pacenotes

Just booked a B2B as a holiday at Sofia for the end of November and no seats until back to row 7!

Looks like loads of cars/empty hotel rooms will be left at the airport!

81romeo

How does that work? You fly back on the same PNR? or is it a nested double booking?

LeeT

Nested double booking

BA038_Passenger

requested thru the GGL team, I got the most important flight change I wanted done which I’m happy about. The rest were to make things ideal but these were refused. The rule I was given was changed are allowed if things have changed by 120 mins.

redsailor

Further Edit - having been on the BA Calculator I’m even more confused- can someone please help!! 😊

Edit- Ignore all my befuddled calculations below it’s only 40 return from NCL-LHR, which puts a different slant on it!!

I’ve got 720 tier points with a renewal date in June next year so I’ve already renewed silver til June 2024, but I’m debating making a push for gold before the tier point thresholds revert in January as I ‘only’ need 345 to get there. (I know I won’t make the threshold once it reverts- I only got this many due to the double TP BA Holidays offer)
I live in Newcastle so if I travel CE I’ve got 80 points before I start, so to speak.
I’ve got two trips to London before Christmas where I would usually take the train but I could fly, so that would get me 160 and I suppose I could do a day return to Dublin which would net an additional 160 I believe? Then ‘just’ another 25….
Having written it out it seems a no brainer!!

layz

Just in case you weren't aware the double TP offer has been extended until next year.

redsailor

Thanks I had seen that but as I’ve not got anything planned I thought it might be sensible to take advantage of the reduced threshold now.
What is confusing me is the BA Calculator says 40 tier points each way in CE NCL-DUB but as it goes through LHR surely it should be 40 for each leg?

AirbusA350

NCL-LHR-DUB will be 80 TP each way. If using the calculator, you need to search the sectors separately as searching as NCL-DUB will only calculate it as one sector.

RichieMc

I've got to be in the Bay for a week in April, flexible on exact dates. Trying to squeeze as many points out of it without going overboard. There are fares out there but seems like much thinner pickings. Dublin is not working for many dates. Spain seems ok, but even there there is much less choice with itinerary and it's much harder to find the right combo of codeshare vs prime fight numbers. All that said, I've got 2 or 3 itineraries that work. Wondering if anyone has been able to get BA to book AS flights? They pop up on matrix all the time (see example below), but from memory, when I tried once or twice last year BA agents couldn't get it to work. I'd normally just book on AA but I'd like to use a GUF so AA not an option here.

TPonabudget

Anyone got any good TP runs for 150 TP? can fly any time. and flexible on dates. want to get silver before year ends and before i leave the UK

MaxFlyer

Do one of the CE routes that gives 80 TP each way eg HEL, SOF.

Lefly

Also OTP. 1 night stay seems a bit less than 400 gbp on selected dates in November.

SQjunkie

Hello all.

Needing about 1.2k tps for GGL before year end (I know!).

This double TP holidays/car point sounds too good to be true - presumably through I can’t use it for a full TP run (eg adding a car to LIS-LHR-JFK-LAX-LHR-LIS)?

flashware

It's for ex-UK trips only I'm afraid. Other than that, it is true!

SeattleDavid

Since it has to be UK, look for JER/EDI - LHR - JFK - LAX/SFO rtn in CW, which should get 1280 TPs with a 5-night holiday and seems to be possible in December for just over £2000 (I last looked about a week ago, so may not be much left now).

EDIT: Just looked again - £1945 for JER-SFO/LAX on Dec 22-27 in CW; BA flight #s for all 6 flights