Get an excellent business class deal to Asia using Etihad Guest miles on Czech Airlines

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• TripRep says:

  7 Mar7 March 05:53

  LP – better hurry, you’ll be late getting in to Westminster for a good spot on the Tory backbenches…

  ps I hope this Harry

• David says:

  7 Mar7 March 07:07

  Good find, although we’re missing the explanation of how to get 50k Etihad miles in the first place. I think they convert from Amex MR (1:1), Bonvoy (3:1 plus the 5k bonus for 60k) and HSBC Premier points. Anything else?

  • guesswho2000 says:

    7 Mar7 March 07:39

    Most other hotel schemes at a terrible rate, or you could fly EY & its partners…

    • Rob says:

      7 Mar7 March 08:02

      Added a line about Amex.

• Zain says:

  7 Mar7 March 08:16

  Been on that flight and the food and service are terrible. No hot towels, only two food options (Korean or a very bland Continental), FAs were quite inefficient. For the money, it’s a nice way to sleep all the way to Korea but this is nowhere close to the typical long haul business class from BA, let alone EY or QR.

• Zain says:

  7 Mar7 March 08:30

  KE flies their Dreamliner on other days while the OK plane idles at Incheon, presumably for regular maintenance checks as it’s a leased KE plane anyway.

• Petr says:

  7 Mar7 March 08:31

  Anyone has a clue what’s the best use of Czech OK Plus airmiles, I claimed there some flights I never bothered as they were giving always 100% of mileage but I find their miles useless as everything requires asking their customer service and taxes are pretty high too. Any thoughts?

• Michael says:

  7 Mar7 March 08:57

  This is when the old Etihad Credit Card would of been useful I imagine!

• Concerto says:

  7 Mar7 March 09:32

  I personally would avoid CSA Czech Airlines, it’s pretty bad these days.

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    8 Mar8 March 09:25

    They seem to have shrunk a lot over the years. Around about 2008 I was using them quite frequently, they used to have a regular LHR-PRG service with better timings than BA. Now they don’t even serve LHR at all (presumably sold their valuable slots), they no longer have their own lounges in PRG, and I’m pretty sure back then they had a decent long haul network.

    In those days service was good (on the short hauls at least), in economy you could order special meals and the seafood meal was excellent. I only travelled short haul business with them once but remember I decent steak as the meal (as many people know steaks are generally to be avoided in the air, I didn’t know that back then but I wasn’t disappointed)

    • Alex Sm says:

      8 Mar8 March 19:11

      Oh, those were the days!.. PRG lounge was the first EVER lounge I’ve been after being upgraded to biz to compensate for 8-hour fog delay. Then I flew with them in 2007 and 2008 a few times to Czechia and Russia (they had an amazing LHR-PRG-SVX connection) and the lounge was good as was the food onboard. Oh, those were the days long gone…

      I’m glad I always used SU or FB progs to collect SkyTeam miles, not OK. They have been slipping downward in the last decade despite being 49% (?) owned by KE

• Ed says:

  7 Mar7 March 11:20

  I was on that flight last week and it was forced to divert and return to the origin with an emergency landing due to a fuel leak. While it was a good deal on miles it was a complete nightmare to get re-routed due to an issue with the Ethiad ticket. Was stuck on the ground in PRG for 2 days and had to buy an alternative ticket in the end as Czech were unwilling to help re-route.

  • Aliks says:

    7 Mar7 March 11:40

    We took that flight a year ago, and had a nightmare. The outbound flight was all right, but they had cancelled the inbound flight months earlier and neither Czech nor Etihad bothered to tell us. We only found out when we arrived at ICN checkin desk.
    The Korean airlines desk tried to help, but there were no flights for 48 hours so we ended up booking one way with QR to Oslo, plus a BA flight to London (which was delayed 3hrs 5mins, but thats another story)
    Predictably Czech and Etihad pointed the finger at each other, and we ended up with solicitors letters to get our EU621 compensation.
    A bit of research on FT showed others had the same problem (a couple of these flights cancelled over Easter period) and also that Czech airlines was in financial trouble with a takeover potentially in the offing.
    I don’t know the truth of the matter, but if anyone takes up this offer, monitor the status of the flights regularly!!

    • Ed says:

      7 Mar7 March 11:47

      Sounds very similar. Did you have any luck claiming for the flight you had to book yourself? Or did you just manage to get the standard compensation?

      • Aliks says:

        7 Mar7 March 21:34

        I had travel insurance which did pay out a couple of hundred, and legal insurance which put pressure on Czech. Unfortunately, the legal insurance delegated to one firm, which handed it off to some firm in Cornwall. They advised me to accept Czech’s first offer which was the EU statutory amount. I think the advice they gave was incorrect as Czech should have made more effort to inform me of the cancellation. There is some recent EU case to this effect saying the carrier, not the agent is responsible.

        Net effect was that I was not out of pocket, but didnt get a business class flight home.

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