British Airways Europe flash sale – one way flights from £23

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• Tom says:

  13 Jan13 January 10:17

  These are the sorts of prices that need to become the norm if BA are going to pursue the LCC model. If they want to compete with Norwegian, Ryanair etc they can’t scrap all the perks but still charge twice the amount.

  • shd says:

    13 Jan13 January 10:21

    You think Heathrow to Innsbruck in a BA “Sale” at £51 one-way is supposed to scare the LCCs?

    :rollseyes:

    • Mr(s) Entitled says:

      13 Jan13 January 10:58

      It wont scare them at Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stanstead, Luton, Aberdeen, Southhampton, Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle, etc etc.

      • Cate says:

        13 Jan13 January 11:22

        It won’t scare us at Gatwick either.

        Return flights to the med for those who live within striking distance of an airport can be as low as £6 per person.

  • Rob says:

    13 Jan13 January 11:08

    As the Heathrow passenger service charge is £19 that won’t be happening ….

    • shd says:

      14 Jan14 January 05:56

      OK, we’ll bite – look up the Gatwick passenger service charge … go on, we’ll wait 🙂

      Now explain why BA’s fares ex-LGW are *so much* lower than ex-LGW.

      Spoiler: BA’s cheapest ex-LGW fares are not just a couple of quid less than the best ex-LHR fares, unlike the PSC!

• Omba says:

  13 Jan13 January 10:47

  Travel by 18th March, is that correct? The Low Fare finder has £23 each way to BCN all the way through to May from LGW? I didn’t check any others, that was on our radar already

  • Rob says:

    13 Jan13 January 11:07

    If the fare is showing for longer it will be bookable.

• VJ says:

  13 Jan13 January 11:45

  O/T – Have a reward night (through points) booked at Hampton by Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

  Does it make any difference to upgrade to Hilton Diamond using status match for this stay.

  • Cate says:

    13 Jan13 January 11:51

    Breakfast is included in the price for everyone, no exec lounge, no suites to upgrade to.

  • Steve C says:

    13 Jan13 January 11:58

    The rewards in Hamptons for diamonds is normally poor especially considering that a number in the UK often charge premium rates. I stayed at Bristol multiple times last year and welcome choices were small number of points or soft drink and snack. There was 2 classes of room the higher one was a little bigger with a sofa bed and I wasn’t always allocated it so in my opinion the answer is No.

  • shd says:

    14 Jan14 January 05:57

    We stayed there last year (HH Diamond) and the hotel treated us really well. Would definitely go back.

• Courtney says:

  13 Jan13 January 11:49

  Awesome, got 2 adults and a child to ALC in May for £133 total then turned it into a BA holiday by adding a car I was going to get anyway to get the luggage allowance back.

  £25 each way might only just about cover our lounge visits 😉

• ANT says:

  13 Jan13 January 11:54

  Help pls. We are in Stockholm on our way to NZ with Qatar so will have 600TP by the time we come back. We flew BA to Stockholm.

  So am I right in thinking that if we book a weekend away at these low fares we will get silver? Thinking of Bordeaux. Will HBO tickets count?

  Thanks

  • Polly says:

    13 Jan13 January 12:05

    Yes they will, so, you will have done your 4 x ba sectors each…HBO perfect if you don’t need the TPs…

  • Rob says:

    13 Jan13 January 15:09

    Yes, counts.

  • Brandon says:

    13 Jan13 January 17:56

    you could book BA to Stockholm/return, as a bonus Qatar will put your bags on the BA flight, EG check your bags in AKL and they will end up in London without having to lug them around in Stockholm.. well they did for us on similar journey to NZ, BA wouldn’t put our bags on a qatar flight but i would fly to Stockholm the night before anyways.

    • Paul says:

      14 Jan14 January 12:33

      Were the BA flights on the same ticket?

      • TM says:

        14 Jan14 January 18:07

        I recently had QR check bags through SIN-DOH-OSL-LHR, with the OSL-LHR on a separate ticket.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        14 Jan14 January 18:38

        Qatar will through check even if it’s on a seperate ticket

• Travel Strong says:

  13 Jan13 January 12:05

  O/T: I am attending a concert in Dublin on a Friday in June, and thought hey – maybe there’s some ex-DUB deals I could make the most of (seeing as I’m there anyway), and have a long weekend elsewhere too.

  However I am struggling to find anything that seems very attractive, so question is:- What are the typical ‘bargains’ found for Ex-DUB?

  Maybe I am struggling to search for the right things.

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    13 Jan13 January 12:31

    Cant help with the travel, but hope you enjoy the Taylor Swift concert 😉

    • Jim says:

      13 Jan13 January 19:23

      Jaysus, you’d need a getaway after that experience 😉

  • Rob says:

    13 Jan13 January 15:09

    You should be looking at £1250 to £1500 long haul as a good fare.

  • Cate says:

    13 Jan13 January 15:52

    Go to Google flights and put in Dublin for departure city and in the destination box put ‘Europe, or “Asia’ etc etc etc…then you get loads of routes/prices from Dublin. Google flights doesn’t cover all airlines though, especially low cost carriers.

  • Polly says:

    13 Jan13 January 23:20

    Dublin not so good now as an ex eu departure since the IAG takeover of EI. Think they have brought them more into line now…iag don’t want competition within their own organisation, methinks!

• George says:

  13 Jan13 January 12:55

  O/T: Amex MR referral bonuses. This may be common knowledge but I only came across this over the Christmas break – which turns out to be a great time to convince gathered friends and family to take on an amex referral. I am a Platinum charge card holder and I referred 3 family members, who after landing on the platinum page, scrolled down and picked a gold card. I was expecting to earn 9k reward points, but to my surprise these all credited as 18,000 pts.

  I dont know if the referral terms have changed recently or if they have always been this way, but it looks like platinum referrers earn 18,000 pts for referrals regardless of the card chosen by the recipient other than a basic card (point 1 from referral programme terms page).

  My question is, has anyone tried referring someone who then went on to choose an SPG or BA card (it appears non-MR cards come up as a referral option only on a mobile devise, in my standard browser I only get a choice of Plat, Gold and Basic). When you click on SPG or BA the referred bonus of additional 1k and (whatever the BA referred bonus is) appear, on top of the sign up bonus. But will the platinum referee earn a bonus, and if so at what rate?

  I spoke to Amex just now using the chat feature, surprisingly they know nothing about it and are adament that I will only earn 9k for someone taking out a gold card, even though my final 18,000pts for referring someone who took out gold, posted yesterday.

  • Rom says:

    13 Jan13 January 13:01

    If you’ve got the higher bonus, why do you need to report it to Amex? Most likely ruin it for others

    • George says:

      13 Jan13 January 13:10

      Erm, not reported…more raised a query…I asked what I would earn if I referred someone to gold, SPG, or BA, their response was 9k for gold and not possible for others. Hence why I am here. Thanks

      • Louise says:

        13 Jan13 January 13:11

        Yes you will get same referral bonus for the other cards, even talk of self referral going through too

      • Polly says:

        13 Jan13 January 15:39

        Just be glad you got 18k and forget about it. Best not to keep questioning amex…

      • Rashad says:

        15 Jan15 January 02:42

        I referred myself from Platinum to SPG and received 18k, 18k Business been around for at least 6 months – excitement is long over

  • Louise says:

    13 Jan13 January 13:10

    I got a mailing from them stating 18k per referral so it is legit, and been reported in the comments on here for a good few weeks 🙂

    • George says:

      13 Jan13 January 13:13

      Really helpful thanks

  • Leo says:

    13 Jan13 January 13:15

    Yes this is not new news as it were – been the centre of a fair bit of discussion around people’s strategy vis keeping the plat a bit longer to enable multiple referrals etc.

  • Doug M says:

    13 Jan13 January 14:12

    Shhhh. Nothing here move along.

    • James says:

      14 Jan14 January 15:39

      I recently got a mailing pack through from Amex as a Gold Card holder which invited me to refer friends and no matter what card the referee chose I would be given the 9,000 points.

• George says:

  13 Jan13 January 13:12

  Thanks do you or anyone else know or have tested a referral to SPG or BA?

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    13 Jan13 January 14:01

    Spouse referred from Plat to free BA. She got the 18k MR. This was about a week ago.

    One point to note, you cant directly refer to another card type. In my case therefore the link took me to the Plat card but from there I could select any card I wanted. Took the free BA because the driver was the MR points, little use for Avios at the moment.

  • ankomonkey says:

    13 Jan13 January 21:15

    Referred wife from my plat. She applied for SPG. I got 18k MR points. This was in the last 10 days or so.

  • Keith says:

    13 Jan13 January 21:20

    I did an SPG referral a couple of weeks and got 18k. Just testing with Nectar before I cancel plat

    • TGLoyalty says:

      14 Jan14 January 00:19

      Yep 18k

    • Scott says:

      14 Jan14 January 10:08

      Yes, test currently in progress. Will update.

    • The streets says:

      14 Jan14 January 22:32

      Yes works for Amex cash and any other card except basic

  • xcalx says:

    14 Jan14 January 09:10

    Yes, Plat to SPG 18,000 back in November.

    • Stu N says:

      14 Jan14 January 17:03

      How long do the referral points take to post?

      • TGLoyalty says:

        14 Jan14 January 18:39

        Normally as soon as the person is accepted for the card

      • Rob says:

        14 Jan14 January 20:55

        Within 48 hours of acceptance usually.

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