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Qatar’s new up to 20% off offer
After a rather disappointing Black Friday from the airline, Qatar has now launched a new 20% off code for economy and business class. The discount is only on the fare element, not taxes and charges, so it is not a true 20% discount.
- Offer period: 10 December 2024 – 20 December 2024
- Travel period: 10 January 2025 – 10 December 2025
There are varying discounts depending on the destination. You can use it on flights from most European departure points, which makes a big difference and the UK.
Destinations with discounts up to 20%
Shanghai, Zanzibar, Johannesburg, Denpasar Bali, Muscat, Salalah, Clark Field, Harare, Maputo, Colombo
Destinations with discounts up to 15%
Adelaide, Kolkata, Cebu, Chongqing, Cape Town, Durban, Osaka, Lusaka, Melbourne, Nagpur
Male: (Travel period: 1 May – 30 June 2025 only)
Destinations with Discounts up to 12%
Auckland, Hangzhou, Phuket, Hong Kong
Destinations with Discounts up to 10%
Manila, Seychelles, Singapore, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Brisbane, Tokyo, Perth
Male: (Travel period: 10 January 2025 to 10 December 2025)
Destinations with Discounts up to 8%
Guangzhou, Jakarta, Seoul, Jeddah, Kilimanjaro, Bangkok, Abuja, Dammam, Phnom Penh, Thiruvananthapuram, Hangzhou, Doha
To use the discount, join Privilege Club and book your next trip using promo code DECPC24.
Get top tier Club Avolta (formerly Red by Dufry) for Duty Free, Airport dining and lounge discounts
If you use World Duty Free at Heathrow, you can now earn Avios on your shopping through the Club Avolta (Red by Dufry) app which also gives discounts of up to 10% depending on your tier. You can also double dip and earn Heathrow Rewards.
In addition, you can also swap Avios for vouchers to spend on Club Avolta and Club Avolta members can access DragonPass lounges for just $28 USD per visit or 25% off Plaza Premium lounges.
Club Avolta can be used in over 5,000 locations in 70+ countries, with shops and dining. The full list of locations can be found in the Club Avolta app.
There is now a new offer with Status Match: Match your hotel or airline status and get a Platinum membership for a year, which will give you the full 10% discount (5% on food and drink). It does not seem to matter which airline/hotel or which status although I’m guessing there may be the odd obscure one not included.
You will need open your Club Avolta account via their app first before applying.
You can find the status match page here.
Air France unveils their latest Michelin star menus
I have been very impressed with Air France on my recent flights in business class, from the seat to the food and service, it was all spot on. I will be reviewing my experience on the new A350 shortly.
For now, their first class cabin, La Premiere (read our review) is top of my aviation bucket list as it has a reputation for being extremely luxurious in terms of food, drink and service.
Air France has announced that it is renewing its partnership with Emmanuel Renaut, triple Michelin-starred chef and Meilleur Ouvrier de France for La Premiere. This will be his first time creating all the starters and main dishes on the new menu. The chef continues to work with carefully selected seasonal produce, vegetarian products, red and white meat of French origin and fish sourced from sustainable fisheries. As a lover of Savoyard cuisine, he is keen for others to try his mountain-inspired cuisine combining local produce with French culinary heritage.
The menus do indeed sound worthy of 3 Michelin stars with Beaufort PDO soufflé, cream of mushroom with truffles, and foie gras with salsify, blueberry and onion chutney. The chef has created five inventive, gourmet starters.
Eight new dishes celebrating French cuisine, especially Savoyard cuisine, also feature on this seasonal menu that will be renewed over the coming months. Polenta with wild mushrooms, spinach and mountain cheese – simple products with a distinct Alpine identity – or Scallops quenelle, tangy cream sauce and root vegetables are among the new gourmet delicacies available on board.
As for desserts, this is the first time that Air France is entrusting its dessert menu to Claire Heitzler, Gault & Millau’s elected pastry chef of the year 2013.
Seven of her signature desserts will be gradually unveiled on the La Première menu. The chef has notably created a triple chocolate cloud, a dessert of crunchy chocolate shortbread and creamy dark chocolate, and the Castanéa, a dessert with Ardèche chestnuts and Corsican clementines.
This winter, the La Première cabin is available on flights from Paris-Charls de Gaulle to Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Los Angeles, Miami, New York-JFK, San Francisco, Washington-DC (USA), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Singapore and Tokyo-Haneda (Japan).
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just a word of caution with the new club Volta app, if you buy something that is discounted in store you don’t get the 10% discount with being a platinum membership on full price products, so pay for those separately. Happened to me in Alicante last week, bought a 12 Euro bottle of gin and two full price brandy bottles and would only give the 10% platinum discount if I removed the gin and pay for it separately. Maybe it’s a bug but then the receipt for the brandy had 15% off any additional full price purchases so bought some more Carlos brandy.
That’s a really useful tip, thanks.
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