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NEWS & OFFERS: BA extends Double Tier Points, Qatar Cardiff launch and 500 Avios with Uber,

 BA extends Double Tier Points

After the depressing news about the change in Avios earning rates on flights, there is some good news today. I’ll admit I have been holding off booking anything with BA past December due to the end of the Double TP promotion for BA Holidays. I was hoping it would get extended and the great news is that it will continue until 31 December 2024. 

It is worth noting some key points about the T&C:

  • The offer is for travel to 31 December 2024
  • Bonus Tier Points will be awarded separately to standard Tier Points and within 14 days of your return flight. 
  • The booking must contain British Airways flights, including codeshares and British Airways marketed and/or operated flights only originating from the UK. 
  • The bonus only applies to hotels and cars booked at the time, so a BA Holiday. You can’t add them afterwards. 
  •  The hotel/car element of the package must be for a minimum of five nights within the flight travel dates for travel before 31 December 2024.
  • The hotel/car element of the package must be used i.e. hotel occupied and or car rental hired for the full booked duration.

You can find the offer page here.

 

Qatar Airways Cardiff launch dates

Qatar business class review B787 A350
Qatar B787-8 seat

It was reported recently that Qatar Airways was planning to launch flights from  Cardiff again after they stopped during the pandemic. Today the airline has filed for slots for Cardiff. Obviously, we still need official confirmation from Qatar and notice of when they will start selling tickets, but I would expect this fairly shortly. So you may want to hold off buying if Cardiff may be a better option for you. 

Qatar Airways has filed for four weekly slots at Cardiff from 18 December 2023 on the Boeing 787-8 aircraft. The B787-8 still has the older seats, but I actually like them and find them less hard than the QSuite. They are still in a 1-2-1 configuration, so all aisle access. 

The slots filed are on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays, departing at 14.15

HT: @SeanM1997

 

500 bonus Avios with Uber Reserve

Uber

You can link your British Airways Executive Club and Uber accounts to collect 1 Avios for every £1 spent on Uber riding within the UK.

Even if you don’t plan to use Uber regularly, you can still get a 500 Avios bonus for using Uber Reserve for an airport trip. It is worth pointing out that Uber Reserve is usually more expensive than requesting one at the time, but the fare includes up to 15 minutes’ waiting time.  You can book from 90 days to 30 minutes ahead. To get the bonus you need to pre-book and complete your airport rides by 31 August 2023.

You can find more details here.

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8 comments

  2. BA double tier points offer has made me more loyal and retained my gold level. Must travel be complete by end of 2024 or could your return flight be in day January? Important as we visit family over the holidays season. Thank you

  3. This is the first really good news from BA for some time, although upgrading the A380 fleet was a start.

  4. I am trying to work out if this is really good value for trips to US. Considering a holiday in Apr/May next year. Best business price I can find currently for April (LHR-SFO) right now is £2,449.11. Whereas ex-EU, say DUB-SFO, is €1,764 ( £1,511.95). For 2 people that’s a difference of over £1,800. So if I took that DUB option then what I’d save I could use for second trip for myself later in the year and could probably earn more tier points from the two trips than the double points offer. Are those prices from LHR likely to come down at some stage to more attractive level?

    1. Yes there will no doubt be a sale by the autumn and definitely on Black Friday and a slightly reduced price to San Francisco. It is hard to say how much it will fall by. I’d be surprised to see it fall much below £2000 but transatlantic prices are gradually falling so we could see some returning to around £1800.

  5. Hi, I’m wondering if flying out to India, and then staying in a hotel in Thailand and flying home from Thailand on BA would work for the double Tier Points? I’m flying to India in December and then cruising to Thailand, and booking my own hotels there, and flying back to the UK late January. It would be very useful if it does.

    1. Providing it is within the dates of the India flights there is nothing in the rules that says you need to have a hotel where the flight lands. People have successfully done this.

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