Bits: Iberia running British Airways Madrid flights this Summer, free downloads in Terminal 5

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• Ian says:

  16 Jun16 June 03:41

  that explains it! booked 458 to madrid club europe today and I confused the 320 seat map with a london city to madrid flight haha thought I had booked the wrong flight! Looking at seatguru its an iberia 320. I’ll swipe the extra leg room seat now thanks 🙂

  • Ian says:

    16 Jun16 June 03:44

    “Flight operated by: BA Lhr Shorthaul International”

• AndyS says:

  16 Jun16 June 07:24

  Presumably you still get BA tier points and avios on this IB-run service?

  • Anthony Dunn says:

    17 Jun17 June 19:50

    Err, yes. If it is ticketed as a BA service, then it should make precisely no difference.

• Empers says:

  16 Jun16 June 07:35

  On the EntertainMe front, Mrs E and I have been really impressed by Readly – which could be described as the Netflix of magazines. We both travel a lot and whenever flying, we take 5 minutes in the lounge to download a handful of magazines for the journey. It came in very useful recently when the entertainment system broke in BA 1st on the way back from Beijing!! For £7.99 you get access to over 1,200 different magazine titles across multiple languages. I like it for the great selection of business titles, especially the US published. You can share the login across 5 devices, so you can guess what my father will be getting for Father’s Day!!

  Check it out. https://get.readly.com/VsG-IeyLumn4AB0D (Disclaimer: using this link Readly will give you a free month trial + if you sign up, I will get a free month too.) Raffles, please remove this link if not allowed – but I would still highly recommend Readly even without this link. Maybe this could solve your problem of no decent magazine selection in BA lounges!!

  • Red says:

    16 Jun16 June 09:40

    Empers, never even heard of Readly so thanks for this. I’ve sent the link to the Mrs to see if she wants to split the cost with myself. Tons of magazines on there I would read including a few I buy each month already. I do perfer the physical feel of a mag, but at this cost for that range it’s enough to make me switch.

    Will make sure to sign up with your referer.

    • Empers says:

      16 Jun16 June 13:45

      Red, see how you get on. I have been impressed with the Readly application on both ipad and android phone. Very easy to zoom pages. I think it offers great value, as like you I used to buy a couple of physical magazines per month, but now it is much the same price and I can access all the old issues – so don’t have to keep stacks of mag’s around the house! It is a bit like browsing in WH Smith’s as now I download just to see what a magazine is all about because it is free!!

      • Red says:

        16 Jun16 June 13:59

        Yeah we both have found a good number of mags we would read so I’ve signed up for the free 1 month trial via your link.

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    16 Jun16 June 12:06

    Nice tip – not heard of this before. Have signed up to give it a go.

• Hingeless says:

  16 Jun16 June 08:03

  OT: Heinemann points arrived in my Etihad account today, all my family members are very happy !

  • Andrew H says:

    16 Jun16 June 10:36

    So did I! It’s a miracle!!! 🙂

    Thanks for the reminder 🙂

• xcalx says:

  16 Jun16 June 08:10

  Iberia Express flights from MAN to MAD are discounted by 15 to 20% if booked through Iberia Express Club. I’ve just booked this flight for next April, 1 x 23kg hold baggage 1 x large and 1 x small cabin baggage and free seat selection for a total of £32 plus earn 50% Avios. HBO flight was £22.50 earning 25% Avios.

• harry says:

  16 Jun16 June 08:18

  O/T Europcar – worth another outing in Bits as I buried it yesterday. £1 car rental from Europcar – from various destinations to eg Heathrow. If it works for you, you could save maybe £75. My closest is Taunton, where effectively I can choose any date I like to do a £1 1-way car rental to LHR.

  • Rob says:

    16 Jun16 June 09:06

    Lived in Taunton for 6 months back in 1993. Got to spend a month at the Posthouse on the motorway junction (now a Holiday Inn I think) as Black Horse Financial Services was in the little office park next door. This was part of my uni course.

    They felt a bit sorry making me live in Taunton so I was given a company car for easier escapes (the only time in my life I have used a car on a daily basis) even though my role was 100% office based!

    • Hingeless says:

      16 Jun16 June 09:12

      Alan “raffles” partridge

      • Rob says:

        16 Jun16 June 09:36

        Given how young I was (and compared to the student flats I had been in, and indeed the shared Taunton house I moved into another that month) it was luxury!

    • harry says:

      16 Jun16 June 09:13

      HSBC stuck me in the YMCA Kowloon for 6 months!

  • N says:

    16 Jun16 June 09:12

    IIRC there’s another company that offers this too. Any ideas?

    • harry says:

      16 Jun16 June 12:50

      Avis has run £1/ day promos in the past

    • harry says:

      16 Jun16 June 13:26

      Hertz? http://www.hertz-transfer.eu/
      Hertz offers great rates for customers taking foreign Hertz vehicles on one-way rentals back to their country of origin.

      Below you will find a daily updated list of those vehicles that are waiting to be returned to their country of origin.

      To take advantage of great inter-country one-way rates, simply select your desired pick up country, preferred return country, and a vehicle from the list, and then dial the call centre number to book the vehicle.

  • Gavin says:

    16 Jun16 June 10:21

    Thanks that could be useful for my next Friday trip to Heathrow! Will keep it bookmarks just in case.

  • Aeronaut says:

    17 Jun17 June 10:01

    Does anything bad happen if you don’t follow through with the car hire? This could well be useful, but at the moment plans are a bit up in the air so any booking would be somewhat speculative.

    • harry says:

      17 Jun17 June 10:11

      No. It’s not like dropping the last leg of ex-EU. You can just ignore car or hotel add-on, if you wish.

      • Aeronaut says:

        17 Jun17 June 10:28

        Thanks harry. Might be polite to give them a call I guess if I’m not going to pick the car up.

        Now to decide which of two potential (consecutive) days I’ll make the booking for… I think making two otherwise identical one-way bookings of 300+ miles for one day, then the day after – both for the same North-South journey – would probably be taking the mick a bit!

  • Rob says:

    17 Jun17 June 12:35

    I’m going to do a full article on this tomorrow by the way

• Majunga says:

  16 Jun16 June 12:44

  ShangriLa has offered the magazine/newspaper download option (pressread) for a couple of years. It is very practical and I personally very useful. The range of titles is pretty impressive and you can keep them for a couple of weeks.
  http://www.shangri-la.com/corporate/press-room/press-releases/shangri-la-hotels-and-resorts-to-be-first-global-hotel-brand-to-offer-pressread/
  Eurostar lounge aslo has (used to have) that option.

  • Alan says:

    16 Jun16 June 13:37

    Qantas have it too, even on domestic flights.

• Brian says:

  16 Jun16 June 13:27

  OT – Tesco have introduced Caffe Nero and Restaurant Choice to their gift card range. The latter can be used at a variety of places, including Jamie’s Italian, Pizza Express, Nandos, Yo Sushi! and ASK. So quite useful…

  • Rob says:

    16 Jun16 June 15:58

    I am popping into the monster Earls Court store later today so will take a look. Naff all in my local Metro.

    • Scallder says:

      16 Jun16 June 16:21

      Rob – do you mean the one opposite the Qatar office on the A4? If so I happen to work round the corner but their gift card selection isn’t great. The Extra at Surrey Quays on the other hand has a huge range – including the Caffe Nero ones mentioned and I even saw Asos ones in there on Saturday when I went to get some others…

      • Rob says:

        16 Jun16 June 17:48

        Yes – because I had a meeting at the Qatar office. Typing this in the Tesco caff! No new gift cards as you said. My pain au chocolate is also underwhelming 🙂

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