coupons for flights promotions
Jan 20, 2023, 5:26 am
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coupons for flights promotions
It was mentioned on the city article on HfP comments yesterday about collecting 12 tokens in the paper to fly AirUK from city.
And of course the buy a Hoover go to Florida.
Can anyone remember any other great promos
in 2019 a dubai water park gave a free flight per ticket after some hoop jumping.
And of course the buy a Hoover go to Florida.
Can anyone remember any other great promos
in 2019 a dubai water park gave a free flight per ticket after some hoop jumping.
Jan 20, 2023, 6:43 am
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Not hugely BA relevant as a thread (?) but anyway there was a period at the end of 2020 when a bug in the Opodo Prime discounting mechanism created negative fares on cheap flights, the ultras were particularly well catered for, Wizz and Ryanair. I ended up with quite a number of bookings to Dublin and Krakow as I recall, but sadly Covid made it impossible to fly any and I think they all ended up lapsing.
What happened was that you got to a payment screen with a negative total, had to enter a credit card detail, but nothing was charged to it.
What happened was that you got to a payment screen with a negative total, had to enter a credit card detail, but nothing was charged to it.
Jan 20, 2023, 7:07 am
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Not hugely BA relevant as a thread (?) but anyway there was a period at the end of 2020 when a bug in the Opodo Prime discounting mechanism created negative fares on cheap flights, the ultras were particularly well catered for, Wizz and Ryanair. I ended up with quite a number of bookings to Dublin and Krakow as I recall, but sadly Covid made it impossible to fly any and I think they all ended up lapsing.
What happened was that you got to a payment screen with a negative total, had to enter a credit card detail, but nothing was charged to it.
What happened was that you got to a payment screen with a negative total, had to enter a credit card detail, but nothing was charged to it.
Jan 20, 2023, 7:17 am
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I wouldn't say it was a 'great' promo but I remember taking part in one with British Airways which must have dated back to around 1991. We were living in Glasgow at the time and I was up and down to London a fair bit. I think it required 9 or 10 sectors to qualify for a free posh dinner for two somewhere. As I was still in my 20s at the time this seemed like the pinnacle of frequent flying for me. Does anyone else remember that one? I think it pre-dated my BAEC membership or even the BAEC itself?
Jan 20, 2023, 7:20 am
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This was BA x most definitely. Sainsbury’s and Homebase had a promotion whereby you needed till rolls up to £200 (I think) and you got a voucher on BA which took 20% of flights in Europe. There was also quite a hefty amount of long haul flights as well. I just can’t remember the details.
some friends of mine got within a week of the closing of the promotion and only had about £50 in till rolls as they didn’t shop much Sainsbury’s. It was on a visit to a large Sainsbury’s. That one of them had a brilliant idea to go round and check in all the waste bins and trolleys as people are remarkably careless about meeting till rolls. she did one lap around the car park, and before she got halfway, she had enough for one voucher, and at the end she had enough for three. This was back in the days when they used to put a separate credit card transactions slept through the till at the same time he was printed the end you signed it. To her amazement, these were in shopping trolley, some of the bin as well. As it was impossible from the two rolls of the time, I have any idea who had bought what They got all their vouchers. However, on the second promotion about a year or so later, they did exactly the same thing again. This time, unless it came from Sainsbury’s congratulating them on getting their vouchers so quickly. Feeling that collars might be being felt and that they may have been sussed, they desisted getting any more. The promotion ended and was followed by the loyalty card system which existst to this day.
some friends of mine got within a week of the closing of the promotion and only had about £50 in till rolls as they didn’t shop much Sainsbury’s. It was on a visit to a large Sainsbury’s. That one of them had a brilliant idea to go round and check in all the waste bins and trolleys as people are remarkably careless about meeting till rolls. she did one lap around the car park, and before she got halfway, she had enough for one voucher, and at the end she had enough for three. This was back in the days when they used to put a separate credit card transactions slept through the till at the same time he was printed the end you signed it. To her amazement, these were in shopping trolley, some of the bin as well. As it was impossible from the two rolls of the time, I have any idea who had bought what They got all their vouchers. However, on the second promotion about a year or so later, they did exactly the same thing again. This time, unless it came from Sainsbury’s congratulating them on getting their vouchers so quickly. Feeling that collars might be being felt and that they may have been sussed, they desisted getting any more. The promotion ended and was followed by the loyalty card system which existst to this day.