Flybe launches flights from London City Airport to Newcastle

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• Jim macneilage says:

  14 Nov14 November 08:22

  I suspect that some routes will be lost when a new buyer takes over – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46203183

• Barry says:

  14 Nov14 November 08:40

  O/T and a long shot… I have 2 Lloyds Amex upgrade vouchers and want to fly Club to Miami next summer. Would I be about to use 1 voucher to upgrade from WT to WT+ and then the other to upgrade from WT+ to Club?

  • Chris says:

    14 Nov14 November 08:43

    No, you have to use it as you book, you can’t apply it to an existing booking

    • Chris says:

      14 Nov14 November 08:45

      It’s not ready an upgrade voucher. It’s a voucher to book an award in a premium cabin but only pay the avios of the next class down.

      Hence needing availability only in the booked cabin and not the intended you pay the fare for.

  • Anna says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:01

    If you haven’t booked your flight already, and there’s availability, you could book it as separate one way flights for 2 people each using a voucher. The only problem with this is that you would end up paying more tax. So you would book the outbound one way in WTP, then use the second voucher to book the return in CW. If this is what you’re asking!

    • meta says:

      14 Nov14 November 10:12

      But presumably you could mix classes and book one ticket on one voucher and the other ticket on the second voucher. You would end up with two separate bookings though, so slight risk with seat choice though I never had an issue with seating when travelling with someone on BA even on two separate tickets.

      • Simon says:

        14 Nov14 November 11:07

        Yup, this is the best way. Just search on ba for the availability in the classes you wish to travel in – that will also show the tax/charges to pay (prob about £550 per return) , then call avios to redeem at the lower avios point cost.

      • Anna says:

        14 Nov14 November 13:50

        But taxes will be a fair bit higher as they won’t be adjusted for the return journey.

• Adam Brown says:

  14 Nov14 November 09:39

  I assumed the two headlines were linked and the Tandem skydive was in case Flybe went out of business halfway through the flight!

• Adam Brown says:

  14 Nov14 November 09:52

  I can’t say I am happy with the move over to Exec Club from Avios Travel Rewards Programme?

  The points statement is virtually useless, My last 6 transactions are:
  Finance Card
  Miscellaneous
  Avios x2
  Other
  and 3rd Party

  Not exactly helping me to understand what is going on. It would have been nice if they had at least kept the customer offering the same if not better!

  • Anna says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:03

    I’ve never seen most of those! Finance card refers to your BA Amex. There should be a record of when you made the transaction, as well as when the avios posted so that you can match it up with your own records.

  • Liz says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:14

    If you click on “view all transactions” just under the list it gives you more details of each transaction

    • Shoestring says:

      14 Nov14 November 10:21

      Yep – @Adam you need to drill down to get the detail – you are just seeing a summary

  • Klaus-Peter Dudas says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:21

    Are you looking just at the last six transactions or the view when you click on “View all transactions”? That gives you far more detail.

  • Adam Brown says:

    15 Nov15 November 09:21

    Awesome – Thanks.

    Previously I only used Exec Club for Flights so never really looked in any detail. Have seen the full list now.

• Michael says:

  14 Nov14 November 10:17

  What are the taxes like for short haul? We’re moving to NL next year and might convert Amex points to Flying Blue if we can get rewards flights to Scotland. We’ve still got tons of Avios for cheap London trips.

  • Shoestring says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:22

    Still works out quite expensive points + fees in SH IMV

  • LewisB says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:59

    Not entirely sure on short haul, I’ve only ever looked at long haul with Flying Blue. CWL to YYZ in J which had availability for pretty much every day was 35k €394.45 one way or 70k €622.54. Taxes was around €1 cheaper from LHR. So around £542 in taxes, still pretty expensive tax wise but good value on miles.

• Russ says:

  14 Nov14 November 11:37

  May be cutting that one a bit close even if they did take telephone bookings. The offer is nearly over. Although seeing as it’s amex’s own offer perhaps they would extend it if you asked? Dunno.

• BlueHorizonuk says:

  14 Nov14 November 11:49

  BA just dumped 50,000 extra Club World seats into availability – book by December 2

  Additional reward seats will be available on direct one-way and return British Airways operated flights in the Club World cabin only, for travel between 16 December 2018 and 31 March 2019

  between London Gatwick and Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando Las Vegas, San Jose (Costa Rica), New York JFK and Mauritius and between London Heathrow and Abuja, Accra, Amman, Atlanta, Austin, Bahrain, Baltimore, Bangalore, Beijing, Beirut, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Durban, Houston, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Montreal, Moscow, Nairobi, Nashville, New Orleans, New York JFK, New York EWR, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Rio de Janeiro, Riyadh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, CA, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Seychelles, Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Tokyo NRT, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington.

  • Crafty says:

    14 Nov14 November 12:11

    Why did this need to be posted in multiple threads?

    • BlueHorizonuk says:

      14 Nov14 November 12:11

      2 Bits articles today so need to make sure everyone can see it.

      • Rob says:

        14 Nov14 November 12:51

        Do you know why there are 2 Bits threads? Because we were going to run the article on this promo this morning but BA stopped us so I had to fill a gap at short notice.

        Amusingly I am still banned from writing about it until BA gives permission even though the press release has gone out. This was the agreement we made in order to get advance notice of the deal.

      • BlueHorizonuk says:

        14 Nov14 November 13:02

        @Rob Epic fail by BA PR!!

  • Simon says:

    14 Nov14 November 12:12

    cant see anything to Cape Town or Miami

    • koroleon says:

      14 Nov14 November 12:30

      Ha, I also searched for Cape Town and came up nothing. Availability to JNB and DUR does seem better though.

      • pauldb says:

        14 Nov14 November 13:23

        Shows up pretty clearly on MRU – https://baredemptionfinder.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_query%5Bsource_code%5D=LON&search_query%5Bdestination_code%5D=MRU&search_query%5Bnumber_of_passengers%5D=2&search_query%5Btravel_class%5D=business&search_query%5Btrip_type%5D=return&search_query%5Bbritish_airways_tier%5D=blue
        Rare chance to get non-355 seats there.

• Crafty says:

  14 Nov14 November 12:12

  OT: Morrisons Christmas vouchers – 11,250 More points for £150 spend in each of the next 4 weeks.

  Terms say excludes purchase of gift cards. Has there been any evidence to the contrary, e.g. in previous years?

  • KevMc says:

    14 Nov14 November 12:46

    Gift Cards definitely won’t work – they can see what you are buying (unlike the CC companies), so it is easy for them to exclude them.

    • Crafty says:

      14 Nov14 November 12:55

      Ok, thanks. Will likely bin these then, have much better inducements from their competition!

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