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

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• Ian says:

  9 Jan9 January 10:53

  If you are booking with Qatar you should have in mind their steep (very steep) cancellation fees USD450 and even uglier no-show policy USD880

  • Rob says:

    9 Jan9 January 10:54

    Any sort of refund on a deeply discounted sale fee is a minor miracle …..

    • Ian says:

      9 Jan9 January 10:57

      Rob the issue is not with the refund, that is very common and acceptable that the fare is non-refundable. The issue is with the no-show policy. Charging USD880 for no-show is a bit much no?

      • PJ says:

        9 Jan9 January 11:23

        Search on flyertalk before thinking they’re going to fine you like this, they only “charge” USD880 if you miss a flight and wish to use your credit towards a rebooking. It’s basically an enhanced cancellation fee

  • Joe B says:

    9 Jan9 January 10:58

    Yeah – however they do do their £10 hold for 72 hours thing, which can be quite good if you cant decide straight away

    • Ian says:

      9 Jan9 January 11:07

      True, but if for some reason (that isn’t covered by travel insurance) you can’t travel you end up with a very expensive bill. Don’t get me wrong I love Qatar service, but I think this policy is a bit too much. I couldn’t even imagine the outcry if BA was to do this or a UK train company…

      Related, Amex has some offers which might be handy to complement Qatar’s sale

      Trailfinders
      Spend £1,000 or more, get £100 back

      Etihad
      Spend £800 or more, get £100 back

      American Express Travel
      Spend 200 get £50 back

  • Adam says:

    9 Jan9 January 12:45

    I’ve always wondered how this actually works. Are you saying that if you don’t turn up or try to cancel they are going to charge you money.

    How can they even do this? It’s not like they can just put it through on your credit card. Anyone with experience with this would be good. Thanks.

    • Sam says:

      9 Jan9 January 15:04

      I believe the fee comes into play once you try and rebook the ticket

    • Relaxo says:

      9 Jan9 January 19:09

      I was a no show last year and I have not been billed any cancellation charges, so must only be for re-booking….which Im not sure why anyone in their right mind would do anyways.

• Chris says:

  9 Jan9 January 11:07

  OT : the Hilton Triple Avios (BA/Iberia) offer states if is for stays up until the 31st Jan.

  What happens is my stay is from 28th to 2nd Feb?

• Nick G says:

  9 Jan9 January 11:09

  With Titan on an A320 will there be difference over Y in terms of on board ie sepereate cabin blocked middle seat etc?

• Rob MC says:

  9 Jan9 January 13:18

  Has anyone managed to use the 200 off 600 spend on amex travel using flights?

• Keith says:

  9 Jan9 January 13:54

  O/T anyone now how many MR points do you get with a referral from Plat -> Nectar?

  • Cate says:

    9 Jan9 January 13:58

    k18

    • Keith says:

      9 Jan9 January 14:37

      Thanks 🙂

• Tracy says:

  9 Jan9 January 14:08

  O/T looking to book my first lloyds voucher flights. Husband and I have one each. We want to fly EDI or GLA to New York in Sep or Oct at a push. Obviously we want to pay as little in avios and £’s for business class, keeping avios and £’s down more important than dates lol. Would like a little advice re. cheapest dates (peak/off peak), airplane type, day/night flight etc. Have flown AA and United direct from Scotland before but never flown VIA London. Thanks

  • Anna says:

    9 Jan9 January 14:22

    Apart from choosing off peak dates there’s not much you can do with the pricing. You’re stuck with BA flights from London with the Lloyds voucher, so the fees will be largely the same whichever flights you choose. The only slight difference is if you get the connecting flight on the same booking, it will cost no avios but there is an extra cash element. If you book it separately, it will be the usual RFS price.

    • Tracy says:

      9 Jan9 January 14:34

      Thanks Anna, will book the connection on the same booking. Just need to look for availability now.

      • Anna says:

        9 Jan9 January 15:07

        You should be fine with availability to New York. Just avoid Oct half term period as it will be peak avios pricing.

      • Anna says:

        9 Jan9 January 15:11

        Also, if you prefer to fly down to London the night before your NY flight for peace of mind, you can do that on the same booking, just choose the earlier date and click the box to add a stopover and continue the next day. If it’s all on one booking you can check your hold bags through and just hang onto your hand luggage overnight. We do this so as to be not starting too early and being too tired to enjoy the lounge and flight properly!

      • Tracy says:

        9 Jan9 January 15:25

        We want to do a long weekend so don’t really fancy adding an overnight in London, will just have a looong journey via London. Almost on the verge of letting the lloyds vouchers expire so i can fly direct……

• Cate says:

  9 Jan9 January 16:46

  Norwegian ? 🙂

  • Cate says:

    9 Jan9 January 18:26

    ;-P

• Genghis says:

  9 Jan9 January 17:43

  OT. I ordered a Cat 1-5 Marriott travel package last year for 270k Marriott. I would like to redeem for a Cat 9 Hotel and so need to pay 120k to upgrade. Can I book now and pay the 120k later (ie. is book now pay later combinable with redeeming the certificate of an already purchased travel package)? Thanks.

  • Julie says:

    9 Jan9 January 19:14

    Hi Genghis, I started with a Cat 1-5 travel package a couple of months ago. I just booked the higher Cat 7 hotel I wanted and then when I had the extra points I needed, I phoned up and asked if they could upgrade my travel package to that level and apply it to the hotel booking. All done in a couple of minutes. Very easy and pleasant phone call.

    • Genghis says:

      9 Jan9 January 20:39

      Thanks Julie and Waribai. I’ll do just that.

      • Asp says:

        9 Jan9 January 21:48

        Genghis/Julie – do you mind me asking which properties you’re looking at for your travel packages? Thanks

    • Julie says:

      10 Jan10 January 00:05

      Hi Asp, I’ve booked the Marriot in New Orleans for a week in October. Lots of other Marriott group hotels there of various categories but as i’m Marriott gold we’ll get breakfast and lounge entry at the actual ‘Marriott’ hotel there. Flying there on BA club (reward flights using a 2-for-1 voucher). Never been before and really looking forward to it!

      • Asp says:

        10 Jan10 January 18:12

        Hi Julie, sounds like a great trip! Hope you enjoy it.

  • Cate says:

    9 Jan9 January 19:50

    I’m starting to question whether the 1-5 packages are always better than keeping in points. You can miss out on the special award reduction offers and sometimes hotels can be cheaper paying with points or points and cash rather than the seven day certificate. Also fitting in a seven day break when one of the party is an employee may mean leaving the hotel earlier.

    Back of fag packet calculation, in hindsight for us it would have been quicker and more point profitable to keep an amex MR card with a 1:1 amex partner. Has anyone done the math on this?

    • Cate says:

      9 Jan9 January 20:56

      Thanks mark2, missed that and there are some strong points raised. It needs weeding out a bit more I think.

    • Rob says:

      9 Jan9 January 21:43

      90k SPG for £90k spend is 120k Avios plus 5 hotel nights. In Amex Gold it would be 90,000 miles. On BAPP, 145k Avios but you are tied into Avios.

      • Cate says:

        9 Jan9 January 22:44

        Well it’s the 7 night one that doesn’t sit well. Your’e missing out on stuff like the stay 4 nights get one free and then there are the sales – Domes in Greece is now 20% off in their PointSavers sale in peak season (August) at 270,000 for 7 days. That’s 120,000 points less than the 390,000 you’d have to put towards the Hotel and Miles package. That’s a lot of points.

        P.S In the interest of full disclosure you should know by now my math is, at best, ‘icky’

      • mark2 says:

        9 Jan9 January 22:53

        surely no-one would spend £90,000 on one card?

        • Rob says:

          10 Jan10 January 08:37

          To be fair, I am trying to do £37,500 of tax / VAT / PAYE on my wife’s IHG card before Friday to lock in 2019 Spire! Unlikely to do it due to Creation’s 3-4 day lag in processing payments inwards.

      • Waribai says:

        9 Jan9 January 23:37

        I met someone at the HFP Xmas party spending £300k a year on one card albeit for business. It was an IHG card to boot……

        • Rob says:

          10 Jan10 January 08:36

          Someone emailed me yesterday who asked for advice, he had £120k of personal FX spend last year – just holidays …..

      • Waribai says:

        10 Jan10 January 13:26

        Presumably he wasn’t looking for advice on how to spend £120 on travel…Otherwise, I think that’s almost consultancy fee territory!

    • Rhys says:

      10 Jan10 January 13:45

      Wonder how much you need to earn to feel comfortable spending that much on hols!

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