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I have just tried to book MAN – LHR – DXB, the business class availability is showing if I try to book without a voucher, the availability is showing if I try to book each flight separately (with or without using the upgrade voucher) but trying to book a through ticket with the voucher says no availability! Is there an issue with this? Is it because I’m upgrading from Premium Economy and the domestic connection doesn’t have that cabin? Will I have to call BA to book this? Anyone else experience this or just me?
Yep trying to use the Avios upgrade voucher for a domestic connection is pointless as you get charged the Avios at the £1 plus full Avios rate. The voucher is pointless for now for anything other than a London-origin flight.
Similar issue with trying to book BA Holidays with flight+hotel or flight+car from MAN. Individual flights are available but try booking them as a package to get them on the same booking for double TP and it says no flights available for many MAN-LHR-XXX routes.
Or if it does actually price the route you end up with anything from 5-11 hours or an overnight layover despite there being more convenient flights.
Similar issue with trying to book BA Holidays with flight+hotel or flight+car from MAN. Individual flights are available but try booking them as a package to get them on the same booking for double TP and it says no flights available for many MAN-LHR-XXX routes.
Or if it does actually price the route you end up with anything from 5-11 hours or an overnight layover despite there being more convenient flights.
Have you tried adding them as a separate legs? Instead of MAN-LHR-XXX, try MAN-LHR and then LHR-XXX as a multi-city option. That should let you combine all the flights to your convenience.
Yep trying to use the Avios upgrade voucher for a domestic connection is pointless as you get charged the Avios at the £1 plus full Avios rate. The voucher is pointless for now for anything other than a London-origin flight.
Oh well unless I want to drive to Heathrow it looks like the Barclaycard is a waste of time!
One of the many fails of the upgrade voucher is that you can’t add a domestic connection as you could with the old Lloyds one. I used mine for LHR-LAS then booked MAN-LHR separately for the night before. We’ll be HBO so won’t have to claim and re-check any bags.
@davefl – I have booked several BA holidays starting from MAN in the past, however when looking at doing it for Venice as Easyjet has cancelled our direct flights, I also got the message that BA doesn’t have any flights on that route (they do because you can book them as flight only). I did wonder if BA has deliberately removed the MAN option because they are charging absolutely insane prices for MAN-LHR at the moment and don’t want to give anyone a cheaper option!*Come to think of it, my BA holiday to GCM in July was missing the MAN-LHR leg on the outbound because the system wouldn’t give me the option that my OH and son were booked on separately, and I had to book that as a standalone as well. It’s almost as if BA has removed the most expensive services from their package system for full-fare paying passengers … I think Rob or Rhys should do an expose!
Similar issue with trying to book BA Holidays with flight+hotel or flight+car from MAN. Individual flights are available but try booking them as a package to get them on the same booking for double TP and it says no flights available for many MAN-LHR-XXX routes.
Or if it does actually price the route you end up with anything from 5-11 hours or an overnight layover despite there being more convenient flights.
Have you tried adding them as a separate legs? Instead of MAN-LHR-XXX, try MAN-LHR and then LHR-XXX as a multi-city option. That should let you combine all the flights to your convenience.
Pretty sure I did try that way as well but I’ll give it another shot.
One of the many fails of the upgrade voucher is that you can’t add a domestic connection as you could with the old Lloyds one. I used mine for LHR-LAS then booked MAN-LHR separately for the night before. We’ll be HBO so won’t have to claim and re-check any bags.
@davefl – I have booked several BA holidays starting from MAN in the past, however when looking at doing it for Venice as Easyjet has cancelled our direct flights, I also got the message that BA doesn’t have any flights on that route (they do because you can book them as flight only). I did wonder if BA has deliberately removed the MAN option because they are charging absolutely insane prices for MAN-LHR at the moment and don’t want to give anyone a cheaper option!Yep, I think that’s it. That’s how it felt anyway.
Since they just magically gave me a double bubble of an extra 240 TP from a trip from last year, I’m trying to scrounge up 210 TP before xmas but it’s proving difficult.
It didn’t work for me – tried it both ways and still told me BA doesn’t fly between MAN and VCE!
Book yourself a package from MAN to LHR!
Book yourself a package from MAN to LHR!
Needs to be 5 nights or 5 days car. And I’d like to visit somewhere I’ve not been before, to actually make it a holiday 🙂
Oh and also I need 4 segments since I’ve completely avoided BA/Oneworld this year. Far more econonmical and reliable to fly with anyone apart from oneworld.
Book LHR-(e.g.)ATH as BA holiday in CE (180 TPs), then book MAN-LHR-MAN separately. If you book CE one way that’s the extra 40 TPs you need to get to 210, and you can then book the cheapest ET fare on the other leg. For extra flexibility you could fly to LHR the night before the international leg and have 1 night there as part of your package (unless UK hotels are excluded, but I’ve never found this to be the case). You might need to do a bit of searching as MAN-LHR fares vary wildly at the moment, and also stick to hand baggage if you don’t want to collect and re-check it between flights.
Book LHR-(e.g.)ATH as BA holiday in CE (180 TPs), then book MAN-LHR-MAN separately. If you book CE one way that’s the extra 40 TPs you need to get to 210, and you can then book the cheapest ET fare on the other leg. For extra flexibility you could fly to LHR the night before the international leg and have 1 night there as part of your package (unless UK hotels are excluded, but I’ve never found this to be the case). You might need to do a bit of searching as MAN-LHR fares vary wildly at the moment, and also stick to hand baggage if you don’t want to collect and re-check it between flights.
Snag is with this is that I have no protection in case of delay/cancellation and we know how completely unreliable man-lhr is.
Book LHR-(e.g.)ATH as BA holiday in CE (180 TPs), then book MAN-LHR-MAN separately. If you book CE one way that’s the extra 40 TPs you need to get to 210, and you can then book the cheapest ET fare on the other leg. For extra flexibility you could fly to LHR the night before the international leg and have 1 night there as part of your package (unless UK hotels are excluded, but I’ve never found this to be the case). You might need to do a bit of searching as MAN-LHR fares vary wildly at the moment, and also stick to hand baggage if you don’t want to collect and re-check it between flights.
Snag is with this is that I have no protection in case of delay/cancellation and we know how completely unreliable man-lhr is.
I suppose your protection would be flying early enough the day before such that if MAN-LHR gets cancelled/delayed, you still have time to hightail it to Manchester Piccadilly for a Euston-bound train.
If you fly to LHR the night before you have plenty of wiggle room built in as long as you’re not on the last flight of the day and that was cancelled very late in the day. Even then as long as your connecting flight wasn’t too early, BA would put you in a hotel and move you to an early flight the next day. The ground staff at MAN are incredibly helpful.
Otherwise, pick a longer route which would give you the TPs and make your own way to LHR/LGW. It depends how much inconvenience you’re prepared to tolerate to get status!
@BlairWaldorfSalad beat me to it but also, BA might even put you in a taxi (this happened to us but we had connecting flights so not sure what their policy is otherwise).
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