Bits: 10% off Qatar Airways, £188 LAN deal, Good To Go Parking sale

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• Gulz says:

  26 Apr26 April 08:48

  Could Good to go be behind this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39702437

  • Court says:

    26 Apr26 April 09:58

    I doubt GTG as official Heathrow parking would dump customer cars in public car parks – They can utilise all of the official long term car parks to park your car dependent on capacity. Sounds like one of the less scrupulous providers ran out of space over a very busy Easter holiday.

    Thanks for the article reminding me about GTG, we had Heathrow short stay booked in a couple of weeks, just cancelled and booked GTG M+G and saved £90. Bosh.

• 1nfrequent says:

  26 Apr26 April 10:13

  Meh. Even with the 10% discount the Qatar prices to HKG are twice what I’d pay on an ex-EU. Looks like I’ll be doing a run from OSL or CPH.

  1F

• Ro says:

  26 Apr26 April 10:29

  if you pay with a mastercard and use the code MASTERCARD, you can get a 15% discount (if you book between today and 3rd May)

  • Ro says:

    26 Apr26 April 10:39

    sorry… the above is relating to Qatar flights

  • Lawro says:

    26 Apr26 April 12:12

    15% discount seems to be valid, albeit with blackout dates, until 10th December 2017. At least that’s how I read the T&C’s.

    3rd May is the date by which you need to book the 7-day sale they have just launched.

    • Ro says:

      26 Apr26 April 18:39

      Fair enough, didnt bother to read the T&Cs. Cheers

• paul says:

  26 Apr26 April 11:25

  Slightly O/T sorry, but for silver qualification on BAEC, 4 BA flight requirement, does AMS-LHR-JNB count as 1 flight or 2? Can’t seem to find it on BA ‘explanations’
  Thanks

  • Stu N says:

    26 Apr26 April 13:03

    That’s two individual flights, Ams-LHR is one then LHR to JNB the second.

    Think there are a few oddities where a flight stops off somewhere and continues under the same flight number – two hops wouldncounf as a single flight.

  • Sam G says:

    26 Apr26 April 13:16

    2 . only exception I think is something like LHR-SIN-SYD which counts as one flight as it’s same flight number

• JamesW says:

  26 Apr26 April 12:08

  Hope Good To Go Meet & Greet haven’t been dumping cars in local car parks leaving customers with heavy fines ?!

  Just booked an IHG Park, Stay & Go for 2 week holiday later in the year then this further scandal of car parks dumping cars elsewhere comes back up 🙁

  • JamesW says:

    26 Apr26 April 12:13

    On the same topic as my above post, I emailed IHG and asked if I could pay for a Park, stay & go with IHG points but as I expected, not possible.
    However the hotel contacted me and said if I wanted to pay for the room on points they’d reduce the standard parking charge by 25% as I was Platinum.
    I paid in cash. Worked out only £6 cheaper and would have cost me all those points too.

• Chris says:

  26 Apr26 April 12:11

  OT- IHG Barclaycard free night voucher. Can anyone tell me what happens when you trigger the free night. I’ve jsut received my annual statement and i got the £10k in just before the end of the year but my annual statement clearly states that i spent enough but still no mention of the free night. I don’t know if you get an email, it gets added to your account etc i’m also not really sure who to pursue for it, so hopefully who’s been there can tell me what should happen

  • Leo says:

    26 Apr26 April 13:14

    It’s in your IHG account under Free Night or something similar in the left hand column. It’s nowhere in the credit card documentation/info as far as I remember.

• AndyW says:

  26 Apr26 April 12:32

  Quick OT – BA flights are released at midnight GMT right, i.e. 1am at the moment? Want to add return to a 2-4-1 in the next couple of days

  • Anna says:

    26 Apr26 April 14:31

    I don’t think you can add the 2-4-1 return online – are you planning to do it via an overseas call centre?

    • AndyW says:

      26 Apr26 April 14:46

      That’s the aim, if they will do it. Seems to be varying success on this front

      • the real harry1 says:

        26 Apr26 April 15:55

        works if they let you

        the other workaround for a really hot route is to grab the redemptions at midnight using your bank of Avios, then in the morning ring agent to turn this into a 2-4-1 redemption – you do this by cancelling your Avios redemption (at a small £ cost, not sure if it is even payable if you cancel after 9 or so hours), which instantly releases your redemption flights into the system, then get your telephone agent to grab them back again onto your 2-4-1

        • rams1981 says:

          26 Apr26 April 16:25

          No cost Harry

        • AndyW says:

          26 Apr26 April 17:31

          This is a great idea, thanks

        • Tom says:

          26 Apr26 April 18:53

          I thought the inventory didn’t go back in automatically when you cancel a redemption?

        • the real harry1 says:

          26 Apr26 April 19:04

          there’s no guarantee – but it does seem to work – ask rams1981! 🙂

        • Alan says:

          26 Apr26 April 20:06

          Always free to cancel any BA booking within 24h via the call centre (as long as not for a flight that’s already departed obviously!) – have done that a few times with redemptions.

        • Tom says:

          26 Apr26 April 21:41

          Presume you still have to pay the change fee on the original 2-4-1 to add in the return flights, but just not paying the canx fee on the avios redemption tickets you booked over night?

          Nice trick! Risky? Or more often than not the inventory comes back?

        • Louie says:

          27 Apr27 April 00:10

          @Tom – no change fee if the return was beyond T-355 when you booked the outbound.

        • Genghis says:

          27 Apr27 April 01:11

          I did this in Feb for South Africa flights. Booked outbound online then booked single return when flights came available. Note I didn’t get the ones I wanted as I guess someone on the phones had their agent reserve it (I think that’s possible) so got the slightly later flight back. Called up in the morning, said I wanted to cancel the flight I’ve just booked and add it to the 241. She said that the flight might not go back into reward inventory but I said that I understand the risk. She went away and all done. No fees since you can cancel a flight within 24 hours of booking and no change fee since the inbound flights were not available at time of original booking.

        • Tom says:

          27 Apr27 April 19:31

          Well I am learning again! Thanks folks.. looking forward to bagging my next 241 then 🙂

      • Polly says:

        26 Apr26 April 22:48

        Andy, in same sit two weeks ago, trying to change from KUL to sin. They said my released KUL would go bk into the system immediately,,they cannot hold it apparently…but it could be grabbed by another agent on the phone to someone else. So we didn’t risk the cancellation and rebook. We could have been left without any F 241flt at all. Just heads up really. They should explain this to you tho.

        • Joelyp says:

          27 Apr27 April 00:08

          Alan, a slight expansion on your point – BA’s 24-hour cooloff does not apply at all if you book less than 24 hours before departure. I found out the hard way, booking 23 hours and 57 minutes before departure and wanting to cancel a few hours later. BA wouldn’t budge!

        • Alan says:

          27 Apr27 April 00:29

          Yep, handy in most situations but as you say they’re very strict about 24h cut-off – what a pain for you though 🙁

        • AndyW says:

          27 Apr27 April 12:19

          Thanks vm. Thinking about being on the phone and online at the same time and trying to grab them in whatever way I can and sort out afterwards.

• Nick says:

  26 Apr26 April 17:57

  Great shout on Good to Go parking- just saved £50 on an 11 day booking I’d already made for exactly the same car park, almost halved the meet & greet price!

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