[PREM FARE GONE] QR J: £1366 MAN - AKL Round Trip - Wide Open...
Mar 14, 2018, 2:12 pm
#46
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And it's probably best to take the 4 BA flights shortly before/after the QR trip to maximise the length of status you can get as BAEC memberships run from the month you had your first account activity.
Mar 14, 2018, 2:22 pm
#47
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Mar 14, 2018, 3:05 pm
#48
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I just booked for September a few minutes ago directly on QR website without any problems. I don't have any oneworld status at all and I'm not familiar with the various programmes. Is it possible to get oneworld sapphire with this, or might the best option be to credit to BAEC and take an additional 4 BA (or equivalent) flights?
Mar 14, 2018, 3:08 pm
#49
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Possible, but only if you travel with hang luggage. Otherwise they will check your bagage through towards MAN.
Option would be to plan a stopover in Doha for 1 night, get your luggage and go to the hotel and then mis your MAN connection ;-)
But would you really want to mis a nice 5* service on the excellent 787 in Business for 6 hours (and miles / Tier points etc)
Option would be to plan a stopover in Doha for 1 night, get your luggage and go to the hotel and then mis your MAN connection ;-)
But would you really want to mis a nice 5* service on the excellent 787 in Business for 6 hours (and miles / Tier points etc)
I already did this on a BKK-DOH-CDG flight. I voluntarily missed my DOH-CDG and they offloaded my luggage in DOH. Then I flew DOH-CAI on 1 ticket then CAI-DOH-BHX on another ticket (same day/next flight turnaround) and asked the transfer desk in DOH to recheck my luggage to BHX after arriving from CAI (I asked them to do it before flying to CAI but they asked me to wait until I flew my CAI-DOH segment). I got my bag in BHX then checked it again to my BHX-MAD-CDG IB journey back home. It was the old good time of globetrotter campaign...
Mar 14, 2018, 3:54 pm
#50
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Mar 14, 2018, 5:14 pm
#51
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Booked this a couple of hours ago, for the start of september as that was the only availability I could still find. I've dreamed of flying business sometime in the next couple of years, but never thought I'd do it this year as the usual destinations were coming up quite expensive. Was also surprised my partner was up for it, but he's never flown business either (I don't think the brief time Ryanair had "business" fares really counts 
) so thank you very much everyone who posted about it!
) so thank you very much everyone who posted about it!
Mar 14, 2018, 6:05 pm
#52
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Great find, booked end Oct to finally have some down time in NZ as opposed to working there. Fab fare for ex UK and the DOH - AKL leg used to be the longest flight in the World, think someone else started a longer one since but still pleasing to the inner aviation nerd. Reserved my seats, now to prime NZ buddies 
Mar 15, 2018, 2:51 am
#55
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Two trips booked to AKL, both are work so employer will be happy to see this change in price from normal Ex UK prices !
My employer has a new travel policy which now effectively encourages Ex EU's, so I am taking my first Ex EU in June, I did think I would
be doing Ex EU for AKL soon but because of this deal not till 2019 at the earliest now.
You read that QR had made a loss and now celebrates by offering discount prices
Maybe they need some cash flow! 
My employer has a new travel policy which now effectively encourages Ex EU's, so I am taking my first Ex EU in June, I did think I would
be doing Ex EU for AKL soon but because of this deal not till 2019 at the earliest now.
You read that QR had made a loss and now celebrates by offering discount prices
Maybe they need some cash flow!
Mar 15, 2018, 6:43 am
#56
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Two trips booked to AKL, both are work so employer will be happy to see this change in price from normal Ex UK prices !
My employer has a new travel policy which now effectively encourages Ex EU's, so I am taking my first Ex EU in June, I did think I would
be doing Ex EU for AKL soon but because of this deal not till 2019 at the earliest now.
You read that QR had made a loss and now celebrates by offering discount prices Maybe they need some cash flow!
My employer has a new travel policy which now effectively encourages Ex EU's, so I am taking my first Ex EU in June, I did think I would
be doing Ex EU for AKL soon but because of this deal not till 2019 at the earliest now.
You read that QR had made a loss and now celebrates by offering discount prices
Maybe they need some cash flow!
Mar 15, 2018, 11:19 am
#57
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They'd started trying to increase fares while cutting back on their more lavish excesses, when they were hit by the "blockade" by all GCC states (except Oman & Kuwait) and Egypt. That cut off the healthy stream of revenue from connecting those states with the rest of the world through Doha, and from the gold dust of intra-Gulf services. Adding to the insult is the need to avoid the airspace of its neighbours, increasing flight time and the costs that entails, and the conundrum of what to do with aircraft made surplus to (rational) requirements.
With no end in sight to the blockade the airline is in a spiral of sales to generate demand (good news for us), and the opening of curious routes to soak up surplus airframes (good news for Cardiff!).
More good news is that the airline simply can't be allowed to fail: it is now absolutely essential to the socio-economic-political well-being of Qatar. But there has to be a question about how long it will be able, or allowed, to continue in its current form.
I'm sure my NZ-springtime visit using this great fare is safe enough. Better than the last time i tried to get there with QR, when they cancelled the flight
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Mar 15, 2018, 2:17 pm
#58
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I actually quite like the QR 777 2-2-2 seating. Lots of space and easy to get out if your neighbour has reclined. I actually prefer the seat on the 777 for a long flight over the A380/B787 seat.
Mar 15, 2018, 4:03 pm
#59
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Absolutely. But I think others prefer the notion of "privacy", or better "isolation".
No idea why - the 2-2-2 configuration brings far greater comfort in terms of space, but I suppose it imposes an element of social conviviality, a requirement for very limited social intercourse, which some might find it difficult to deal with.
Mar 16, 2018, 12:48 am
#60
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Absolutely. But I think others prefer the notion of "privacy", or better "isolation".
No idea why - the 2-2-2 configuration brings far greater comfort in terms of space, but I suppose it imposes an element of social conviviality, a requirement for very limited social intercourse, which some might find it difficult to deal with.
No idea why - the 2-2-2 configuration brings far greater comfort in terms of space, but I suppose it imposes an element of social conviviality, a requirement for very limited social intercourse, which some might find it difficult to deal with.
The market seems to dictate a privacy first product, however I prefer to take more room around me than privacy. What are you doing that requires you to have that much privacy anyway
I always pick a middle seat on the 777, sometimes I've spoken a few words to the person sat on my right and sometimes not, but I never felt the need to.
