Qatar Airways flight sale starts today – save an extra 5%

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• Tracy says:

  9 Jan9 January 17:48

  Another bits question from me today – My ambassador renewal is up in March. I have prebooked 4 rewards nights in July, total outlay 180k points. If I choose the ambassador renewal option with 10% rebate, will I get the rebate of 18k points on the prebooked nights or do i need to cancel and rebook after ambassador renewal?

  • Genghis says:

    9 Jan9 January 18:01

    Neee to cancel and rebook

    • Genghis says:

      9 Jan9 January 18:03

      If you have enough points book them again now and then rebook later. Reward nights usually go back into reward inventory but not always.

      • Waribai says:

        9 Jan9 January 19:04

        The other option to ensure your nights are reserved and if you don’t have enough points yet for the Cat 9 travel package is to book a standard 7 nights room only on reward points as you don’t need to have the points in the bank now to do this. Then when you do eventually have enough points for the CAT 9 travel package, phone up Marriott and swap your standard rewards nights reservation over to a travel package one. It means you don’t have to fret over the hotel selling out. We did this over New Year at the RC Abama which was just as well as Tenerife does sell out.

      • Waribai says:

        9 Jan9 January 19:11

        Sorry Ghengis, I just realised you asked the question about Marriott. I thought your IHG answer had been answering the Marriott question! AFAIK the method I mention is the only way to ensure you have the nights reserved as I’m fairly certain you can’t book travel packages until you have the points.

      • Tracy says:

        9 Jan9 January 20:34

        Unfortunately, I have emailed some of the hotels and managed to get them to change some of the room types for me in advance from the basic points rooms. IC monterey to a 2 bed room, HIE grand canyon to a kids bunk room. I’m loathe to cancel these as they are already updated in app.

• Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

  9 Jan9 January 17:48

  The E&O would be perfect for a weekend break.

• S879 says:

  9 Jan9 January 18:54

  OT: BA has changed the departure time of my flight. Tickets were booked via Avios and £35 tax. It’s shortened my connection time to a long haul flight (not on same ticket and not BA) and I want to play it safe by flying the day before. Will BA let me change for free online/via phone?

  • Waribai says:

    9 Jan9 January 19:12

    Yes, they should even let you cancel too.

    • S879 says:

      9 Jan9 January 19:16

      Thanks.

  • Lady London says:

    9 Jan9 January 20:26

    I’d suggest before you call BA, take a long hard look at the alternative(s) you want and when you call, ask BA for your preferred alternative. (Have a backup handy.) Check out loading on the flight, aircraft type, etc. You get quite a bit of leeway in this type of case usually.

    Btw: are you sure it’s just a time change of the same flight that you’ve been given and they’re not actually trying to move you to another flight so as to make your seat on the original flight available for others to book? I’ve had that done to me!

    • S879 says:

      9 Jan9 January 21:10

      Very useful, thanks. It’s flight time change, flight number is the same. Can I book an alternative through manage my booking or do I need to call?

      • Stu N says:

        9 Jan9 January 21:17

        In my experience they are pretty flexible so good to know what you want in advance. They will open up Award availability to enable a change after a schedule change – I wasn’t entirely expecting that but was very helpful.

        Try online but don’t be surprised if you need to call – they can see if you have tried to make the change online and will waive the offline fee, some agents will need a prompt to do this.

• Lady London says:

  9 Jan9 January 20:27

  I’d suggest before you call BA, take a long hard look at the alternative(s) you want and when you call, ask BA for your preferred alternative. (Have a backup handy.) Check out loading on the flight, aircraft type, etc. You get quite a bit of leeway in this type of case usually.

  Btw: are you sure it’s just a time change of the same flight that you’ve been given and they’re not actually trying to move you to another flight so as to make your seat on the original flight available for others to book? I’ve had that done to me!

• David says:

  9 Jan9 January 21:02

  Are there any conditions for the 5% discount? I cannot seem to get it to work.

• Polly says:

  9 Jan9 January 21:38

  Rfs like we did

• Anne says:

  9 Jan9 January 23:36

  I’ve booked OSL – DOH – SIN return for £1150 each (2 passengers). I couldn’t get any of the 5% promo codes to work but it’s still a decent deal.

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