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News in brief:

New Tesco Wine bonus code, open to all

Tesco Wine is currently offering 1,000 bonus Clubcard points (2,400 Avios or 2,500 Virgin Flying Club miles) with any order of £60 or more.

This code is open to everyone until 5,000 people have used it.  ALL stock is included, even sale items, so you could get a genuine bargain.  As the code has already been floating around for 48 hours I would order sooner rather than later.

The code you need is XXHTYA.  The Tesco Wine home page is here.

Qatar Airways selling £1,000 business class tickets again

Qatar Airways has been selling some exceptionally cheap business class tickets to Asia over the past year.  As Qatar is a member of oneworld, these tickets also earn British Airways tier points – normally 560 per return trip (140 x 4, given the connection in Doha).  That is almost Silver status.

For bookings before August 2nd, there are again some excellent fares out of Amsterdam.  These are for travel between September 1st and June 10th 2016.

You cannot fly out between 10-31 December or 16-28 March.  You cannot return between 31 December – 15 January or 27 March – 10 April.

Sample business class return fares from Amsterdam include:

  • Bangkok €1,385 (£967)
  • Abu Dhabi €1,320
  • Durban €1,765
  • Goa €1,695
  • Jo’burg €1,765
  • Phuket €1,565
  • Singapore €1,420

and many more.  The best thing to do is to head over to qatarairways.com and have a play around.

In terms of aircraft, the best seats are on the A380, A350 and B787 aircraft.  The B777 fleet has an older seat but is still fully flat.  Avoid the A330 and A340 aircraft if possible (although, at this price, you can’t complain!) as they usually have sloping business class seats.  My review of the 787 seat is here.  My review of the 777 seat is here.

Mr Selfridge

Gate 365 deal at Selfridges

Gate 365, the online shopping portal run by British Airways, is running an interesting deal with Selfridges at the moment.

You receive 16 Avios for every £1 you spend.  This is a good offer and, if you planning any major purchases, it is worth checking to see if the Selfridges site has them.

The Gate 365 home page can be found here.   Thanks to the two readers who sent this over.  There are also a few promotions running with other retailers at the moment.

Comments (44)

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  • Rash says:

    I’m looking at booking AMS to BKK in Feb for 3 adults, 1 child and an infant and the price looks good at 5570 Euros (mixture of the dreamliner and the A380)! I’d love to know what you guys think on whether it’s a good price, ideally we’d love to fly from Manchester but there’s a huge price difference. The only downside is a 19 hour transit time in Doha on the way back 🙁

    • Will says:

      Er…YES. Assuming only freebie is the infant?

    • Polly says:

      Rash…That’s a really good price and a great service. You still need positioning flights with avios or LCC flights…just book a large family hotel room for the layover, and QR may even provide one. You could also be cheeky on arrival and ask if there was any chance of being put on an earlier flight. Plus you have the lounges to enjoy…what’s not to like…

  • Brendan says:

    2 cases of the wine I want comes to £59.88. Are there any cheap items to take it over the £60 mark?

  • M says:

    It took them 10 days to email me that the item I’ve ordered went out of stock!

    • Will says:

      Shocker! Is their e-commerce in melt down? Subsequently seen a load of review sites slamming them.

  • Pug106 says:

    You could try XXLKHH and XXNGNN for 500 points with no minimum spend but must be 6 bottles or more, if it helps. Both expire 9 August. These came from Tesco Wine mailing.

  • Daniel says:

    Thanks Raffles!

    AMS-DOH-BKK booked for 27th of Feb for 2 weeks for me and my wife for 2800 euros 🙂

    Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 both ways – THIS WILL BE GREAT TRIP! 😉

    on the way back I am doing 19 hours stopover in Doha (arriving 11am flying out at 8am next day) to do a quick sightseeing of the Qatar capital, although I am not quite sure about itinerary 😉

  • Colin JE says:

    Thanks Raffles – two cases of wine on offer for just over sixty quid and 1060 points. Great stuff.

  • Boi says:

    Looking at JNB ex AMS. I would like to know people’s views on kenya airways, turkish, AF/KLM and egyptair compared to the likes of qatar/LH/etihad? flying business class. How would people rank them?

    thanks in advance.

    • Polly says:

      According to the other article, TK have lovely big squishy J seating, that converts to a nice flat bed! So might be worth your while getting to BHX as apparently their J prices are currently as low as QR from the EU. Might be worth a look.

  • Mike says:

    6 Ogio Pinot Grigio and 6 cava just over £60 – perfect

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