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British Airways announces Summer flights to Newquay

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In a surprise move, British Airways has announced a limited Summer service to Newquay.

Regular readers will remember that Flybe currently runs a Newquay to Heathrow service, subsidised by the Government.  This service is moving to London Gatwick at the start of the Summer timetable at the end of the March, as part of a deal which saw Flybe add additional Manchester flights and a new Newquay to Amsterdam service.

The timetable is all over the place because British Airways has created the Heathrow slots by very carefully pruning of its existing short-haul network.  I am guessing that five different routes have each lost one flight per week.

British Airways announces Summer flights to Newquay

Flights start on 2nd July and will end on 7th September.

Here are the times:

  • Monday – outbound (from Heathrow) 18.05, returning 20.15
  • Thursday – outbound 07.00, returning 09.10
  • Friday – outbound 18.05, returning 20.15
  • Saturday – outbound 06.40, returning 09.55
  • Sunday – outbound 19.10, returning 21.25

To be fair, the times are great for a Thu-Sun, Thu-Mon, Fri-Sun or Fri-Mon short break.

Here is our review of the Executive Lounge at Cornwall Newquay Airport – don’t get too excited.

Flights were available for booking on ba.com.  The usual 2 x Club Europe and 4 x Euro Traveller seats are available on every flight so you might want to lock in a short break now.

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Comments (221)

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  • stevenhp1987 says:
    13 Feb13 February 07:09

    OT:

    Spend £5,700 get 1,500 bonus MR on my Amex Gold this morning….

    You may have a better version!

  • MattB says:
    13 Feb13 February 07:13

    OT – looking to stay at the cosmo in Las Vegas in a few months. Already have a booking direct I can cancel, but yesterday noticed a much cheaper rate via Agoda. It’s non refundable but over £50 a night less…anyone had issues not getting the exact room type you booked?

    • Jovanna says:
      13 Feb13 February 08:10

      I searched using Trivago. Agoda came up in the search results. Agoda had a wraparound suite at the Cosmopolitan for half the price of that showing anywhere else, including the hotel website or through Marriott or Autograph.

      I searched online for a discount code with Agoda (or maybe used a cαshback site) to shave a few more quid off.

      When we arrived at the front desk, we were given a choice of rooms. The clerk told us where each room was located within the hotel. He was upfront in saying that with our rate that he couldn’t give us a room with a view of the fountain. We’d not asked about that. It didn’t sound like a hint to slip him a few bucks. We opted for a corner suite overlooking the strip at the front of the hotel. View was incredible, as too was the room.

      • MattB says:
        13 Feb13 February 08:55

        Ok thanks, Agoda are offering a terrace with fountain view, I don’t want to get bumped to a non premium view. I think with wraparound suites you can’t book a premium (fountain) view specifically so that’s why you weren’t offered one.

  • Smudge says:
    13 Feb13 February 07:24

    From March I will be travelling London-Kabul every couple of months on Emirates. The default would seem to be to pick up miles/status in Emirates own scheme. However, I would prefer an alliance. I saw that it is possible to book some Emirates tickets on Qantas flight numbers (codeshares). I would be happy to do this (if only on the UK-Dubai leg) but can’t find any Emirates/Qantas codeshares.

    Can anyone help? Thanks.

    • Jonathan says:
      13 Feb13 February 07:50

      Only works if route is UK-Australia.

      • chris says:
        13 Feb13 February 07:59

        Unless that changed recently (8 weeks) that isn’t true. If the EK flight has a Qantas code share you should be ok to get BA tier points / avios

    • Rob says:
      13 Feb13 February 08:29

      You need to ask a travel agent to book the QF code share. They are hard to book online.

  • Bob says:
    13 Feb13 February 07:40

    OT thanks

    Monthly Withdrawals upto £200 on Virgin+ via Curve have been treated as a purchase so far. Could anyone please confirm if this is also case with IHG without additional charges?

  • Harry T says:
    13 Feb13 February 07:49

    OT:
    My partner has just received the green card which we will upgrade to platinum shortly to get the upgrade bonus. Does spend on the green card before upgrading count towards the 4k spend for the upgrade bonus?

    • Princess says:
      13 Feb13 February 08:34

      No it doesn’t, I’ve just done it.
      Unfortunately for me didn’t count neither a charge I made when the card was update to platinum online (before I received the physical card) and activated it)

      • BJ says:
        13 Feb13 February 08:48

        I would query that with amex, after the card updated online any subsequent spend has always counted.

  • Michael C says:
    13 Feb13 February 07:52

    Ha, received a “Would you like to upgrade?” for my HKG BA 32 in April, which we’re just about to cancel.

    Our school is now quarentening up to the end of April, also for Japan (it was our cherry blossom trip, grr), BKK, SIN, etc. etc.

    • Alan says:
      13 Feb13 February 10:00

      Wow they’re quarantining anyone that’s been to those locations but are asymptomatic? That seems a bit OTT of them!

      • Lady London says:
        13 Feb13 February 15:11

        Ask @Callum about that 🙂

        I think the point is it’s asymptomatic but infectious for up to 2 weeks, so better safe than sorry.

  • Jonathan says:
    13 Feb13 February 07:52

    OT:

    Can you hold a Green & Platinum simultaneously? Need to keep my MR points when I bin Platinum but will potentially be interested in a Green-Plat upgrade in a few months.

  • AlexT says:
    13 Feb13 February 07:57

    OT: Quick question about loading Revolut with a Creation IHG card. Seeing as both Visa and Mastercard treat the transaction as cash-like, with IHG charging interest from day 1, does that mean those transaction also lower one’s credit score? After all, cash transactions are reported to credit agencies…

    • John says:
      13 Feb13 February 09:31

      The UK doesn’t have credit scores, except as marketing devices by companies that don’t lend money.

      Every lender views cash withdrawals on credit cards differently.

      Frequent cash withdrawals on Halifax Clarity in the past never impacted my approval for Amexes.

    • jc says:
      13 Feb13 February 09:33

      I haven’t seen any impact when making small cash advance transactions here and there, but you are correct that the amount and number of transactions is absolutely reported to the credit reference agencies who are free to factor it in any way they like. I personally avoid any major moves for that reason – I’d be much more experimental with the whole game if just fees/interest

    • Alan says:
      13 Feb13 February 10:01

      Don’t IHG also charge cash advance fees?

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