Bits: new BA routes, Osaka in Business for £1050, 1000 Avios with Kaligo.com

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• Idrive says:

  21 Oct21 October 06:23

  Ohhhh BA i love you !!!!!!! thank you Rob you made my day!!! a new era for me!!! I know need to get Silver asap! If only i knew this 3/4 days ago i would have jumped on any CW deal just to get it straight away ( i should have done it in anycase but did not know when/where etc)

• Volker says:

  21 Oct21 October 06:30

  A flight to Hannover was the last BA departure from terminal 1, they currently leave from T5 and soon it will be terminal 3. Does anybody know BA’s criteria for allocating flights to Heathrow’s various terminals? Flights to probably significantly more important destinations like e.g. CPT, LAS and MIA leave from 3 as well.

• Rohan says:

  21 Oct21 October 08:00

  On another note , I contacted propeller travel yday for help with an iteinary starting this Sunday at Mallorca . Although my email was a bit broad apart from the original automated response I have had no acknowledgment . Should i wait some more or book something ?
  any ideas on hotels in Mallorca would be deeply appreciated

  • Daniel @ Propeller says:

    21 Oct21 October 08:52

    Dear Rohan,

    We are slower than usual over the past week with the general queries (eg personal queries who do not have a dedicated corporate agent) and are working hard to resolve this (two people on extended sick leave). Can you let me know the request number you received in the automated response? I could be reached personally on danielk at propellertravel dot com

    • Rohan says:

      21 Oct21 October 10:21

      Hi, emailed you Daniel!

• alex says:

  21 Oct21 October 08:27

  I found proppeler whilst very polite and pleasant to deal with, incredibly slow and when I finally get costings it’s no better than booking direct with said hotel, also emails with quotes have been ambiguous at best leaving me to decipher rates that make no sense.
  I have them 3 chances over different holidays.
  Shame really!

  • Brian says:

    21 Oct21 October 09:55

    You say it’s ‘no better than booking direct with said hotel’ – are you factoring in the benefits you get by booking via propeller, or are you merely comparing prices?

    • Rob says:

      21 Oct21 October 10:14

      That’s what I thought. The point of Propeller is NOT to beat other prices but to give valuable additional benefits such as breakfast and in-hotel spending credit.

      If you expect them to undercut other prices you will be disappointed.

      • Tom says:

        21 Oct21 October 22:08

        I tried, but sadly didn’t get anything better than was offered direct at the Shangri-la Kowloon..

        • Rob says:

          21 Oct21 October 22:13

          Probably correct – Shangri- La does not have a chain wide deal with luxury travel agents, unlike FS, MO, RC etc.

• alex says:

  21 Oct21 October 08:29

  Apologies for the typos damm smart phone!

• wetboy1uk says:

  21 Oct21 October 09:15

  Slightly off topic but an observation on hotel tonight app. I had an email yesterday saying I had earned £15 from a friend referal and the voucher had been credited to my account. Upon looking, this had not been added to my two existing credits of £30 but included as a seperate voucher within the promo codes section of teh app. I emailed hotel tonight to find out what had happened and was told that under the new terms and conditions this is what happens. Any referral credit you get is added as a promo code from now on. BUT, these codes are not stackable and can only be used on bookings of over £75 compared to the previous promo codes being stackable and as far as I was aware usable on any booking. It appreas that hotel tonight have brought in these new terms and conditions on referral credits without making any of their members aware of them (unless of course I am mistaken). This would appear to be a significant reduction in the use of the referral codes and makes the hotel tonight app even less useful than it was before – eg the Holiday Inn in cardiff for next Monday nght is £144 on the app (non refundable) whilst the lowest rate on holidayinn being £119 – hardly worth using the app. Raffles – perhaps you have some views on this – firstly I would like to know if they should have made some attempt at notifying the members of the new terms and conditions before implementing them!

  • Rob says:

    21 Oct21 October 10:16

    This is news to me! Currently sat by a Dubai pool but will check later – app is not on my phone.

    • Brian says:

      21 Oct21 October 10:45

      It’s a hard life running a points blog…

      • Rob says:

        21 Oct21 October 11:42

        I do well over the normal 40 hours per week keeping this ticking over!

        • Grimz says:

          21 Oct21 October 15:14

          Good on you Rob, I am also sitting beside a pool in Hilton Head Island and your posts are great news to us to plan our next trip!

        • Brian says:

          21 Oct21 October 22:02

          My comment was tongue-in-cheek! :))

    • wetboy1uk says:

      21 Oct21 October 11:11

      Ok thanks. Would like to know what you manage to find out as it makes tha app almost worthless to me.

    • wetboy1uk says:

      22 Oct22 October 13:34

      WAs your Dubai hotel booked with hotel tonight as just had an email saying they have arrived in Dubai lol. Would like some info on these changes if possible though – can’t seem to find anything myself

      • Rob says:

        22 Oct22 October 17:19

        No, I have a very complex Jumeirah booking which involved moving UK Amex points to an International Dollar Card Amex account and then onto Jumeirah Sirius, a transfer which is no longer possibly since May 2015 anyway!

        Hopefully they are in Abu Dhabi as I need a room there next month.

        • wetboy1uk says:

          22 Oct22 October 22:34

          Ok. Any news yet on these changes in terms and conditions? As far as i am concerned thia is more of a devaluation to me than any flying club one i have seen. Would just like some views as to what exactly they are doing .

        • PeteT says:

          23 Oct23 October 12:26

          Hotels in Dubai don’t show The Flintstones, but the ones in Abu Dhabi doo!

  • xcalx says:

    21 Oct21 October 14:59

    If correct a BIG blow to bloggers who refer in the hundreds unless they have a deal with the booking agents.

    Uber now do a similar trick all referrals show separately at £10 and no stacking.

    Never rated Hotels tonight, had a £35 credit that ran out because of the small time frames linked with the over priced hotels. Could never find a hotel from the limited options where the £35 credit worked in my favour.

    • Rob says:

      21 Oct21 October 15:35

      Uber is not an issue really as £5 to £15 is our typical bill!

      HT is different as few hotels at £15! Not really an issue for HFP as I have shifted to doing unique HFP promos with HT as you will have seen recently.

      • wetboy1uk says:

        21 Oct21 October 19:22

        and the minimum price is £75 so the cheapest you get a hotel for would be £60

      • wetboy1uk says:

        21 Oct21 October 22:34

        Also forgot to mention that the new credits are only valid for 120 days and not a year as were the old ones

    • Lady London says:

      22 Oct22 October 13:39

      I checked Hotels Tonight for a hotel needed within 36 hours earlier this week. They came up with the best price of all the apps (£60). Nearest was a membership-only special rate code that few would have qualified for, on the IHG website at £68. Rack rate £119. Maybe Hoteltonight is best for short notice.

      I’ll definitely give Hoteltonight a few more tries in the future. I know they are excellent for mid-range Hilton brands in Florida. I was even advised by Hilton staff there to use them!

      • wetboy1uk says:

        22 Oct22 October 22:32

        Hotel tonight only do short notice (within a week). Perhaps they are good for florida hotels but living in the uk i would not risk leaving a lonng haul holiday booking until the week before and the best prices early are non refundable. You could have just been lucky.

• idrive says:

  21 Oct21 October 09:49

  that is strange, the headline pricing on the BA site for one of these new routes does NOT include taxes, there is a writing below though about it…but isn’t it against the rules? i thought the pricing should be final all inc under UK regulations, am i mistaken?

• Rob says:

  21 Oct21 October 10:12

  You’re right, historically this was specifically stated to be the case. It is possible they quietly dropped this rule and I assumed, in the last iteration of this deal, it still worked that way.

  • Liz says:

    21 Oct21 October 12:05

    It would appear that they have changed the rules. Previously you were allowed the £50 + 5% bonus + £5 + 5% refer a friend bonus giving you a total of £57.75 to transfer to Tesco. On my account they have paid out £48 + 5% bonus and £5 refer a friend + 5% bonus = £55.65. Now they won’t let me pay out any more to Tesco as they say I have exceeded the £50 limit. Another reduction in earning Tesco Clubcard points!

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