Air China bringing back its amazing Business Class Oceania deals for Black Friday

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• Callum says:

  21 Nov21 November 05:55

  That seems bizarre. They’re flying a plane down to Bournemouth just for a once a day 45 minute flight? Why wouldn’t they sell the positioning flight as well (I assume this plane will be based in Scotland or Northern England?).

  • Dave says:

    21 Nov21 November 13:10

    it will be the 4th company to try this route and pull it. Very weird

    Bournemouth used to be such a great regional airport but its been turned into a parcel hub with no great commerical routes.

    Get KLM there

• Sam G says:

  21 Nov21 November 06:08

  the plane is flying a “W” – coming into Jersey/Guernsey, hoping to Bournemouth and back before heading back to it’s origin

  • Mikeact says:

    21 Nov21 November 07:41

    Good to se a bit of competition with SOU.

  • pauldb says:

    21 Nov21 November 08:31

    But who goes to Guernsey for a week. OK you could flip to Jersey for the return or vv, or you could return to SOU, but that must appeal only to a fraction of customers.

    • John says:

      21 Nov21 November 09:55

      Old people

      • David says:

        21 Nov21 November 12:44

        🤣🤣

  • Callum says:

    21 Nov21 November 12:37

    Ahhhh that makes so much more sense – thanks!

• Jo says:

  21 Nov21 November 06:59

  OT: I have Platinum Elite with Marriott currently and have a stay booked on 27th feb 2019 – will I still have my status until end of February 2019? Been reading conflicting views on whether this is beg feb or end feb (ie 28 feb 2019)

  • E says:

    21 Nov21 November 16:34

    Last year it dropped at the beginning of February. As so much has changed this year, who knows really!

• Rob says:

  21 Nov21 November 07:24

  Is there usually any good Black Friday hotel deals?

  Looking to book somewhere in Gran Canaria in Feb half term…

  • Tom1 says:

    21 Nov21 November 07:51

    Meliá (up to) 50% started today. I think they have a few canaries hotels but no idea how good the offer is.

    • Crafty says:

      21 Nov21 November 11:17

      Tested it out on one hotel. Presented as “35% off”. Rate is literally more than 2x the rates on Booking.com.

      Nothing to see here…

      • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

        21 Nov21 November 12:28

        The 50% off member rate I tried at one Tenerife hotel that I was looking at anyway was a full 25% cheaper than the OTAs.

  • Polly says:

    21 Nov21 November 08:18

    Tnx for that. Might even cancel our ba 241 in F to hkg, and no positioning flights needed.

  • Rob says:

    21 Nov21 November 08:48

    IHG is doing a sale, Radisson already has one. No word from Hilton.

    • MD says:

      21 Nov21 November 09:06

      Isn’t there a Hilton sale on already?

      • sunguy says:

        21 Nov21 November 09:13

        Email from Hilton @ 3am GMT:

        Official: our Winter Sale has got what you need

      • john says:

        21 Nov21 November 10:03

        Yeah thats bog standard non-black-friday

    • guesswho2000 says:

      21 Nov21 November 10:30

      I got an email earlier, 72-hour flash sale in Japan, Korea and Guam, up to 50% off. Eclectic selection of destinations, but still!

    • Lawro says:

      22 Nov22 November 00:18

      Nothing beyond the EMEA sale from Hilton apparently…

• FlyUpTop says:

  21 Nov21 November 07:36

  Jersey from Bournemouth is good, think mainly Ryanair fly from there at present.

• Lumma says:

  21 Nov21 November 08:01

  OT flew back from Munich last night and the BA lounge has closed. It’s been replaced by the “Airport Lounge World” which is also the priority pass lounge and I was very impressed with it.

  Huge lounge over two floors with tons of seating options, decent food both hot and cold and it was pretty much deserted on a Monday evening at 5pm, only negative was the alcohol selection was a bit meh if you didn’t want beer

  • Alex says:

    21 Nov21 November 12:58

    Who goes to Munich to drink anything else than beer??? (and maybe a couple of schnapps’ in-between to settle) 😉

• ITAmateur says:

  21 Nov21 November 08:14

  Thanks Rob. Does anybody know if those Air China business class tickets are refundable?

  • Polly says:

    21 Nov21 November 08:27

    These sale tickets are usually non refundable. Worth doing a dummy booking till,you get to the t and c bit…But QR will allow you to put your tickets on hold for another time for a couple hundred £.

• krys_k says:

  21 Nov21 November 08:15

  OT. Recently taken a number of club Europe flights and the food has been disappointing. In fact I would have preferred the menu for M&S buy on board. Although, the prawns that I had for a starter quite a while back were magnificent. Anyway, thinking back to before I discovered HFP and this hobby of ours, I came up with a few hacks of my own, one of which was to pre order a Kosher meal in economy. Reason was that flying out of the UK it was a huge selection and much tatstier than standard fair (Kosher meals not prepared in the UK were not as magnificent). So question is – is any of the pre order club Europe food uniformly better than standard food? If so will give it a try next time. Thanks

  • Gerry says:

    21 Nov21 November 08:36

    I flew in BA CE in September and bloke had pre ordered vegan meal. When it arrived he queried if ‘that is it’ and asked if there were no choices. Don’t know what he got but me chicken was good.

  • Alex says:

    21 Nov21 November 09:23

    Kosher *from* UK is good. I’ve had instances of kosher *to* the UK being an apple.

    • Rochelle says:

      21 Nov21 November 14:13

      Kosher meals originating from the UK (catered by Hermolis) are generally acknowledged by frequent fliers as the best of all kosher meal options in the industry.

      The only problem is when our flight from LCY had it’s kosher meals loaded in AMS…

  • Tilly says:

    21 Nov21 November 09:50

    I’m usually happy with my low lactose meal in CE any time of the day. In CW I’m convinced I get the same meal as I did in F (only been in F once though) just served on a different plate.

    • Simon B says:

      21 Nov21 November 13:41

      I was pleasantly surprised by a Club Europe meal I had from a recent LHR-MAN flight. A very tasty rare roast beef salad – possibly the nicest meal I have had on a short European flight out of Heathrow with BA. It was a DO&CO branded meal, so I presume this was a trial ? It completely transformed the Club Europe experience, compared to the usual mediocre offerings on the short flights.

      Also – the champagne was Pommery Royal Brut (not the awful entry level Pommery BA used to serve) which is what Qatar also served me on the next flight I had to Doha. Very surreal!

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