News: 1964 Heathrow video, Shangri-La Golden Circle coronavirus updates

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• mradey says:

  11 Oct11 October 07:03

  Great video! I started browsing the Pathé website…

  With BA saying goodbye to the 747, this seems poignant.

  https://www.britishpathe.com/video/jumbo-jet/query/wildcard

• Catalan says:

  11 Oct11 October 08:21

  Fantastic Pathe newsreel, wonderfully narrated by the late Bob Danvers-Walker

• Ed E says:

  11 Oct11 October 09:24

  They have the same audio controls as the BA lounge showers! Those ones seemed to work though!

• Steve says:

  11 Oct11 October 09:56

  IHG 30% is off advance, not best flexible bookings?

• Aston100 says:

  11 Oct11 October 11:11

  Qatar sale is misleading.
  Their teacher offer the other day was genuinely dishonest.
  This airline needs to be careful if they don’t want to annoy people and undo the positivity they created during the first six months of Covid.

  • Qwertyknowsbest says:

    11 Oct11 October 11:28

    Substantiate?

    • Aston100 says:

      11 Oct11 October 11:33

      No availability to any of the dozens of destinations that I checked for the next 4 UK school holidays.
      And in the 5th holiday (may half term) I can only find Muscat and Jakarta.
      The second ticket is supposed to be 50% off the base fare, but seems it can’t be in the W booking class, and so you end up paying for a higher base fare resulting in a larger than 50% off the W class fare you just booked for the primary ticket.

      Given that the offer was for teaching staff, and restricted to W booking class for the first ticket, its ridiculous that there is apparently no W booking class availability during School holidays. Remember teaching staff cannot take leave outside of school holidays.

      Hence a dishonest offer for teaching staff

      • Rob says:

        11 Oct11 October 12:09

        It’s a global offer. Even the rest of Europe doesn’t follow UK term dates – German kids are back at school in mid August for example.

      • AndyGWP says:

        11 Oct11 October 12:16

        Have you approached Qatar about this? Wondering what their response may be (I’ve not even had chance to search for anything yet!) :/

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 12:13

    Got an email yesterday from someone who booked Tokyo on the exact dates he wanted, so it seems to vary.

    • Aston100 says:

      11 Oct11 October 18:03

      I’m interested in knowing which school holiday period this lucky chap booked his flights.

    • marcw says:

      11 Oct11 October 23:34

      Ouch… Tokio via Doha is not something I would do in economy. Did it once – never again; your travel time is almost doubled. Way way way way better if you manage to get something from Europe to Japan.

• David says:

  11 Oct11 October 11:48

  While very early, I don’t think this can be said to be the first Heathrow hotel or even the oldest still open. Think that goes to the round Ariel – opened in 1961 and still going.

  It’s got some video too, but no voice over commentary:
  https://www.britishpathe.com/video/new-ariel-hotel-nr-london-airport/

• PaulC says:

  11 Oct11 October 11:55

  Please could someone remind me the telephone number for First class customers. Still waiting for a refund that I cancelled a month or two ago. Thanks

  • Matt says:

    11 Oct11 October 12:40

    You can find it in less than 10 seconds by googling!

• Nigel W says:

  11 Oct11 October 13:48

  Great news to hear regarding Shangri La Golden Circle updates. For a while I was worried my points would expire at the end of this year.

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