Amazing business deals (Avios earning) from Qatar Airways – Maldives £907, Singapore £837

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• David says:

  12 Jan12 January 09:31

  http://www.ausbt.com.au/qatar-airways-to-fly-to-sydney-from-march-1st-2016

  According to this the 777 to Australia should be fully flat. Fingers crossed. Got 2 months in SYD for a smidge under GBP 1600. Although these fares make my 1100 Finnair flights to BKK look positively extravagant 🙂

  • JQ says:

    12 Jan12 January 13:14

    Yet, after you fly, the airline you will end up describing as extravagant will be QR 🙂

    • David says:

      14 Jan14 January 13:58

      On a, sort of, related note. Seeing as I won’t now be home for the best part of the next 4 months (couldn’t resist tagging an OSL-SIN-OSL to the end of OSL-SYD-OSL) I’ll get BA gold whilst on the way to Sydney, will I be able to use my digital BA card to get lounge access/extra bags etc or do I need the physical card?

      • Rob says:

        14 Jan14 January 14:33

        Just having it in the booking so it is on the boarding pass is OK. Pretty sure digital card works fine for the other odd occasion.

• Daftboy says:

  12 Jan12 January 09:57

  £880 each AMS-BKK in October; AMS DOH legs are on the 777, but having done something similar from CPH last year I’ll skip the 787 for the convenience of the short hop from AMS. Plus we have the A380 to and from Bangkok, which is always a treat.

  Not as cheap as some of the prices, but I am pretty happy with this.

• Roger says:

  12 Jan12 January 10:04

  Given my need – OK, desire – to get to Cape Town and having given up on BA redemptions, I came across ex-EU QR offers yesterday. I found OSL-CPT for £910-ish BUT with longish overnighters in DOH, 8 hours or so.

  Playing around with ITA and Skyscanner, I found several other QR ex-EUs to CPT at £1020-1200 offering 2-3 hour transfers at DOH, so no need for hotel. It may well be worth trying other EU starting points.

  I’m looking at ex-OPO and ex-LIS to CPT in BA J for +/- £1400 with more flexible UK connections – unlimited stopovers in Europe, 2 free and others @ £75, though take care with APD.

• Talay says:

  12 Jan12 January 10:26

  Can someone please give me some dates for BKK as every date I put into Qatar or Gotogate comes up with prices way over those headline cheap rates.

  Thanks

  • Clive says:

    12 Jan12 January 10:50

    Hello “Beach” 🙂

    What month and how long. Aug is coming up 22-24 for 14 nights or 30-31 for 7 nights

  • James says:

    12 Jan12 January 11:10

    Talay – 4th Oct to 13th Oct = £607pp Oslo to BKK

• idrive says:

  12 Jan12 January 10:32

  A stupid question. My membership year with BA ends on 08/11. If I get Silver now or in Spring with BA by flying with one of these Qatar deals, when is my silver status valid to? Shall I always try to fly at the beginning of the membership year to qualify for status?

  • Scottnothing says:

    12 Jan12 January 11:34

    Your Silver status will be valid until 31/12/17 (i.e. until the end of the 13th month after your membership anniversary). When is best to qualify for status depends on personal preference and likely flying pattern over the next 24 months – obviously if you can hit Bronze/Silver/Gold early in a membership year you will enjoy the benefits for longer. Members on the higher Tiers also get the greatest benefit from the (unwritten/informal) “soft-landing” whereby if you do not requalify for the same status level in a subsequent membership year BA will move you back down the Tier ladder one rung at a time rather than sending you back to the bottom/Blue (which they are entitled to do).

    If you go to the “About Tier Points” section on the BA website you will find this FAQ which explains the T&Cs around progressing through the Tiers:

    “What happens when I reach the next Tier?”

    Once you earn enough Tier Points for the next membership tier, you’ll be awarded that status straight away*. It lasts for the rest of your current membership year and for the full following membership year — unless you reach the next tier in the meantime.

    For instance, if you start your membership year as a Blue Member and earn 300 Tier Points, you’ll become a Bronze Member with all of the benefits.

    You will continue to earn Tier Points when you fly and if you reach 600 within the same year, you’ll become a Silver Member.

    Once your Tier Points reset to zero at the end of your membership year — the anniversary of when you joined — you will stay as a Silver Member for the next membership year.

    *This can take up to 48 hours to appear on your account.

    • idrive says:

      12 Jan12 January 13:36

      thank you very much!

• Waribai says:

  12 Jan12 January 10:38

  We’re in the baby making years of life. If I book one of these fares now and my partner is post 36 weeks come our flight date, maybe QR won’t refund it but as I understand it as long as we get signed off by the doctor my partner’s fare should be refunded via the travel insurance. How about my fare though? As long as we had booked together, generally would we both get refunded?

  • JQ says:

    12 Jan12 January 13:18

    One to ask the travel insurers I would think

• Jonathan says:

  12 Jan12 January 10:48

  O/T when buying travel money on a credit card (i.e. Amex) is it just the amex travel money site that doesn’t trigger the cash advance fee or are all beaure de changes exempt?

  • Clive says:

    12 Jan12 January 10:51

    Only the AMEX site

• James says:

  12 Jan12 January 11:41

  These QR rates are crazy, they are cheaper than sub-load ID rates in JCL!

  • Rob says:

    12 Jan12 January 16:32

    Even I have no idea what that means …..!

    • Pierre says:

      12 Jan12 January 16:54

      Staff tickets I guess 🙂

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