Air France launches a good Abu Dhabi business class flight deal from Dublin

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• Scott says:

  5 Sep5 September 06:19

  Petrol wise, the two Sainsbury i use in Manchester have gone up by around 13p-15p a litre in the last 2 weeks to 148.9. Diesel pretty much the same now.

  My local Esso stations are 3p and 9p more respectively, 2 mins apart.

  Did get a 500 Nectar point bonus for filling up 20l at the cheaper Esso station, so £2.50 worth of shopping (or 310+ Avios) for 60p.

  • Nick says:

    5 Sep5 September 06:44

    Yup Esso/Nectar have had some pretty good offers in the past few months on Supreme+. I generally wait for the 10X points, or at least 7X points, which come up every few weeks, for a fill up. But, as you mention, I’ve also had 250 bonus points for 25L+ this week as well, so much the same.

    • Harrier25 says:

      5 Sep5 September 09:04

      …and don’t forget to exchange 300 Nectar points to obtain 5p off every litre!

    • Mikeact says:

      5 Sep5 September 09:50

      Don’t forget, it’s a minimum 30ltrs per fill for the bonus points each time.

  • Chris H says:

    5 Sep5 September 10:54

    Yes I pretty much exclusively fill up at either Esso or BP now since both earn Avios/Nectar. Most Essos lets you fill up and pay through the app too so you don’t need to queue up at the kiosk!

• Jonathan says:

  5 Sep5 September 06:25

  Does anyone know if VS tier points are on rewarded on a segment basis i.e. if we did DUB-CDG-Abu Dhabi do we get tier points for the short haul plus the long haul? Thanks

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    5 Sep5 September 10:17

    Yes

• Ruralite says:

  5 Sep5 September 06:39

  The AF offer that has just finished also specified those UK airports in the offer but I booked a KLM flight (via logging in to my Flying Blue through AF) from Humberside, & only KLM fly from there, and it paid out the £150. I had to fly anyway so there would have been no loss if it hadn’t. I don’t think they know which airport just that you’ve paid through their site. I would add that at the moment AUH flights with AF/KLM are really high with DXB, for some reason, much cheaper but then you obviously have the onward taxi or someone drives to pick you up.

  • Andrew. says:

    5 Sep5 September 06:52

    Amex know exactly which airport you are flying from. However, I suspect that the algorithm that checks the data for rebates isn’t sophisticated to do more than check the merchant ID, value and transaction date.

  • southlondonphil says:

    5 Sep5 September 08:00

    Or the bus

    • southlondonphil says:

      5 Sep5 September 08:04

      This was in reply to Ruralite – there also being a bus between Dubai (Al Ghubaiba Bus Terminal) and Abu Dhabi

      • Ruralite says:

        5 Sep5 September 08:38

        Yes I know thanks. Obviously not nearly as cheap but, for me anyway, more convenient to be picked up or taxi to the far end of the Corniche after a flight!

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  5 Sep5 September 06:49

  The BA homepage has gone red meaning there’s a sale on. Anybody found anything of note?

  • aseftel says:

    5 Sep5 September 07:45

    When I had a quick look, these seemed better than usual:

    NYC Y £330
    AUS W £730
    DOH W £630
    PEK W £740
    PHX J £1,800
    DXB F £2,300
    HND F £3,500

    With the holidays promo you can add a car onto most of these for free or a slight discount.

  • Gordon says:

    5 Sep5 September 08:07

    Did you not get the email yesterday?

    • Scott says:

      5 Sep5 September 08:38

      No emails for me.

      Had one a few weeks ago for the GGL survey (plus a reminder), a copy of the Highlife magazine came in the post yesterday for some reason, and zero pre-flight emails even though check in opens later today for my next BA flight.
      Not had a single email about sales etc. since 2017, and my details are up to date.

      • Gordon says:

        5 Sep5 September 08:49

        I received it at 17:07 yesterday, I would check with BA as to why this is! and as you say your details are up to date. Especially as you have not had one for 6 years! I would have been suspicious after a few months!

        I would not be surprised if they just blame their super efficient IT system!

        • Rhys says:

          5 Sep5 September 08:56

          They aren’t always sent out at the same time.

        • Scott says:

          5 Sep5 September 09:30

          I’m blaming taking them to CEDR and winning 😉
          Everything was fine up to then!

  • Rhys says:

    5 Sep5 September 08:55

    It’s a non-sale in business to the US – prices across the board the highest we’ve seen in a “sale” since 2022!

    • Gordon says:

      5 Sep5 September 09:06

      Tbh, I’ve only ever booked one or two flights from a sale email in anyway, Cementing your comment Rhys “sale” does not always mean “sale” it’s just an eye catching headline! “These prices were higher on this previous date Bla Bla!

      • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

        5 Sep5 September 10:21

        Indeed.

        A couple of searches I did over the weekend for trips planned but not yet booked were a bit of a mixed bag – a couple were now lower, a couple the same and a couple now higher (but not by much)

    • Michael says:

      5 Sep5 September 15:54

      I think sale prices are ok.

      I’ve been planning to book BHD-BOS in early April 2024. I held off until last night and was aiming to book on VS for £2000 in Upper with a BA connection over LHR, which I had priced last week. I was glad I prevaricated as it had dropped to £1750 return, and there’s a bonus 20000 miles on top. I saw this article about the BA sale and that explained it! BA want £1821 though for similar flights so VS got it.

      £1750 ex BHD is pretty much as good as it gets and is on power with the best recent ex-DUB pricing. Usually for BHD Z fares on VS the website will try to route over AMS on the sole daily flight, necessitating an overnight connection. Usually LHR needs full J fares, so this is great. ExDUB in this sale about EUR1800.

• Stuart says:

  5 Sep5 September 07:26

  A DUB-AMS-CDG-AUH rtn in J class would earn 108XP for AF-KL Flying Blue, so at £1,100 the earning rate is 10.2XP/£, which is not great. For those chasing status points the intra-Europe routes with 2 stops (usually start/end in Poland) are better, but less comfortable.

• Gordon says:

  5 Sep5 September 08:38

  Fuel related—

  Costco U/L £1.429 PL & Diesel £1.449 PL.
  Esso U/L £1.459 PL & Diesel £1.499 PL.

  Both the above within 2 miles radius.

  Amex offer definitely worth it on this occasion, as Costco usually beats all fuel prices hands down!

  Disclaimer— Sourced by Google online 8:30am on 05/09/2023, so prices may change without warning 😉

• dadbod says:

  5 Sep5 September 09:51

  Which cards are you seeing the Esso offer? I don’t have it on my Gold and it’s not on my other halfs Platinum.

• Paul says:

  5 Sep5 September 10:44

  The example of DUB AUH on AF suggest a journey time of 21 hrs! outbound and 11 hours inbound. 🙁

  As for email from BA. I can’t even view my existing bookings and yesterday the website told me there were no flights LHR GLA.

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