Good Etihad business class sale to a Dubai bus stop (!) from €739 or £1,093

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• Ravi says:

  6 Oct6 October 05:39

  The bus service is complimentary .I have booked multi city trip using the recent Amex offer .I booked the ticket as LHR-AUH -XNB for a Friday night and see the Dubai expo and take the flight back on Monday morning from AUH to LHR(Direct not starting at XNB) If i did book it as round trip it was expensive than the multi city after the Amex offer and the 10% off code for Amex booking (never expires) compared to multi city.

  Recently the prices dropped so called in Customer services to take the voucher and rebooked with the voucher and the balance was left as Etihad Money in the account which expires in two years time.

  • FCP says:

    6 Oct6 October 06:04

    Ravi, what is the Amex 10% off code?

    • Ravi says:

      6 Oct6 October 06:30

      https://www.headforpoints.com/2020/01/15/etihad-discount-code-for-american-express-cardholders/

      • Sandra says:

        6 Oct6 October 09:56

        Does this still work Ravi, unless I’m mistaken/misread, it says for flights up to June 2020?

        • Rob says:

          6 Oct6 October 10:13

          If it works it works, nothing lost otherwise!

        • Dominic says:

          6 Oct6 October 16:45

          Still working 🙂

      • Chris H says:

        6 Oct6 October 18:46

        Did not work for me. The prices were the same as on the main page, and even went through as far as putting in the payment details. The article said put in the first 4 digits of an Amex card. That also did not work.
        However, clicking on the promo code box and typing in AMXD0120 did work. £100 off the £2000 price was, I suspect, actually 10% off the flight element, and nothing of the taxes part. I was happy with £100 🙂

  • Ravi says:

    6 Oct6 October 06:41

    O/T :I called up Europcar to remove my account and delete the data about me .If i don’t do it this way my driving license number or DOB clashes in creating a new account.
    Opened up a new Europcar account as a USA resident (Amex platinum is my hire car benefit) and did upgrade my Europcar account to Privilege Elite for 45GBP on Ebay . I have applied code from flyer talk for the booking and I am paying 30GBP for intermediate car at AUH airport for 2 days.
    If I need to take the Etihad bus than I would have to move the car hire to Dxb.

    Last year over Christmas I have paid 270 pounds for 24 days at DXB T3 but didn’t get the free upgrade which comes with being Elite.

• John says:

  6 Oct6 October 05:41

  I hope all the cheap fare buckets don’t start and end at 0300

  • Andrew says:

    6 Oct6 October 06:15

    Or starting your journey at 08:00 from
    LHR.

• Dominic says:

  6 Oct6 October 05:48

  The busbis also run by a third party, so I would be very surprised if it caused an issue by not taking it.

  Also, worth mentioning, check the bus location on Etihad’s website. The old bus stop is no longer used, but still shows up as a valid location on Google.

• Tom says:

  6 Oct6 October 06:03

  Are these coming up as ‘business classic’ fares? If so then they include a chauffeur driven car within the UAE – so no need to take the bus.

  I’ve also confirmed with Etihad in the past (very helpful via Twitter) that they don’t consider the bus a sector. Missing it does not invalidate your ticket. I did this when I stayed in Dubai then moved to Abu Dhabi early.

• FCP says:

  6 Oct6 October 06:04

  Can you not swap the buss for the limo service being in Business class?

  • Andrew says:

    6 Oct6 October 06:11

    Not at these prices – it’s the fare class which doesn’t get you chauffeur drive.

• Andrew says:

  6 Oct6 October 06:14

  Also worth noting that Abu Dhabi has different Covid arrival rules to Dubai, requiring testing on day 2 and 6 so I think that might impact on these fares even when your final destination is Dubai.

  • Dominic says:

    6 Oct6 October 06:36

    Only if you stay in AUH. Think it is day 4 and 8, also, now. If you leave AUH and return on day 9, you are not breaching the rules. The test on arrival is free, and took about 2 hours to get a result (and you can leave the airport etc during this time).

    • Dominic says:

      6 Oct6 October 06:39

      Oh, and if you do stay, tests are available in a few malls in Abu Dhabi (or even at your hotel), base price is £12. I believe Etihad organise tests at your hotel for biz pax, but not certain on that

  • meta says:

    6 Oct6 October 06:39

    You can travel straight to Dubai if you have been vaccinated after taking a test on arrival, no need for extra tests.

    • Andrew says:

      6 Oct6 October 06:47

      Although arriving directly into Dubai there is no arrival test.

• Jeff Greene says:

  6 Oct6 October 06:17

  “ even if it means turning around in Dubai and getting a taxi straight back to Abu Dhabi.”

  Good god. Here’s me thinking that holidays are meant to be enjoyable

  • ChrisC says:

    6 Oct6 October 08:05

    If you can save a shed load of money then some people will do this sort of thing.

    Not much difference to say flying to e.g. AMS, staying the night, then starting your real trip ticketed from AMS

    Not for everyone but for those of us that do it it can be very worthwhile.

  • Rob says:

    6 Oct6 October 09:03

    Don’t do this with the Mrs and two young kids. If you’re 25, single and fancy a cheap break and a bit of fun to stick on social media ….

    • paul says:

      6 Oct6 October 10:03

      Rob, depends on the Mrs!

      and I assume you are referring simply to this DXB fare when you say do it!

      But

      Ex EU (and Libya in the good old days) in general can save staggeringly serious sums of money. My wife was happy to do ex EU from when my two kids could walk! Consequently, lots of very comfortable Bali and Hawaii trips over the years with the bonus of shed loads of Tier points and Avios. Everyone was gold or silver. Despite still spending £6k-£10k on a trip (family of 4) that was less than the cost of ex LHR fares alone.

      From Libya in 2008 and 2010 as a family of 4, we flew to Sydney in F for under £3,600 including getting to Libya and the stay (The hospitality we received has never been matched)

      The avios then used to do trips to Europe, Egypt, Jordan and the odd weekend away in New York in F for the two of us.
      For a while Cairo was a real sweet spot for Hawaii fights, as the fare allowed unlimited free stopovers. So we stopped for months at home in London before heading, New York, Washington, Philadelphia or LA, and still getting 2 weeks on Big Island Beaches. Washington and New York are great places to take kids.

      The last great saving was Turkish ex Cairo to Bali in 2019. This was under £900 each and again unlimited stops. The miles from that are covering 2 business class 1-way flights from New York to London next year for $400.

      So it can really pay, when we started we did the immediate turnrounds at the outstation but we decided that it was best thing was to go the day before and make a day trip and see the European cities. Open top buses were great for this and Dublin, Luxemburg, Milan, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen were all seen. I’d have to say my kids now have the bug and hopefully will be able to travel in the future themselves to see the sites they have had taste of.

      • Christopher says:

        6 Oct6 October 10:20

        Did an ex IST DONE (I think it was called) RTW in 2005 that saved incredible amounts of money

    • Jeff Greene says:

      6 Oct6 October 11:10

      Struggling to see what’s fun about a bus journey followed by a taxi journey going back to where I came from.

      Not sure what benefit I’d get from posting about it on social media.

      Each to their own though.

• MrIO says:

  6 Oct6 October 06:40

  Use the code AMXD0120 for extra discount.

  • Andrew says:

    6 Oct6 October 07:11

    Off the base fare (excluding T&Cs)

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