Bits: Qatar Airways sale offering ‘Kids Fly Free’ in Economy, another decent Club Europe meal

News in brief:

Qatar Airways offering ‘kids fly free’

My discussion of the new Qatar Airways sale yesterday focussed exclusively on business class fares.  The airline is also offering some good prices on economy tickets.

In particular, there is a VERY novel ‘kids fly free’ deal.  On some economy tickets, children under 12 do not pay anything except for taxes.

There is a catch.  This deal is only valid on ‘Economy Saver’ tickets in N and S class.  On some routes you will find cheaper tickets in booking classes T, O and W (‘Economy Promo’) which negate the saving.

Here is an example I found to Doha:

As you can see, the two children pay nothing apart from £60 of taxes.  The adults are paying £570 each, however, which is higher than many sale Economy fares to the Middle East.

That said, the average price per ticket in this example is just £313 per person which is exceptionally cheap for a DIRECT economy flight to Doha from Heathrow.

This deal is available on all Qatar Airways routes if you can find dates where the cheapest available Economy ticket bucket is S or N.  You can ONLY book via this specific page of the Qatar Airways website – this deal is not available via Expedia etc.

You need to book by 5th September for travel by 30th June.

Another decent Club Europe meal

After all the recent reports of British Airways cost cutting, which even reached The Economist, it is only fair to speak up when I find something improving.  And, for the second time in a fortnight, I got an impressive hot lunch in Club Europe yesterday flying back from Venice.

What you have in the picture below is a stuffed chicken breast with potato and sun dried tomato.  There was also a salad alternative:

If you didn’t see my similar article two weeks ago, this is the ‘cod and mash’ dish I had when we flew to Palma:

These were both decent dishes and hopefully represent a pick-up in the quality of CE meals at lunch and dinner on the longer European routes.

It certainly beats the airberlin economy snack we got flying from Palma to Innsbruck:

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