then to a TP run
Mar 18, 2020, 12:44 pm
#7
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Depends how much value you put on the opportunity to be inadvertently trapped on the other side of the world unable to get home and/or forced to spend 14 days sequestered in a hotel room.
Not to mention the souvenir cough, sweats and clogged lungs that might be on offer.
Seriously, some people need to look up from what they're doing and really see the world around them.
Not to mention the souvenir cough, sweats and clogged lungs that might be on offer.
Seriously, some people need to look up from what they're doing and really see the world around them.
Mar 18, 2020, 12:46 pm
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Oh please people... If the Op wants to risk life and limb to give BA a little extra revenue, by all means let them. It's not like we have to fund this through our taxes and insurance premiums - none of them will cough (
) up for them...
) up for them...
Mar 18, 2020, 1:00 pm
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Mar 18, 2020, 1:39 pm
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JER/LGW still running 5/day. Weather fairly decent right now. 40 TP e/w in CE.
14-day quarantine if you arrive from anywhere other than UK, though.
14-day quarantine if you arrive from anywhere other than UK, though.
Mar 18, 2020, 1:55 pm
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Mar 18, 2020, 2:22 pm
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