I recently receivved some good advice and will not waste my time. I begin to wonder if you have ever traveled beyond what little village you live in.
I recently receivved some good advice and will not waste my time. I begin to wonder if you have ever traveled beyond what little village you live in.
Just as I supposed, you have found it does not exist - like the American insistence that there were WMD in IraqOriginally Posted by paborn
That's an interesting one. Business class not allowing you to use the business lounge. What next, business class only allowing you into economy ? Unless the upgrade was very cheap, I would be tempted to boycott them after that. An abnormally low upgrade cost would soften the blow.
In Heathrow, you can pay up for lounge access for about £35. Am not sure if the Taliban offer such perks in the middle eastern airports.
Fare economy £580. Upgrade on check in, about £370 EACH leg. So, correct NOT cheap at all! I only upgraded the Dubai to BKK leg and the return BKK to Dubai leg (because it was an A380, and very very nice too...with a bar on board). The outbound steak was awesome, I have to say. Even our gourmets would have approved, but maybe not at the price!
Quite clear on booking that there was no entry to Business Class lounges or free pick ups.
This is the kind of thing that pisses me off. They treat coach like trash and even if you pay for an upgrade they still want to make you feel second class.
Why not contact the head of customer relations? His Name? Al Ka-Aida (loves a great Italian opera). He has an alcoholic brother who surfaces, bleary-eyed, each morning a few minutes before noon. His name? Al-Caseltzer!
Just as a counter balance to the above I’m pleased to report that on my Malaysian Airlines flight from Bali to Phuket ( stopping over and changing in KL) I paid around £100 -130 roughly ( can’t recall the exact figure) for the actual flight but then got an email inviting me to “bid” fir an upgrade so myself and my travel companion both agreed to bid no more than 120 US dollars each (in total) and see what happened.
We both were successful and got full lounge access and business class travel on BOTH legs only our flight and as the first leg was on a brand new A380 I think that’s the best value I’ve ever had and am ever likely to score on ANY airline - ever ! :-)
paborn (August 8th, 2018)
From your post, I presume they even got there without losing yet another aircraft, so a good result all round.
You're not kidding. That's about £1320. If the upgrade cost for the other legs was the same, that's £2060 to get a price for the whole trip.
Finn air do business class from £1723, although I recognize you might not want to start from Heathrow & my dates might be completely different to yours.
[Excuse any minor errors, as I'm trying to do this with no calculator]
. Correct £2060 if you upgrade the whole trip. As I said in post #67 NOT cheap!
I did try to order a "pork special meal" on MH once; the request was rather frostily received by the rather cute young man in the London office
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