LHR to BKK with BA

[Feileacan 32]

Just browsing the Flight Sites trying to get the best deal I can for my October Trip. The variance in prices between "Sister"sites can be strange. For example with BA. I inputted 28th October outward and return on 8th Nov into the BA site which is the UK version

 

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb

 

The flights came back at £655.90 Sterling which equates to 966.68 Euro.

 

But if you then search for a flight from Shannon in Ireland to BKK on the Irish version

 

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_ie

 

This returns a total price of 908 Euro which is 616.00 Sterling

 

In this deal you fly on exactly the same plane from LHR to BKK and back, but you also get the SNN to LHR and back with Aer Lingus thrown in as well for a 40 quid cheaper fare than just flying from UK

[CheshireTom 1,377]

Reminds me of a post elsewhere entitled "If British Airways Sold Paint" except in this case it is cheaper to buy the same paint in Shannon ......

 

Customer: Hi. How much is your paint?

 

Clerk: Well, sir, that all depends on quite a lot of things.

 

Customer: Can you give me a guess? Is there an average price?

 

Clerk: Our lowest price is £12 a litre, and we have 60 different prices up to £200 a litre.

 

Customer: What's the difference in the paint?

 

Clerk: Oh, there isn't any difference; it's all the same paint.

 

Customer: Well, then I'd like some of that £12 paint.

 

Clerk: When do you intend to use the paint?

 

Customer: I want to paint tomorrow. It's my day off.

 

Clerk: Sir, the paint for tomorrow is the £200 paint.

 

Customer: When would I have to paint to get the £12 paint?

 

Clerk: You would have to start very late at night in about 3 weeks. But you will have to agree to start painting before Friday of that week and continue painting until at least Sunday.

 

Customer: You've got to be kidding!

 

Clerk: I'll check and see if we have any paint available.

 

Customer: You have shelves FULL of paint! I can see it!

 

Clerk: But it doesn't mean that we have paint available. We sell only a certain number of litres on any given weekend. Oh, and by the way, the price per litre just went to £16. We don't have any more £12 paint.

 

Customer: The price went up as we were talking?

 

Clerk: Yes, sir. We change the prices and rules hundreds of times a day, and since you haven't actually walked out of the store with your paint yet, we just decided to change. I suggest you purchase your paint as soon as possible. How many litres do you want?

 

Customer: Well, maybe five litres. Make that six, so I'll have enough.

 

Clerk: Oh no, sir, you can't do that. If you buy paint and don't use it, there are penalties and possible confiscation of the paint you already have.

 

Customer: WHAT?

 

Clerk: We can sell enough paint to do your kitchen, bathroom, hall and north bedroom, but if you stop painting before you do the bedroom, you will lose your remaining litres of paint.

 

Customer: What does it matter whether I use all the paint? I already paid you for it!

 

Clerk: We make plans based upon the idea that all our paint is used, every drop. If you don't, it causes us all sorts of problems.

 

Customer: This is crazy!! I suppose something terrible happens if I don't keep painting until after Saturday night!

 

Clerk: Oh yes! Every litre you bought automatically becomes the £200 paint.

 

Customer: But what are all these, "Paint on sale from £10 a litre" signs?

 

Clerk: Well that's for our budget paint. It only comes in half-litres. One £5 half-litre will do half a room. The second half-litre to complete the room is £20. None of the cans have labels, some are empty and there are no refunds, even on the empty cans.

 

Customer: To hell with this! I'll buy what I need somewhere else!

 

Clerk: I don't think so, sir. You may be able to buy paint for your bathroom and bedrooms, and your kitchen and dining room from someone else, but you won't be able to paint your connecting hall and stairway from anyone but us. And I should point out, sir, that if you paint in only one direction, it will be £300 a litre.

 

Customer: I thought your most expensive paint was £200!

 

Clerk: That's if you paint around the room to the point at which you started. A hallway is different.

 

Customer: And if I buy £200 paint for the hall, but only paint in one direction, you'll confiscate the remaining paint.

 

Clerk: No, we'll charge you an extra use fee plus the difference on your next litre of paint. But I believe you're getting it now, sir.

 

Customer: You're insane!

 

Clerk: Thanks for painting with British Airways.

[irmster 0]

Just browsing the Flight Sites trying to get the best deal I can for my October Trip. The variance in prices between "Sister"sites can be strange. For example with BA. I inputted 28th October outward and return on 8th Nov into the BA site which is the UK version

 

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb

 

The flights came back at £655.90 Sterling which equates to 966.68 Euro.

 

But if you then search for a flight from Shannon in Ireland to BKK on the Irish version

 

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_ie

 

This returns a total price of 908 Euro which is 616.00 Sterling

 

In this deal you fly on exactly the same plane from LHR to BKK and back, but you also get the SNN to LHR and back with Aer Lingus thrown in as well for a 40 quid cheaper fare than just flying from UK

BA prices vary by country. I just flew Milan- BKK return in Business class via Heathrow on BA for £1250. If I had flown direct from London it would have been £3600.

[neilri2001 42]

Even though we can get what we think are bargain fares at certain times of the year , in the U.K. we still pay some of the highest prices in Europe. The difference is usually even greater for business class fares.

 

When i first went to Riga a couple of years ago BA wanted over £1000 for an economy class ticket without a Saturday night. With the arrival of Air Baltic and Ryannair the same flight on the same plane can be had for less than £100. Slightly off topic but if you're based in Europe and only have a couple of days you could do worse than Riga although prices have noticeably increased since Latvia joined the EU.

 

Neil

[jacko 8,813]

BA prices vary by country.  I just flew Milan- BKK return in Business class via Heathrow on BA  for £1250.  If I had flown direct from London it would have been £3600.

That is incredible. I have never seen better than about £2650 biz class from Manchester via LHR on BA :frustrated

 

But keep your eyes open, I just noticed that on the return trip they have me landing in LHR and departing from LGW....assholes!!!

At £2930 I get to stay in LHR...but one leg is on Quantas....

 

I think the BA biz class is a very comfortable product, but if I can get to BKK a grand cheaper on another major carrier, with only 1 stop (LH, KLM etc etc)...I will not even consider it.

 

How did you book the Milan trip?

 

I could use my BA air miles to fly to Milan.....then perhaps come back on the same plane to LHR and on to Bangkok....

Edited July 9, 2005 by jacko

[Niall 0]

I have posted frequently about how much I hate BA. They sent me a customer survey last week and I had great pleasure in filing it out.

 

My best example was LHR-Abidjan-LHR UK£3,000 business class. Abidjan-LHR-Abidjan bought locally US$1,200 FIRST CLASS.

 

Hate them hate them hate them.

[Feileacan 32]

Just browsing the Flight Sites trying to get the best deal I can for my October Trip. The variance in prices between "Sister"sites can be strange. For example with BA. I inputted 28th October outward and return on 8th Nov into the BA site which is the UK version

 

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb

 

The flights came back at £655.90 Sterling which equates to 966.68 Euro.

 

But if you then search for a flight from Shannon in Ireland to BKK on the Irish version

 

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_ie

 

This returns a total price of 908 Euro which is 616.00 Sterling

 

In this deal you fly on exactly the same plane from LHR to BKK and back, but you also get the SNN to LHR and back with Aer Lingus thrown in as well for a 40 quid cheaper fare than just flying from UK

Well I just booked my flight the price has dropped again on this, it cost me 826 Euro which is 568 sterling with perfect link up times and no stops from LHR onward

[TabMule 1]

On that same LHR-BKK-LHR code share BA/Qantas flight I've seen different prices depending upon whether you book with a Qantas flight number or a BA flight number. Both prices show up on the same search page with lastminute.com

[Feileacan 32]

On that same LHR-BKK-LHR code share BA/Qantas flight I've seen different prices depending upon whether you book with a Qantas flight number or a BA flight number. Both prices show up on the same search page with lastminute.com

It's normally the Qantas I fly with, Both BA and Qantas leave at similar times from LHR 22.00 and 22.15 roughly, so It doesn't matter which one. On the return Qantas leave after midnight 00.20 or similar while BA leave before midnight about 23.30 I think, so you need to be careful what date your return is or else you could lose a day

[bigmofo 0]

On that same LHR-BKK-LHR code share BA/Qantas flight I've seen different prices depending upon whether you book with a Qantas flight number or a BA flight number. Both prices show up on the same search page with lastminute.com

I have seen this on ebookers etc qantas and ba show different prices even though they are both the same plane.I booked with qantas about 4 years ago but flew out with ba and it was the worst flight i have ever been on.The seat pitch was shite and the cabin crew were miserable stuck up wenches.

Coming back was with qantas which was great there was plenty of legroom although acording to seat pitch guides qantas only has 31 inches,and the aussie staff were great.I would never fly ba again, asian and arab airlines are cheaper and imo more comfy and have much better staff. good luck.

[python 27]

A question for all you experienced travellers to LOS:

 

I intend to go to Pattaya 08 Oct & return 23 Oct.

 

On Opodo i am quoted 591 sterling flying with BA direct to bkk from lhr.

 

Is this the best price I can hope for? should i book now or do you think the price will come down more? as it seems to have over the last week.

 

Thai is cheaper again and I would use them again but i want the overnight return flight.

 

Any thoughts or advice are welcome.

 

Regards

[sparky37 0]

Just booked with BA and got £498 to BKK mid sept

 

never flown with them before( i used to fly with phuket air wile they operated )

 

is £498 a good price with them?

 

Sparky

[Feileacan 32]

Prices have jumped up with BA again, I booked my flight from Ireland to LHR to BKK for 826 euro 2 weeks ago, was checking the price today for a mate that hasn't booked in yet and it has jumped up to 1063 euro, he's in a quandary as to book at this price or wait and see if it will drop again

[wacmedia 277]

Hi

 

If you live in England just got to accept you get ripped off on most things(cars, utility bills, exchange rates etc) . It's the culture of the country and their is no point in wasting any energy complaining about it ! Lots of people choose to move to France or Spain.

[wacmedia 277]

Hi Sparky,

 

Less than I've paid them in past. Usually Quantas one way, and BA the other.

[bigmofo 0]

A question for all you experienced travellers to LOS:

 

I intend to go to Pattaya 08 Oct & return 23 Oct.

 

On Opodo i am quoted 591 sterling flying with BA direct to bkk from lhr.

 

Is this the best price I can hope for? should i book now or do you think the price will come down more? as it seems to have over the last week.

 

Thai is cheaper again and I would use them again but i want the overnight return flight.

 

Any thoughts or advice are welcome.

 

Regards

Hi python,that is a good price for ba if you have to have the night flight book it.

If you want to save money over a direct flight you can go from gatwick with emirates for 419 all in with an evening return flight. opodo travelbag want 530/540

Airline Fare Price Tax Totals

1 x Adult £380.00 £39.00 £419.00

C, £419.00

Outbound Dep Times/Date Flight Number

London(LGW)

Dubai(DXB)

- Dubai(DXB)

- Bangkok(BKK)

10:00 - 20:00

22:45 - 08:10

8 Oct 2005

8 Oct 2005

EK0012

EK6200

 

 

London(LGW)

Dubai(DXB)

- Dubai(DXB)

- Bangkok(BKK)

10:00 - 20:00

03:15 - 12:25

8 Oct 2005

9 Oct 2005

EK0012

EK0384

 

 

London(LGW)

Dubai(DXB)

- Dubai(DXB)

- Bangkok(BKK)

14:15 - 00:10

03:15 - 12:25

8 Oct 2005

9 Oct 2005

EK0016

EK0384

 

 

London(LGW)

Dubai(DXB)

- Dubai(DXB)

- Bangkok(BKK)

14:15 - 00:10

08:50 - 18:00

8 Oct 2005

9 Oct 2005

EK0016

EK0386

 

 

London(LGW)

Dubai(DXB)

- Dubai(DXB)

- Bangkok(BKK)

21:15 - 07:10

08:50 - 18:00

8 Oct 2005

9 Oct 2005

EK0010

EK0386

 

 

Inbound Dep Times/Date Flight Number

Bangkok(BKK)

Dubai(DXB)

- Dubai(DXB)

- London(LGW)

05:40 - 08:45

14:30 - 19:05

23 Oct 2005

23 Oct 2005

EK0345

EK0009

 

 

Bangkok(BKK)

Dubai(DXB)

- Dubai(DXB)

- London(LGW)

18:10 - 21:40

02:45 - 07:20

23 Oct 2005

24 Oct 2005

EK6201

EK0011

 

The return leg the stopover is 5hrs.

Or you could fly eithad which are supossed to be a good airline and the stopovers are very good the first qoute with emirates is with flydeals.co.uk but is showing a bit cheaper on airlinenetwork but you will have to check if the evening flight is available.The second quote is with southalltravel.co.uk good luck.

 

 

OPTION:1 SR

AirlineCarrier From To FlightNo FlightClass Depart Arrive

Etihad Airways Gatwick Airport,London Abu Dhabi 308 ECONOMY Oct 08 2005 11:00:00 AM Oct 08 2005 08:50:00 PM

Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Don Muang International Airport,Bangkok 403 ECONOMY Oct 08 2005 10:05:00 PM Oct 09 2005 07:35:00 AM

Etihad Airways Don Muang International Airport,Bangkok Abu Dhabi 402 ECONOMY Oct 23 2005 07:45:00 PM Oct 23 2005 11:00:00 PM

Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Gatwick Airport,London 307 ECONOMY Oct 24 2005 01:55:00 AM Oct 24 2005 06:35:00 AM

Price per Passenger excluding taxes : Adult - £360.00

Price for all passengers including taxes is £ 399.00

[Guest Winston_Churchill]

what date ru going???

[Sailfast 503]

British Airways should be shut down. My last trip was JFK to London to BKK. My return included a stop over in London for 12 days.

 

JFK - BKK ended up going through Tokyo...8 hours LONGER on a CHEAPER flight from another airline that I could have booked myself!!!!!

 

Return trip I was promised an upgrade THAT I NEVER GOT!!!!!!!!!! I was LIED to so many times it would be hard to believe if I told you the whole story.

 

If you don't eat meat, AND RESERVE A SPECIAL MEAL, be prepared for wilted greens and a crust of bread off your friends plate...of course that wasn't thier fault either.

 

Last leg, London to JFK I was so pissed off I told them to go fuck themselves and used a voucher I had with another airline to fly one way out of Manchester (I was in Manchester and it was a holiday weekend so getting to London was expensive anyway).

 

THEN I find out that because I booked my flight through Travelocity at a reduced rate I would only get 30% of the miles!!!!!!!!!!!! OF course they would not give me the miles on the flight I didn't show up for either!!!!!!!!!

 

FUCK BRITISH AIRWAYS.

 

Oh and the flight crew are idiots who think they are starring in a broadway comedy. Problem is they are not funny, just sarcastic twats who spend way to much fucking time on the intercom. SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET ME THE MEAL I HAD RESERVED FOR THREE FUCKING MONTHS!!!

 

FUCK BRITISH AIRWAYS CREW.

 

 

 

Thats my rant. Hope you enjoyed it.

 

Sailfast

Edited July 30, 2005 by Sailfast

[keny 0]

BRITISH AIRWAYS are not the best Keny Edited July 30, 2005 by keny

[BongoBill9999 0]

Thats my rant. Hope you enjoyed it.

 

Sailfast

Not only enjoyed it, totally agree with it. BA is overpriced and full of itself for no good reason.

 

Bill