Bits: Amex £15 Amazon discount still works, what happened to the British Airways LCY A318?

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• Frenske says:

  8 May8 May 09:19

  The AMEX16SWP does not work for me buying a £25 card for myself. I have selected to use £0.01 in MR points. Have they changed the promotion?

  • Frenske says:

    8 May8 May 09:26

    Ah Amazon Gift cards are not valid:

    Promotion terms and conditions:
    15. Promotional codes (including those placed directly in accounts) may not be redeemed for Amazon Gift Cards.

• Rich. says:

  8 May8 May 09:40

  Went on a Titan flight a few years back when it was covering a BA shortage of 737s at Gatwick.
  Aircraft was a 757 with the lovely Roller noise, great crew and spotlessly clean.

• Ant says:

  8 May8 May 09:42

  OTT: apologies but i need some ideas.
  I am trying to get flights to Auckland with stopvers each way. Were thinking of LHR-HK-AKL-SIN-LHR using a companion voucher for LHR-HK and SIN-LHR and miles for the flights to and from AKL.
  I can get Cathay from HK to AKL but I can’t find any from AKL-SIN. Can this be done using Avios?

  We don’t really mind where we stop on the way back, it doesn’t have to be Singapore, as long as we use our Companion voucher for the return to London. So Sydney wouldn’t work as there is no availability Sydney – London.

  Any ideas? Thanks

  • CV3V says:

    8 May8 May 10:05

    SIN may be tough to find reward availability on as its so popular, try including KUL in searches as there is usually more reward availability – but it too is becoming a popular option. Also consider using the budget airlines (Air Asia) to get you to your starting airport.

  • Gavin says:

    8 May8 May 10:06

    Malaysian to KUL and then onto SIN. Or Indirect flights with Qantas?

  • Kathy says:

    8 May8 May 12:05

    Malaysia fly AKl-KUL and BA fly KUL-LHR, so you should be able to use the return part of your voucher KUL-LHR.

  • Ro says:

    9 May9 May 08:34

    Apparently seoul usually has good availability to London

• mark2 says:

  8 May8 May 11:58

  Re the Amazon offer.
  I just checked my email addresses and found another raely used Amazon account so 2 X £15.
  It does not work with supplementary cards.

• Dave H says:

  8 May8 May 12:37

  O/T flew out of Standsted on Sunday on one of the CityFlyer flights, there were a grand total of 18 passengers. When I booked, due to the flight times and the same seat throughout the aircraft, seemed pointless to go for Club Europe. I had booked seats in row 8 but was moved to row 13, turned out the curtain was back to row 10 although there were only 4 pax in the club section! We had two CSMs looking after us and we were served breakfast which was quite good, with a melon selection, yoghurt, juice and water, coffee or tea and a hot panini

  • John says:

    8 May8 May 13:00

    Sounds like club was to be full on the return flight

• Solar says:

  8 May8 May 15:07

  Last summer on a golf trip to Spain, the Jet2 737 from Manchester was replaced with a Titan A320. It was brand new, and the onboard service was really excellent. It was a very comfortable place to spend a few hours to ALC.

  • TimS says:

    8 May8 May 16:23

    Titan offer a decent quality product, but my god they charge top dollar for it!

    However, if you need a plane at short notice and have the money to pay for it they would be towards the top of my list of go-to operators in the UK! The last time i looked into it i seem to recall they offered a guarantee of under 2 hours from order confirmation to wheels turning. All crew had to be based within 30 mins of their STN office on rostered standby days i think.

    • The_real_a says:

      8 May8 May 16:35

      Tim any idea how much a charter 737 is just out of curiosity?

      • Stuart F says:

        8 May8 May 23:32

        How long is a piece of string. It’s not a simple matter of cost per hour, it matters where you want to start from and go to. If neither are the operator’s home base then you’ll also pay for positioning legs to get the aircraft to you and/or back home.

        Then factor in that airlines will not be interested in dealing with you as a 1-off charter, there’s just too much risk, they will want you to go through a broker who will assume the risk and, of course, take their cut.

        As a guide I was quoted £25k to fly 80 pax from North Scotland (not the home base) to England (not the home base), a touch over £300 per passenger but that was having to pay for 2 empty positioning legs but at a time I chose and it was just a one way. A return would no-doubt be much more economic as you’d get 2 useful legs while still paying for the 2 useless (to you) positioning legs.

      • TimS says:

        9 May9 May 05:27

        As Stuart says, it really depends on lots of factors.

        One-offs would be done via brokers.

        Charter prices are driven by the age of the aircraft, the location of the operator, the route (and whether it is one way or a round trip), the availability of fuel & its price at each airport, landing/airport charges, parking charges (especially if a round trip is required), seating config & service level requested, hot/cold/no refreshments etc all play a part.

        Key factors would be availability (both of the aircraft & of slot pairs) and the amount of notice given for the charter.

        Someone like Small Planet (Polish/Lithuanian operator) would be a lot cheaper than someone like Titan (Uk operator) for example

  • Nick says:

    8 May8 May 16:58

    Solar, could you confirm which Titan plane you flew on and how you knew it was ‘brand new’? They only have two A320s, one built in 2005 (via Air Deccan and Sri Lankan) and the other in 2011 (via Silkair). If you have any info that counters that already in the public domain can you please share it with us?

    • TimS says:

      10 May10 May 04:36

      Solar probably means brand new to Titan.

      As it was replacing a Jet2 aircraft, it was probably actually their white-tail A321 (rather than a 320), which only joined Titan’s fleet in March 2016 (acquired from Niki).

      It would have appeared “brand new” as Titan will have renovated it prior to re-entering service. Sometimes people also assume white-tails are brand new & awaiting first livery, rather than re-painted acquisitions.

      • Solar says:

        11 May11 May 11:18

        Yes you are right, it was probably new to Titan. The interior was certainly new.
        I fly a lot on these types of short-haul and usually search the details of the aircraft out of curiosity.
        I flew on a Ryanair brand-new 737 (delivered the week prior) and my god the seats were uncomfortable. I had a numb backside on the 50 minute flight from NCL to DUB!
        I’d hate to think it was used for somewhere like the Canary Islands!

• rams1981 says:

  8 May8 May 16:27

  OT @genghis

  Cancelling plat Amex. I’ve just transferred the points out. Do I need to wait for them to hit destination accounts (SPG and Nectar) before cancelling?

  • Alan says:

    8 May8 May 16:47

    Based on the experience Liz had in a similar situation I’d definitely wait until they hit before cancelling – for the sake of a couple of quid in extra fees I’d feel happier they had made it across to the destination account!

    • Genghis says:

      8 May8 May 17:07

      Agreed. I’ve always waited for points to hit the account before cancelling.

• rams1981 says:

  8 May8 May 17:15

  Agreed thanks guys

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