Bits: 2400 Avios with £99 tablet, Norwegian adds Singapore, more Amex Platinum lounges

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• Tom says:

  21 Apr21 April 18:00

  Hoorah for this move from Norwegian. Any and all BA alternatives and competitors welcome. Routes East especially welcome!

  • Gavin says:

    21 Apr21 April 18:34

    I am wondering if Norwegian to Singapore, Avios on Cathay or another Miles option to somewhere else in Asia and then back home with a Lloyds voucher could be an option for me and Mrs Gavin next year …

    • Alex W says:

      21 Apr21 April 22:10

      Doesn’t Lloyds voucher have to start in the UK? They’ve got you by the balls, there’s no escaping the ridiculous surcharges.

      • njbafox says:

        22 Apr22 April 00:01

        No. Lloyds Voucher can start from anywhere. I live overseas and use it to get home.

      • Callum says:

        22 Apr22 April 00:47

        You can avoid ridiculous surcharges if you’re flexible. My Club World booking with Lloyds from Hong Kong – London/Spain – London – Chile cost a grand total of £160 in taxes etc.

        • Jerry says:

          22 Apr22 April 04:27

          So you can book two wholly unrelated one-ways, neither originating in the UK? Nice one. Never used one myself (as obv I don’t have the card)

        • Callum says:

          22 Apr22 April 05:27

          Ah, now I remember that wasn’t quite true. The Avios voucher was only applied to HKG-LHR-SCL. The extra Spain-London leg was normal price but included on the same booking, so dropped the APD (and possibly some of the fuel surcharge – £130 for BIO-LHR-SCL seems cheap).

          Whether that’s a one way with stopover or an open jaw return I don’t know.

• Nick says:

  21 Apr21 April 19:44

  Love that Norwegian are running more long haul route! They are usually slightly cheaper to book in NOK on the Norwegian version of the site…

  If you start the trip to SIN from CPH or OSL it works out at just over £130 for the outbound as you obviously don’t pay UK APD. As it’s a budget airline, I’d be curious to know if you could actually book that and drop the CPH-LGW sector and just jump on at Gatwick. Anyone got any experience of doing anything like this with them??

  • the real harry1 says:

    21 Apr21 April 19:56

    you can’t jump on (as your booking gets cancelled) but you might jump off on the way back if you had a medical emergency

    • Callum says:

      22 Apr22 April 01:02

      There would be no point doing that though given it would be cheaper to just book the flight to London in the first place!

      I’ve also just skimmed the conditions of carriage and they seem to make no mention of being able to cancel your other flights if you miss one, unlike BA’s which does. Given low cost carriers generally sell legs individually, it would make sense to be able to miss one of the flights and keep the rest (though that would make you liable for APD in this example which complicates it!). Does anyone know of something I’ve missed?

      • the real harry1 says:

        22 Apr22 April 14:42

        if you book every leg separately, no problem

      • Nick says:

        22 Apr22 April 15:31

        Hummmm… so those who have said the second sector would be cancelled – do you have actual experience of this with Norwegian? I appreciate that BA would cancel it, but I can’t see any evidence of this in the conditions of carriage with Norwegian. Many times I’ve booked return flights on budget airlines and only used the return flight and this is essentially the same?

        On the UK version of the site, LGW-SIN one way is £179, where as OSL-LGW-SIN is £141. It’s not a massive saving, I know, but makes the fare even more attractive if it worked out 🙂

        I appreciate that you would also be liable for APD, but doubt they’d come after you for that! You’d probably have to do it HBO too. Obviously the return you would just book as a one way back to LGW.

  • Roger says:

    21 Apr21 April 20:08

    Yes, if you skipped your first flight all subsequent flight within the same booking will be cancelled.

• Liz says:

  21 Apr21 April 21:02

  Roger – thanks for mentioning Viator – I’ve used them a couple of times but didn’t realise they were now Avios partners. I booked a Grand Canyon helicopter tour a couple of years ago which kick started my American Airline miles saving but they are no longer an AA partner.

• Ralph says:

  26 Apr26 April 14:08

  Rob, have you run any news on Norwegian’s Premium Economy product yet? I trawled the site trying to find one but couldn’t see any.

  • Rob says:

    26 Apr26 April 16:05

    No. However …. we are in discussions with Norwegian about trying it out over the next couple of months. We’re just trying to find dates and a destination that work for Anika. I’ve got a Lufty First to New York in June so I’m not hugely keen on another transatlantic trip.

• Ralph says:

  26 Apr26 April 14:08

  ‘reviews’ I mean, not ‘news’

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