Flight deals: Qatar to Tokyo for £795, British Airways Club and First deals ex-Europe

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• Kevin Young says:

  12 Jun12 June 04:18

  Booked the TYO trip from late Feb to early March. The best fares usually require a flight to Narita on the B777 but there some availability on the nice B787 to/from Haneda if you search. I can’t find any BA flights from LGW to PSA yet, maybe they are not published yet? EZY do have flights from LGW to PSA however. The BA LHR flight does not have good timings to meet the QTR flight but there are worse places for a night stop.

  • John says:

    12 Jun12 June 06:38

    But you shouldn’t be wanting to “meet the QR flight” any more. QR MWFSu departs around 4pm which gives enough time to recheck luggage if you arrive from LHR at 12pm, or from LGW at 11am on some days.

    The afternoon arrival from LGW would have been perfect if oneworld really wanted to offer a “seamless travel experience”.

    • Brian says:

      12 Jun12 June 09:19

      Yes, but oneworld probably aren’t aiming for Brits to go to Pisa to take advantage of ex-EU fares!

  • PGW says:

    12 Jun12 June 07:34

    I agree. Pisa is a very compact and pleasant city and it’s very easy and cheap to get to and from the airport which is very close by. I’d strongly recommend and overnight before your flight irrespective of the additional security it gives you.

• Gary says:

  12 Jun12 June 06:42

  There are also cheap one way tickets from Stockholm to Hong Kong (50 mins layover at Dusseldorf) around 6-12th October, the flight will be the new A350. Economy costs £180, premium economy costs £450 and business costs £808.

• harry says:

  12 Jun12 June 07:45

  Qatar has rebooked them Pisa – Heathrow (BA, Club Europe) – Hong Kong (Cathay Pacific, Business) – Auckland (Cathay Pacific, Business).

  Good job it’s Qatar. With BA that’d be 3 airports where you need to pick up your luggage and 3 where you need to check it in again & go through security once more 🙂

  • harry says:

    12 Jun12 June 07:55

    OK in before but that’s one png lol

  • Barry cutters says:

    12 Jun12 June 08:01

    No your bag would be checked straight through from Pisa to Auckland

    • Yuff says:

      12 Jun12 June 08:45

      That’s what Harry said – ” good job it’s with Qatar” as in not with BA 😉

      • Brian says:

        12 Jun12 June 09:21

        Fine with BA, too, as harry corrected himself – it’s all one ticket, not separate ones. The BA issue is only when it’s a number of different tickets.

      • Barry cutters says:

        12 Jun12 June 10:12

        Yes with ba you would only check the bag once . This is one ticket.
        Anyway this isn’t live yet Iv just checked my bag at Jfk. I asked if they could check my bag right through to Manchester (separate ticket , but also ba flight) they found my 2nd booking with just my surname and flight number and my bag is tagged straight to man.

• aceman says:

  12 Jun12 June 07:57

  “some black out dates may apply” -I cant find anything close to those TYO fares any time this year!

  • timezonehopper says:

    12 Jun12 June 18:10

    Lots of availability late October and early November and some availability through into December.

• Vin says:

  12 Jun12 June 08:20

  Could somebody clarify if you get 125% avios of the miles flown if you credit your flight to qatar when it is business R class? Has this been sorted out as I remember there was some problem with R class flights and BA. Thanks

  • Rob says:

    12 Jun12 June 10:27

    All sorted now.

• Bruce says:

  12 Jun12 June 08:53

  The new BA cancellation policy is to charge per fare component, not per flight coupon. A fare component can have more than one flight coupon. If you have a return fare from London to New York using nonstop flights both directions, the penalty would be 2 X £xxx. If you have a return fare from Amsterdam to New York that is routed AMS-LHR-JFK-LHR-AMS, the penalty would still be 2 X €xxx. This assumes that the fare between Amsterdam and New York is a through fare in both directions, and not broken at London. If the Amsterdam to New York ticket did have separate fares Amsterdam-London, London-New York, New York-London, London-Amsterdam, then you would incur a fee for each of the components, for a total of 4 fees.

• Nick says:

  12 Jun12 June 09:23

  Hmm. I am looking for a one-way flight from Tokyo to Europe later this year. Frankly, I’d pay EUR1k for the one-way flight. Does anybody know if it is possible to turn this deal in to a one-way?! The deal is available on the date I want to fly back, but if I book it as a one-way flight it’s £2.3k!

• JamesWag says:

  12 Jun12 June 09:35

  Just remember to book your positioning flights with a different airline given there’s no benefit (bag transfer & delayed connection wise) in booking with BA now. Better to give another airline your business if you can to help drive the point home that this change is awful & that they’ll lose business ’til they rectify it.

  • Barry cutters says:

    12 Jun12 June 10:15

    Total rubbish, if you book a same day flight on another oneworld airline and your first flight is delayed they will always look after you. Especially if it’s ba-ba. Also you have the benefit of still printing your boarding pass at the first airport and traveling through the airport as a connecting passenger if traveling hand baggage only

    • harry says:

      12 Jun12 June 10:36

      “always” would be stretching it, but you are right in gist

      oneworld partners are far more likely to help you get on another flight for free when you miss your connection – though the whole point of yesterday’s article seemed to be that BA are trying to get out of any obligation to do that

      so there are extremely good reasons to make your positioning flight a oneworld partner if your ex-EU is oneworld – you just don’t have the same peace of mind as before

      • Rob says:

        12 Jun12 June 11:46

        Agreed. Airlines just want you to go away. If they can rebook you on their own flights and get you out of the way, they will normally do it.

    • Yan says:

      12 Jun12 June 11:03

      No, not anymore after 1 June 2016, at least when BA is involved
      They will NOT rebook you for free if you misconnect on separate tickets
      http://www.britishairways.com/assets/pdfs/updates/oneworld-through-check-in.pdf

      • littlefish says:

        12 Jun12 June 11:31

        These few comments above make very good points over the “new” choices we are now balancing (eg. for a Lon-Pisa to join up to a Pisa-Doh-XXX as above). Easyjet are much more likely to be a strong option now factoring in on-time performance and price and flex. BA retain some advantages, but without thru-checked baggage they’re throwing away a big edge. I would not rely on them to “do the right thing” on an ex-DOH misconnect on the way back thru Pisa (though the on-the-day ET change fares may come into play on some routes) .

        • Kevin says:

          16 Jun16 June 08:59

          Despite all the new troubles with BA through booking, I find that I still need to fly four BA sectors a year to retain Gold. Rather do this on short haul positioning flights with BA and fly my long haul sectors on redemptions/QR/AA/CX etc, earning tier points with them.

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