Recommendations Booking EU Flights crediting QFF

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michaele

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Hi,

Just looking for any advice/recommendations on booking some flights while I am in Europe in August.

I'm specifically looking for a recommendation where the best place to book flights are (with OW carriers to earn SC) as well as (BA?) AUP opportunities for extra SCs. I do have QFF points to book awards if that helps too.

For reference, currently looking at flying from LHR-ATH on the 5th, return on the 8th, Possibly LGW-CDG/ORY on the 12th (unless a train is much easier), and either EAS/BCN-LGW on the 15th. Connections are fine, but most of the flights are pretty short anyway..

Any assistance, especially with the enhancements would be greatly appreciated.

Michael
 
Air Berlin and BA I would imagine are the better options. I rarely fly OW intra Europe though as star alliance always seems to have better routes and timings
 
Hi,

Just looking for any advice/recommendations on booking some flights while I am in Europe in August.

I'm specifically looking for a recommendation where the best place to book flights are (with OW carriers to earn SC) as well as (BA?) AUP opportunities for extra SCs. I do have QFF points to book awards if that helps too.

For reference, currently looking at flying from LHR-ATH on the 5th, return on the 8th, Possibly LGW-CDG/ORY on the 12th (unless a train is much easier), and either EAS/BCN-LGW on the 15th. Connections are fine, but most of the flights are pretty short anyway..

Any assistance, especially with the enhancements would be greatly appreciated.

Michael

I recently booked ATH_LHR on BA in J for a reasonable price. still trying to figure out the earn on the new simpler, fairer QFF tables.
 
Hi OATEK,

Through the BA site or 3rd party?

Thanks

Yes, through BA. I looked at them and Aegean for the same route, and fares were very similar so went with BA for the points. I was amazed to find that BA J ATH-LHR was about 2/3rds the price of LHR-TXL, the latter being about half the flying time. So perhaps the market to/from Greece is recovering more slowly from the GFC downturn.
 
I recently booked ATH_LHR on BA in J for a reasonable price. still trying to figure out the earn on the new simpler, fairer QFF tables.

Pretty sure it's just the new miles based earning table - SC bucket minimum miles have been increased.

Only tip I could think of is flying out of gatwick you can buy J upgrades for 40 pounds? Might be able to get some SC out of that.


Oh and Air France and some of the others are a PIA and don't discount one-way fares.
 
Can you still do the book Y then log in to MMB and pay cash to upgrade to J for J SCs trick?
 
Isn't that a POUG (assuming you are referring to BA)?

Yep - thats what I meant (not AUP which would only earn original fare SCs) QPP/Iso/MrO.

Anyone done one recently?

Oatek - Do you mind me asking ballpark pricing? I can see about 470pounds on BA direct - which is about 11$/sc - average value.
 
Yep - thats what I meant (not AUP which would only earn original fare SCs) QPP/Iso/MrO.

Anyone done one recently?

Oatek - Do you mind me asking ballpark pricing? I can see about 470pounds on BA direct - which is about 11$/sc - average value.

EURO 470 ea. Most of the cheaper fares were indirect with one or two stops, so the BA direct flight works well. Aegean showed up in ITA Matrix a bit cheaper, but I didn't manage to get the same price online and figured I would stick with the BA.
 
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