An excellent British Airways World Traveller Plus premium economy flight deal to North America

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• Unsavage gerbil says:

  5 Jan5 January 17:00

  All good except Bronze status is as useful as used toilet paper.

  The Melia deal is jolly good though.

  The Gerbil.

• Jeremy I says:

  5 Jan5 January 17:08

  Hi all. Sorry if this is a stupid question but what would the difference in taxes and charges be to upgrade from wtp to business class to Boston. I recall ba have upped taxes on USA to UK redemptions so would like to know how much extra cash they would charge to upgrade lhr to Boston return ? Thanks Jeremy

  • Tim says:

    5 Jan5 January 17:15

    I’ve just upgraded one way LON-MIA from WTP-CW and the additional fee was £122.

    • Jeremy I says:

      5 Jan5 January 17:17

      Thanks. The difference by running a dummy booking is around £190 but maybe it comes in cheaper somehow..Jeremy

    • Lady London says:

      5 Jan5 January 20:57

      Ermmm that actually means British Airways is taking that £122. And keeping that extra money for themselves.

      Reason is, APD tax is the same amount for 1 seat across Premium Economy (WTP), Business and First.

      so any increase payable MUST be an amount charged by British Airways, that is going straight into British Airways’s own pocket, and its NOT TAX.

      Did British Airways seriously tell you the extra money was “tax” ?

      • TGLoyalty says:

        5 Jan5 January 22:40

        While it’s normally a default response to say it’s a fee not tax.

        Both OP and Tim said charges/fees.

    • Riccatti says:

      5 Jan5 January 22:20

      122GBP on top of which amount…

• Shoestring says:

  5 Jan5 January 20:15

  for a moment I thought I could buy on Amazon Spain using my UK Amazon credit – but that’s not allowed – I can log in all right using UK details, just not use my credit

  • Shoestring says:

    5 Jan5 January 22:13

    anybody found some kind of ‘alerter’ site that will tell you when Amazon drops its price on a product?

    • Sloth says:

      5 Jan5 January 22:40

      Camel x3 surely

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      5 Jan5 January 22:40

      CCC will send you an email or a tweet if the price goes to your desired level

    • Andrew M says:

      5 Jan5 January 22:41

      The camels will send you an alert for a price drop. You just tell them what price you want and supply an email address.

    • Lady London says:

      6 Jan6 January 01:49

      It works I used the alert feature at Christmas. Got 2 or 3 things much, much cheaper. Maybe CCC has not always had that feature? IIRC I think there is somewhere you need to set it up maybe on each amazon site too rather than one alert covering price changes on all for items that might appear on more than one of them.

    • Shoestring says:

      6 Jan6 January 06:39

      cheers all, the answer was nearly in my grasp but I was too tired to see it for myself

    • Mikee says:

      6 Jan6 January 11:08

      https://keepa.com/ plgin for Chrome is excellent. Upon loading Amazon pages, it automatically shows historical pricing of the item and you can also setup price alerts.

• Shoestring says:

  5 Jan5 January 21:31

  just booked Xmas outward for 2020 (European SH to our place in the sun) and the usual 0.8p/ point option was not there on Avios + Money

  cheapest was 0.86p so I didn’t go for it

• Secret Squirrel says:

  5 Jan5 January 21:40

  How do you contact BAEC after 8 pm?

  • Rob says:

    5 Jan5 January 21:58

    Google the US call centre number

• Riccatti says:

  5 Jan5 January 21:54

  PE fares are in response of Virign sale.

• Nic says:

  6 Jan6 January 00:15

  QUITE AN IMPORTANT BITS regarding DragonPass via Red By Dufry Platinum.

  If you opened a DP account via the Red by Dufry Platinum code which results in a DP Classic membership offering lounge visits at a third the standard price (thanks @Shoestring, @the_real_a et al) and are thinking about nabbing a handful of visits “for the future”, content in the knowledge that T&Cs say that “lounge visit purchases can be cancelled and refunded at any time” – BE AWARE:

  I purchased a visit and then test cancelled it to see how easy the process was.

  The call centre was quick to reach, the situation was easy to explain and I had only to give my DP card number. However as part of the refund, they cancelled the whole DP card! The explanation was that as the membership was part of a Dufry points offer, any cancellationsn would be for the entire set of remaining visits and the card had to be cancelled as part of the process.

  One would presume one could go through the process again and set up another card via Red, perhaps using a different email address. Perhaps I have already tested this…

  But be aware that if you want to hang on to that discounted DP membership you’ve just set up, don’t cancel your purchased visits. You’ll lose the card in the process.

• Ian says:

  6 Jan6 January 15:52

  Not sure if I am remembering something that never existed, but did BA ever include UK transfers at no extra cost when booking long haul from London. I.e. LHR – JFK would be the same price as MAN – JFK via LHR?

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