Bits: Tesco / Hasbro deal, 6000 Miles & More for a hotel, Oman Air launches Manchester

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• Chris jones says:

  13 Nov13 November 07:49

  OT-

  Has anybody seen virgins altantic new Web page for booking flights (using points) it’s a major backwards step. You can’t see what clsss is a avaliable. If booking a return flight both flights have to be the same class.

• Our_Kid says:

  13 Nov13 November 08:01

  Hope there’s going to be no more Daily Mail Rob

  • Rob says:

    13 Nov13 November 08:47

    Hard to turn down a full page in 1.5 million newspapers …..

    • Stuart says:

      13 Nov13 November 09:32

      And hopefully no more Daily Express.
      Nasty papers.

    • Worzel says:

      13 Nov13 November 12:26

      What next?

      Rob in negotiation with The Sun to reinstate page 7 ? 🙂 .

  • RussellH says:

    13 Nov13 November 14:58

    Front page of today’s Obeserver:-

    “Campaigners claim victory as Lego cuts Daily Mail link”

    Lego has cancelled all promotional agreements with the Daily Mail, so maybe there will be more Tesco Cl;ubcard promotions instead.
    🙂

    • Darren says:

      13 Nov13 November 20:42

      They’ve said that current agreement had ended and they had no plans for anything further. Not really a cancellation or commitment not to have ‘future plans’ with the Daily Mail

• Lady London says:

  13 Nov13 November 08:21

  I realised yesterday I had a hotel to book and had missed the earlier Miles & More offer so thanks Rob.

  Might help other readers to know that when I booked mine, the first selection of hotels shown was always limited and in higher price bands. Subsequent searches using the town instead of the airport name where I was searching for a hotel, and nearby towns, gave different lists of hotels which then included some lower priced ones.

  Miles & More offered me the hotel I was looking for cheaper than on Hilton’s own website btw, and booked it.

  • RussellH says:

    13 Nov13 November 11:38

    I have just had a look at their offerings for Manchester in December and it is all rather confused, TBH.

    As you say, two sections; first supposedly city centre hotels, second “hotels near your requested destination”. However, Manchester city centre appears to include Liverpool, Warrington, Sale, Bury and Hyde, to name a few, while the nearby hotels include the DoubleTree (between Picadilly station and Picadilly Gardens) and the City Centre Crowne Plaza though not the airport Crowne Plaza, which is included under City Centre.

    Then there is the lovely typo “The Principal Manchester (Formally The Palace Hotel)”.

    There are some reasonable prices though, and 6 000+ M+M miles could be very useful.

• TrollBasher says:

  13 Nov13 November 09:26

  How many non-capital airports can lay claim to five Gulf carriers ?
  Emirates 3 x A380 daily from 2017
  Qatar double daily
  Etihad double daily
  Saudis
  and now Oman.
  Quite an achievement.

  • Gavin says:

    13 Nov13 November 09:28

    Frankfurt?

    • the real harry says:

      13 Nov13 November 09:43

      Goa?

  • the real harry says:

    13 Nov13 November 09:38

    shame Manchester is such a hole 🙂

    • Talay says:

      13 Nov13 November 11:19

      Ain’t that the truth !

  • Andrew says:

    13 Nov13 November 09:40

    Sydney?

  • Andrew says:

    13 Nov13 November 09:40

    JFK

    • Nadir says:

      13 Nov13 November 11:58

      Entire Indian Sub Continent, national brands + gulf budget carriers

  • Kip says:

    13 Nov13 November 10:51

    It’s fantastic isn’t it? Fancy MAN being compared to SYD & JFK. While Londoners squabble about which airport to spend £28billion on, the North just gets on with it.

    • Will says:

      13 Nov13 November 12:50

      £28bn to essentially lay a bit of tarmac on a field. Pretty insane really.

      Love MAN airport, even living 120 miles away it’s a breeze to get to on the train.

      Getting the train to LHR from the west – an absolute disgrace.

      Should be a legal requirement that all airports have mainline train access.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        13 Nov13 November 16:36

        Can’t believe there’s no direct rail link

• Seeker says:

  13 Nov13 November 09:37

  I did the M&M hotel booking last month.
  The system will not credit the same account for this time.
  M&M not worthwhile until one gets 55,000 in a single account, so wife making this booking is not ideal.
  M&M have family account but only in Middle East.
  A relocation there is limited by the fact that the hotel booking has to have a credit card which matches M&M-registered address (I discovered that accidentally last time)
  So any other ideas on how to get this bonus in same account as previous one?

• xcalx says:

  13 Nov13 November 09:56

  OT Has anyone cancelled a BA avios booking for an AA flight online lately. I keep getting “Error
  There was a problem with your request, please try again later.”

  I hope BA have not started to collect the full cancellation fee when cancelling AA flights online. I have not had this problem before.

  • Yan says:

    13 Nov13 November 10:58

    Seems to have this issue more often on partner redemptions recently. Had to call in to cancel.

    • xcalx says:

      13 Nov13 November 12:04

      Thanks, Did you receive the avios points back if not paying the full cancellation fees as in a £4.~ AA flight.

      • Yan says:

        13 Nov13 November 17:48

        Yes, you will get full Avios refund and don’t need to pay full cancellation fee & service phone charge.

        • xcalx says:

          13 Nov13 November 19:30

          Again, thank you. I can remember when if cancelled over the phone, unless you paid full cancellation fee no Avios would be returned. Glad to see this has changed.

    • mark2 says:

      13 Nov13 November 18:31

      I just booked with Alaska and was told that if I cancelled I would just lose the tax but it was only 15,000 Avios + £9.20.

      • Nick says:

        13 Nov13 November 21:04

        From where to where with Alastair mark2?

        • Nick says:

          13 Nov13 November 21:04

          Alaska?

• Boon Koh says:

  13 Nov13 November 10:53

  The T&Cs are really short for the Lufthansa miles for hotel promo!

  Does the hotel stay have to done by the end of November, or only the booking on the Lufthansa website? Anyone know?

  • Seeker says:

    13 Nov13 November 11:23

    Last month, it was only the booking had to be done by the end of the month.
    I think one sees the total miles before one hits “Pay”.

    • ThatGuyOverThere says:

      15 Nov15 November 16:27

      Nope, just made a booking (today 15th Nov) for stay on 10th Dec which was advertised at 6025 miles on the listing, once booked it said 1025 so have cancelled foc and won’t bother wasting my time again… 🙁

• James A says:

  13 Nov13 November 12:56

  Manchester still doesn’t appear as an option on the Oman air website though. Who knows when it will actually be bookable!

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