Malaysia Airlines to launch flights to Paris, redeemable with Avios

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• Aston100 says:

  8 Sep8 September 11:38

  I decided to book Bali to Paris.
  Cost £230 pp in economy.
  Paid an additional £41 pp to make the booking fully refundable / flexible.
  For the longhaul sector, I paid an additional £33 pp for row 26 window side where they have a pair of seats in the exit row with a huge amount of space in front.
  As the longhaul sector is an overnight flight with a 23:40 departure time from Kuala Lumpur I’m hoping there won’t be the usual crowd of people socialising in that area in front of my seats as often happens on daytime flights.

  From Paris CDG, I’m looking at paying the equivalent of about £65 pp (Avios and cash) for the short hop to London on BA.

  In theory, Malaysia Airlines should through check my luggage from Bali DPS all the way to Heathrow.

  I understand the base £230 price is promotional due to the launch of this route.

  Overall, approx £369 one way per person, fully flexible, 35kg luggage, decent seats (for economy on the long haul). Priority check-in and boarding for the two MAS flights.

  Very happy.

  • Aston100 says:

    8 Sep8 September 11:39

    Sorry, meant that the £369 pp is the grand total from Bali to London, with all the listed extras added on.

• Michael says:

  8 Sep8 September 11:44

  In true MH style, a fairly illogical decision from my point of view … I am unconvinced that launching CDG, a Skyteam hub, should have come before MAD, a Oneworld hub with possibility to get connecting traffic via IAG, incl. from the geographies they seem to be after, but also beyond these.

  • Nick says:

    8 Sep8 September 11:58

    It may seem illogical to an armchair network planner, but in the real world it’s very sensible. Paris is a significantly bigger O&D market than Madrid – at both ends of route – and you’d be an idiot to set up a route that relied solely on connections. Plus you don’t need an alliance to set up interline or codeshare arrangements – sure it helps, but isn’t essential.

  • Marcw says:

    8 Sep8 September 14:42

    MAD is completely illogical. Little through traffic at MAD – and remember, IB partners with QR through a JV.

  • Throwawayname says:

    8 Sep8 September 18:57

    CDG makes a lot more sense to me too. AF already have codeshares with airlines from different alliances, plus they can also work with smaller European airlines that have limited/no routes to the Far East (e.g. JU, LO, BT, EI, A3, even TAP).

• Tom says:

  8 Sep8 September 13:40

  Re Accor lounges, at least in the UK there are hardly any of them. The only one I have personally been to is the Sofitel at LHR-T5. Not sure either of the other Sofitels (St. James and Gatwick) have them.

  Neither Pullman (London and Liverpool) has them, not any MGallery I have visited. I am not even sure the £1,000 a night Raffles and Savoy have them. Nor the UK Fairmonts according to this article.

  It really is hopeless compared to (say) Hilton which has a dozen or so lounges in London plus Cambridge, Liverpool, Gateshead, Manchester and so on.

  • Throwawayname says:

    8 Sep8 September 19:10

    I have been to a lounge in a Mövenpick. Wasn’t anything special whatsoever. A few Novotels have them too, although I think that might be an APAC thing – I have been to ones in HKG and KUL and they were pretty good but it was over a decade ago.

    To be blunt, lounges are yet another thing that I view as superfluous, if not entirely pointless, about high end city hotels – I would much rather engage in people watching at a coffee shop (where the coffee will be better!) or strike up conversations with locals in a bar. I know that some of the Fairmonts are in more holiday type locations (lakes, ski resorts), in which case a lounge would probably be a bit handier.

    • CJD says:

      8 Sep8 September 19:35

      Bang on.

      I don’t get the fascination with lounges at hotels, you’re getting mediocre food and beverage options at big chain hotels in cities.

      • Kwab says:

        9 Sep9 September 10:15

        In the Middle East or places like Malaysia, drinking in the lounge can save you quite a bit of money. Also, if you are with family you can get a seat and in an emergency get back to your room pronto!

        • Tom says:

          9 Sep9 September 16:39

          Kwab, I am not sure that you should be taking your family to any city where you think that an “emergency” there is likely!

  • Kwab says:

    9 Sep9 September 10:12

    Gatwick has a lounge…

• Martin says:

  8 Sep8 September 15:24

  Kyiv would be an interesting lounge to visit..

• Jonny says:

  9 Sep9 September 06:46

  OT: just used priority pass and noticed they now mention charging if multiple entitlements are used on the same airport visit

• Peter Watkins says:

  14 Sep14 September 09:15

  I will be extremely cautious of ever booking with Malaysian again. Booked 22 Feb 24 SIN-KUL in economy, but the most expensive of three fares on line, fully flexible and refundable. The airline never credited my BA Executive account with Avios or Tier Points, failed to respond to the BA online “missing Avios” form, and when I wrote directly to their Customer Services in KL, they responded (after several months) that they could only deal with complaints from their own members, and the responsibility for awarding the Avios and Tier Points in this case would be with BA. I wrote back asking how they thought BA would even know of my trip, but no further communication from Malaysian.

  • Rob says:

    14 Sep14 September 09:21

    MH is correct actually – you retroclaim via BA using the form on ba.com.

    • Peter Watkins says:

      17 Sep17 September 06:02

      Thanks for your reply Rob. I did use the ba.com online form to claim, which BA acknowledged by saying the claim had been forwarded to MH for action. MH never responded, and I heard nothing more either from BA, so I am still none the wiser what the procedure is to inform BA of my flight. Hence the reason I then wrote directly to MH customer services to no avail.

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