Two great deals: Tokyo on Qatar Airways for £817 Business, Mandarin Oriental Geneva £115

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• Frankie says:

  2 Jun2 June 05:21

  Are Qatar state owned and make no profit (probably losses) and just use the airline to build the Qatar brand globally?

  • harry says:

    2 Jun2 June 17:33

    They started up that way but might actually now be making money.

    Shows the value of investing with a 10 year view, which UK FTSE 100 does not do any more.

• DaveP says:

  2 Jun2 June 05:34

  Geneva offer is for first night only according to my email. I guess one way of getting a 2-night weekend is for each person per couple to make separate booking on consecutive nights.

• ee says:

  2 Jun2 June 05:57

  Some of the ex IT fares, maybe all, have been there since the Scandinavian sale at the weekend – there was a comment in one of the posts here. As an example, we bought FCO-KUL for EUR1225, and I see that fare remains purchasable even though due to end on 31st May originally.

  The equipment on both legs tends to be A332 A346 or B77W so not the best in the fleet but acceptable as a couple and seat availability was wide open (we fly in Jan)

  • CV3V says:

    2 Jun2 June 08:41

    Good spot, the FCO fares are also discounted over the christmas period which was the blackout date for the main qatar promo fares. Flights to KUL priced at 1200 euros, although on A330-200.

• Kathryn says:

  2 Jun2 June 07:35

  I’ve got the Pisa to Auckland and back to Berlin booked for next Easter, with a couple of RFS’s for positioning. Amazing value to retain silver. Glad pisa to doha still has the flat bed!

  • David2910 says:

    2 Jun2 June 08:44

    I think I know the answer akready, but is there any way to link the BA RFS tickets to your Qatar bookings so it can be viewed as a connection? (I.e. so the luggage is transferred automatically and there’s some obligation on the airlines if you miss due to delay). Presumably not… But that would mean you could time the connections much tighter.

    • N says:

      2 Jun2 June 08:54

      No

    • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

      2 Jun2 June 10:42

      Checking bags all the way through is a ‘maybe’. See this thread on FT:

      http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1767540-ba-no-longer-interlining-baggage-qr.html

• Morgan says:

  2 Jun2 June 09:38

  Another winner of a free Geneva night here – booked in at the Mandarin Oriental.

• Kathy says:

  2 Jun2 June 09:50

  I’m starting to think I should give up on getting enough Avios for Club to SYD and just book Qatar ex-EU to SYD or AKL if they come up in a sale again.

  • Rachel says:

    2 Jun2 June 12:46

    I just booked Copenhagen – Sydney a few days ago with Qatar business for £1600 leaving mid September and coming back early October. Looks so much better than Club World! I nabbed fully flexible tickets to Copenhagen with Ryanair that include luggage for £45 return which was a LOT less than flights with BA. I could have used miles for the flights to Copenhagen but the taxes alone cost more than Ryanir tickets and the times were worse. Given its just a very short flight and the terrible short haul product of BA I think Ryanair is much better value, esp with the flexibility and more flights on offer to make connections. I just allowed plenty of time for the first flight so even if it runs several hours late we will be fine.

    • David2910 says:

      2 Jun2 June 14:28

      Likewise. Booked c. 1250 GBP CPH to SYD on the Qatar sale in January (incidentally, through gotogate, which saved 100 or so and were very good, incl adding an infant to ticket, despite their reviews). Plan is to book out the previous evening standard Norwegian, then the return as Flex same day, or the new BA flexible type ticket). Total return positioning is about 100 pp plus some airport hotel. Haven’t looked at Ryanair but can’t deal with stansted. Thought the through-connection on the BA would have been stretching my luck

• Adam says:

  2 Jun2 June 10:31

  These rates look great but I’m having difficulty finding them. Can someone provide some test dates to achieve CHF 165 per night at the Mandarin Oriental? Thanks

  • Rob says:

    2 Jun2 June 11:24

    Was there for most of August last night, 27th July was there I remember. Only look for 1 night. It shows as CHF 330 then you use the code to get it to CHF 165.

• Nathan says:

  2 Jun2 June 10:58

  I thought the Qatar sale was over.. I need to wait until the next sale really which hopefully is only 4/5 months away

  • Ro says:

    2 Jun2 June 12:37

    Likely to be much sooner than that

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