Good Australia business class fares with Singapore Airlines

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• lumma says:

  8 Feb8 February 10:20

  United Airlines points don’t expire if you’re looking for somewhere to credit these

  • Rob says:

    8 Feb8 February 10:21

    Hard to top up though, unless you convert Bonvoy.

    • lumma says:

      8 Feb8 February 14:47

      But then so are Miles and More

• Gringo says:

  8 Feb8 February 10:24

  For anyone looking to book Oz flights – my Plat amex is today showing an offer from Qantas: Spend £800+ get £120 back

  • Gringo says:

    8 Feb8 February 10:27

    Also on my Gold (unsurprisingly not on the BA cards…)

• Chris G says:

  8 Feb8 February 10:42

  As someone who sells turntables for a living, I’d like to warn anyone that playing vinyl on a Crossley will damage it and destroy it long term. They only cost about the same as 4 new LPs to buy!

  • Anuj says:

    8 Feb8 February 12:25

    Do you have any suggestions for a turntable around £350? I was thinking pro-ject perhaps

    • Chris says:

      14 Feb14 February 15:18

      Project or Rega at that price point .

  • Travel Strong says:

    8 Feb8 February 12:36

    I went with direct drive reloop turntables (Good reputation Technics 1210 replica’s)

  • Lady London says:

    8 Feb8 February 15:43

    @Chris G thank you.

    What sort of turntable/needle should I be playing very old records on? I think some may be shellac? or something similar

    • Chris says:

      14 Feb14 February 15:20

      If you’re playing 78rpm shellac it’s a tricky one. Nothing currently made (at a sensible price) will work properly. I’d suggest getting a classic gramophone. Just make sure you don’t re-use needles – will kill your shellac if you do…

  • David says:

    9 Feb9 February 01:34

    I thought the same looking at that nasty cartridge !

• BlueThroughCrimp says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:01

  Did the Barra beach landing excursion yesterday.
  Unforgettable, particularly in 40 knot winds on the island!
  A plane to ourselves with just my dad and me on the return leg.

  Hat tip to the person who posted the offer before Christmas.

  • Rob says:

    8 Feb8 February 13:28

    Glad you enjoyed it, definitively worth doing it once.

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      8 Feb8 February 19:21

      Thanks. Absolutely!

  • Alan Todd says:

    8 Feb8 February 18:44

    Great! I’m heading next week. Did you make it to Castlebay or just hang out at the airport?

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      8 Feb8 February 21:42

      Return flight was delayed by nearly 2 hours, (be prepared!) so instead of just going over the dune to the other beach, at the suggestion of the wonderful Barra check-in agent, we took a wee taxi tour for a couple of hours.
      Dan gave a great tour round the island (down the west to Castlebay, and back the up the east to the airport), with loads of local snippets of information, stopping off at a few places to point out things, like where the SS Politician was wrecked, and Compton MacKenzie’s resting place, all at a fair price of £60 for the two hour tour.

      The cafe at the airport is closed just now, there’s just a vending machine for snacks.

      It’s quite a surreal experience having been through the busiest airports, to fly from Barra where the pilot was seeing her mum before the return to Glasgow!

      Hope you enjoy it as much as me and my dad did, but get a bit more visibility!

• Thywillbedone says:

  8 Feb8 February 13:37

  Speaking of long haul flight deals: has anyone ever had success adding a third person (specifically a child) on to ongoing SWISS/Lufthansa travel partner deals …there are some very good offers available but they only seem to cater to two adults travelling? Would it not be better to sell three tickets together than two?

  • tony says:

    8 Feb8 February 19:14

    I seem to recall the trick was to book the child as an adult. You may lose out on a £50 or so discount as the base fare is so low, but it’s better than the alternative.

• Lady London says:

  8 Feb8 February 15:41

  D*** for the first time ever I regret moving my other 10,000 Virgin points to Hilton.

  I will be very interested to see Sinead’s review on PY on SQ.

  • Andrew J says:

    8 Feb8 February 15:56

    Do you mean Premium Economy? The code for that is W.

    • Lady London says:

      8 Feb8 February 20:13

      Not just, IIRC there are 4 booking classes in PY? Some call it Y+ too.

      I’m looking forward to Sinead’s review as I believe SQ may be one of the few airlines where PY is closer to J than Y?

      • Andrew J says:

        8 Feb8 February 21:06

        There are several booking classes for Y and J too – but the shorthand is to use the full fare code for each which is J for business, Y for economy (as you have done) and W is for premium economy.

• Mal says:

  8 Feb8 February 19:00

  Their site shows there are still 6 days to run for this promotion, but the cheapest CDG-MEL are now pricing out at over 3700euros for me, either directly with SIA or through Google flights. Anyone else seeing this?
  I tried booking the 2205 fare yesterday but they refused to accept my card for some bizarre reason. Yesterday almost everything at the end of the year was pretty much 2205, just 12 hours later and it’s that 3657 price. 3 different PCs, 3 different browsers, various combinations of cookie settings/blocking or secure browsing modes now all give the same.
  Some kind of temporary “glitch” or have i missed the boat?

• Louie says:

  8 Feb8 February 23:07

  I’m still seeing a fair bit of €2,205 availability but a lot of it requires a 17 odd hour stopover in Singapore on SQ’s website, which automatically lists flights in shortest duration time, so you have to reorder in price order or scroll down to see them.

  Also, should anyone be interested, open jaw into MEL and back from SYD isn’t that much more.

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