Bits: BA launches new USA Club World ‘flight and hotel’ deals, new Finnair deals

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• Mike says:

  11 Feb11 February 06:43

  Not that great an offer. However, having just booked a hotel in Miami (Easter) the club world Miami fare, including hotel isn’t too bad. Depends very much on the location and quality of the hotel. Decent Hotels in Miami are extremely expensive, many over £250 per night.

• David S says:

  11 Feb11 February 09:22

  Slightly OT Rob. I thought you would have covered the Qatar Valentines 2 for 1 deals or have I missed it? Some good deals around till Dec 2017 for 2 people booking together.
  Just booked CPH-AKL-OSL for £1385 per person including the “longest flight in the world” on AKL-DOH!!!

  • Rob says:

    11 Feb11 February 09:42

    Tomorrow

  • ee says:

    12 Feb12 February 08:26

    Starting in Oslo, ending in Stockholm was about £50/person cheaper in the New Year sale.

• TravellerFrequently says:

  11 Feb11 February 09:23

  Unfortunately, AY now requires stays of at least 4/5 days to qualify for the lowest fares.

  Not good for TP runs!

• Andrew H says:

  11 Feb11 February 10:34

  O/T: Groupon.es/Iberia have brought back the Avios purchase offer. The 2k avios is a better price than last time – 19 euros (rather than 24 euros I think).

  Also 10 avios per euro for spending through IberiaPluStore, so 2000 avios + 190 bonus cost me £16.85 (when paying through Paypal).

  For those unfamiliar with the process of redeeming the coupon:

  Once you have purchased the Avios, go to the purchase list in your Groupon account. Click the ‘Print Coupon’ button on the left and a pdf file will appear. At the top left, there are two codes you will need (not the reference number, which is below them). In the blurb in the first window, there should be a link to click which will take you to a page asking you to enter the two codes. Enter them, and your email address. It may not work first time and will ask you to enter the codes again. Repeat until it accepts them. This is normal. You’ll be taken to a new page to enter your Iberia Plus number (again, it might not work, so keep trying). You should get a Congratulations message at the end.

  If you’re using Chrome, remember you can right click on the page and select ‘Translate to English’.

  I’ve done this process a few times in the last couple of years so it’s becoming much easier. 🙂

  • the real harry1 says:

    11 Feb11 February 12:37

    just seen this – surprised people are not more excited!

    0.774p/ avios

    • Andrew H says:

      11 Feb11 February 13:56

      I’m also surprised at the lack of interest. I was refreshing this page for an hour after I’d posted wondering where all the replies were.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      11 Feb11 February 14:10

      0.66p with the code – good deal for 2000, shame it is only 2000 though

      • Roger says:

        11 Feb11 February 15:48

        Wish it was AAdvantage Miles.
        After some

  • Darran says:

    11 Feb11 February 12:49

    Just done this myself. Use code CUPON20 for a further 20% off if comes back to e15.20.
    There is also some other code / glitch which discounts it down to e13.00 which I got on my first transaction. I couldn’t replicate this on my wife’s account so went looking for a code and found the one above which works.

    • the real harry1 says:

      11 Feb11 February 13:26

      you probably need new Groupon.es a/cs to use the discount codes?

      when I checked LY there were several decent discounts, I’ll have a trawl later (just watching Arsenal-Hull free on Sky Sports Mix!)

      • Andrew H says:

        11 Feb11 February 13:46

        I was too quick off the mark! Oh well. Someone on Flyertalk said it’s only for first time users or has limited use, so maybe wouldn’t have worked for me anyway.

        • Darran says:

          11 Feb11 February 14:01

          Should work for everyone. This is our fourth lot of Avios from the groupon.es offers. All I’ve seen is that the code only works once per person.

        • Rob says:

          11 Feb11 February 14:02

          Half term, everyone’s off!

        • Danny says:

          11 Feb11 February 15:03

          Code worked for me (not first time user) and paying with Supercard so the cost was £12.95 plus hopefully 150 extra Avios for going through the Iberia shopping portal.

        • the real harry1 says:

          11 Feb11 February 15:12

          I was collecting an oak corner cupboard (snow flurries), getting son ready for swimming, forcing daughter to read a bit more (she’ll thank me), researching RBS shareholder action group too late too join & probably cost me a few quid, watching the fitba (free Premier League today) lol

          brilliant deal from Andrew H, nobody has said if the next amount up stacks up but I’ll wait for comments/ hfp

        • the real harry1 says:

          11 Feb11 February 15:14

          (Danny) that makes it 5.9p/ avios

        • Genghis says:

          11 Feb11 February 15:29

          Or 0.59ppa?

        • the real harry1 says:

          11 Feb11 February 15:43

          damn! 🙂

      • Andrew H says:

        11 Feb11 February 14:02

        OK. I’m not too fussed about 4 euros. It’s an ace deal, though!

        • the real harry1 says:

          11 Feb11 February 14:30

          yep good spot (yet again!) 🙂

        • Danny says:

          11 Feb11 February 15:22

          I guessed it was that so thanks for confirming Harry 🙂

  • lee moss says:

    11 Feb11 February 17:26

    bought added codes tried about 10 times and just keeps saying code not valid ?

    any ideas ?

    • Andrew H says:

      11 Feb11 February 17:54

      Keep trying. People have been having this problem ever since Groupon started running this promo a couple of years ago.

    • the real harry1 says:

      11 Feb11 February 17:57

      and we hope you used PayPal! (for easy resolution)

  • Andrew M says:

    11 Feb11 February 21:53

    Does it make sense to buy any of the larger amounts or is 2000 the only one that is a decent price?

    • Yan says:

      11 Feb11 February 22:36

      8000 cost about 0.75ppa (with the code) if the extra avios comes through. At worst you pay 0.84ppa which is probably not a bad price for some.

      • Andrew M says:

        11 Feb11 February 22:47

        Thanks for that. I’ve bought 2000 with the CUPON20 code and I’m pondering whether to go for a further 8000 or not. Is there another code that takes the price lower or is CUPON20 the only one?

        • Yan says:

          11 Feb11 February 23:44

          seems to be one per account
          I used the code to buy 8000 and then 2000 at 19 euros
          in the end paying 0.75ppa for 11180 avios

        • rams1981 says:

          11 Feb11 February 23:47

          I did the same as you Yan. Used the discount code for the 8k to give biggest discount (max 20 euro discount) and bought 2k as a standalone. Nice easy 10k

• John says:

  11 Feb11 February 10:41

  AY has an ex-TLL sale (dunno when it ends) if you want to maximise TPs.

  Combining with the BA £232 to TLL codeshare on AY, LHR-HEL-TLL-HEL-BKK-HEL-TLL-HEL-LHR would be possible for £1400 although it looks like you can only book this to travel when Tallinn is dark and freezing; however other options are posted on FT in the BA Premium Fare Deals thread, the BA TLL £232 thread and the Premium Fare Deals forum. This would get you 520 TPs.

  However, AMS-xxx-BKK-yyy-AMS on BA may be cheaper in total (£1300) and less risky if you want to go to HKG or SIN, as you can put any of those plus perhaps some other BA Asian destinations for xxx and/or yyy. ex-Germany was possible a few days ago but seemingly no longer. This would get you 460 TPs plus whatever from getting to AMS.

  If you actually want to go to BKK as a couple, QR HEL-DOH-BKK is currently the cheapest at £1900 for two, but HEL-DOH is on a shorthaul plane. You could perhaps combine this with the AY LHR-HEL-TLL deal. According to someone on FT, you can get this for £255 in the summer if you replace one of the HEL-TLL legs with a ferry (at your own expense), i.e. LHR-HEL // TLL-LHR.

• Clive says:

  11 Feb11 February 10:57

  Not Club but booked DUB to JNB in Oct in Y using a few Avios to discount and for two came in at £480 + 30K including positioning flights. Then bagged 25D on the 380 to top it off.

• Lumma says:

  11 Feb11 February 11:02

  OT But iberia plus you can currently book redemption for 25% off. It’s 25,500 avios one way Madrid to New York in business. I think it’s available until valentines day for flights till June and excludes April

  • Talay says:

    11 Feb11 February 16:11

    If you are looking for Amex 241 redemptions, Tokyo is out there on its own as the long haul option for J class as they have availability most months in both directions.

• N says:

  11 Feb11 February 11:18

  Other than the exceptional QR deal recently to Tokyo, it seems Europe-Japan is one with few deals – is this a correct assumption?

  Am I aiming unreasonably for a sub £800 in J to Japan?

  • Rob says:

    11 Feb11 February 12:50

    Agreed. Even tricky for Avios. This is due to restricted flight slots.

  • John says:

    11 Feb11 February 12:55

    I think a sub-£800 in J to anywhere further than 8 hours away is unreasonable especially if you need to position

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