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Hi Teddy
Hope this helps.
When you book a flight the airline will send you various discount codes:
The companies I used are as follows:
Chronomics - outbound fit to fly - cost £20. I ended up booking it too late (its a home test) so needed to use Express test at LGW drive through- cost £60
LFT for my return flight - £40 with Qured (using the BA code - you get additional discounts when you order more than one with other providers which takes it down to £31 - on the link below)
Day 2 test - £84 - Qured (my next trip is costing me £60 with this company https://screen4.org/product/green-country-day-2-self-test/)
Total for my next trip - £111 (these have all been booked)
You might find them slightly cheaper looking at the links on the BA website
https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/incident/coronavirus/covid19-tests
Day two test -
The whole Cummings situation is a bit odd.
I'm not saying the government hasn't done anything wrong but a disgruntled ex employee is starting to show his true colours! Listening to the section on his trip to the north east made me laugh - slight change in circumstances lol
Perhaps his critics were right all along!
Its the truth and I think the media will have to start reporting the fact its fine!
If youre considering Spain, the cost per person will be closer to £80 (no outbound PCR required). I can imagine arriving back from Amber countries might be a bit slower but i didnt see evidence of this at LHR on Saturday
Big Blue - speaking from experience (I travelled to Portugal last week). I can confirm the tests arent that expensive
Fit to fly - £60 (can get it for £30 if youre organised unlike me)
Return to the UK - £30 and very easy (you do a LFT over a video call which takes 5 minutes)
Day 2 - £60 (can be cheaper)
Total £150 - much lower than the media claim!
Airport timelines
Landing in portugal - less than 20 minutes from plane to taxi (with golf clubs/ baggage)
Landing in Heathrow - 25 minutes - slight delay getting my bags
When people start seeing the truth, more and more will travel. I'm heading back to Portugal in a few weeks
Hopefully the US in July, August and November
Any reason for the tick up today.
I've never been so chilled on an investment - made the most of the dip but sadly missed the bottom to add to my holding
Didnt think much would happen until we get some news on the US/ Caribbean and a few key EU locations going green
quick update on this (i know its only one flight but it continues to surprise me)
They have now added an extra row in club Europe and there are no seats available. That means almost 50% of the cabin is club Europe (much more profitable for BA) and 50% economy where seats are still being sold for £448! (more than CE would normally cost)
If this is an indication on what to expect when countries enter the green list, even with a limited amount of destinations BA/ IAG could have a very efficient year!
I'm off to Portugal next week and my word I have never seen club europe so big! Please remember, there will be very few business flyers on the plane and it goes all the way back to row 15 on an A320 - there are 2 seats unallocated currently so that mean a minimum of 58 are already booked in business class. Normally you get anywhere from 3 - 6 rows in business for a CE flight!
I'm a very frequent flyer and i have never seen that many seats allocated to Club Europe
Even at £200 a pop (and seats are currently being sold for over £500) that's £9600 of revenue just from the club seats on a short haul flight.
That is some serious demand!
On Monday, BA have 3 flights to Faro, 6 to Lisbon and 4 to Porto
On Friday, it increases to 4 a day plus extra frequency to Porto & Lisbon, the lady from the call centre told me that they are looking into launching flights to Portugal from Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow from next week
I'm not selling this stock for a long long time!
Personally, I really am not worried about this. Having various funding lines in place gives us security during these extremely tough times.
Yes it will drop down but.... it'll go up much more when the US opens to the Brits and visa versa!
I'm not trading IAG so a dip along the way really doesn't bother me, I'll probably add if its anything exciting like 180 or below
I completely agree
Run a search for flights to Antigua & St Lucia for the week of the 17th and there are either zero business/ premium seats available or on one flight they have 2 business seats available for £4050 each (one way) or economy on the same flight for £1455!
I have never seen them so high - and they're amber countries!
Hi Lee, that was my first impression yesterday after reading this sentence on the gov.uk website regarding Amber list countries:
"You should not travel to amber list countries or territories for leisure purposes."
I checked this morning with a leading travel journalist and they confirmed that you can travel and the key wording in the sentance is "should not travel" not "you can not travel".
It is legal to travel to Green and Amber countries if they allow you to enter.
The government are scrapping the declaration forms for when you travel to amber and green countries so you don't even have to declare if you're travelling for leisure or business
People will and are paying a premium to fly with BA. Easy Jet arent terrible but I'd always choose BA and TAP over any other airline when I fly to portugal
I do agree, they are overpriced but they've managed to sell out 2 of the 3 flights a day to Faro from the 17th onwards (checked upto 7 days after the 7th and the one flight a day still available was priced at £448 for a basic (no baggage) ticket. Business was £700!)