Reanimation

Just minor nitpicking (but to avoid confusion) Catania is CTA

higham44

Yes, apologies, I realised that just after I posted the message.

BA Humbug

This is a rather specific TP run and I'm not sure how it's ticketed as R/T (I was only able to book a O/W online), but the following is available:

CMB-DOH-AMM-Europe (CDG, LHR, MAD, any RJ destination) £750 O/W or £1250 R/T, netting you 140 + 40 + 140 (+140 + 40 + 140) = 320 TP / 640 TP for O/W and R/T, respectively, at a rate of £2.5/TP or £1.94/TP. Available through September 14.



N.B. #1: You need to choose a western Europe destination for AMM-Europe, as anything east of France only nets 40 TP as they are less than 2000 mi mark -- OK: LHR, CDG, BRU, AMS, MAD // Not OK: Italy, Germany, BCN (short by 15 miles!!)
N.B. #2: There are days where AMM-Europe are operated by narrow bodies (A320-series), this could be a long flight on this type of plane -- there are more comfortable ways to make this particular trip!

salut0

nice find but not sure I’d go to Sri Lanka right now, given this:
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...-advisory.html

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/sri-lanka

Although the FCO think airside transit is okay, I wonder how easy a B2B is in CMB anyway?

m8_rotate

Pre Coivd did some trips to CTA, and each time, bar 1, was bussed on and off the Aircraft. A bit risky I would say. Iceland KEF mixes incoming and outgoing. Occasionally reasonable fares.

bisonrav

B2B in CMB is extremely easy. You come out airside, pop into the lounge, and then reboard. As many of us who did the Jakarta runs will attest (these were often on the same aircraft).

ISTFlyer

As a small remark, BAEC has decreased the number of Tier Points earned for Royal Jordanian Business for LHR-AMM vv. to 80 Tier Points rather than 140 Tier Points.

salut0

That’s weird. I assumed the rationale for not paying 140TP on their own flights was because they have a CE and not a CW cabin. But I’ve read that RJ LHR-AMM has a worldwide not a European business configuration and that tickets are more expensive than BA for this reason. So why won’t they award the higher number of points?

higham44

Thanks. I will probably do an overnight to CTA in September and will look at KEF too. SOF is an easy B2B.

ISTFlyer

There was a lengthy discussion of this issue back when it was first implemented. Apparently, BA is trying to attract their own customers to fly them rather than Royal Jordanian, despite both airlines offering two different products by stopping the incentive of Royal Jordanian flights awarding extra Tier Points.

ceej123

CDG is still 140 Tier Points for RJ I believe.

hartwith

I flew FRA-AMM in business recently and was shocked to find it only allocated 40 TPs. It was on a dreadful old A319 as well.

ceej123

As its just under 2000 miles that looks right; CDG and AMS look like the sweet spots for RJ but yeah I've noticed the a lot of European destinations look like they get the A319 instead of the 787.

BA Humbug

Thanks, I didn't know that! What a shame ...

I have been recently and the situation isn't as nearly bad as FCO writes, I suspect it's mainly for the insurance companies -- no shortages that I've seen, and even outside of the resorts life is normal.

B2B with QR I haven't tried, but EK is unable to issue you boarding passes in DXB and the transit desk gets a bit huffy when you're doing a strict B2B as opposed to a transit, although they will still issue you a boarding pass if you have all the documents.

Transit is super easy, as mentioned above.

MAD is also available if you'd like to end up at a OW hub, 4x per week

ebwoy

Hey folks,

My Tier Point collection date ends on 8th Sept and I’m considering/thinking about doing a tier point run to collect an extra 675 TP to trigger Gold Upgrade voucher.

Any recommendations for routings that won’t break the bank?