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NorthernLass 10,482 posts

Good morning readers in Australia and fellow insomniacs. I’m just re-arranging a few itineraries after an extremely stressful day yesterday, albeit punctuated by grounding visits to HFP in between calls to the vet! Our (house) kitty somehow managed to escape from the house (we still can’t work out how) during yesterday’s storm and was found in the garden soaking wet and with a broken leg 🐈‍⬛ 😭. Thankfully the vet could see her straight away but she has to go back for an operation on Monday to repair her femur. To top it all, the vet doesn’t accept Amex …

Anyway, in travel news, our MAN-MAD-ACE flight in October has been scuppered by IB moving the MAN-MAD leg back by 8 hours so the connection now doesn’t work.
The LCCs want an arm and a leg for seats and a checked bag, which we need due to OH’s dive gear. Also I would prefer to book with avios for the flexibility (BA only flies this route from LGW which does not work for us!)
There is a MAN-BCN-ACE option where the times work, but both legs are on Vueling 😩 …
Am I asking for trouble going for this option?
(As I understand it, we would get checked bags and limited seat selection, but no other OW benefits).

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