Dec 20, 2013, 5:15 am
Current Fare Sales [ex UK]
Mar 8, 2016, 1:18 am
#1037
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: BAEC Silver, IHG Diamond
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Was looking at LHR and LGW-SZG. The weekend I had in mind was £479 outbound from LGW and nearly a 1/4 of the price from LHR.
Is BCN turnaround friendly? Not a place anywhere on my list of places to visit but with the earlier prices, would be nice to pop to just to turnaround and come back.
Then again, easy to get to Empuriabrava from there.
Is BCN turnaround friendly? Not a place anywhere on my list of places to visit but with the earlier prices, would be nice to pop to just to turnaround and come back.
Then again, easy to get to Empuriabrava from there.
Mar 8, 2016, 1:21 am
#1038
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Silver, HH Diamond, Avis President's Club
Posts: 1,219
Avios Part-Pay on the Phone
Does anyone know if you can Avios part-pay on the phone?
I want to do MAD in CE with the £100 reduction for 7500 Avios, however I'd like to get on the Iberia flight with the A330, but I think for that to be possible (if it is possible) I'd need to be on the BA codeshare flight number, which I can't do online.
Hopefully that made sense...
I want to do MAD in CE with the £100 reduction for 7500 Avios, however I'd like to get on the Iberia flight with the A330, but I think for that to be possible (if it is possible) I'd need to be on the BA codeshare flight number, which I can't do online.
Hopefully that made sense...
Mar 8, 2016, 1:32 am
#1039
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: London, UK
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Does anyone know if you can Avios part-pay on the phone?
I want to do MAD in CE with the £100 reduction for 7500 Avios, however I'd like to get on the Iberia flight with the A330, but I think for that to be possible (if it is possible) I'd need to be on the BA codeshare flight number, which I can't do online.
Hopefully that made sense...
I want to do MAD in CE with the £100 reduction for 7500 Avios, however I'd like to get on the Iberia flight with the A330, but I think for that to be possible (if it is possible) I'd need to be on the BA codeshare flight number, which I can't do online.
Hopefully that made sense...
Mar 8, 2016, 1:45 am
#1041
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: London
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J a
(takes any pressure to get from pre-sale
Mar 10, 2016, 5:48 am
#1042
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: BAEC Silver, IHG Diamond
Posts: 7,779
Booked myself a LGW-BCN-LGW CE return earlier and used some Avios to bring the price down to £57 + 3914 Avios (after earnings).
Not quite as cheap getting back and you seem to have to have 3? days between the outbound and inbound.
May book myself a £34 Norwegian flight back to LGW or pop up to CPH (shame the cheap Hilton cash+points deal has finished for the CPH Hilton), somewhere else or even jump around a few cities over the weekend.
Not quite as cheap getting back and you seem to have to have 3? days between the outbound and inbound.
May book myself a £34 Norwegian flight back to LGW or pop up to CPH (shame the cheap Hilton cash+points deal has finished for the CPH Hilton), somewhere else or even jump around a few cities over the weekend.
Mar 10, 2016, 5:55 am
#1043
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For some of the sale destinatiosn this is true, but for others a Saturday night will suffice. I have booked SVG, DUB, and UIP with just a Saturday night. Also I think MAD could be just a Saturday night. It is just trial and error in temrs of seeing which ones are 3 nighst and which aren't.
Last edited by KARFA; Mar 10, 2016 at 6:14 am
Mar 10, 2016, 6:07 am
#1044
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For some of the sale destinatiosn this is true, but for others a Saturday night will suffice. I have booked VG, DUB, and UIP with just a Saturday night. Also I think MAD could be just a Saturday night. It is just trial and error in temrs of seeing which ones are 3 nighst and which aren't.
Mar 10, 2016, 6:21 am
#1046
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It's hard to beat that fare to BCN. Let's face it, you wouldn't normally expect to easily get a £160 round-trip fare to continental Europe in economy.
But NCE, PSA, VCE and VRN should all be similar, as far as I can see.
ITA is a great place to play around to find the fares, before you start looking for availability.
But NCE, PSA, VCE and VRN should all be similar, as far as I can see.
ITA is a great place to play around to find the fares, before you start looking for availability.
Mar 10, 2016, 6:23 am
#1047
Join Date: Jul 2014
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The cheapest 'combination' I found with these fares is LGW-BCN//MLA-LGW which comes in at 120 Tier Points for £187 (£1.56 per TP). Unfortunately it's not possible to make a saving using Avios, although it's still an attractive price, but not as attractive as the £150 fares that we saw last year.
Anybody found a cheaper combination?
Anybody found a cheaper combination?
Mar 10, 2016, 7:15 am
#1048
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: London
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For some of the sale destinatiosn this is true, but for others a Saturday night will suffice. I have booked SVG, DUB, and UIP with just a Saturday night. Also I think MAD could be just a Saturday night. It is just trial and error in temrs of seeing which ones are 3 nighst and which aren't.
Mar 10, 2016, 7:56 am
#1049
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: London
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In terms of TP running?
You could do LHR-MAD-FRA-MAD-LHR, the middle pair on LAN for ~£160.
If you use the Avios reduction, that's 160TPs for £260, also around £1.63/TP (if you don't count the cost of the Avios, which you should I suppose)
You could do LHR-MAD-FRA-MAD-LHR, the middle pair on LAN for ~£160.
If you use the Avios reduction, that's 160TPs for £260, also around £1.63/TP (if you don't count the cost of the Avios, which you should I suppose)
Mar 10, 2016, 10:33 am
#1050
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 160
Hello all,
I'm going to be moving to LA to study as part of my degree in August and have just had dates confirmed so I'm starting to look at flights (economy unfortunately)!
At the minute, NCL-LAX is pricing up as £810 for the 0600 from NCL arriving into LAX at 12:55 - I would need the early flight eventhough later ones are cheaper.
I believe I saw this for just under £500 before Christmas so I'm not sure whether to hold out or not.
Is it pretty likely there will be another economy sale soon or would people advise just booking it. I'm a bit of a risk taker so am tempted to hold out!
I'm going to be moving to LA to study as part of my degree in August and have just had dates confirmed so I'm starting to look at flights (economy unfortunately)!
At the minute, NCL-LAX is pricing up as £810 for the 0600 from NCL arriving into LAX at 12:55 - I would need the early flight eventhough later ones are cheaper.
I believe I saw this for just under £500 before Christmas so I'm not sure whether to hold out or not.
Is it pretty likely there will be another economy sale soon or would people advise just booking it. I'm a bit of a risk taker so am tempted to hold out!