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News & offers: Emirates First + Business sale, Singapore ex-EU, London airport delays & Uber

  • 04/04/2018
  • Michele

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  • Emirates sale
  • Singapore Airlines ex EU – OZ & Auckland less than £2000 plus more destinations
  • London airport delays
  • Uber

Emirates sale

Emirates are another alternative to oneworld airlines like BA, Qatar and Finnair if you want to fly east or to Australia. You can collect Avios and BA tier points on a number of Emirates routes providing you book them on a Qantas ticket as a  codeshare. You can find a handy list of which routes have a codeshare with Qantas : https://www.emirates.com/uk/english/destinations_offers/travel_beyond/travel-partners/qantas.aspx

Emirates has a couple of offers currently – the UK one is due to end tomorrow, Thursday 5 April, but there is also an interesting one for Emirates First class from Dublin with Trailfinders. The prices are substantially less than flying from London in First and with a direct flight from Dublin to Dubai, it is not as time-consuming as many other ex EU deals where you have to double back to the UK.

The fares offer free chauffeur-driven airport transfers within a 150 km radius of Dublin airport and lounge access to the dedicated First Class lounge in Dubai. Onboard you would experience the current First Class Private Suite which comes equipped with a sliding door, a personal mini-bar, adjustable ambient lighting & its own vanity table, mirror and wardrobe. I had a chance to see this seat in detail at ITB last year and although it is a little blingy for my taste, I certainly wouldn’t turn down the chance to fly in one! At the moment Emirates are serving a particularly special champagne in First, Dom Perignon 2000 P2 edition (which sells here for around £275) on selected routes to Europe, the USA and Asia for a limited time.

Emirates First class sale
Emirates First class

Selected departures: from 01/02/2018 to 14/12/2018

Sales Until: 30/04/2018

First prices start from:

  • Mumbai €4105
  • Delhi €4295
  • Dubai direct €4455
  • Johannesburg  €4579
  • Nairobi €4595
  • Colombo €4605
  • Mauritius €4639
  • Cape Town €4679
  • Maldives €4755
  • Seychelles €4825
  • Beijing €4939
  • Tokyo €5089
  • Hong Kong €5109
  • Shanghai €5109
  • Singapore €5289
  • Bangkok €5305
  • Phuket €5365
  • Adelaide €6179
  • Melbourne €6379
  • Sydney €6379
  • Perth €6385
  • Brisbane €6395
  • Christchurch €6959
  • Auckland €6969

There are also deals on business class which are up to £200-300 cheaper than flying from the UK. You can find the Irish Trailfinders page here.

 

Emirates A380 business class

The UK business class sale fares start from

  • Bangkok £2,049
  • Ho Chi Minh City £2,189
  • Manila £2,199
  • Phuket £2,229
  • Hanoi £2,299
  • Hong Kong £2,539
  • Singapore £2,759
  • Beijing £2,439
  • Kuala Lumpur £2,499
  • Tokyo £2,569

Fares are valid until 5 April 2018. The Emirates business class sale page is here.

 

Singapore Airlines ex EU – OZ & Auckland less than £2000 plus more destinations

Singapore Airlines A350 business class seat in bed mode
A350 bed on Singapore from Stockholm

I recently used a great deal to fly Singapore Airlines from Stockholm to Auckland for around £2100. Whilst you can get Qatar for less during a sale, I was keen to try Singapore’s A350 and top up my Virgin Atlantic miles too. We also specifically wanted to stop in Singapore to go to the Sanchaya hotel on Bintan. You can read my review of the flights from Stockholm here. 

There is now a sale on from Stockholm which has reduced the rate further to under £2000 for Auckland. The only thing to bear in mind is that the flight from Stockholm stops in Moscow which didn’t worry us so much on the way there but was worse on the way back when we foolishly attempted to do the journey in one go (not recommended!).

Here are the starting prices (subject to exchange rates)

  • Auckland £1981
  • Bali £1735
  • Brisbane £2006
  • Christchurch £1981
  • Da Nang £1693
  • Darwin £2031
  • Hanoi £1743
  • Ho Chi Minh City £1735
  • Kuala Lumpur £1566
  • Melbourne £1997
  • Penang  £1566
  • Perth £1997
  • Singapore £1498
  • Sydney £2006
  • Wellington £1972

Booking period: until 10 April 2018
Travel period (departures): 10 March 2018 – 28 February 2019
Minimum stay: 7 days – Maximum stay 3 months

You can find more details on the Swedish Singapore Airlines page here.

 

London airport delays

Photo by NATS: Controller at London Terminal Control uses the new EXCDS system

Longtime readers of the blog will be aware that I was formerly an air traffic controller for many years. (you can find more about why I started the blog here). So I thought I would feature some news from my former employers, NATS, as it may have some impact on you if you are travelling out of London over the next 10 days. NATS is midway through a program to modernize the tools used by certain controllers to record information. You may not be aware, but all the approach air traffic control for aircraft departing and arriving into London is done from a centre in Swanwick, Hampshire before or after the airport tower has control. Yesterday saw the start of a new phase of the transition from controllers using old paper strips to write information on to a new paperless system called EXCDS.

The sectors that control Heathrow, Gatwick and the airspace to the South and South-East of these airports will switch over to EXCDS this week. Naturally, this is one of the busiest pieces of airspace in the UK. Although the controllers will have undergone training on the new equipment for many this will be the first time they have used the new equipment outside a simulator. Understandably NATS restricts the amount of traffic these controllers handle for the first few days as they gain confidence on the system. This means that when traffic exceeds the level they have deemed safe, they will have to regulate the number of aircraft entering the controller’s airspace per hour. Therefore it is highly likely that there will some delays at Heathrow and Gatwick during the transition.

Pete Dawson, GM Terminal Control (and my former boss) said “months of planning have gone into making this whole process safe and predictable and we are again working very closely with our airport and airline customers to put in place measures to minimise any disruption to passengers. However, we do expect some flights to experience delays.”

Uber

Grab bike taxis in green in Ho Chi Minh city

One of the things I like most about Uber is that I can go most major cities in the world and it will work. So I was not happy to hear that Uber is selling out to Singapore-based Grab in the Far East. The Uber app will no longer work in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam after 8 April. I used Grab in Vietnam and I can’t say I was overly impressed compared with Uber. It appeared far more basic and wasn’t very easy to navigate. I certainly wasn’t about to hail one of the Taxi bikes that you can see above in Ho Chi Minh City!

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  1. Alan says:
    04/04/2018 at 7:34 am

    I’ve received avios and TPs to Melbourne preciously. This won’t be the case soon though as I understand Qantas are dropping Dubai and going back to Singapore from Sydney/Melbourne.

    1. Michele says:
      04/04/2018 at 6:01 pm

      Hi Alan. Qantas now have London-Singapore-Melbourne or London-Perth-Melbourne. You would be able to fly with Emirates on a Qantas codeshare ticket to Melbourne via Dubai and still earn Avios and TPs though.

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