Pay just £480 for British Airways World Traveller Plus from Scandinavia to the US

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• Alex says:

  9 Feb9 February 08:29

  O/T— got an email from Gatwick today offering premium security for £1each time for the rest of the year…

  • Peter K says:

    9 Feb9 February 08:36

    I used this at the end of last year flying club world and it’s a bit of a joke. You go down a corridor and join the ordinary queues a bit further along. There is a security guard who filters you into the main queues as and when he feels like it. I even overheard a staff member say to another “I don’t know why they call it fast track security as it isn’t”.

    • Peter K says:

      9 Feb9 February 08:37

      However for £1 a time it’s worth it.

  • simon says:

    9 Feb9 February 08:59

    Booked it several times for my family, Have never been asked to show any proof of payment. Just waved through.

    • Bagoly says:

      9 Feb9 February 09:06

      Does not the boarding card scanner apply the logic?

      • simon says:

        9 Feb9 February 10:22

        No, as it is a payment to Gatwick. Nothing to do with what class you are flying.

  • john says:

    9 Feb9 February 14:38

    if you signup to mygatwick you get a discount on it anyway – i think it was 20% so £4 each. £1 is obviously a lot better 🙂

    Theres a thing on mygatwick for ‘Free lounge access at Regus*’ also. Perhaps less useful as it seems to be landside.

• Rob says:

  9 Feb9 February 08:33

  They have been around for ages in one form or another, but they got another push on Flyertalk this week and I realised we’d not done it.

• Scallder says:

  9 Feb9 February 09:11

  OT but hopefully of interest to most here – On Monday, Channel 4 at 9pm is showing a one off program called ‘The World’s Most Luxurious Airline’ which goes behind the scenes of Singapore during the launch of their new Suites class

  • @mkcol says:

    9 Feb9 February 09:33

    Thanks for the heads up!

  • Andrew M says:

    9 Feb9 February 22:00

    PVR set, thanks!

• Bagoly says:

  9 Feb9 February 09:21

  As for various previous similar comments by various people: if you were paying for HfP this might be a valid comment. But you are not.

  • Lumma says:

    9 Feb9 February 09:48

    These are the sort of articles I love on HFP, a genuine bargain that allows me to travel in more comfort than most normal people. Albeit most normal people wouldn’t go to Scandinavia before going to the USA 🙂

    • Rebecca says:

      9 Feb9 February 10:36

      Me too! I struggle to understand some peoples attitudes sometimes!
      Last year page helped me find business class return flights to Australia for £1,500 which allowed me to attend a friends wedding without too much jetlag and got me silver BA status.
      This year, I have got tips on how to keep said silver status. Off to Catania in May!

    • Polly says:

      9 Feb9 February 14:30

      Lumma
      Think it would be worth it going to West Coast but not east! J all the way to LAX? Much appreciated.
      Must admit we did the J NYC from Dub. That was the ba J sale of 2016. And we used avios to bring the return cost down to £660. Unreal.
      Could just as easily done it from CPH or AMS. It was a great experience. Then paid the extra 20k avios to upgrade to F from NYC. Fab.

    • Lumma says:

      9 Feb9 February 17:25

      Polly, I agree regarding flying to the east coast. I’ve even said in the comments in the past that I wouldn’t even consider using 100,000 avios and £500ish in fees to fly to New York when I can usually get an economy ticket for £400.

      Fly to California on this deal is something I’m looking at however, even without upgrading to business. Can part pay with avios to bring the cost down even further too (not a great pence per avios obviously but would end up getting most of them back). I’ve never flown premium economy either; personally I’ve never felt that it looks worth the extra money, but keen to give it a bash

    • Polly says:

      10 Feb10 February 03:15

      Lumma,
      If you are very tall, you might not appreciate PE overnight on return, so maybe upgrade to J for that leg. Day flight on PE at least you can get up and walk about, and not feel too constrained. Don’t chose back rows as l hear they don’t recline as far, Correct me if wrong.

• andy says:

  9 Feb9 February 09:29

  Just did a dummy booking from CPH/LHR/MIA/LHR and it only comes out at £90 more than doing a full return. I’d opt for that, saves the faff of going to CPH just to get back to LHR or maybe being delayed and missing the flight altogether

  • @mkcol says:

    9 Feb9 February 09:36

    Although if you were delayed & missed the next flight then surely you’d be in line for EU261 compensation which would be well on the way to paying for you ticket in total.
    This is what happened to me & my hubby on our return from SYD during the “IT meltdown” fiasco, resulting in BA paying us more in compo & refunded taxes etc than our ticket cost 😀

    • andy says:

      9 Feb9 February 23:39

      not if your flight back was booked on another airline

  • Polly says:

    9 Feb9 February 14:04

    Andy. Agree, good point. We we look at the qatar sales, it’s often only an extra £100 plus to return to LHR directly. It can be more this at times. But agree, saves the faff of missing a leg to LHR.

  • Benjy says:

    15 Feb15 February 10:34

    So £570 ??
    £480 + £90 ??

• Soloflyer1977 says:

  9 Feb9 February 09:35

  O/T
  I have a kitchen loan due for repayment next month before the interest kicks in. I intend to pay it off in full. Is there any way I can benefit from some points by paying of this loan? I have the Lloyd’s dual avios card at the moment and a number of other amex cards The loan is with Barclays Partner finance and I can pay by Bacs/debit/credit card (not amex). Just not sure if a finance purchase can generate points. TIA

  • roberto says:

    9 Feb9 February 11:14

    Billhop?

    • lumma says:

      9 Feb9 February 12:05

      Curve debit?

      Although I don’t see why you wouldn’t just get the points as normal when using a Mastercard. it’s not like the Tesco debit card where it expressly stops you getting the points with a financial institution.

  • Tracy says:

    9 Feb9 February 16:00

    I have just used billhop in November to pay off my barclays finance for my utility room. At the time billhop fee was 3% and barclays fee to pay by credit card was 1.5% (I think). I chose to pay the extra 1.5% and use billhop to charge it to my lloyds avios as it was still within the first 6 months so double avios.

• Ant says:

  9 Feb9 February 09:48

  OT: we are just about to board our Qantas Business flight in Sydney to Doha and then Doha to Stockholm. We arrive in stockholm Saturday at 1930 and then we have a seperate ticket wth Ba Sunday morning to LHR. The lovely lady at check in just checked our luggage all the way through. Which is brilliant as we don’t have to collect luggage in Stockholm and also we had 30kg each and our BA flight is economy. Very pleased.

  • Ant says:

    9 Feb9 February 09:49

    Apologies Qatar not Qantas

    • Polly says:

      9 Feb9 February 14:05

      Result!

  • Young Liu says:

    9 Feb9 February 09:59

    Thanks for sharing this. I have a similar trip booked from Oslo later this year, hope I can get luggages checked-in like this.

    • DS says:

      9 Feb9 February 11:59

      Should be ok, but of course don’t expect BA to do it on the outbound as ‘it is not possible’ – Qatar obviously have super powers

  • DS says:

    9 Feb9 February 11:58

    I came back from Melbourne last week and also managed to get them to through check my bags which was handy due to tight-ish transfer at ARN, and of course being over the 23kg weight limit.

  • Louie says:

    9 Feb9 February 23:07

    It’s Qatar policy to through-check on separate OneWorld tickets.

• Denis says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:21

  I believe saying that BA would come after you is a bit of a stretch. Then we have to understand that Rob should maintain relationships with BA, so he has to say something like that. Thousands and thousands of people have keep using hidden city ticketing techniques every day and we’re yet to see a real lawsuit against anyone.

  Btw you can easily fly back to London with checked in baggage. Just pick a long connecting in London and you’re all set. If you have a connection at LHR over 6 hours they would let you check your bags just to LHR. The best if you pick not a same day connection (which is quite easily done with lets say arrival at 9 am and departure at 7.50 am next day)

  • Daniel says:

    9 Feb9 February 12:55

    That is such a good idea! I’ve just booked Oslo > LHR > SFO with the return to Oslo the day after the London flight arrives. It warns me I need to find a hotel so obvs will need my bags then whoopsie will miss the flight the next day. Thanks Denis and Rob!

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