£780 Club World tickets to Hong Kong available, bookable for all of 2015

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• Tom C says:

  25 Apr25 April 07:48

  I’m disappointed not to see the picture of the food you’re likely to get served in flying CW to HKG. Come on, Rob, you’re over selling this without that picture 😉

  • Rob says:

    25 Apr25 April 10:34

    No more food pictures for a while ….!

• Jeff says:

  25 Apr25 April 07:51

  OT: sorry!…..I triggered £10k BAPP spend for a BA 241 voucher on Wednesday.
  Q: How does the companion voucher now arrive and when roughly? Still electronically direct to my BAEC account…OR

  “When will I receive my British Airways American Express Companion Voucher?
  Your voucher will be posted to you automatically once American Express has advised us that you have reached the required spend. Your voucher will normally reach you with 10-15 working days.”

  …which is taken from BA.com and is news to me!

  For clarity, nothing is shown in my BAEC account – or at least I can’t see it. I had hoped to use it pre devaluation but after a few phonecalls yesterday, BA say it could take 28 days(!) and Amex can’t (won’t) help either. Mmmmm

  Would be interested to learn other more recent experiences if any. Ta!

  • Polly says:

    25 Apr25 April 07:59

    Jeff, my OH triggered a 241 on Tuesday also, and it appeared yesterday in the account. You log in and scroll down to the end of your main page which shows your avios etc. then you will see a section “e voucher” and it should be there. They don’t mail it to you. They just post it on your account page. Have fun using it, and you must try to fly F, if you have the avios, even if you have to do open jaw.

  • Jason says:

    25 Apr25 April 08:02

    I triggered one on Tuesday morning, it’s in my account as of now.
    For clarity, the payment, that triggered the voucher, was Tuesday morning.

  • Jeff says:

    25 Apr25 April 08:12

    Many thanks

    Sadly mine isn’t showing. I suspect it magically will…on Tuesday morning.

    I have sufficient avios for HND in F return, but not enough once devaluation kicks in.

    • Jerry says:

      25 Apr25 April 09:57

      Jeff – I don’t know if this will work, but you could try phoning BA and asking them to hold the flights for 48 hours. They did this for me when I was waiting for Amex preferred reward points to transfer to avios. You could then complete the booking when the 241 hits your account – hopefully on Monday.

• Steve says:

  25 Apr25 April 08:18

  Many thanks for this, amazing price

• richie says:

  25 Apr25 April 08:42

  off topic sorry.

  Looking at flying to NYC . not sure if i should go on ba001 or first from lhr . is ba001 really worth doing or is it not so special? i know all the benefits of tier points before 28th april etc. only interested in which is the best experience as iv never done either. however have done lots of club world flights

  • Rob says:

    25 Apr25 April 10:33

    As long as BA1 gets the Shannon pre-clearance (I think it is BA3 which doesn’t) then it is definitely worth a try for the novelty value. I did it once and was glad I did but I am ambivalent over whether I would do it again given no lounge access at LCY.

    • Dean says:

      26 Apr26 April 09:00

      No lounge at LCY?

      • Alan says:

        26 Apr26 April 09:56

        Well there’s a small gate lounge for BA1/BA3 but that’s only open shortly before the flight.

      • Rob says:

        26 Apr26 April 10:29

        No lounge. For any airline.

        BA has set up a little ‘coffee and cake’ table by the gate but it doesn’t really compare!

  • will says:

    26 Apr26 April 01:37

    I personally would take 001 over First from LHR any day of the week. City airport is literally 10 minutes from drop off to the gate (less if security is quiet) and you can check in 15 minutes before departure and it’s as close to a private jet experience as us mortals are likely to get.

    I found the service much more personal and attentive than other flights on BA (including in F) plus for an early morning flight I’d personally prefer more time in bed than to add time to a journey to get through the mess that is Heathrow and dine on some OK food in the CCR.

    BA001 is one of my favourite flights, not that there’s anything wrong with BA first – having just sampled Virgin Upper Class I can definitely say that, clubhouse aside which is far superior to all the BA lounges, the onboard upper class product is way inferior to the BA experience.

    • richie says:

      26 Apr26 April 14:54

      Im going on ba001 out and first back then

• James67 says:

  25 Apr25 April 08:47

  OT: just seen an artcle on businesstraveller yesterday stating BA has joined a organisation for budget carriers!

  • Rob says:

    25 Apr25 April 10:32

    This is politics. Seemingly under pressure from its new part-owner Qatar, BA’s parent has resigned from the main European aviation body because it is supporting plans to stop the Middle East carriers expanding.

    • James67 says:

      25 Apr25 April 13:37

      interesting; how can a 10% stake translate into controlling interest? Do you see this stake increasing and do you think it likely avios will grow into a single scheme for further cariers such as QR in so ething along the lines of M&M?

      • Rob says:

        25 Apr25 April 14:35

        Qatar – in fact, combined non-EU shareholders – cannot own more than 49%. However, as you see with airberlin, having 49% gives you de facto control. IAG has no real strategic value for Qatar, however, as it cannot feed traffic to BA or Iberia easily.

        What might happen? BA drops Doha as a direct route (it is already a pointless tag to the Bahrain flight), BA sells some slots to Qatar so they can run more services from Heathrow, BA – as we’ve already seen – stands up for Qatar against protectionist moves by other EU airlines.

        In Germany, for example, the Middle East big 3 are effectively banned from flying into Lufthansa hubs.

  • Polly says:

    25 Apr25 April 10:41

    Ha Ha! Well spotted….BA from LGW was always considered the budget part of the airline! Way back when I was with Dan Air! And BA bought us for £1! Who remembers them???? We definitely felt inferior to the LHR lot then! BTW, I am NOT BA staff, but depend on avios for the high life!

    • CV says:

      25 Apr25 April 13:35

      Dan Air was before my time :@ However i do remember doing a flight on British Caledonian! Big cinema screen at the front.

    • James67 says:

      25 Apr25 April 13:46

      I rememember I think it was British Med fro Gatwick with nice sunny destinations which I took advantage of as a PhD student on lots of cheap and flexible tickets from STA when my travel moved a little more upmarket than bus seats and ferry floors. Desperate Dan!

• Simon says:

  25 Apr25 April 08:50

  On Expedia, I’m trying the multi-city, but how can I add a fifth flight? I wanted a stopover preferably in SIngapore. Does the flight booking have to include the LHR-HKG??

  The prices aren’t showing for me but I guess I need to input the last flight (from London back to Germany)

  • Rob says:

    25 Apr25 April 10:31

    Correct.

    • Leo says:

      25 Apr25 April 11:48

      Does it have to be Frankfurt? Can’t find similar with different German airports. Don’t fancy a weekend joint to FRA.

      • Alan says:

        25 Apr25 April 12:16

        If you do end up going to FRA then I’d recommend a wee trip to Mainz – short train ride from the airport and pretty nice 🙂

      • Rob says:

        25 Apr25 April 14:38

        Any German airport that BA uses is fine. Hamburg, Berlin, Munich are more fun.

• Daz says:

  25 Apr25 April 09:02

  I took advantage of the last Qatar offer and got 3 business returns to KL from Amsterdam for £3000.
  I’m only trying to use BA for euro or short flights (KL to SIN with avios) now as I think Qatar have a much superior cabin.

• Maciek says:

  25 Apr25 April 11:08

  A bit OT – I was stocking up my snacks at T5C’s Starbucks yesterday and have been told that yesterday was the last day when BA was covering these…

  • Rob says:

    25 Apr25 April 11:16

    It was. I have just had official notification!

    • richie says:

      25 Apr25 April 15:31

      my cupboard is full of tins of fancy tea and i have a full set of starbucks mugs.

      • jonboy says:

        26 Apr26 April 10:05

        that sort of abuse is probably what caused this.

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