Flight deals: 10% off ALL flights, TAP deals to the Americas, Turkish deal to Hong Kong

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• SB says:

  15 Jan15 January 06:55

  Business on a Turkish A321 one of the most uncomfortable trips last year.

  Reason? The head rests are fixed and do not vertically adjust. Anyone over 5’9” will find it pushes uncomfortably into the shoulders producing an awkward and unnatural posture.

  • R_B says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:45

    Plus their 777s have the stupid 2-3-2 seating layout in business.

• Spaghetti Town says:

  15 Jan15 January 07:20

  OT sorry:

  If i switch on auto convert tesco to virgin for the current bonus – will it automatically transfer all my vouchers approx £16.50 to virgin?

  I would prefer to use them for pizza express – so would it make sense to convert the £16.50 in vouchers to pizza express first, then switch on auto convert?

  I have the minimum 250 points in my account to qualify for the offer.

  • Robin says:

    15 Jan15 January 08:13

    I believe it only autoconverts points and any pre-existing vouchers remain as vouchers to be used with reward partners or money off Tesco. Not 100% certain thiugh

  • Steve R says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:47

    Will only convert current vouchers

• AJA says:

  15 Jan15 January 07:27

  If you find BA’s website clunky try TAP. Not only could I not find a flight at the headline sale rate (every flight is actually over £2k), worse when you try selecting an outbound flight you get stuck and the “select return flight” button is greyed out. Gave up through frustration.

  • Throwawayname says:

    15 Jan15 January 08:02

    It keeps crashing on my devices. For reasons that I can’t remember, I have their app on my phone and that does work well.

    Anyone booking TAP business class to W. Africa should check the configuration as some of the routes are likely operated with standard narrowbodies. There were certainly no flat seats to be seen on my flight to VXE (Cabo Verde) a couple of years ago – I wasn’t bothered as I was in Y and it was a mid-morning flight, but I would imagine that anyone paying the best part of two grand to get to BJL is unlikely to be impressed by that sort of hard product. To be fair, it’s only a four-hour flight from LIS so I don’t think anyone would be expecting to get some decent sleep.

    • chris w says:

      15 Jan15 January 14:28

      I’m fascinated to know who would pay almost £2,000 (on sale!) for Euro business all the way to Africa. What a waste of money.

      • Throwawayname says:

        15 Jan15 January 16:13

        I’m sure there’ll be people working in the intergovernmental sector, NGOs and the like who have it paid for them. On my VXE flight, the business passengers were Americans on a fishing trip or something so presumably on transatlantic fares.

• Paul says:

  15 Jan15 January 08:59

  I grabbed a TK fare from CAI to DPS in 2017 and paid £900 per person for J. The family had a holiday in Jordan at Easter and the fare allowed unlimited stopover in IST. So we flew from Amman to CAI then up to IST. Separate tickets back home till August when we flew back to IST and did 2 nights there to tour the city and see the Sufi Dancers. Fab.
  Non stop then to Bali and non stop back and was very impressed. We dropped the final CAI leg and flew home on BA. That was an eye opener as compared to TK they were just awful.
  TK offer family accounts and the mileage from that trip alone allowed my wife and I to fly New York London via IST for under £100 with fully flat beds on both flights. I wouldn’t hesitate to fly TK and IST airport while huge is great

  • BBbetter says:

    15 Jan15 January 11:51

    All those prices and redemption requirements are long gone. Fares are expensive and multiple devaluations of miles have made the program useless. Many still choosing to live in the past.
    I’d agree that BA is awful though!

    • Throwawayname says:

      15 Jan15 January 12:12

      As this post demonstrates, good deals are still available on TK, even if they’re less ubiquitous than five years ago. They’ve also been selling J to MEL for less than a couple of grand return. I don’t know much about their FFP, but one can credit anywhere within Star Alliance.

    • Paul says:

      15 Jan15 January 12:12

      Well the cash fare deals are still alive and well as this article demonstrated. I cant comment on redemptions as I am not active in the programme anymore. My point was simply that they are a decent carrier.

  • David says:

    15 Jan15 January 20:35

    Haha this is a funny post. In 2000s I flew to Eindhoven and back for 2p. Now prices are 1000% higher. Rip off Britain.

• Rob says:

  15 Jan15 January 09:29

  That’s gone I think – I had to book a non-BA flight last week so looked for it with no success.

• Aston100 says:

  15 Jan15 January 09:32

  I used this the other day.
  Caps at £30 statement credit, which as you say posts very quickly.

  • Aston100 says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:34

    That was a reply to Mikee regarding Trip dot com statement credit offer on some Amex cards

• Joyce says:

  15 Jan15 January 10:17

  Will the 10% on Trip work on flight plus hotel packages too?

  • Rob says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:24

    No

• Alex G says:

  15 Jan15 January 12:06

  TBH I’ve heard so many horror stories about using OTAs – particularly during the pandemic – that I would rather pay more and book directly with the airline.

  • Aston100 says:

    15 Jan15 January 12:56

    Normally I’d agree.
    However, comments around the internet suggest Trip seem to be slightly better at handling things should there be cancellations or changes from the airline. This is the area where many OTAs fail.

  • Numpty says:

    15 Jan15 January 13:14

    used Expedia for flights last year, against my own advice, but the fare difference was hundreds of £s for the same flight compared to booking direct. I had one issue when a flight time changed and it was not reticketed correctly, and Expedia fixed it very easily on online chat; told them of the issue and they went off immediately to fix it with the airline rather than me dealing direct with the airline – it took them about 30 mins to fix, rather than me being on hold/online chats for 30 mins direct with the airline.

    • Alex G says:

      15 Jan15 January 13:48

      I have used Expedia a couple of times in the past. I bought a one way ticket from LGW to MCO, marketed by IB, BA flight. A quarter of the cost of the same flight booked through BA. All went well.

      But I used Expedia to fly to South America many years ago. LGW-BCN-MAD-EZE outbound and SCL-MAD-LGW return. Checking in at LGW, BA checked our luggage through to EZE, but only gave us boarding passes for the flight to BCN, telling us we needed to go the the transit desk at BCN. At BCN, an IB employee who spoke very little English showed us his screen which showed we were waitlisted. It was nerve wracking. We got on the flights, but OH and I were seated far apart on the long flight to EZE. Flight home, I checked on the Expedia website and on IB before setting off for the airport, and the flight was meant to be on time. Arriving at SCL airport, we found that the flight (an IB codeshare on LATAM metal) had been rescheduled and was leaving an hour early. We barely made it.

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