Why are British Airways Singapore redemptions pricier via Iberia – and are there others?

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• Andrew says:

  19 Jul19 July 08:50

  OT-ish – Google Flightish…

  I’ve had trouble finding some economy flights that are detailed on Google Flights or the ITA Matrix at £550. I’ve now found that the flights I was looking at appear to be available at $716 (£550) if bought from the airlines US website or £740 if bought from the UK website.

  Am I missing something really important? The taxes appear to be listed ok, or should I be able to just buy with my FX free card and feel smug?

  • the real harry1 says:

    19 Jul19 July 09:04

    If it’s exactly the same fare class, I’d save the money & pat self on back

  • xcalx says:

    19 Jul19 July 09:14

    Happens 95% of the time with cruise bookings, much cheaper using a US website

  • Scallder says:

    20 Jul20 July 03:53

    Also case with Air NZ for domestic flights. Doing Queenstown to Auckland next month and they simply changed the NZ $ sign on the NZ website to a £ sign on the UK website so almost double the price!

• Andi F says:

  19 Jul19 July 09:16

  On the Singapore quirk, you are saving £0.22 for your 120,000 Avios. Good use of Avios right? 🙂

  • Peter K says:

    19 Jul19 July 11:33

    ????

• Third Passport says:

  19 Jul19 July 09:27

  O/T – Flying from LHR T3 and will need to spend a few hours on conference calls before my flight. What’s the best lounge to go into as a BA Silver card holder on a BA flight? I’m thinking in terms of noise level, internet connection (although I can tether if needed). Thanks!

  • Lumma says:

    19 Jul19 July 10:01

    American Airlines lounge is usually the quietest of the 4, should be easier to find a quiet corner. Despite the love for the Cathay and Qantas lounges, I actually like it. I just wish they’d get better beer than Carlsberg or Budweiser

  • Nick says:

    19 Jul19 July 10:07

    Personally, if I absolutely had to use a lounge (and not – say – a Regus or a hotel room or somewhere similarly private) then it would actually be the AA one. It’s large with plenty of space if you time it well around AA departures, and has the best internet speeds (and reliability) of any LHR lounge.

    • Lady London says:

      19 Jul19 July 19:18

      I found the phone signal to be really really bad in QF lounge. Staff seemed to be aware of it as a problem. This was in March.

• V says:

  19 Jul19 July 09:42

  For HKG-LHR

  Iberia charged the same amount of avios as BA but much higher tax.

  (Supposed that flights originating from HKG shall be immune from fuel surcharge as per government regulation. Somehow IB charged fuel surcharge for BA flight originating from HKG while BA doesn’t )

• RTS says:

  19 Jul19 July 09:50

  I have a 241 booked for LHR – SG – LHR. I am flying out in Econ as there was no other class redemption available and back in Biz. What are the chances that BA may release more reward seats in the upper classes closer to the flight date?

  • Rob says:

    19 Jul19 July 09:57

    Might do but Singapore is a busy route. You are also fighting people who want Avios seats to Sydney. Nothing to KL instead?

  • Paul says:

    19 Jul19 July 11:08

    What are your dates? I have recently become intimate with reward seat availability on that route (due to a combination of impatience and boredom).

    • rts says:

      19 Jul19 July 17:39

      flying out on 7th Oct.

• Suzanne says:

  19 Jul19 July 11:52

  I created a new Iberia Plus account for the 90k avios deal at the end of June and was finally awarded them yesterday after going through the back and forth email drama like many others.

  I immediately redeemed for: 42,500 + £75 Madrid to Rio and 51,000 + £85 for a return from Santiago (the same for my boyfriend). I already had cheap positioning flights from London booked as some of the 20 needed to trigger our bonuses, and was fortunate that long haul availability was still there for our required dates by the time I was able to redeem.

  The BA off peak cost for London-Rio is 75,000 + £373.41, and it’s 87,500 + £208.04 for Santiago-London. Across two people this is 187,000 + £320 with Iberia vs 325,000 + £1162.90 with BA. Insane. The value of redeeming on Iberia has been pointed out on this site multiple times, just underlining with a real life booking in case anyone is still grumpy about not being able to move their avios over to BA.

  I have two 2for1 BA vouchers to use but Iberia is potentially looking better value than bothering with them for the other trips I have planned.

• Buddy says:

  19 Jul19 July 12:53

  Beijing London.
  Was booking PEK-LHR over the summer in first. I had secured 27,000 avios in the recent Iberia promotion and was planning to supplement from my BA account for the full amount. Did a search on both BA and Iberial just to confirm they had the same availability and realised it was pricing 120,000 and Iberia and 100,000 on BA, so ended up just booking it on BA and will use the Iberia avios for something else.

  • Rob says:

    19 Jul19 July 12:58

    Thanks

• Archie says:

  19 Jul19 July 13:12

  Apologies for OT: Is it possible to transfer my wife’s Virgin miles to my Virgin account?

  • Rob says:

    19 Jul19 July 13:46

    No

    • Archie says:

      19 Jul19 July 13:48

      How about opening a household account (like BA’s)? Or you need to have a status in VS?

      • the real harry1 says:

        19 Jul19 July 14:42

        I heard that if you are both flying, you can pool Virgin miles if you ask nicely on the phone.

        • Rob says:

          19 Jul19 July 15:26

          Yes you can

    • ChrisC says:

      19 Jul19 July 16:20

      Yes you can transfer them over if you pay – using the gift miles function

      Only VS golds can have a HHA account

      Ability to use miles from different accounts only works if there are enough miles in each account to pay for a whole flight sector. If say you needed 30k for an upgrade and had 23k in one account and 7k in another you can’t pool those..

  • @mkcol says:

    19 Jul19 July 15:03

    However if you & your wife are travelling together, you can do a redemption booking using both sets of miles even if one account doesn’t have sufficient on its own. Call them up to sort it out.

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