Bits: 2400 Avios with Tesco Wine, 16 Avios per £1 at Selfridges

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• James says:

  30 Jul30 July 05:55

  Turkish have some tremendous deals ex MAN at the moment (haven’t looked elsewhere). Some example prices: Beirut (what I was looking for) £680, Dubai £945, Bangkok £1130, Singapore £1300. For a UK departure those are amazing prices. TK’s business class isn’t the best though.

  • James says:

    30 Jul30 July 06:54

    Also Beijing for an astounding £1063 by the way.

    I had a brief look, seem to be similar prices from BHX etc.

    • Polly says:

      30 Jul30 July 08:43

      James, is that just to Beijing that BHX is just as good, or are other routes as cheap from BHX too? That would be worth dashing up the motorway for, to save flying ex EU.

      • James says:

        30 Jul30 July 09:45

        All the routes are broadly similar 🙂

        I have to say that despite the inferior product (certainly compared to QR) we are considering jumping on it too.. It makes a difference being able to fly from your local airport.

        On the plus side the TK lounge in Istanbul is superb 🙂

  • James67 says:

    30 Jul30 July 12:58

    Bangkok fare is beating tge China Airways fares via AMS which are typically best available J fares from UK. TK will have better service and product too, and much more useful options for miles earned.

• Imbruce says:

  30 Jul30 July 06:37

  It’s a shame about the December & January blackout period as it is the only time I can fly to Sydney.

• Liz says:

  30 Jul30 July 08:16

  Has anyone else had their clubcard balances put back to zero and not got the vouchers listed. I logged in on Monday morning and saw my vouchers for the Aug statement so I printed them. Also printed all my other family members ones from their accounts. I logged back in to check something else later that day and the balance of vouchers was back to the May total and the vouchers had disappeared from my list. Same thing with all the other family members too. And I wasn’t anywhere near the £300 limit. I’ve left if for a few days but it’s still the same. Anyone else got that before I ring Clubcard.

  • Think Square says:

    30 Jul30 July 08:37

    Yes, mine were zero about a week ago, then then came back, now they have gone again. At least there’s a message saying they are being converted to vouchers now. Give it time.

    • Liz says:

      30 Jul30 July 08:47

      OK I won’t panic just yet!

      • Diane says:

        30 Jul30 July 12:33

        Just checked – my miles have posted today

  • Toby says:

    30 Jul30 July 09:23

    Me too, was a bit confused as to what’s going on. Not got any vouchers to print either…

• Joe says:

  30 Jul30 July 08:18

  By September all of Qatar’s A340’s will have been reconfigured as 2-class with fully flat business seats.

  The A330-300’s are being converted as well (first one is already done), it’s the A330-200’s where you have to be careful as there are some that are remaining with the old slopey seats until they’re retired

• Nick says:

  30 Jul30 July 08:25

  I’ve been looking at pressing the button on a QR flight ex BRU to DXB. We actually want to go to Abu Dhabi via Doha again, but that was more expensive, worse still was BRU – DOH direct. BRU – DXB came in at £862 each/adult. 2 adults and 1 infant under 2 comes in at £1862. Better still its the 787 route, ive done the A350 in J and its superb back in April FRA – DOH. The short haul DOH – DXB is showing on QR and other sites as an A350 in F wierdly???? outbound (it wont be it will be the J class seat we had from FRA – DOH but still what a plane that is, return on an A320 in F, again did this in april DOH – AUH. Its not F its a J seat, though quite nice, a big seat but how they served, nuts, champagne, take your order, deliver a 3 course meal with laudree deserts then take time to thank us flying with them etc in 1 hour was amazing!!!!

  For anyone’s information ive been shopping around all week from all european starting points specifically on QR as im looking for a weeks break in October in J so this article is good timing. I tried all types, either 787, A350, A330, even A320 routes. The best price barring the short haul A320 routes of Zagreb etc was BRU in I class tickets, followed by CPH. Believe me ive searched them all the past few weeks driving myself mad whether its the best deal out there!!

  • Polly says:

    30 Jul30 July 08:40

    I agree with you. We finally decided on ex CPH due to the short stopover, it was a £100 cheaper ext AMS but much much longer layovers. You have to watch out for the type of aircraft, and the layover times, plus cost of course. Think I spent a few days like you looking at options. But worth it for the comfort. Plus you have a baby, comfort first! We have Dreamliner all 4 legs to HKT though, amazing, with just 1.5 hr stopovers all the way. As always, we feel we are in the equivalent of BA F when we do QR J. It’s so much more spacious and the service is very good. But saying that we still do our BA F 241 every year too. Plus a QR two leg long haul gets you almost to BA Silver, which is amazing.

    So worth doing a QR J two leg along haul, every second year to get sliver with a couple of short haul BA flights to get to your 600 TPs, and bobs your uncle for the next two years.

    • Nick says:

      30 Jul30 July 13:23

      Couldnt agree more the J product on the A350 hands down beats anything else ive tried…granted not tried SQ, EK or CX F!!!!

      We only have a weeks window end of October, plus infant is dreaded 2 in November which somewhat increases the price!!!! Crazy considering he will still be on our laps at age 2 but hey ho.

      £1800 for us all isnt even the price of one adult ex LHR…..granted need positioning flights and costs….not sure if anyone else has found better but im happy with ex BRU. Layover times arent great but then again Baby C needs to run wild in the kids area after sat on a plane.

      I just love the service that they offer….what drink would you like after take off…what drink would you like with your main meal….will you stick with that drink or try another during the meal…..notes taken, seat number checked order taken and table laid nicely and with a smile.

      Just a lovely all around experience in J….be interested to know what its like in Y…still up for that!

  • John says:

    30 Jul30 July 16:37

    QR sells their shorthaul products as First and Economy, whereas long haul it would be Business and Economy. It is not a mistake and you would receive F avios/TP’s for those segments.

    Just as the U.S. carriers market the two class aircraft as First/Economy domestically.

• Nick says:

  30 Jul30 July 08:33

  Im not finding any cheap ex AMS flights to AUH, DXB or DOH as above, looking at dates in October on QR in J.

• Neil says:

  30 Jul30 July 09:04

  Nice. Also off topic but still ‘news’ – check your Amex offers – there is a new £20 cash back when you spend £100 on Eurostar.

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    30 Jul30 July 10:29

    Not for me 🙁

• Fishy says:

  30 Jul30 July 09:19

  Tesco code only for certain customers. My wife has it on her grocery account. I tried on mine and it was rejected. Phoned Tesco but wouldn’t accept the code

  • Janeyferr says:

    30 Jul30 July 10:42

    It’s a wine code?

  • Liz says:

    30 Jul30 July 13:11

    Need to use it at Tesco Wine By the Case site and not the grocery site.

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