Korean Air to launch Heathrow’s first Boeing 747-8i route

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• Lumma says:

  10 Mar10 March 04:06

  What routes do Air China use the 747-8? Seems strange that they don’t use their biggest plane on the London route (when I flew them, Beijing to Heathrow was only an A330)

  • Planeflyer says:

    10 Mar10 March 11:30

    CA seem to send their B748i to New York and San Francisco, plus domesitc positioning flights.
    Due to the UK not being in Schengen, and the resulting extra red tape for Chinese to enter the UK compared to the rest of the EU, London has never been as well served to China compared to other similar or smaller European destinations. China to the UK will nearly always be a smaller market than to Germany/France/Italy. These are much bigger destinations for Chinese tourists.
    That being said, there has been more capacity added to China in the past few years, just not necessarily on the London-Beijing route.

• Frenske says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:04

  Oh good timing running low in malts.

  • the real harry1 says:

    10 Mar10 March 07:00

    Thank you, your order has been placed. 🙂

    Hard to beat that Highland Park price @ £20

    • Frenske says:

      10 Mar10 March 08:40

      Yep. Ordered the Highland Park and Laphroaig 10 for £43, though doing no weekday alcohol for lent.

    • the real harry1 says:

      10 Mar10 March 08:57

      tomorrow is Saturday – day after that is Sunday – then it’s only 5 more days until next Saturday 🙂

    • Genghis says:

      10 Mar10 March 10:16

      My former boss used to say on Mondays that it’s only 4 days till Friday, only one more day than the time passed since the last Friday.

• Gavin says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:09

  The other daily Korean Air flight is actually a cargo flight and doesn’t operate every day

• Genghis says:

  10 Mar10 March 07:07

  OT. Not too sure if mentioned already but there’s a very timely 40k IHGs sign up bonus on the IHG Creation card

  • Gavin says:

    10 Mar10 March 07:18

    Ts and Cs say:

    “3.Only those customers who have been invited to this offer, and have been accepted during the period from 24th February 2017 to 9th June 2017, will receive the advertised points for their first £200 spend”

    • Genghis says:

      10 Mar10 March 07:20

      I guess I’ve been invited then but I already have the card

      • Brian says:

        10 Mar10 March 09:18

        I tried the eligibility check, but got an error message – something about the field length can’t be more than 16 characters. Not sure if this is a bug or because I didn’t get the email!

      • JP says:

        10 Mar10 March 09:21

        Did you have the Barclaycard version? I didn’t and haven’t got an invitation. My guess is the promotion is aimed at the people that are having barclaycard version closed. As the wording is around continuing to keep gold/plat status and get earning etc.

      • Wally1976 says:

        10 Mar10 March 09:26

        Would love to find out if this works for the uninvited – anyone willing to try it out and report back?

      • Genghis says:

        10 Mar10 March 10:18

        I never had the Barclaycard version. I opened the Creation version when it came out last year and continue to have it.

        I got the message from the IHG app.

  • Lawro says:

    10 Mar10 March 09:29

    Genghis did you receive an email invite? Assume not as you already have the card.

    • Funtime says:

      10 Mar10 March 09:38

      My invite is from the messages within the IHG app.

      Tempted by this, although already hold both free versions of the card. Anyone know if creation allow you to hold free and paid versions at the same time?

      • Roger says:

        10 Mar10 March 17:20

        I have same. Invite in the app.
        Already have black – paid card.
        One thing to notice from the link, free card does not earn free night where as paid night does (along with extra 20K IHG points)

  • Geoggy says:

    10 Mar10 March 10:31

    Just tried to apply for it for my wife and got the same error about the campaign code needing 16 digits

  • Scott says:

    10 Mar10 March 14:36

    Received the email, and never held either Barclays or Creation version of the card. My offer is 10k points for free card, or 20k points for premium card. Not 40k, as per OP 🙁

    • Scott says:

      10 Mar10 March 14:39

      Just noticed the URL Genghis posted mentions ‘winback’. My URL is different, so presumably different offers depending on whether you’ve had the card before.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    10 Mar10 March 16:32

    Just had an in app message on the IHG app too but already a creation credit car customer, shame.

    • Alan says:

      10 Mar10 March 16:52

      Ditto – mind you looking at the T&Cs I can’t see anything stopping us taking out the white card too for an extra 20k points? Anyone had luck before getting both cards from Creation? I know MBNA are fine with it for The Virgin cards.

      • Genghis says:

        10 Mar10 March 17:03

        I’d be keen on getting the White card too.

        Alan – wanna take one for the team and apply?

        • Alan says:

          10 Mar10 March 20:59

          Have applied for white card! Pre application check said eligible, waiting to hear if approved (occasionally flat numbers cause issues for the system, we will see!).

      • Roger says:

        10 Mar10 March 17:21

        I would have done that but applied for MBNA VAA free card just this morning (and approved)!

      • Axel heyst says:

        10 Mar10 March 18:29

        Ive got both white and black cards.

        I did reduce the credit limit on the white before applying for the black as an hfp reader instinct thing.

        So far creation have done a better job than barclays but I dont stay in ihgs much, im just planning to use the ihg status for a status match should an offer come up in 2017

• Arun T says:

  10 Mar10 March 09:23

  OT – Best Star Alliance scheme to credit some flying (in Y) that I’ll be doing this year? Doesn’t need a credit card (as I will be putting that spend towards other schemes), and no hard expiry (so no Miles&More). Leaning towards Aegean Miles. – so any experiences of this would be useful. Read Rob’s article from Feb – but still overwhelmed by the options!

  • John says:

    10 Mar10 March 09:50

    I guess you don’t mean literally Y. A3 often gives 0 miles for many cheap economy tickets particularly on the M&M airlines. Main exceptions are SAS and SQ. Check wheretocredit.com.

    A3 miles don’t expire as long as you have some activity every 2-3 years, but you can only do non-A3 redemptions on the phone with a 20 euro booking fee (however their customer service is pretty good). It’s pretty hard to earn status from scratch nowadays, though still doable with an F longhaul return or ~48 hours in J.

    It depends what airlines you will be flying the most. You can also ask on FT.

    • Arun T says:

      10 Mar10 March 11:51

      Thanks. Yep made a rookie mistake. Most of the flights are K booking classes – and only earns on Miles&More or SAS. Will prob go for the latter. Just need an account to dump miles in – but in all likelihood they will go to waste.

• Ben E says:

  10 Mar10 March 09:30

  I stocked back up on Ron Zacapa. 🙂

• JK says:

  10 Mar10 March 09:34

  Amazon code not being accepted on £50 worth of Campo Viejo via Amazon Pantry. Will have to go for the Bushmills outside of pantry instead

• Andrew* says:

  10 Mar10 March 09:36

  BTW: appears to stack with Amex MR points offer if you’ve not used that already…

  Talisker 57 Degrees North Single Malt
  Order Summary
  Items: £64.28
  Postage & Packing: £4.75
  Total: £69.03
  Promotion Applied: -£29.75
  Rewards Points: -£0.01

  Order Total: £39.27

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    10 Mar10 March 09:42

    Nice choice !!

    • Andrew* says:

      10 Mar10 March 09:43

      Not bought it (yet). Was just a proof of concept.
      I do like the 57 North, but really want a deal on the 18 yo but Amazon never seem to stock it direct…

      • the real harry1 says:

        10 Mar10 March 09:50

        you forgot to opt for free P&P – saving £4.75

        schoolboy error 🙂

        • Andrew* says:

          10 Mar10 March 10:02

          No I didn’t forget – it’s taken off in the promotion applied! (£10 + £15 + £4.75)

        • the real harry1 says:

          10 Mar10 March 10:18

          my apollo-gee-gees 🙂

      • Anna says:

        10 Mar10 March 10:09

        Wanted a nice decanter of Ruby Port for my parents’ 40th anniversary but it doesn’t qualify 🙁

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