NEWS & OFFERS: 20% off Qatar Airways, easy 200-250 Avios and 5000 Virgin Points bonus

20% off Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways has a new promo code for Privilege Club Members: PCJUNE, which offers up to 20% off.

• Offer period: 04 June – 14 June 2024, at 23:59.
• Travel period: 05 June 2024 – 31 May 2025.

As regular readers will know, flying with Qatar from the UK is incredibly expensive, so I always recommend looking at flying from Europe or Scandinavia to see how much the difference in price is.

You can fly from:

• AGP – Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (Málaga, Spain)
• AMS – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• STO – Stockholm Arlanda Airport (Stockholm, Sweden)
• BCN – Barcelona-El Prat Airport (Barcelona, Spain)
• BER – Berlin Brandenburg Airport (Berlin, Germany)
• BHX – Birmingham Airport (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
• BRU – Brussels Airport (Brussels, Belgium)
• PAR – Paris (Multiple airports: Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) and Orly Airport (ORY))
• CPH – Copenhagen Airport (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• DUB – Dublin Airport (Dublin, Ireland)
• DUS – Düsseldorf Airport (Düsseldorf, Germany)
• EDI – Edinburgh Airport (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
• ROM – Rome (Multiple airports: Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport (FCO) and Ciampino Airport (CIA))
• FRA – Frankfurt Airport (Frankfurt, Germany)
• GVA – Geneva Airport (Geneva, Switzerland)
• HAM – Hamburg Airport (Hamburg, Germany)
• HEL – Helsinki Airport (Helsinki, Finland)
• LON – London (Multiple airports: Heathrow Airport (LHR), Gatwick Airport (LGW), Stansted Airport (STN), Luton Airport (LTN), City Airport (LCY), and Southend Airport (SEN))
• LIS – Lisbon Airport (Lisbon, Portugal)
• LYS – Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (Lyon, France)
• MAD – Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (Madrid, Spain)
• MAN – Manchester Airport (Manchester, United Kingdom)
• MUC – Munich Airport (Munich, Germany)
• MIL – Milan (Multiple airports: Malpensa Airport (MXP), Linate Airport (LIN), and Orio al Serio Airport (BGY))
• NCE – Nice Côte d’Azur Airport (Nice, France)
• OSL – Oslo Airport, Gardermoen (Oslo, Norway)
• TLS – Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (Toulouse, France)
• VCE – Venice Marco Polo Airport (Venice, Italy)
• VIE – Vienna International Airport (Vienna, Austria)
• ZRH – Zurich Airport (Zurich, Switzerland)
• ADA – Adana Şakirpaşa Airport (Adana, Turkey)
• ATH – Athens International Airport (Athens, Greece)
• AYT – Antalya Airport (Antalya, Turkey)
• BEG – Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (Belgrade, Serbia)
• BJV – Milas-Bodrum Airport (Bodrum, Turkey)
• BUD – Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (Budapest, Hungary)
• ANK – Ankara Esenboğa Airport (Ankara, Turkey)
• IST – Istanbul Airport (Istanbul, Turkey)
• JMK – Mykonos Airport (Mykonos, Greece)
• LCA – Larnaca International Airport (Larnaca, Cyprus)
• BUH – Bucharest (Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP) and Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU))
• PRG – Václav Havel Airport Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)
• SAW – Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (Istanbul, Turkey)
• SJJ – Sarajevo International Airport (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• SOF – Sofia Airport (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• MOW – Moscow (Multiple airports: Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO), Domodedovo International Airport (DME), Vnukovo International Airport (VKO), and Zhukovsky International Airport (ZIA))
• TZX – Trabzon Airport (Trabzon, Turkey)
• WAW – Warsaw Chopin Airport (Warsaw, Poland)
• ZAG – Zagreb Airport (Zagreb, Croatia)

The promo code is available on select booking classes in the Economy and Premium cabins. If the promo code is entered correctly, the special fare will be marked with a burgundy coupon on the flight selection page along with the wording ‘Promo code has been successfully applied’.

The discount varies by destination as follows:

Destinations with discounts up to 20%:

CMB, DPS, HKT, MLE, SEZ, ZNZ

Destinations with discounts up to 14%:

ALA, AUH, BAH, BGW, BSR, DMM, DXB, EBL, ELQ, IFN, IKA, ISU, JED, KWI, MCT, MED, MHD, NJF, NUM, RUH, SHJ, SLL, SYZ, TAS, TIF, TUU, ULH, YNB

Destinations with discounts up to 12%:

ABJ, ABV, ACC, ADD, CPT, DAR, DUR, EBB, FIH, HRE, JIB, JNB, JRO, KAN, LAD, LOS, LUN, MGQ, MPM, NBO, PHC, SEZ, ZNZ , CAN, CKG, HGH, HKG, HND, ICN, KIX, NRT, PKX, PVG, TFU, XMN

Destinations with discounts up to 10%:

BKK, CEB, CGK, CRK, DVO, HAN, HKT, KUL, MNL, PEN, PNH, SGN, SIN

Destinations with discounts up to 8%:

AMD, ATQ, BLR, BOM, CCJ, CCU, CMB, COK, DAC, DEL, GOX, HYD, ISB, KHI, KTM, LHE, MAA, MLE, MUX, NAG, PEW, SKT, TRV, ADL, AKL, BNE, MEL, PER, SYD

The up to 20% discount is deducted from the ‘fare per passenger’ amount visible in the price breakdown summary after flight selection. Any other taxes, service fees or standard market charges will be payable in full and displayed at the time of booking.  One booking can be made using the discount per customer but the booking may contain multiple passengers.

You can find the offer page here.

Easy 200-250 Avios

There are two quick ways to get up to 250 Avios at the moment.

You can collect 200 bonus Avios with BPme Rewards by 30 June by doing the following:

• Sign up for a BPme Rewards account – if you don’t already have one
• Link your BPme Rewards account to your British Airways Executive Club account and select auto-conversion.
• After your accounts are linked, you’ll collect 25 Avios for every 40 BPme Rewards points.

You can link and unlink your accounts twice in a lifetime. 

You can find the offer page here.

There is also still 250 Avios on offer for simply joining Marriott Bonvoy. If you are a member, is someone in your BA Household account yet to sign up for Marriott perhaps? They do have to be 18 or older and sign up to collect Avios points with Marriott as your default but you can change it back again to Marriott Bonvoy points if you wish. 

You can find the offer page here.

5000 Virgin Points bonus

You can already convert your Tesco Clubcard points into Virgin Points by being a Flying Club Member. Now, you can convert them into Virgin Red Points as well without a Flying Club account. 

Virgin Red is joining Tesco Clubcard as a new Reward Partner, meaning the Clubcard points you earn every time you use your Clubcard when you shop at Tesco can now be turned into Virgin Points to spend on everything from luxury cruises and flights to skydiving experiences. 

 Virgin Red members who turn Tesco Clubcard points into Virgin Points will get 2x the points value, the same as the current Flying Club rate. All customers need is a Virgin Red ID to turn their Tesco Clubcard points into Virgin Points.

 Virgin Red is rewarding Clubcard members with 5,000 bonus Virgin Points when they sign up to auto-exchange their Tesco Clubcard points for the first time. This means Tesco Clubcard points are automatically converted into Virgin Points with every quarterly Clubcard statement.

To receive 5,000 bonus Virgin Points you must: 

• Sign up for the first time by 23:59 BST, 18 July 2024 to automatically exchange your Tesco Clubcard points to Virgin Points via the Virgin Red program
• Not already have signed up to exchange your Tesco points via Virgin Flying Club.
• Remain signed up to exchange your Tesco Clubcard automatically points to Virgin Points on 18 July 2024; and
• Have at least £2.50 in Tesco Clubcard points in your Tesco Clubcard account as of 18 July 2024. 

If you meet the above criteria, 5,000 Virgin Points will be awarded to your Virgin Red account by 29 August 2024. 

You can sign up to Virgin Red for free and start earning Virgin Points straight away when shopping at Tesco. All you need to do is log in to Virgin Red and follow the instructions to sign up to auto-exchange.  

Find out more here or download the Virgin Red app on your smartphone.