Bits: Qatar Airways selling Heathrow to Dubai for £1001 in Business, £5 JustPark credit via Amex

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• Jermyn says:

  29 Jun29 June 06:15

  My searches so far only show the non 787 or A380 flights. Looks like this is a way to use the excess capacity on the less glamorous aircraft on the LHR-DOH route.

  This is a great price ex-LHR nonetheless.

• Jay says:

  29 Jun29 June 06:17

  Hi Raffles, what does sitting on a redemption to Dubai means pls?

  • Zoe says:

    29 Jun29 June 06:31

    It means if you have booked a flight using your miles (avios). These flights still cost about £500 per person in taxes (in business class) but you can cancel them, get all your avios back and all the taxes less £35. These redemption flights don’t earn avois or tier points. Tier points help you move up the levels of the BA exec club so that you can select seats on a plane sooner, use airport lounges etc.

    • Jay says:

      30 Jun30 June 09:11

      Thanks

  • Laurence says:

    29 Jun29 June 06:31

    It means that you have a Avios redemption booked to Dubai. Spending a large amount of Avios plus £500 may not be as valuable as spending £1000 and earning a good few Avios and Tier Points at the same time.

    • Jay says:

      30 Jun30 June 09:11

      Thanks

• harry says:

  29 Jun29 June 06:49

  Also 15% statement credit on Holiday Extras https://network.americanexpress.com/connect/uk/en/doe_offer_detail.html?offer=GCOR_84411

  This doubles up with any other discount you can find, eg MSE cheap parking link gives up to 30% on Heathrow carparks.

  = 45% off your parking (bodge math 🙂 )

  • Lawro says:

    29 Jun29 June 07:16

    OT: Having trouble referring a friend for an Amex gold card from my platinum account. There always used to be an option to select the card you want to refer on the refer-a-friend page.
    Instead it will only allow me to refer a friend to the platinum card.
    I remember someone mentioning a similar issue a while back-does anyone have a workaround or a link to a page that works?

    • Brendan says:

      29 Jun29 June 07:58

      When you click the link there is an option down the left side of the page to apply for the gold card instead. You can then copy that link to share if you wish.

      • Raffles says:

        29 Jun29 June 08:32

        Is the correct answer!

        • Lawro says:

          29 Jun29 June 09:33

          Thanks Brendan- can you just clarify- So I click through from my own referral link and then select the gold card from the list of cards that you can apply for-I then copy the URL and send it on or do I have it wrong?

      • John says:

        29 Jun29 June 13:34

        Is there a way to refer a Gold card when you have the BA Premium Plus?

        • Rob says:

          29 Jun29 June 14:08

          No

    • Polly says:

      29 Jun29 June 08:11

      I had to call them up, they then sent me the link. Was surprised to find this restriction. You would imagine with all these defectors, they would be encouraging referrals or at least making it easy to refer.

  • Simmo says:

    29 Jun29 June 08:29

    Cheers Harry! Great to see this back!

    I’m looking at £100 for 15 days at T5 meet and greet – Seems decent enough!
    Only issue i’m facing is that the T5 Hilton (including 15 days parking is £150)!
    + sitting on £30 uber credit for the transfers.

    Any other options people recommend for ease?

    • harry says:

      29 Jun29 June 09:02

      Did you use the MSE link to HE first?
      http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-airport-parking

      Snippet: for some reason DriveFly Meet & Greet has been de-listed from the HE site for T3 but it is available for T4 & T5. This is deliberate (I checked with HE.)

      However, I noticed other sites are offering discounts on DriveFly for all 3 terminals @ the same price, you buy the parking then tell them which terminal you want along with your car details.

      So I phoned DriveFly and asked what if I made a booking and later wanted to change terminals. They said just phone them and they would change the terminal free of charge. So you might as well just choose the cheapest DriveFly option.

      • Simmo says:

        29 Jun29 June 09:32

        Yes HSE link is where I’ve been searching (the difference in price is crazy!).

        On the amex enroll, when I click enroll now, it takes me into my amex account and the offers section where this off is not available, is that the same experience you are getting?

        • harry says:

          29 Jun29 June 09:37

          I enrolled yesterday & when I log in on Connect it shows my card as having saved this offer. However, I don’t actually think you need to enrol to get the statement credit, just use holidayextras.co.uk/amex (not gospel, though)

    • harry says:

      29 Jun29 June 09:12

      I’m getting another 15% off with MSE link, 10 days T5 in August £87.55

      • harry says:

        29 Jun29 June 11:13

        and now they’re offering 31% off = £71.07 – 10 days in August T5

        then you’ll get another 15% off with Amex statement credit = £60.41

        All working fine – I already received 4 success messages from Amex so you can use this offer multiple times – Thank you for taking advantage of our Holiday Extras offer with your Card (last five digits shown above). Credit should appear on your statement within 5 days from qualifying spend

        • harry says:

          29 Jun29 June 11:16

          sorry noticed it was 15 days you wanted in T5, DriveFly Meet & Greet, which is £78.66 (31% off)

          with 15% Amex credit = £66.86

        • Simmo says:

          30 Jun30 June 09:42

          It doesnt let me enrol on the Amex connect website…

          Not sure what im doing wrong! – It worked last time!

        • Simmo says:

          30 Jun30 June 10:03

          Right for people also struggling to enrol, seems that its because when i first enrolled it was with a non AMEX, amex card (Virgin, MBNA).

          I had to logout, then instead of logging back in, enter the card details and then press enroll again 🙂

          Amex link was coming up as £149
          MSE link was coming up as £102

          using MSE link, + 15% discount = £86.70

• Robman says:

  29 Jun29 June 07:32

  Can I get a free stopover in Doha with this fare?

• ForeverEK says:

  29 Jun29 June 07:42

  Unlucky…looks like the deal can only be had on the A330 or B777 flights.

  Shall I just bite the bullet and book, or do you think QR might launch a similar deal for May/June 2017, but ex-EU? I would rather hop over to Europe to get on the Dreamliner in J rather than use the A330 or B777 out of LHR…

  • Robman says:

    29 Jun29 June 08:03

    Seems like very limited availability, I can’t find any dates after end of August where you can get the £1000 business flights. Has anyone seen dates after this available?

    • Raffles says:

      29 Jun29 June 08:34

      Had no trouble getting it in November yesterday. Try Birmingham if struggling – airport has a direct train from Euston.

  • Andy says:

    29 Jun29 June 08:36

    I’ve taken the 787 out of ARN recently and prices are ca £750-800. Pretty sure there are deals on other routes too.

  • JacarandaSpa says:

    29 Jun29 June 18:29

    I’ve got on the A380 lunchtime flight in Jan so def available. Only A330 back though

• Brian says:

  29 Jun29 June 08:14

  Note that the JustPark offer is valid TWICE per card…

• Richmond says:

  29 Jun29 June 08:15

  I can certainly recommend Premier Inn T5 for parking, just check bus schedule as it’s not very frequent or walk to Thistle across the street and pay for Pods.

  I just booked parking at Marriott on Bath Road for 10 days paying £50. Half price of official airport parking. I don’t trust private drives near Heathrow. Read reviews to make sure no one wants your keys, that’s what happened to my friend. 10 cars squeezed in a small place and owner was moving them around.

  • Michael says:

    29 Jun29 June 11:15

    Yes the bus from the front of the Premier Inn to T5 isn’t very frequent (every 20 mins) but if you use the stop at the back (on the bypass) it’s every 8-12 direct to T5.

    • Joe says:

      29 Jun29 June 13:10

      Thanks for the “stop at back” tip, didn’t know about that, is there a cutthrough or have to walk around (have a tight connection thinking of booking). How do you pay per for pods if not parking, do they let you do that?

      • Michael says:

        1 Jul1 July 00:10

        If you go out the door of the PI, there’s a bus stop in front of you. Just to the right there’s a footpath leading to the bypass (no more than a minute’s walk), and there’s a bus stop just to your left. 350 to T5 leaves frequently from there, with no intermediate stops, completely free of charge. To get the pods you either need to walk into the car park (the long way round) or enter the hotel and pay at the desk-they won’t refuse your money. That said, the (free) buses are far cheaper and just as convenient!

• Andy says:

  29 Jun29 June 08:32

  Do you get access to the new Qatar first class lounge in Doha, as the Doha – Dubai route is on their regional ‘First’?

  Did Doha four times last month and scored the first class bus once.

  • Raffles says:

    29 Jun29 June 08:35

    I thnk so but didn’t write it as I thought Qatar was downgrading F to J to avoid this – but it may not be happening.

    • Andy says:

      29 Jun29 June 08:39

      That was my thoughts too, in the last month I’ve spent 16 hours in the Al Mourjan lounge so fancy a change of scenery.

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