£996 London to Bangkok in 787 Business on Royal Jordanian – earns 560 BA tier points

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• JoshBosh says:

  9 Oct9 October 09:26

  I don’t know if RJ have changed since i last flew on their A330’s, but the meal services was a silver service affair. Trolley with everything on, they dish it up at your seat. Let you mix and match etc.

  Just remember that onboard, RJ is one of the safest airlines around. EVERY flight has armed sky marshals, you can tell who these are, as they board first, and usually sit in row 1. Don’t run to the fore toilet….

  • Fadi says:

    9 Oct9 October 21:38

    Yes still silver service.

• Matthew says:

  9 Oct9 October 09:46

  OT – Have you heard that Etihad have brought forward the start date of the NYC-AUH A380 route by a week or so which means yet another A380 taken off the LHR-AUH route.

  First it was my outbound to AUH switched from A380 to A340 and now my return leg has switched from A380 to B777. Very disappointing.

  For those who have booked Etihad First Apartment on the A380, I would advise checking your booking to see if it has been switched.

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 11:00

    Mine has moved, saw this yesterday. Moving trip forward 24 hours and onto 2pm flight from 9am where 1 reward seat remains.

    • Matthew says:

      9 Oct9 October 11:05

      Well done for changing it quick Rob. I have managed to do the same just now…5hrs earlier flight so can live with that.

      Thank goodness for the My Flights App which notified me of the change.

• jen says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:02

  Couldn’t find any availability for this for a family of four- sadly I don’t think I could leave anyone behind! cheapest is 1890pp. Annoyingly for three there is availability at 997 most days but they seem to have limited it to three per flight.

  Suppose I could book for three and do a separate booking for one at 1890 but that does take the cost per head up to 1220. Would I be able to do a separate booking for one of the children-1890 becomes 1510. But can’t book unaccompanied minor online although they wouldn’t really be unaccompanied, just on a separate ticket. Anyone done this?

  • JQ says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:29

    How old are your kids? On the return, you will be spending about 23 hours travelling, which may not be wise even in business.

    • Erico1875 says:

      9 Oct9 October 11:21

      Years ago, we took the Siesta bus to Spain with the kids. 36 hours. Onboard food was Pot Noodles and bacon rolls. they survived. so 23 hrs in business class is a breeze

  • Polly says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:56

    Jen, at that sale fare, one of us parents would take the next day flight, and one of us travel with the kids. Not worth all that extra money unless you were actually going to spend that much anyway. Starts to add up. It would appear as an unaccompanied minor either way, if it’s a single booking. Just have the OH travel the next day!

    My question is, if you have a 23 hr layover as mentioned, are you put up in a hotel like QR do for layovers over 8hrs? Anyone know the answer.?

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:59

    I actually neec to try to get Emirates to do this today – wife and daughter on one ticket but work is now paying for my wife so need to cancel her redemption seat leaving daughter ‘alone’ albeit with both parents still there on different tickets.

    • Polly says:

      9 Oct9 October 11:12

      Wow, wish you luck on that one. Hopefully they will be able to add her to your booking, how are their call centre at dealing with this type of problem?
      We had a good experience with QR two days ago. Had to change one of their special J sale fares, one we are on now, to,return home early for a funeral Tuesday. Fab cs, but they did charge us fee £189 pp to change, reasonable, but we are the only ones in the J cabin coming back To CPH from HKT, plus a hotel layover. Leaving Sunday pm, So def a long haul trip back. But will give us a chance to test out the overnight hotel option, which we didn’t chose when booking. Strange how these things turn out then…they used to be awful, but are so much better now.

    • harry says:

      9 Oct9 October 11:20

      They should be able to link the tickets, that’s what BA does in a similar situation

      • Rob says:

        9 Oct9 October 11:51

        You would think so, but this is EK!

        That said, they are so sloppy that last year they let me ring up and cancel a booking even though I was neither the passenger (who was female) or the owner of the account it was booked from (another female)!

        • CV3V says:

          9 Oct9 October 13:24

          EK have amened a cheap no amendments ticket for free before, change of date and departure!

  • James67 says:

    9 Oct9 October 13:44

    Maybe worth calling them, tell them you would book now if you can get four seats at the price and see what they do. At the least I think they would iffer you the three seats on offer abd sime reduction on the fourth to get your business.

• Shaun L says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:08

  Hi Raffles. Do you know what fare class these book into and do you definitely get tier points. Seen a few posts on flyer talk around their cheapest business flights not giving tier points.

  • JQ says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:24

    It isn’t that hard to find out for yourself. They book into I class which is fine for TP earning.

  • Ross says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:24

    I ‘India’ Class
    IRJSPEM is the Fare Code

• Mark C says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:36

  Some of the stopovers are 6 hours+ so what is the lounge like at Amman (and LHR for that matter)?

  • Polly says:

    9 Oct9 October 10:51

    My OH says both lounges nice food, spacious, was only there in August. So you should enjoy the trip.

    • Fadi says:

      9 Oct9 October 12:51

      I don’t like either lounge particularly.

• Redkitty says:

  9 Oct9 October 11:12

  Hi HFP, do you know if I was to book a separate MH flight from BKK to KUL for the same day, how the check in luggage would work? Would I have to collect my luggage at BKK and re-check in again? The price for biz on 787 is very attractive and would shave off quite a bit for me but I do check in luggage and wanted to check of RJ has some interline agreement to check to final destination even with two PNRs. Thanks.

  • Polly says:

    9 Oct9 October 11:18

    Raffles has mentioned this in replies a few times. Some airlines may do it, ex USA, but dealing with any ME flight is tricky enough. It’s always worth asking,..,but general opinion on this site is usually a NO. So give it a go, but make sure you have enough time to collect bags and re check in. Can be especially chaotic in BKK too.

    • Redkitty says:

      9 Oct9 October 12:07

      Thanks, Would 4 hours be enough to collect bags and re check in for BKK airport? Or will I need more time?

      • CV3V says:

        9 Oct9 October 13:28

        4 hours would be plenty of time, annoyingly IIRC RJ and MAS fly out from the same gate area. You would have a lot of walking to do.

        There is also an Ethiopian flight that does BKK to KUL, only reason i know this was when in a rush i read the gates wrong and went for this instead of the MAS flight.

  • James67 says:

    9 Oct9 October 13:58

    I might be missing something Redkitty but why not book the same RJ flight from BKK to KUL instead of MAS? Be warned, MAS have reportedly been cancelling flights to BKK at will. Unless you are in a hurry to get to KL, I cannot think of much better places to spend a night than Bangkok

  • YL says:

    9 Oct9 October 14:54

    RJ & MAS are both on Oneworld Alliance, you should be able to get both of your boarding passes at LHR and have your checked bag check through to the final destination without any issue.
    However, some agent may not be aware of this, you may have to remind them they are both on the same alliance and you also need to provide them your MAS booking number.

  • fbrj says:

    9 Oct9 October 19:23

    I asked exactly the same question just today re change of flights at BKK. Routing was LHR-HEL-BKK on Finnair (AY) then BKK- HKG a few hours later on CX – (don’t ask – there is a logical reason for this!). These flights on 2 separate bookings/PNRs.

    I asked the AY London office if I could check hold luggage from LHR to HKG. The answer was providing oneworld flights (which they are) and less than 24 hrs in BKK (which it will be) then should be OK! Like you I want to avoid exiting In BKK (visa required?) just to recheck in straight away on CX with my luggage!

    • Bob says:

      9 Oct9 October 21:12

      Within OneWorld it should be no problem. I even did it with OneWorld and Star Alliance bookings in the opposite direction. Three years ago I checked my bags all the way from Phuket to Amsterdam. From HKT-HKG on TG in J-class, then 3 hours later continuing from HKG to AMS via LHR on BA in Y-class, no problem to check the bags all the way from HKT to AMS. We only had to collect boarding passes for the OneWorld portion at the transfer desk in HKG but I’m sure this will be the same when connecting in BKK.
      And guess what, our bags came out first off our BA-flight in AMS, still carrying the Star Alliance priority tags despite the biggest part of the trip on BA in Y where I had no status at that time.

• Nathan says:

  9 Oct9 October 12:18

  I’ll be booking this for Feb! Thanks raffles.
  Shame the jump from silver to gold is so steep! Would be nice to reach gold once in my life at least

• Nathan says:

  9 Oct9 October 19:55

  I can’t get this to price in Feb. In fact it just comes up with an error and doesn’t give any results. Anyone else?

  • harry says:

    9 Oct9 October 20:43

    Try different browser, OK for me in opera

  • CV3V says:

    9 Oct9 October 21:26

    make sure the direct flights box isn’t ticked.

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