£92 flat-bed business class deal on LAN’s Madrid to Frankfurt service – and earn tier points

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• Need 50 TP to earn Silver - Page 2 - FlyerTalk Forums says:

  8 Jan8 January 08:12

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• Nathan says:

  8 Jan8 January 08:51

  I’m going to hit about 900 tier points this year and am very tempted to try and do a TP run for gold! Doing the Qatar business from Stockholm to Bangkok which is a nice 500+ TP 🙂 but need something like that again I think although something cheaper would be nice

  • InsideFlyer Tom says:

    8 Jan8 January 09:08

    Well don’t forget the Malta BA Business Class option…

• Richard says:

  8 Jan8 January 09:08

  Great deal! You can also book via Amex travel for the same price but get the £50 credit back on +£150 spend, if you have the offer on your account.

  • Stan says:

    8 Jan8 January 09:31

    Well that only is a possibility for the 10000 Amex Gold members that saved the deal on the site like me , but still a good point .

• MrHandBaggageOnly says:

  8 Jan8 January 09:31

  We did the LHR-MAD-FRA triangle last summer thanks to HFP. A couple of days in Madrid followed by Frankfurt for a day made for a very enjoyable long weekend. Recommended.

• Stan says:

  8 Jan8 January 09:34

  HeadForPoins why have you ignored the Bank of China Rewards credit card ? The do have 4 braches in the UK and issue the card here as well . There is a very decent mile earn potential from what I saw .

  • Rob says:

    8 Jan8 January 11:11

    Er … possibly because I’ve never heard of it 🙂 I will take a look.

    • Rob says:

      8 Jan8 January 17:03

      You answered your own question – the Tesco one is the only one there is. To be honest, when it launched, the earning rate was poor (1 per £8) compared to the credit card (1 per £4) that it got little traction. Now that the credit card rate has halved, I should give it another look – and I will.

  • Andy says:

    8 Jan8 January 11:57

    Unless I’m missing something BOC aren’t very forthcoming with information!

    Looks like you’ve talking about the Great Wall International Credit Card (http://www.bankofchina.com/uk/pbservice/pb4/201110/t20111025_1576349.html). For every £1 spent you get 10 gift points, which can be redeemed for all manner of things, like stainless steel flasks and even a mini humidifier, these appear to be poor value as it was take £8,800 of spend to earn a flask. On that page it does say you can convert points into air miles but there’s no additional information, any pointers would be appreciated.

    • Stan says:

      8 Jan8 January 19:27

      To see the transfer rate to thee airlines go to their Chinese website and look at the transfer rates and partners there (Google Translate) . Or look at the whole list of cards that they offer http://www.boc.cn/en/bcservice/bc1/ . As fas as I understood in the terms you can get all of them any where in the world but you will have to repay in RMB with some thus it would work ideal with a no foreign transaction fee account like Cumberland Building Society .

      THE GOOD KICKER IS THAT YOU EARN 10 points on 5 RMB spent which equals roughly 10 points for 52p +0.1% cash back . If I calculated correctly a transfer rate of 10 points =1 mile in China Southern (Theoretically can be transferred to FlyingBlue or other SkyTeam) +0.1% cash back mean that we would be getting roughly 2 points per £1 spending which sounds pretty good for me . Obviously more research is needed as I am no expert but if HeadForPoints has some time It would make for a great reading material in an article .

      • harry says:

        8 Jan8 January 19:34

        A persuasive case, well made 🙂

      • Andy says:

        9 Jan9 January 18:10

        Many thanks for the reply, I was just looking at the UK page on their site and didn’t think to look to the Chinese one. It does seem like a good return, and as a Cumbrian it is nice to see someone mention the Cumberland!

  • nick says:

    8 Jan8 January 13:50

    On the subject of missing articles…. Propeller? 😉

    • Rob says:

      8 Jan8 January 17:05

      Good point!

• Marly says:

  8 Jan8 January 10:12

  Hi Rob, I am actually in Chile right now and did flew the new tam airlines to São Paulo and the new lab Dreamliner to Santiago, both amazing products. Putting BA into shame! I will send you a review with a few photos.
  I’m still waiting for BA to credit my avios and TP, it has been a week now, is it normal? I bought the ticket on tam website during a sale but they are J fare so I should definitely be eligible…
  Let me know your experience. Thanks

  • Rob says:

    8 Jan8 January 11:10

    Tier points and Avios from some partners can be very slow unfortunately.

• Andrew H says:

  8 Jan8 January 11:28

  Anyone know off hand how many avios it costs to book the Madrid to Frankfurt leg in business class?

  Out of curiosity I was looking at the super luxurious First Class Garuda Indonesia AMS->LGW leg, where you’re met on arrival, escorted through security to the lounge, have your own pod on the plane and are escorted through immigration at Gatwick as a VIP. Costs £240 but you can’t book it in miles unfortunately. Plus it’s a short flight. I would like to try that one day.

  • Rob says:

    8 Jan8 January 13:09

    Standard rate, I guess 15k each way in Business given flight time.

  • Lady London says:

    8 Jan8 January 14:55

    I think you can book that Garuda First Class with other miles though.
    An American blogger covered how much he enjoyed being fawned over on it.

    • Rob says:

      8 Jan8 January 17:04

      I booked it with Flying Blue miles!

      • Andrew H says:

        8 Jan8 January 18:39

        You may be able to book the long haul flight to Gatwick in First using miles but I have yet to find a way of just booking the AMS->LGW leg in First.

        I have tried searching both KLM and Air France’s award flights on Garuda but they will only offer you the economy and business options. No First.

  • World Traveller says:

    8 Jan8 January 16:42

    Garuda launched London Gatwick in September 2014 as a tag to Amsterdam and now plans to drop Gatwick at the end of March while launching London Heathrow to Jakarta non-stops. Initially the Heathrow flight is slated to stop in Singapore on the outbound leg but Garuda expects eventually to operate non-stops to London once runway issues at Jakarta are resolved.

    • Rob says:

      8 Jan8 January 17:06

      I did this flight and reviewed it earlier in the year.

• redkitty says:

  8 Jan8 January 11:47

  Hi Raffles, I looked at the booking class for the tickets on Expedia and they show as Class Z. Does this mean they don’t earn tier points as I can’t see that class coming up on the BAEC website using the Avios calculator. Only shows Biz CLass, J, D and I.

  I also tried to book via the LAN website and it also shows Class Z.
  Thanks.

  • Max says:

    8 Jan8 January 13:03

    I would imagine that it does give you the 40 tier points and the corresponding Avios. I recently did a trip on Tam’s widebody aircraft from JFK to YYZ in Z (for some 90 euros btw!), credited it to BA and received the promised points.

  • Rob says:

    8 Jan8 January 13:08

    HFP readers have done this route and got the tier points OK.

    • Nori says:

      8 Jan8 January 17:47

      Rate

      • Rob says:

        8 Jan8 January 21:59

        No, I meant route!

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