Here’s a good Qatar Airways Bangkok deal which earns 560 British Airways tier points

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Qatar Airways has launched a decent deal from Stockholm to Bangkok, with a return Business Class seat coming in at SEK 15,700 (£1,300).

This isn’t the greatest fare we’ve ever seen. However:

it is available for all of 2019 and early 2020, except for Christmas week, as long as you fly out on Mon-Thu

you would earn 560 British Airways tier points due to the change of plane in Doha (140 points x 4 flights)

With multiple daily flights on each leg between Stockholm-Doha and Doha-Bangkok, you can pick from various seating options:

Boeing 777-300ER – you would either get the older 2-2-2 seating I reviewed here or a refurbished one with the amazing new Qsuite (reviewed here).

A350-900 – the herringbone seat which I reviewed here, albeit in its 787 incarnation, which is very impressive. Qatar has a special website showing off this seat which you’ll find here.

A330-200 – these are now refitted with flat seats, usually in a 2-2-2 configuration, so ignore any reports you see talking about sloping seats

A340-600 – as for the A330-200

Boeing 787-9 – see here for details of the seat there, which is also good. I reviewed the 787-8 seat here.

The Qatar Airways booking site is here. You need to book by 4th April and a five day minimum stay is required although it is possible that the fare is pulled earlier.

If you don’t have a credit card with 0% foreign exchange fees, your best option for paying is American Express Preferred Rewards Gold which offers triple points – 3 per £1 – when you book flight tickets in a foreign currency. This is because the transaction triggers the ‘double points for airline spend’ and the ‘double points for foreign spend’ bonuses.

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Keith says:

30 Mar30 March 11:38

OT:

Does anyone have any experience of chasing Amex for referral bonus points that don’t post after a self-referral?

If so, how did that go?
- TGLoyalty says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 11:39
  
  It will go very badly. Read the terms and conditions and see what qualifies as a referral.
- Yorkieflyer says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 12:19
  
  If it goes through, great, if not please just accept that you win some and lose some, chasing something you aren’t entitled to is never going to work out well
- Anna says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 13:14
  
  Don’t talk about fight club, especially to the club staff!
- Polly says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 13:32
  
  Please don’t push it, it’s bad enough already for the rest of us.
- BJ says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 14:25
  
  April Fools Day isn’t until Monday.
- Bazza says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 15:04
  
  I don’t know why you are so worried? It’s not like Amex don’t know you do it right? You best chase those points because soon that door will be closing too
  - Andy says:
    
    30 Mar30 March 16:59
    
    @Bazza
    
    Chase points that they won’t award anyway?!
- Keith says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 18:06
  
  Haha – Yikes, okay everyone! I get the point. As it happens they posted today so all good.
  - BJ says:
    
    30 Mar30 March 18:42
    
    So you did indeed get the point(s) 🙂
    - Shoestring says:
      
      30 Mar30 March 18:59
      
      Not necessarily down to moronic chasing
Wally1976 says:

30 Mar30 March 14:45

OT – I have the Lloyds Avios Amex/Mastercard still and haven’t yet received the letter giving 60 days notice of it ending. My annual fee of £24 is due in late April. I’m trying to decide whether to cancel it before then or keep it. My question is about what happens regarding the annual fee when it turns into the new Mastercard only product (which has no annual fee I believe). Presuming it changes shortly after I pay the annual fee, do I get (a) a full refund of the £24; (b) a pro-rata refund of the £24; (c) nothing? Or alternatively, will I be charged the fee at all?

Thanks for any information.
- GJS says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 17:31
  
  My renewal date is also late April. I’ve had the letter, which says there’ll be a pro-rata refund. I’ve been given a year to earn one final upgrade voucher, so definitely worth keeping hold of.
- Nick_C says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 17:48
  
  My renewal date was January. No letter yet. Just need to spend £500 to trigger my final voucher.
  - Jovanna says:
    
    30 Mar30 March 19:15
    
    My renewal date was February. I received the letter. It was dated 8 March but, according to the letter, I have until January 2020 to hit the target for the voucher.
- Wally1976 says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 21:28
  
  Thanks for the replies folks 🙂
Cuchlainn says:

30 Mar30 March 14:59

Groupon related :
Does the new Groupon new customer €10 off code, as posted on HFP a couple of years ago, still work on this Iberia offer ?
- Shoestring says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 15:14
  
  HOLA10? Apparently not
  - Cuchlainn says:
    
    30 Mar30 March 16:04
    
    Thanks
S says:

30 Mar30 March 16:15

New strategy – Refer your SO for the Green card (preferably from the Platinum, for that 18k bonus), tell them to upgrade to Platinum, https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/content/platinum-charge/upgrade/, hit the spend target and cancel.

In 2 weeks we just got 18k for me, 20k for her. We’ll repeat in a month or so.
- Shoestring says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 16:27
  
  Good to know it works from Green. So you can upgrade to Plat from Green charge card for the upgrade bonus, you say, good info then.
  - S says:
    
    30 Mar30 March 16:46
    
    I also know that it doesn’t work from the Basic, their free charge card. It simply doesn’t appear as a car eligible for the upgrade. But yes, Green is good to go.
    
    Furthermore, she had a Platinum card about 15 months ago when she applied for Gold, when it was still a charge card, then upgraded to the Platinum, got the points and cancelled. So this is the 2nd time she’s got the upgrade bonus.
    - Shoestring says:
      
      30 Mar30 March 16:51
      
      yep but first question would be: why refer your SO for a Green card as opposed to a Gold? Is there any advantage?
      
      Edit: got it, can’t upgrade from a Gold *credit* card but can upgrade from a *charge* card
    - S says:
      
      30 Mar30 March 17:24
      
      Yup, exactly that.
    - Nick_C says:
      
      30 Mar30 March 17:49
      
      Huh? Harry, you can edit posts?
      - Rob says:
        
        30 Mar30 March 22:30
        
        No you can’t! Unless you’re me or Anika.
    - Shoestring says:
      
      30 Mar30 March 18:08
      
      yep – neat feature, thanks Raffles
    - Shoestring says:
      
      30 Mar30 March 18:31
      
      If you’ve been on HfP since 2013, ask Raffles to give you Edit feature.
    - BJ says:
      
      30 Mar30 March 21:42
      
      @Harry, but you’ve been on, and off and on … 🙂
- Rob says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 17:23
  
  Clever ….
- Craig says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 17:27
  
  Very useful, offsets some of the lost points from having closed platinum 6 months ago. Not really churning, but we have flip-flopped every 13 months or so.
- Craig says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 17:38
  
  Did the £60 get refunded pro-rata?
  - S says:
    
    30 Mar30 March 18:02
    
    Didn’t even get charged. We did it all before they cut the first statement.
    £450 didn’t get charged either.
    
    But I assume yes, the upgrade form says that it’ll get refunded pro-rata.
    - Craig says:
      
      30 Mar30 March 19:10
      
      Thanks.
- Grant says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 19:47
  
  At last! A report from someone confirming this works. Bravo, sir / madam.
- Harry says:
  
  31 Mar31 March 14:18
  
  Does this strategy work if the person being referred has held a Membership Rewards Card in the last six months?
  - Rob says:
    
    31 Mar31 March 15:04
    
    Seems so, would be pointless otherwise!
    - Bonglim says:
      
      31 Mar31 March 20:29
      
      pointless – lol
  - S says:
    
    31 Mar31 March 22:17
    
    Yes
Shoestring says:

30 Mar30 March 16:17

O/T – only a few days until April 6th to see if you can beat the Virgin ISA offer for new ISA investments in fiscal 2019/20. Will Orbis repeat their offer???!!!

With Virgin ISA, you can count on 8000 Virgin miles turning up again soon – new customers only – so about £80 return in miles for a 6 month commitment. Let’s hope your ISA keeps up.

With Orbis, last year I got a matched £100 offer – invest minimum £100 and Orbis would match it with another £100. Minimum 12 months but no further contributions needed. Good as their word. In fact: all good – as well as the £100, I think we’re up 12% currently.

Will Orbis repeat the offer next week? – since you can’t get the Virgin ISA offer twice, could be interesting if they do.

Anybody who wants a serious ISA, investing more than my £100 punt (!) – Orbis have outperformed the market consistently over the last 10 years and have an innovative (fair & cheap) fee structure, I’m impressed. https://www.orbis.com/uk/individual/home
- Freddy says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 20:13
  
  Surprised there hasn’t been any incentives yet. Waiting on orbis, failing that virgin bonus miles! I remember last year there were multiple offers around this time
KBuffett says:

30 Mar30 March 16:38

OT – what options do I have to move my wife’s Amex MR points over to something in my name?
I want to close her account. I’d rather not move then to BA Exec Club as I have a lot of points there already. I have Hilton, Marriott, but not sure if I can move them into my name?
- TGLoyalty says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 16:43
  
  You can transfer both Hilton and Marriott for free to each other.
Shoestring says:

30 Mar30 March 17:24

upgrade 20K
illuminatus says:

30 Mar30 March 17:35

If I replace my supplementary Amex Platinum due to ‘loss’, will the new card number stay the same? And most importantly will the promotions saved to the existing apply to the replacement card?
- TGLoyalty says:
  
  30 Mar30 March 18:35
  
  I thought lost cards are new number damaged cards are the same number
  
  Re offers yes they all stay as the new card is still linked to the same account