News: Seoul flight deal, win 1 million Marriott points, DLR strike hits World Travel Market

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• RTS says:

  1 Nov1 November 04:10

  DLR is striking… Isn’t that an automated line…

  • BSI1978 says:

    1 Nov1 November 05:12

    Yes and no, each service still has someone on it checking the train doors etc prior to closing.

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    1 Nov1 November 07:40

    There are lots of other workers on the DLR that are required for safe operations including the on board supervisor, Station assistants, maintenance, cleaners, control room staff etc etc

    The trains might not require a driver but the line still requires staff.

    BTW most of the train strikes on the national network have been by non drivers rather than by drivers.

• Mouse says:

  1 Nov1 November 04:11

  “ Handily, the Lufthansa website automatically shows you the lowest price per day when you click into their calendar to select your dates. This means you can find the cheapest option in just a few seconds – a feature I’d love to see other airlines copy.”

  I hate this feature – it means any old idiot can bag the best deals – transparency is the enemy of the dedicated HfP-er!

  • John says:

    1 Nov1 November 10:05

    That tool gives some of the worst routing you could get. Connection in China or airport changes sometimes. While if you can use matrix you can get so much better routings.

• Mohamed says:

  1 Nov1 November 05:55

  From cable car to Excell it’s barely 10 minutes walk.

  • Rob says:

    1 Nov1 November 07:16

    TfL says 25 but I agree!

    • tony says:

      1 Nov1 November 07:30

      My guess would be that TfL put the marker for Excel at the East end of the complex and also calculated the walking route by having to cross over to the other side of the DLR line…

• Pablo says:

  1 Nov1 November 06:39

  That ICN fare has been around for a while https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals/2107249-lh-bud-icn-business-p-return-1100-limited-availability.html

• ChrisBCN says:

  1 Nov1 November 07:48

  “This means you can find the cheapest option in just a few seconds – a feature I’d love to see other airlines copy.”

  You know Google flights does this for you, right? Just select an airline (or alliance) and you can see the price per day in a full calendar view

  • John says:

    1 Nov1 November 10:06

    Google Flights has caching problem often where the fare shows but it gone when you start to look past the calander view

• Alex B says:

  1 Nov1 November 07:54

  Would people really rather, fly to Budapest then fly back to Frankfurt before going to Seoul in business rather than just flying economy/premium economy direct for less?

  To sacrifice that much time seems slightly alien to me, considering you have to spend that time in airports and on the plane.

  • LittleNick says:

    1 Nov1 November 08:28

    Something I would personally do, enjoying the OneWorld lounges out of T3 to Budapest, then maybe stay there a day, check it out and then travel onward to Seoul, but yes time consuming

    • TGLoyalty says:

      1 Nov1 November 09:35

      Oneworld? Lufthansa?

      • Thegasman says:

        1 Nov1 November 12:47

        For the positioning flight to BUD many HfP readers would be using BA from LHR.

  • Harry T says:

    1 Nov1 November 08:31

    Yes. Budapest is lovely too.

    • Rob says:

      1 Nov1 November 08:34

      If you were hand baggage only you could skip the last leg back to Budapest and get a direct flight back from Frankfurt, although you are sacrificing a few miles in the process.

  • Paul B says:

    1 Nov1 November 08:38

    Maybe I’m too much of a travel snob, but if those were the choices – economy non-stop or business multi-stop – I’d totally take the latter. Seoul is a long flight and as a tall guy I know how much more comfortable I’d be. I get the hassle factor, so I would in reality be considering a third option to spend a bit more money and fly business non-stop, especially given Lufthansa’s dated J product.

  • memesweeper says:

    1 Nov1 November 08:43

    > To sacrifice that much time seems slightly alien to me, considering you have to spend that time in airports and on the plane.

    I’ve shuttled to/from Dublin from Heathrow to pick up a cheap long transatlantic business flight. But this would would be too much detouring for me just for a long-leg business seat, I’d take Premium direct in preference, assuming pricing was the same.

    Budapest is lovely, so for those wishing to bolt on a second holiday, maybe… but if it’s eating into time in Seoul, not worth it IMO.

  • Paul says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:32

    In a heart beat, the difference between arriving shattered and arriving rested is invaluable. Would I pay FRA ICN or LHR ICN fares… no chance….

    Now there is a reason why a fare to ICN in February is so cheap. The weather in Seoul in February is ghastly. I mean truly horrible. It’s freezing with the wind coming straight down from Siberia. That is why so much is underground, that and the threat from the North.

    But if you use this fare as a means of getting to Australia with stops in Seoul, Tokyo and Fiji then you are laughing as Fijian are selling round trip Tokyo to Sydney for just $1566 USD and stopovers are free. Fiji is a great place to visit and this could make a very interesting routing down under.

  • aseftel says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:57

    There are some AFKLM fares out of LHR for ~£1.6k, if you’d prefer a simpler itinerary.

• paul says:

  1 Nov1 November 08:11

  Vodafone competition just mobile customer or broadband too?

  • Rob says:

    1 Nov1 November 08:25

    Not sure about broadband.

• AL says:

  1 Nov1 November 10:02

  There used to be, and might still be, decent LHR-BUD on BA, so you could do LHR BA BUD LH XXX LH ICN as a good mileage run on two alliances.

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