Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Deals Diary
- 30% off MAN PremiAir VIP lounge ends 2nd February
- Best Western £60 from 3 stays ends 3rd February
- Hilton 100% buy points promo ends 19th February
- Plaza Premium 20% discount ends 29th February
- 250 extra Heathrow Rewards points with parking until 31st March
- Radisson Rewards new year promotion until 31st March
- Hilton Points Unlimited runs until the 3rd of May
HKIA SkyBridge will let you watch an A380 pass underneath
In Mid-2020 HKIA will open a 28m high sky bridge between T1 and the north satellite.
It is 200m wide which means an A380 could pass under it, and you’ll be able to watch through the glass floors on each side of the bridge.
It will be open 24 hours and have observation decks with catering outlets at both ends of the bridge.
Flybe partner Eastern Airways adds Teesside routes
- London City – 2x daily from 27th April
- Belfast City – 6x weekly from 9th March
- Cardiff – 5x weekly from 10th February
- Dublin – 6x weekly from 9th March
- Southampton – 2x daily from 9th March
- Isle of Man – seasonal during TT weeks starting 30th May
Eastern already fly to Aberdeen. Flybe fly from Teesside to Jersey through summer.
Bonus Heathrow Rewards points with Heathrow Parking
Collect 250 extra Heathrow Rewards points when you book Official Heathrow Parking before 31 January to travel before 31 March.
Heathrow Rewards points can be converted 1 to 1 with Avios, Miles & More, KrisFlyer, emirates Skywards, or Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. You can get 100 points just for joining.
Qatar Airways adds 8 destinations
Worth looking out for good sale fares in business class on these new routes including Siem Reap. Cebu in the Philippines is home to this amazingly cheap private island escape.
Almaty in Kazakhstan is almost certainly not on your holiday destination list and yet it is a brilliant place with a mountain backdrop and that good old post-Soviet charm. When I passed through Almaty on my motorcycle, someone pinched my GPS, but we’ll gloss over that.
- Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan – Two weekly flights (starting 30 March 2020)
- Almaty, Kazakhstan – Two weekly flights starting 1 April 2020, increasing to four weekly flights from 25 May 2020
- Cebu, Philippines – Three weekly flights (starting 8 April 2020)
- Accra, Ghana – Daily flights (starting 15 April 2020)
- Trabzon, Turkey – Three weekly flights (starting 20 May 2020)
- Lyon, France – Five weekly flights (starting 23 June 2020)
- Luanda, Angola – Four weekly flights (starting 14 October 2020)
- Siem Reap, Cambodia – Five weekly flights (starting 16 November 2020)
Qatar Airways launches a codeshare with Deutsche Bahn Rail
Is this a first? It’s the first flight & rail codeshare agreement I know of.
A codeshare with Deutsche Bahn will provide Qatar Airways passengers with connections to eight key cities within DB network like Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Hannover, Leipzig, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munich, and Hamburg via Qatar Airways’ Frankfurt gateway in Germany
Qatar Airways introduces saver awards
For lightly loaded and off-peak flights, Qatar will be introducing lower rate “saver” fares for Privilege Club members. They are also looking at introducing cash+miles. This is being led by Dan Martin who came to Privilege Club from Avios.
I doubt that saver awards will be available to oneworld partners, but with Qatar business class sales and point bonuses some people do build up reasonable points balances.
Maybe this is the start of reversing the negative changes in the past few years that made QR awards more expensive and harder to find.
Plaza Premium offers 20% off
Until 29th February save 20% at Plaza Premium.
New routes from MAN
Manchester airport is adding new routes in 2020.
- Dhaka, Bangladesh on Biman Bangladesh Airlines
- Riga with airBaltic – 4x weekly from 29th March
- Shanghai with Juneyao Air (Star Alliance – can credit to and maybe redeem via via KrisFlyer, ANA, or Air Canada)
- Boston on Delta
