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British Airways launches £1,007 Club World flash sale

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I have dropped this in as one of the rare ‘middle of the day’ posts because this is a genuinely impressive deal.

If you don’t have your Christmas or New Year plans finalised yet, British Airways has launched a short ‘flash sale’ for Club World.

All participating destinations are just £1,007 per person return.

British Airways BA A380 flying

Note that, whilst the website is headed ‘Take 2 for £2,014’, you do NOT need to travel with someone else.  If you search for just one person it will price at £1,007.

You have just seven days to book although seats are limited and the best deals will not last that long.  The last day to book is Thursday 4th December.

You must travel OUTBOUND between 21st December and 3rd January.  You must return by 11th January.

Here is the list of participating routes:

USA & Canada: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York (JFK, EWR), Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, Washington, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver.  From Manchester you can also book American Airlines to Chicago and New York JFK.

Africa: Abuja, Accra, Cairo, Cape Town, Entebbe, Johannesburg, Lagos, Luanda, Nairobi

Middle East: Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Amman, Bahrain, Baku, Beirut, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat, Riyadh

Asia: Bangalore, Beijing, Chengdu, Chennai, Delhi, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo

Central & South America: Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo

Full details can be found at a special ba.com page here.  You can book via ba.com here.

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Comments (73)

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  • tony says:
    28 Nov28 November 14:38

    Note that Novotel/Sofitel etc have a 40% off sale that finishes tonight. This is valid worldwide.

  • slaser says:
    28 Nov28 November 14:45

    I can’t believe it! Incredible! I am so glad I booked economy rewards over my Xmas /NY flights to South Africa..Just cancelled and bought 2 club world returns for £2000K in total. We get 50K in Avios for flying as Well. I think most people would have already booked their Xmas travel though and facing big cancellable charges. Economy flights were like £1400K p/p return when I booked my original rewards.

  • Moomin says:
    28 Nov28 November 14:51

    Same here. Just cancelled reward booking (using companion voucher) to Rio for NY and rebooked. Managed to get the same seats from original booking too. Great deal and it snags me gold for another year. Happy with that!

  • chris says:
    28 Nov28 November 14:58

    Raffles, have you ever seen this so cheap? Over a peak period?

    I’m boggled at £1000 club world flights to CPT and RIO in club world!

    WOW

    • Rob says:
      28 Nov28 November 15:10

      No. Cheapest I have ever seen is £777 but that was a one-off and only available to Seoul! I got Dubai at Easter for £1,299 18 months ago and thought that was pretty good.

      You can occasionally get £999 fares to the Middle East on Lufty etc but those involve a change of plane and of course don’t earn Avios or tier points.

      Of course, the key question is why not open up these seats for redemption at £550 ‘taxes and charges’ rather than sell them for £1,000 and have to give out a pile of Avios back?

      • richie says:
        28 Nov28 November 17:03

        you would have thought that would have been the best option for them. or even seling at 50% more over those dates and seats would still sell

    • Blackberryaddict says:
      28 Nov28 November 15:16

      Yes – three years ago – same thing, a flash sale for three days in december, for the same travel period. Fares were 2012 for 2.

    • Mikee says:
      30 Nov30 November 13:15

      Same last year….flash sale on the 2nd Dec 2013. Raffles posted it during the day:

      https://headforpoints.com/2013/12/02/mega-aggressive-ba-club-world-christmas-sale-1000-return-to-various-destinations/

      I booked to Rio for New Year 2013 for £999 per person and it was absolutely amazing…..fireworks on Copacabana beach were spectacular. If you want to celebrate the New Year in style and enjoy the amazing weather and sights of Brazil, take advantage of this offer and go to Rio (or Sao Paulo and get a coach across to Rio). You won’t regret it!

      -Mikee-

  • Paul says:
    28 Nov28 November 16:04

    Looking at Tokyo there doesn’t seem to be anything throughout December for less than about £2.5k. Must have all gone.

    • Rob says:
      28 Nov28 November 17:14

      Think about flying elsewhere and using Avios for a JAL connection?

    • ankomonkey says:
      28 Nov28 November 17:22

      I saw this post when it had just one comment and immediately looked at Tokyo. Nothing then. Either this deal was known about earlier or there weren’t any/many Tokyo flights at this price…

  • Vic says:
    28 Nov28 November 16:06

    Help! Booked Club to San Diego starting from Dublin 3 weeks ago when ex-Dub Club offers were on. Paid £1200 pp (not inc Lhr-Dub-Lhr). Anyone know how I can dump Dub-Lhr-San-Lhr-Dub in favour of direct? My travel dates match the new offer perfectly.

    • Scott says:
      28 Nov28 November 16:47

      If you booked the I7 sale fares you might be able to get them to reprice, but will cost you 300 Euro change fee, so probably not worth doing. That was always the risk with those fares, they were essentially non-changeable without significant penalties as far as I could see. Didn’t stop me booking for April though.

  • Helen says:
    28 Nov28 November 16:31

    I booked flights to the US last night and was patting myself on the back that I’d snuck in under the wire to get a 28day advance fair, and that WT+ was so little more than WT that I could justify it. I am so glad I saw this post at lunchtime, as I was within the 24hr window to cancel last night’s booking with a full refund and rebook in CE for even less. And it contributes to the spend threshold on my new Amex card. I’m one very happy bunny.

  • Alex says:
    28 Nov28 November 17:23

    Are you sure about Tokyo flights being in this Raffles? Not seeing any availability…

    • Rob says:
      28 Nov28 November 20:22

      The list I posted is a direct cut and paste from the BA website terms and conditions section.

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