A few QR OSL-BKK-ARN fares for £1600 return in J
May 25, 2023, 7:34 am
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A few QR OSL-BKK-ARN fares for £1600 return in J
I just booked a surprisingly cheap QR itinerary to enable me to spend June in BKK at short notice. It can be had for as little as 21700 NOK / 1596 GBP. In fact my fare came out at £1552 on my Curve card currency conversion.
This seems to require an origin open jaw - OSL on departure, ARN on return.
Example dates I can see:
Jun 13 - Jul 13
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...Z78qpmJMunbrs5
Jun 1 - Jun 20
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...37pP2MVvBaC1DA
Most fares seem to be P outbound (PJNOP1ZX) and I or R inbound (IJR7R1SX for example). Many also have the DOH-ARN leg on a Finnair codeshare. Others can correct me, but I thought I heard AY were flying their new business cabin on their ex-DOH flights.
This seems to require an origin open jaw - OSL on departure, ARN on return.
Example dates I can see:
Jun 13 - Jul 13
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...Z78qpmJMunbrs5
Jun 1 - Jun 20
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...37pP2MVvBaC1DA
Most fares seem to be P outbound (PJNOP1ZX) and I or R inbound (IJR7R1SX for example). Many also have the DOH-ARN leg on a Finnair codeshare. Others can correct me, but I thought I heard AY were flying their new business cabin on their ex-DOH flights.
May 25, 2023, 7:38 am
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Nothing new:
Some examples of threads discussed in FT:
QR: OSL-BKK,HKG-CPH / $2k r/t (multi-city) / Business
QR OSL-BKK-AMS €1550 / OSL-BKK/DPS-AMS €1800 in J
Some examples of threads discussed in FT:
QR: OSL-BKK,HKG-CPH / $2k r/t (multi-city) / Business
QR OSL-BKK-AMS €1550 / OSL-BKK/DPS-AMS €1800 in J
May 25, 2023, 7:42 am
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Nothing new:
Some examples of threads discussed in FT:
QR: OSL-BKK,HKG-CPH / $2k r/t (multi-city) / Business
QR OSL-BKK-AMS €1550 / OSL-BKK/DPS-AMS €1800 in J
Some examples of threads discussed in FT:
QR: OSL-BKK,HKG-CPH / $2k r/t (multi-city) / Business
QR OSL-BKK-AMS €1550 / OSL-BKK/DPS-AMS €1800 in J
May 25, 2023, 7:45 am
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I have visited them previously so typing OSL in my browser history pulled them up in seconds.
May 25, 2023, 11:55 am
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To be fair, next month is pretty short notice for a discounted fare, with the rest being six months away and from what I've seen on other threads, have been Swiss and Lufthansa rather the Qatar.
Maybe it's an indication in the demand softening back to when their flights flew half full, and you could get decent prices from the nordics. They've a lot of capacity and the pent up demand from covid may be fading...
Maybe it's an indication in the demand softening back to when their flights flew half full, and you could get decent prices from the nordics. They've a lot of capacity and the pent up demand from covid may be fading...
May 25, 2023, 1:54 pm
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I just booked a surprisingly cheap QR itinerary to enable me to spend June in BKK at short notice. It can be had for as little as 21700 NOK / 1596 GBP. In fact my fare came out at £1552 on my Curve card currency conversion.
This seems to require an origin open jaw - OSL on departure, ARN on return.
Example dates I can see:
Jun 13 - Jul 13
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...Z78qpmJMunbrs5
Jun 1 - Jun 20
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...37pP2MVvBaC1DA
Most fares seem to be P outbound (PJNOP1ZX) and I or R inbound (IJR7R1SX for example). Many also have the DOH-ARN leg on a Finnair codeshare. Others can correct me, but I thought I heard AY were flying their new business cabin on their ex-DOH flights.
This seems to require an origin open jaw - OSL on departure, ARN on return.
Example dates I can see:
Jun 13 - Jul 13
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...Z78qpmJMunbrs5
Jun 1 - Jun 20
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...37pP2MVvBaC1DA
Most fares seem to be P outbound (PJNOP1ZX) and I or R inbound (IJR7R1SX for example). Many also have the DOH-ARN leg on a Finnair codeshare. Others can correct me, but I thought I heard AY were flying their new business cabin on their ex-DOH flights.
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________8BmAED
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________AZgBAw
Pretty great considering that some of these deals are flyable out like, next week!
May 25, 2023, 2:28 pm
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The good thing about the QR fares is that sometimes you can get easier-to-get repositioning places especially if you play around with the open-jaws, and for not too much more. Like LHR-BKK/KUL-DUB is doable on 1.8, and substituting LHR to OSL would bring it down to 1569 GBP. (but still arriving at DUB, which obviously is cheap to get to the UK)
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________8BmAED
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________AZgBAw
Pretty great considering that some of these deals are flyable out like, next week!
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________8BmAED
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________AZgBAw
Pretty great considering that some of these deals are flyable out like, next week!
May 25, 2023, 2:38 pm
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The good thing about the QR fares is that sometimes you can get easier-to-get repositioning places especially if you play around with the open-jaws, and for not too much more. Like LHR-BKK/KUL-DUB is doable on 1.8, and substituting LHR to OSL would bring it down to 1569 GBP. (but still arriving at DUB, which obviously is cheap to get to the UK)
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________8BmAED
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________AZgBAw
Pretty great considering that some of these deals are flyable out like, next week!
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________8BmAED
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________AZgBAw
Pretty great considering that some of these deals are flyable out like, next week!
May 25, 2023, 2:48 pm
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May 25, 2023, 3:05 pm
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Yeah, but the principle is the same for quite a number of SEA destinations - you could sub out KUL for SIN/CGK/BKK and even maybe MNL/CEB/CRK/DPS/HKT and you can get quite similar prices, if you have some flexibility on your starting/end destination, and avoid MH if that's an issue.
But hey, those MH A330 seats are pretty decent
I think a re-surfacing post/new thread does help, especially when people come in with different permutations to optimise the fare further, when these people didnt get the previous thread. Furthermore, hardly any deal that lands in this forum is egregiously bad that it deserves vitriol. Besides I think the rules at hand says to allow such deals to sink anyway as time passes, so not sure why people are quick to play judge and jury on that.
Many people (including myself) don't subscribe to email alerts from things that lands in this forum, so the reminder a few weeks or so do help the general public like people like myself, even if it helps also to link the previous thread in the new thread. From my observations the most nasty-mannered here tend to be 1) those who have subscribed to email alerts to this forum, and 2) don't have anything of note to contribute in terms of fares but are willing to leech off whatever enters here. Which is also why I generally refrain from posting deals or things I happen to find that will be relevant here on this specific forum unless someone else mentions it because it's not really worth having your day thrown off-center by someone who is annoyed that a deal they know appears again in this very forum.
But hey, those MH A330 seats are pretty decent
I never quite get these squabbles about righteousness and novelty in posting good fares. Sure, it could get untidy if date&destination-permutations of recently posted opportunities were posted each day. But the reminders come in handy for new readers, or for those who don't comb through new posts each day. I generally appreciate being reminded of interesting things posted weeks' back. If they aren't interesting, i ignore them. Maybe I've got a goldfish memory
I think a re-surfacing post/new thread does help, especially when people come in with different permutations to optimise the fare further, when these people didnt get the previous thread. Furthermore, hardly any deal that lands in this forum is egregiously bad that it deserves vitriol. Besides I think the rules at hand says to allow such deals to sink anyway as time passes, so not sure why people are quick to play judge and jury on that.
Many people (including myself) don't subscribe to email alerts from things that lands in this forum, so the reminder a few weeks or so do help the general public like people like myself, even if it helps also to link the previous thread in the new thread. From my observations the most nasty-mannered here tend to be 1) those who have subscribed to email alerts to this forum, and 2) don't have anything of note to contribute in terms of fares but are willing to leech off whatever enters here. Which is also why I generally refrain from posting deals or things I happen to find that will be relevant here on this specific forum unless someone else mentions it because it's not really worth having your day thrown off-center by someone who is annoyed that a deal they know appears again in this very forum.
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Jun 1, 2023, 4:17 am
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The good thing about the QR fares is that sometimes you can get easier-to-get repositioning places especially if you play around with the open-jaws, and for not too much more. Like LHR-BKK/KUL-DUB is doable on 1.8, and substituting LHR to OSL would bring it down to 1569 GBP. (but still arriving at DUB, which obviously is cheap to get to the UK)
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________8BmAED
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________AZgBAw
Pretty great considering that some of these deals are flyable out like, next week!
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________8BmAED
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________AZgBAw
Pretty great considering that some of these deals are flyable out like, next week!
I'm guessing it doesn't, so positioning has to account for entry into Norway, a desk-based check-in then security to return airside. Not a biggy, though it might impact the buffer time passengers allow for separately-ticketed connections.
Jun 2, 2023, 9:42 am
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