Bits: more BA strikes, BA (re)launches Flight Pass, triple Miles & More with Best Western

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• Anna says:

  5 Aug5 August 15:16

  OT again, sorry. My baggage allowance for my CW flight next week is 2 x 23kg – I thought you could have 32kg cases in CW, or would that have to be spread across 2 bags so none weighed more than 23kg? I posted recently that I thought I had read somewhere that 23 kg is the maximum bag weight for Europe due to H & S but other posters said 32kg is the CW allowance.

  • Anna says:

    5 Aug5 August 15:20

    Tho FT says that MMB is often wrong!

    • AVM says:

      5 Aug5 August 16:50

      I would call BA to double -check just to be safe, but in CW it should be 2*32 kg (and 32 is maximum for a suit case weight due to H&S). I had similar problems with MMB before.

      • Anna says:

        6 Aug6 August 10:14

        Thanks. OH is now insisting nothing goes over 23kg in case we arrive at the airport and find that some obscure element of our flight means that we can only have 23kg. We will be the family with 8 small and medium bags!

  • CV3V says:

    6 Aug6 August 20:44

    MMB is often wrong, e.g. it still tells me i can use the First lounges as Air Berlin Gold, which i can’t (and i have done the daft laddie routine at the First lounge desk, just in case!).

    my MMB also states 23kg for up coming bookings, used to say 32kg. But checking the main BA travel class page shows 32kg bags are the allowance.

• Roger says:

  5 Aug5 August 15:34

  Any ideas on how do I change Frequent Flyer details for my upcoming Eurowings flight? I want to change from UA to LH Miles and more

• jason says:

  5 Aug5 August 15:58

  Genghis how did you get with using Tesco vouchers on uber when abroad?

  • Genghis says:

    5 Aug5 August 16:43

    Didn’t work

    • hugo says:

      5 Aug5 August 23:04

      the barclaycard promotion abroad is certainly lucrative.
      pay for 10 uber rides in South America – little more than 2 or 3 pounds each and get 1 free ride which is stored up until you get back to the UK and is worth 15.

• Cate says:

  5 Aug5 August 19:32

  Can we use a 2-4-1 voucher on the Qatar flights that are covering BA’s slots?

  • Johnny_c-l says:

    5 Aug5 August 19:42

    Whilst I’ve never used (or bothered earning) a 2 for 1, I don’t see why not as you’d be booking a BA flight which they then choose to subcontract to Qatar.

    • Cate says:

      5 Aug5 August 19:54

      Thank you. I’ve had a look at the T&C’s but not really sure if it’s that clear cut. I may try a dummy booking and see what happens.

  • Rob says:

    5 Aug5 August 20:43

    Probably not, because Avios redemptions price without RFS and without off-peak pricing, eg exactly as if they were Qatar flights (which they are).

    • Cate says:

      5 Aug5 August 22:13

      Thanks Rob. Probably wouldn’t get availability at such short notice either.

      • Nick says:

        6 Aug6 August 10:14

        Don’t trust everything you see on ba.com! These flights can be used on RFS and with vouchers, but you have to call up. It’s true the website is treating them as QR flights but this is a recognised mistake, they’re (subcontracted) BA flights and the phone agents will price them accordingly if you ask.

• Daniel says:

  6 Aug6 August 10:58

  Looking at FRA-LCY/LHR flight passes they all require that “Flights must be booked in advance at least 30 days before travel.” – does that mean I must book the flight pass 30 days before my first flight or does it actually really mean what it says i.e. I cannot select flights which are closer than 30 days from now?

  • Rob says:

    6 Aug6 August 11:49

    Latter. Try to buy and you can – for more £ – change the 30 days to anything up to 4 hours.

• joelyp says:

  6 Aug6 August 15:42

  Paul,

  Agreed that it is misleading regarding returns. Unclear also if the flights booked allow for free changes on the day of flight.

  I also commute on the NCL-LHR route, and as long as I can be bothered to stay up until 00:01 on the day of the flight, almost always get a suitable alternative flight change free of charge (whether economy or domestic Club). I know I’m not the only one, as seats often disappear by 00:05.

  Therefore I often book later (maybe 2 or 3 weeks ahead, when I know I’m not likely to be flying elsewhere) but choose the cheapest flight on the day I wish to travel (almost always the last flight of the day), and change it same day. That said, it is rarely critical I fly on a particular flight, so I do have the luxury of being flexible on timing if needed. It’s pretty clear, also, that the 09:00 NCL->LHR is the least available of the day, because it is not stupidly early, connects to most transatlantic flights, and is only an A319 (relatively small).

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