Prices starting to drop

[Goldpanner 399]

So My ongoing battle with BA.

They have denied responsibility claiming the old 'Exceptional circumstance' Ive refused. Then they offered €100. I refused that and pointed out to them that their offer was tantamount to an acceptance of Liability. Ive issued a Letter Before Action to them and intend issuing County Court Action on the 28th Jan if they dont settle.

[BigDUSA 71]

Airfare prices are dropping here in America. Some nice deals available.

[mrlasvegas 124]

Airfare prices are dropping here in America. Some nice deals available.

I booked a LAX- BKK flight on EVA for $745. Tax and everything. Not bad for March travel.

[TheFiend 1,181]

Just been checking prices for May from Manchester and some BKK tickets are coming in at under £450!!

 

Also the evening Emirates flight (EK19/20) is switching to A380 between Feb 1st and March 28th. Wonder if that is an indication of a permanent switch to A380 at some point in the future on the Ek19/20 rota.

 

 

Finally got off my ass and booked my next trip.....

 

Normally fly with Emirates but today they were quoting £600 for my usual flights and their cheapest deal was coming in at £500 each.

 

Ended up booking with Qatar which came in at £425 each for MAN-BKK return, with the added bonus I get to sample one of the new Qatar A380's Doha to Bangkok!!!! The lowest price was £413 but flight times weren't as good.

 

That is the cheapest deal I've managed in 10 years of flying to Thailand!!!!

[Billions 687]

Just prowled the ebookers website looking at flights from London to BKK in June and notice that Thai are now the cheapest direct carrier,beating EVA and BA by some distance. Finally,they are competitive! The downside though is that there are fewer options.....

 

They have chopped their flight itinerary to one a day,losing the evening flight out of London (TG917)and its corresponding midday-ish one from Bangers (TG916),so whats left is the midday departure from Heathrow,and the midnight-ish one from The Swamp. Doubling up might mean full flights and less empty seats to spread out on,so all good things come to an end. And those spacious 747s have been dropped ....less room to stretch out below the seat in front as its fitted with the IFE box??

 

Could be worse though....Thai have binned their Bkk-Jo/berg route,and are scrapping Bkk-Madrid and Bkk-Moscow,and maybe Bkk-LAX as they try to balance the books.

[Sailfast 503]

I need to be in England and Asia in the next couple of months.

 

JFK - England is around US$1250

JFK - HKG or BKK is around US$800

 

I don't get it, but it is what it is... I'll probably end up doing a multi stop ticket, make it all one trip and save some time, even though it will probably cost more money.

[Goldpanner 399]

Success !!!

 

After issuing Court Proceedings against BA they paid out the full €600 for the 22 hour delay

 

Chuffed am I

[Butch 3,456]

Not a bad result then GP, and enough to buy a ticket with a better airline to LOS at current prices. It shouldn't take a Court case to make them pay out over what is essentially their fault, but perhaps that gives an idea of the contempt they hold their customers in.

 

I read elsewhere on this forum that KLM had seats for £399 with a stop in Schipol for a few hours. KLM is a good airline IMO. EVA still around £530 upwards for the next few months and some of the Middle Eastern carriers offering deals galore.

[Goldpanner 399]

Not a bad result then GP, and enough to buy a ticket with a better airline to LOS at current prices. It shouldn't take a Court case to make them pay out over what is essentially their fault, but perhaps that gives an idea of the contempt they hold their customers in.

 

I read elsewhere on this forum that KLM had seats for £399 with a stop in Schipol for a few hours. KLM is a good airline IMO. EVA still around £530 upwards for the next few months and some of the Middle Eastern carriers offering deals galore.

Its advertised as KLM but I think youll find its actually an Emirates flight flying under the KLM codesharing

[jacko 8,814]

Its advertised as KLM but I think youll find its actually an Emirates flight flying under the KLM codesharing

So there would be a change in Dubai as well as Sciphol?

 

Just a coincidence as someone I know just got an extremely good price for a Y Class flight BKK-Scotland (via Schiphol) on KLM, so they are offering some deals at the moment.

[teelack 9,640]

Back to the topic. For the first time in forever there are return fares available from NZ to Bangkok return.at roughly 21400 baht equivalent. Bearing in mind that my exchange rate is crap at the moment this is a brilliant price. The bad news however is that this is with Qantas. Its OK if the flights are Emirate code share but still I am scared off from my recent experience with them. On the same basis I have booked with Thai Air and on the same exchange formula this, a direct flight is approx 28000 baht.

[gs joe 1,776]

Just got a flight KLM aberdeen to Bangkok £ 510 May ,

That's the best price I've ever had ,

 

Joe

[Fireman Sam 336]

Just got a flight KLM aberdeen to Bangkok £ 510 May ,

That's the best price I've ever had ,

Joe

I paid £476.00 for Aberdeen - Bangkok return with Qatar, out 28th May back 23rd June, it was a few months ago that I booked. Cheapest I have ever paid from Aberdeen.

 

Looking at a one way ticket for end of July, Qatar are quoting £815.00 ? Even other airlines are all around the £600 + mark.

 

Regards

[Goldpanner 399]

Ukraine Airways London to BKK return in October around £340 !!

 

Bloody cheap but I suspect like the old Romanian airways there will be splinters in the toilet paper and the milk will be served from an old coke bottle

 

Seen on Skyscanner

[jacko 8,814]

Ukraine Airways London to BKK return in October around £340 !!

 

Bloody cheap but I suspect like the old Romanian airways there will be splinters in the toilet paper and the milk will be served from an old coke bottle

 

Seen on Skyscanner

You take me back many years to a trip from Abu Dhabi-UK on Tarom, Sitting in a miserable transit place under armed guard in Bucharest!

It was cheap though!

[Billions 687]

There seems to be a lot of exceptionally low prices being quoted at the moment and all airlines seem to be taking part!

 

London-Bangkok direct on Thai are coming in at £488 on ebookers for return journeys of less than 30 days...must be low fuel prices.

[Goldpanner 399]

You take me back many years to a trip from Abu Dhabi-UK on Tarom, Sitting in a miserable transit place under armed guard in Bucharest!

It was cheap though!

Yep we did that on the old Soviet plane with the bomb aimer bubble under the front !!

[TheFiend 1,181]

Just booked another trip... this time it was Etihad coming in cheapest for us.... £470 MAN-BKK return...

[Severn 109]

Just booked another trip... this time it was Etihad coming in cheapest for us.... £470 MAN-BKK return...

I am coming next week using klm out of Birmingham for £422 and getting 200 nectar points. Best price for years with stopover times of less than 2 hours.

 

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