£996 London to Bangkok in 787 Business on Royal Jordanian – earns 560 BA tier points

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• James says:

  9 Oct9 October 05:46

  Getting TP to post from RJ can be
  a nightmare I understand. Something to be aware of if you need the soon.

  • Bobo says:

    9 Oct9 October 05:53

    And in English?

    • Stuart says:

      9 Oct9 October 06:21

      Getting credit is painful

      Took 3 months and multiple emails / scans of BPs to get points credited.

  • Polly says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:28

    Yes, I mentioned this yesterday, my OH still waiting for crediting his recent flight.. Been 4weeks now. So yes, can be slow, this was the first time we had to use RJ as BA y was full! And they have good one way flights, BTW…

    • CV3V says:

      9 Oct9 October 13:18

      They seem to have rigged the pricing this time, if i price up a one way flight its costing over £1k. If i price up a return then i get the discounted deals i.e £1k return. was checking dates in Feb 2016.

      I like the idea of flying out with RJ, then using avios to fly back thus avoiding a huge amount of fees etc.

      • Polly says:

        10 Oct10 October 04:55

        That was exactly our thinking…

• harry says:

  9 Oct9 October 06:45

  Most ME airlines are dry on the runway, & that’s it. Drink like fish. ME—>LHR the women head off to the loos & come back in boob tubes.

• Mike says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:24

  Are these flight deals (LON > Asia retn) ever available in the other direction, ie. originating in Asia?

  Any trick to booking this deal to secure the effective above rate but from Asia?

  • James67 says:

    9 Oct9 October 07:57

    Although not as competitive as they were in the preoneworld days you can sometimes find returns from major Asian cities to LHR on Sri Lankan for about £1100 with flexibility to change and cancel for just a little more, but usually have to call them for the latter to ensure you get the proper booking class. During Finnair sales I have seen comparable fares from Asia-UK as vice versa, and MAS also has had very competitive fares at times exThai cities they fly although no longer so easy to find. Always worth checking all three, even before booking a redemption withavios.

    • Polly says:

      9 Oct9 October 09:37

      James, OT we had the Indonesian ash descend on us this week in HKT for two days. Very notably cloudy and could actually smell the burning in the air. All just stayed indoors as much as poss.
      You mentioned Sri Lankan a while back too as a good alternative option. They really seem competitive all year round. Curious why RJ. Have chosen BKK as their sale route. Guess they know people will hop down to KUL or other Asia locations easily. And their J looks fabulous.
      Think if Mr T doesn’t produce any more pay. Com cards, we will be just concentrating on sales like these for our long haul Asia travel in the future. Haven’t seen one in weeks our way, but 1000’s of the paid for visas available. Hey obviously make lots on the paid cards and none on the pay.com ones. Will see how it goes when we get back. The QR Dreamliner J seats have been fab both sectors, hope the return is as comfortable.

      • James67 says:

        9 Oct9 October 10:07

        Was the same in Hat Yai, unbelievable given how far away fires are. Really spoiled our time in KL, we mostly stayed in hotel. We actually felt a little unwell and it cleared up as soonn as we left so im sure it was the smoke. Sri Lankan also good for one ways. However AY salr fares are IMO best deals, great fare, one change and shortest one stops to Asia exUK, beats the hassle of exEU via ME but those work too if you can make s break out of positioning flight or want the TP

      • Erico1875 says:

        9 Oct9 October 11:10

        If the RJ Dreamliner experience is anything like Qatar , then it will be well worth a Grand

        • Brian says:

          9 Oct9 October 14:26

          It’s not. It’s a 2-2-2 lay-out, for a start…

        • Polly says:

          10 Oct10 October 07:20

          2-2-2. Is still better than 2-4-2 in BA. J, which is very crowded. Def looking forward to trying out AY at some point to Asia in the future, in a sale though!

    • Mike says:

      9 Oct9 October 13:29

      Thank you James, appreciate the tips!

• RH says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:26

  I fly with RJ a lot and a) the airline isn’t dry anywhere (not even to Saudi) but I mirror others comments that getting TPs and Avios to credit can be a bit of a pain. As long as you put the FF number in when booking I have had a 100% success of automatic credit – it tends to be when handing over the card at the airport where the problem lies.

• Bob says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:32

  I had the chance to sample RJ’s 787 in J class between KUL and BKK last december and it was the best J-seat I had, definitely a lot better than the Finnair J-seat that I had an my way to HEL 3 days later.
  It was by no means a dry airline. Also, avios and tier points were on my BAEC account within a week (although the lady at the check-in in KUL appeared to have some difficulties processing my FF number). I booked Qatar airways AMS-BKK recently for 1500+ euros so had this RJ deal been around I would definitely have booked it.

• Daniel says:

  9 Oct9 October 07:38

  The only bit I would be slightly worried with RJ is how close Amman is to an effective war zone in Syria…

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:15

    Last time I checked, IS was a little low on surface to air missiles. What few people realise is that these guys are fighting with nothing – the IRA was probably better armed.

    • LondonFoodie says:

      9 Oct9 October 10:57

      Totally OT : Google ISIS surface to air missiles. Quite a bit comes up… they are actually really well equipped, with heavy artillery and other heavy weapons. If the IRA had that sort of arsenal UK would have been in quite a bit of trouble.

      Back to top – this shouldn’t be a worry anyone travelling to/from Amman. It is far enough and I don’t really see them wasting precious missiles on commercial airliners.

      • Daniel says:

        9 Oct9 October 11:19

        I wouldn’t be as concerned about IS, but rather about Russians who are shooting at Iran by mistake 😉

        I thought it is worth bringing as Amman is less than 100km from Syrian border, and not everyone maybe aware of that, I personally would go for flying QR and getting 560 TP as well + if you are flying ex Europe add two BA flights and you are just 2 flights away from silver 😉

        • Fadi says:

          9 Oct9 October 14:32

          I come to Jordan a lot and it is safe despite the proximity to the neighbours I recommend everyone to visit this wonderful country and enjoy the real arabian hospitality.

• JQ says:

  9 Oct9 October 08:35

  The BKK flights continue to KUL and HKG on alternate days, but I don’t think you’d get an extra 40TP for doing so, right?

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 08:45

    Not sure, depends if it is a separate flight number. KUL and HKG appear to price at the full rate, oddly.

  • Bob says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:32

    I only received 40 tier points in J

• James67 says:

  9 Oct9 October 09:08

  Did you get fast track arrival and departure in BKK? I know they didn’t privide it in the past but was wondering if this had changed. That said, fast track on my most recent arrival was slower than regular immigration.

  • Bob says:

    9 Oct9 October 09:37

    Depending on the gate, fast track can be a much longer walk than regular immigration. We had no fast track from KUL as J-passengers, perhaps RJ didn’t give any because of the late arrival and small number of passengers disembarking at BKK which made fast track unnecessary.

    • CV3V says:

      9 Oct9 October 10:38

      For KLIA fast track is automatic for all business and first passengers, no special passes are issued any longer, you just show your boarding pass (arriving and departing).

      • James67 says:

        9 Oct9 October 13:36

        Was talking about BKK fast track. Just returned from my first KUL flight with BA last week. No complaints, declined dinner and slept for over 9 hours so very happy What I noticed though was that the CW seat I flew had substantially better upholstery and was much more comfortable than any I have flown before. Is this likely to be an upgrade to old seating or a new aircraft? There was no safety card(!) so couldn’t tell if it was an 772 or a new 773ER.

        • CV3V says:

          9 Oct9 October 13:50

          I was just replying to Bobs comments, because Fast Track at KLIA is off to the left its quite easy to miss.

          At the moment it’s a 777-200 on the KUL route, mines wasn’t refitted (I think the clue is the lack of a UK plug). Changing in a few months to a new 787-9. Likewise on my flights to KUL i found the seat to be comfortable, and I really liked the separate footrest (even if a bit old and clunky), also I got a full sleep there and back – something I have never been able to do on a long haul flight. Chatting to the crew they hated the 777 due to the air quality and noise and were looking forward to working on the 787s.

        • James67 says:

          9 Oct9 October 14:55

          I’m back in KL next month so will look out for the fast track there. Nos that you mention it. Not sure if I’m imGining this but I sort of subconciously recsl seeing a socket and thinking it was a UK one but it was down by the floor. Whatever else, the seat was definitely most confortable CE seat I ever sat on. I detest 777s and try to avoid them but if has become increasingly difficult to do so.

        • Bob says:

          9 Oct9 October 16:39

          I meant Fast Track at BKK when arriving from KUL with RJ, there wasn’t any which wasn’t a problem as there were very few passengers at immigration. I can imagine that there is Fast Track available when arriving from Amman.

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