Bits: new BA Holidays booking system, Best Western exclusive discounts

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• Kathryn says:

  3 Jun3 June 07:15

  Can you book a holiday for one person yet?

  • Alan says:

    3 Jun3 June 07:44

    +1 forgot that was the other major flaw with the old site

  • Kevin says:

    3 Jun3 June 08:14

    I’ve previously booked s BA Holiday when being the only one travelling.

  • Fenny says:

    3 Jun3 June 08:51

    You always could, but it just whacks up the pp price from the nice headline grabber to something less enticing.

  • Kathy says:

    3 Jun3 June 08:54

    I was just coming to say that – does it allow you to search cheap holidays for one?

    • Lady London says:

      3 Jun3 June 18:50

      You’re right Kathy this was what stopped me booking BA Holidays every time I tried to before. If they’ve fixed this problem it’s great… despite the issues with hotel rooms occupied by one person etc. having to be charged more if there are not 2 people to pay for the room component, I would like access to the fares (equivalent to the old “IT” [inclusive tour] fares BA Holidays has access to.

      I’m sick and tired of being discriminated again when I am travelling singly on leisure, to any extent greater than necessary!

      If BA have fixed this then I will book through BA Holidays several times a year.
      If they are still making it worthless for a single traveller to use BA Holidays even if taking just a car and not even a hotel, where the impact of a single traveller is a bit less, then I’ll walk away from BA even more than I am currently being forced by their various initiatives such as
      – killing On Business for those that are operating a business, but don’t have to be VAT registered and not even having the courtesy to tell us – and btw not imposing that same rule in other countries
      – artificially ramping up the lowest cost fares by a huge amount at any hint of seasonality even early shoulder season and not just peak season etc….

      I’ve just about had enough of it. If BA Holidays really has improved for single travellers as well, then this will go a long way towards recovering my business back to BA.

• Alan says:

  3 Jun3 June 07:43

  Sounds half decent – by any chance does it also now work properly when searching across a range of dates for anywhere apart from ex-LON departures? That was a major issue previously where half the functionality only seemed to work from there.

• Benjamin Kaye says:

  3 Jun3 June 08:17

  What about the deposit option, this used to be that you had to have a car or hotel for the full time between the outbound and inbound flights to utilise the deposit option…

  • Benjamin Kaye says:

    3 Jun3 June 08:20

    I just tested, seems you can! Tried a 14 night trip to US open jaw with hotel for five nights and can use the deposit system!

• Metatone says:

  3 Jun3 June 09:02

  Anyone having trouble with the BA site this morning? (O/T)

  • Metatone says:

    3 Jun3 June 09:40

    Yikes, booking through avios.com seemed to work, but I wonder if that’s an illusion.

• Andrew H says:

  3 Jun3 June 10:16

  O/T. I had a reply from Heinemann concerning the 1000 points promo. Here’s what they said:

  “Thank you for your message. Kindly be informed that the Happy Moments theme ends on April, 30th.
  Approximately 6 weeks later your miles will be credited.

  With kind regards,
  Jan”

• James Alexander says:

  3 Jun3 June 14:29

  Really? £30 off a long haul flight to NZ in friggin economy? Who is this aimed at? Who will incentivise?
  What’s going on when airlines think this is an “offer”

  Do they seriously think that 30 quid is the decisive factor on whether a passenger joins with them or not?

  Ludicrous and frankly as an “offer” it’s insulting!

• Lady London says:

  3 Jun3 June 18:53

  I thought so and generally ignore Air NZ offers as not competitive.

  But you’ve got to feel for them – they’re route sharing with SQ now however AA, VA, QR, EK, and I don’t know the code for Etihad, are all piling into Auckland now.

  • James67 says:

    3 Jun3 June 22:17

    i would still choose ANZ over all of those. I had the pleasure of flying their F/J class (nowadays really just J) on their 744s between LHR and LAX eight times. All round, remains my favourite business class flight experience.

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