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Save 15% on Malaysia Airlines flight tickets

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Malaysia Airlines is running a special offer in association with Conde Nast Traveller magazine this month.

If you book before 3rd April, you can save 15% on Business Class and Business Suite (the renamed First Class) flights to Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Langkawi, Terengganu, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching and Sandakan), South East Asia (Bali, Phuket, Bangkok and Singapore) and Australasia (Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Auckland).

Malaysia Airlines A350

These discounts can be applied to all flights booked before 3rd April 2021. You can book for any future travel date.

Our review of Malaysia Airlines Business Class is here and our review of Business Suite is here. We have also reviewed the London and Kuala Lumpur lounges – links are in the flight reviews.

Full details, and the promo code you need, are on this special page of the Malaysia Airlines website.


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Some UK credit cards offer special bonuses when used for buying flights. If you spend a lot on airline tickets, using one of these cards could sharply increase the credit card points you earn.

Booking flights on any airline?

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold earns double points (2 Membership Rewards points per £1) when used to buy flights directly from an airline website.

The card comes with a sign-up bonus of 20,000 Membership Rewards points. These would convert to 20,000 Avios or various other airline or hotel programmes. The standard earning rate is 1 point per £1.

You can apply here.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 30,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

Buying flights on British Airways?

The British Airways Premium Plus American Express card earns double Avios (3 Avios per £1) when used at ba.com.

The card comes with a sign-up bonus of 30,000 Avios. The standard earning rate is 1.5 Avios per £1.

You do not earn bonus Avios if you pay for BA flights on the free British Airways American Express card or either of the Barclaycard Avios Mastercards.

You can apply here.

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

30,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

Buying flights on Virgin Atlantic?

Both the free Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard and the annual fee Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard earn double Virgin Points when used at fly.virgin.com.

This means 1.5 Virgin Points per £1 on the free card and 3 Virgin Points per £1 on the paid card.

There is a sign-up bonus of 3,000 Virgin Points on the free card and 18,000 Virgin Points on the paid card.

You can apply for either of the cards here.

Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard

3,000 bonus points, no fee and 1 point for every £1 you spend Read our full review

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

18,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

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