Get 4x Accor Live Limitless points at new hotels, including two luxury London options

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• TJ says:

  1 May1 May 07:21

  Minimum conversion from Accor to Iberia is now 3000.

  • Rob says:

    1 May1 May 08:36

    Thanks

  • lumma says:

    1 May1 May 08:43

    I still get all my Accor points transferred to Iberia immediately after earning for some reason

    • Rob says:

      1 May1 May 08:52

      So does my wife. It’s a result of a promo years ago.

      • Stuart says:

        1 May1 May 16:34

        Snap. Works for me

• NicktheGreek says:

  1 May1 May 07:31

  For anyone interested in a benchmark for the F1 auction, I watched Miami to the end in March and it went for 845k avios.
  I’d call that a good deal to be fair.

  • babyg says:

    1 May1 May 10:30

    Thats good to know what they go for, shame you cant see the history, that said its only an OK deal if you were willing to spend £20k on F1/paddock etc anyway? The 125k Hilton Silverstone rooftop was a great deal however, probably the best redemption ive managed to get in a long time.

• tony says:

  1 May1 May 07:42

  How does this fit with the new Accor -> Qatar PC play?

  • Rob says:

    1 May1 May 08:36

    You’ll get 1 Avios per €1 spent if you link your account, yes.

• George K says:

  1 May1 May 09:19

  Rob, do you know the economics of the BLL route, and the general concept of the sun-air franchise? I’ve always been curious who pays the sticker price of over £400 for a return trip of over an hour. It’s always been an attractive redemption route, but who are the regular fliers of it? And does it get any sort of subsidy/support? (it’d be hard to believe with fares that high)

  • tony says:

    1 May1 May 09:46

    There’s a lot of petrochemicals business both in the North West of the UK and in Western Denmark I believe so could that underpin the proposition?

• Baracus says:

  1 May1 May 09:24

  On MAN-BLL with Sun-Air they did the same suspension last year. I think it basically comes when Ryanair start to step up the frequency of MAN-BLL to match with Legoland opening fully.

  Sun-Air charge around £600 for a round trip so frequency is the only way they can justify the pricing.

• mhughes says:

  1 May1 May 09:47

  There is no details on how the food and beverage voucher works, is it good for all the outlets at the o2, does it have to be used on the day ?

  • Rob says:

    1 May1 May 10:18

    These are VIP tickets for The NinetyThird, the new uber-exclusive (£18,000 per year per person membership) private club in The O2. You will be sitting in there. The NinetyThird has a fine dining restaurant (where you can blow £400 very easily between two), a champagne bar, a cocktail bar and a standard bar with standard drinks and food. You get a tab which runs across all of these outlets.

    See more here – https://www.headforpoints.com/2024/01/25/ninetythird-by-qatar-airways-o2-arena-london/

• executiveclubber says:

  1 May1 May 09:48

  I hope BA don’t axe the LHR-BLL route, the load can be *very* light when we fly sometimes…

  • owjey says:

    1 May1 May 10:44

    I use that route frequently and always enjoy sometimes being the only traveller in Business Class – but I know that’s hardly sustainable for BA!

    • executiveclubber says:

      1 May1 May 10:58

      Me too! I have friends out there so it’s a great inexpensive redemption, but I always notice Ryanair seem to be wiping the floor with them on this route, with more frequent and better-timed departures at a tiny fraction of the cost.

      • owjey says:

        1 May1 May 13:54

        The Ryanair times are definitely better, as the flight to and fro BLL is usually in the evening. My mum tends to use Ryanair when she comes to see me, but I have a BA tier to maintain, so… Because I rely on public transport to get me home, I do tend to fly back from CPH rather than BLL, simply because there are more (and earlier) options. For whatever reason, though, the schedule is great in two weeks. I’m flying to BLL at 13:40, landing at 16:20 and returning at 17:05, landing at 17:50. I wish it were like that all the time, no hotels needed either end. Beautiful!

        • owjey says:

          1 May1 May 13:56

          EXIT: The Ryanair times are better because the BA times are usually in the evening.

  • A says:

    2 May2 May 15:28

    The route is going nowhere – Billund is home to not just legoland, but of Lego campus (the world corporate HQ), and they have three major offices in the Uk (two in central London and one in slough). There are also energy/offshore related companies in the area.

• owjey says:

  1 May1 May 10:49

  I know of quite a few business travellers (people who work off shore or in energy) as well as those with ties to the Lego Corporation who use the route. Personally, as I “only” travel to see my family I choose to endure the journey out to LHR rather than MAN or LCY. No way am I paying £400 to attend a family function.

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