Bits: 30% off and double miles with East Coast trains, new Singapore flights, Best Western sale

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• flibbly says:

  10 Mar10 March 06:17

  Besides double miles, Virgin East Coast is also offering 100 miles for linking your East Coast account to your Virgin Atlantic account. I did so after receiving an email yesterday.

  • Johnnycl says:

    10 Mar10 March 06:36

    I got this email too but mine offered 200 miles!

  • Rob says:

    10 Mar10 March 06:44

    Targetted, so I did not mention it

• James says:

  10 Mar10 March 07:22

  I’ve transferred some SPG points to Krisflyer in order to book a flight home (was aiming for the A350), but it’s taking forever for the miles to post. I’ve booked alternative flights on BA as a backup Incase I can’t get the SQ flights by the time they eventually post :/

  • Matthew says:

    10 Mar10 March 09:41

    As far as I remember, they go over once a week every Tues morning!

    • James says:

      10 Mar10 March 09:43

      Thanks! Very frustrating :/

• Alan says:

  10 Mar10 March 08:12

  For anyone not reading the comments on the Qatar article today but wanting to go to NZ – they’ve launched Doha-Auckland and there’s fantastic availability in Business for Avios redemptions 🙂

  • Matthew says:

    10 Mar10 March 09:43

    It’s with the old Biz seats though….but still another option to NZ is welcome. Couldn’t get it to price on BA last night – the usual error message appearing at the top when selecting the flight.

    • Alan says:

      10 Mar10 March 09:47

      Indeed, although new planes promised soon (not that Qatar can always be believed on that front!)

      I’m seeing pricing errors too, also even seat selection is causing errors on BA.com today!

      • Matthew says:

        10 Mar10 March 09:50

        Yeah – the BA site very frustrating! The DOH-AKL flight is about 16hrs long too IIRC – crikey!

• Frank says:

  10 Mar10 March 09:19

  Hi, after inputting the code I’ve booked 2 advance singles and got through to the payment page but no mention of 30% off. Any ideas?

  • James67 says:

    10 Mar10 March 14:37

    The seats are discounted but in some odd way it seems. Booked First Advance single KGX-EDB yesterday without a code and using a railcard for two. Best I could get was £85. Today best I could get had fell to £70 so a saving of under 20%. However, many more seats on more trains available today at £85 that were around £115 yesterday, so those are definitely cheaper too but still not by a full 30%. Personally I’m disappointed as I have many upcoming trips where First will now likely be crammed full between this and thd earlier sale.

    • joelyp says:

      10 Mar10 March 16:16

      James67,

      I think the reason is that advance tickets booked online through Virgin Trains East Coast usually have a discount applied even without a code (seems to vary from about 2% to 10%, depending on the ticket), and the 30% off includes that original discount. So you won’t see 30% difference unless comparing with an offline booking.

      • James67 says:

        10 Mar10 March 17:12

        You’re right, that would explain it. I recall booking such tickets at the station before and paying a little more.

• Matthew says:

  10 Mar10 March 09:48

  I have a Singapore Airlines booking for later this year on the A350 and its a quite a sweetspot on their redemption chart. AMS to CHC (or AKL) is just 68,000 Krisflyer miles one-way in Business. That price includes the online discount of 15%. So we’ve planned a RFS to AMS the night before, a stop in the new AMS Hilton then catch the A350 in the morning to SIN and B777 onwards to CHC. Can’t wait 🙂

  • Alan says:

    10 Mar10 March 10:12

    Fantastic trip – nice redemption! My all time best redemption is still LHR-SIN-AKL return in SQ Suites using MR points moved via my Amex ICC Dollar card. Ended up with no-one else in Suites class on SIN-AKL!! Really like SQ biz though, only thing I find annoying is their hard 3-year expiry policy with their miles, I’ve got a chunk sitting there courtesy of the Economist that I need to make sure I don’t lose!

    • Matthew says:

      10 Mar10 March 10:59

      Thanks Alan. I used the Amex ICC card too to boost my Krisflyer miles balance which was the only way I could have enough miles to book for 3 of us plus an infant! They only released 2 biz seats at the saver level so one each-way had to be standard pricing. Its a major hol so didn’t want to risk waitlisting. The rtn leg is CHC-SIN-LHR albeit a few more miles but no APD issues. It is also worth noting, that if you book a standard single award out of NZ then you will not be charged YQ. This was quite welcome when booking the third seat as the total surcharges came to about £18 🙂

      Suites sound amazing – I bet you had a great time! Sadly didn’t have enough miles for that!

  • James says:

    10 Mar10 March 11:13

    Aye that was my plan, either Perth – sin – ams or KUL-sin-ams, are as you say, a sweet spot.

    • James says:

      10 Mar10 March 11:16

      Oh and if I can’t get that (because saver awards are booked up by the time my miles post) I will instead fly Perth – sin – hkg (with the Hong Kong leg in suites class) and fly home from honkers on BA (or cathay/Virgin, haven’t fully decided, just booked BA so I have something confirmed).

• Mark says:

  10 Mar10 March 10:02

  There is a red cross that says “Flying Club 30% off” on some services. However the price is identical to the price when doing a mock booking not using the 30% off code. Very naughty.

  • Aeronaut says:

    10 Mar10 March 12:23

    Is this perhaps some sort of cookie/session issue? i.e. the 30% off has stuck, but just isn’t labelled as such?

  • Chris says:

    10 Mar10 March 14:15

    Prices are definitely 30% cheaper where you see the red cross, I just booked 2 advanced journeys. Try the dummy booking using private browsing/incognito mode to rule out cookie/session stickyness.

• ComeFlyWithMe123 says:

  10 Mar10 March 10:24

  O/T – For those of you that have used the Lloyds Avios upgrade voucher, the T & C’s state:

  6. Upgrade vouchers can be used to upgrade either 2 one way flights for 2 people travelling at the same time and to the same destination or 1 return journey booked on a British Airways main line service. British Airways codeshare flights are excluded. Flights from London City airport are excluded.

  Does this mean BA Metal only? and if your flight involves a connection (e.g DUB – LHR – NYC), does it only upgrade 1 flight (dub to lhr OR lhr to nyc) and not both?

  TIA

  • Alan says:

    10 Mar10 March 10:32

    Yes, BA metal only. UK connections will be included (and the whole outbound leg will just count as one leg), but I’m not sure about international connections like the one you’ve suggested.

    • ComeFlyWithMe123 says:

      10 Mar10 March 14:53

      Thanks Alan

• CV3V says:

  10 Mar10 March 11:37

  Apologies for being very off topic.

  I am on BA33 to KUL on Sunday, looking on BA.com at the seatmap the aircraft type has changed from a 789 to a 78C, and the seat layout has changed from 2CW cabins to one large CW cabin. Expertflyer now shows an error when trying to check for First cabin Anyone know for sure what a 78C is?! Past comment on FT thought it was a 788.

  • Rob says:

    10 Mar10 March 12:06

    788’s don’t have First do they?

    • CV3V says:

      10 Mar10 March 12:13

      Nope, although my seat is in CW. CW seat numbering still starts at Row 6 and a bassinet is still shown in row 10, suggesting a bulkhead is still there, altough it has disappeared from the seat map (showed before). So although they have changed the seat map, and the aircraft type reference, it still looks like a 789 (although Expertflyer reports an error when trying to check the First cabin). No changes on the (excellent) My Flights app.

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