British Airways launches new First, Club World and Club Europe sale

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• James says:

  22 May22 May 05:23

  Ex EU is included. DUB is great as usual, with NYC from £880 (on American) Miami £917 or Honolulu around £1150.

  • Brian says:

    22 May22 May 07:47

    Yes, though maybe these are just ‘normal’ prices right now. I’m seeing return to San Francisco for 1090GBP – flying there on American via Chicago and back with BA – the onward flight back to Dublin is from Gatwick, so quite easy to ‘miss’ that one.

    I already have Virgin redemptions for the same dates, economy out and Upper Class back. Tempting to cancel those, since I’m spending about 350GBP on taxes, plus 72,000 odd miles. Plus I’d earn 22,000 Avios if I book the revenue flights, as well as the tier points. (And I’d be flying business both ways.) Still, probably worth keeping the Virgin if only for the convenience of direct flights.

    • James says:

      22 May22 May 07:51

      Virgin have good ex DUB prices too, around £1000 for east coast. Not sure about west (£1200??)

      • Mycity68 says:

        22 May22 May 08:19

        Sorry am I missing something? How do I get the Virgin fares from Dublin as I can’t see them? thanks

        • AndyGWP says:

          22 May22 May 08:37

          If they don’t fly under the Virgin ‘name’, I’m assuming it’ll be Delta codeshares won’t it? 🙂

        • Smid says:

          22 May22 May 08:44

          Dependent on dates.

          Try the ita matrix with

          DUB
          ba lon vs
          SFO
          vs lon ba

          I’ve not checked recently, but for certain dates it was around 1170 ex DUB. But as the year goes on, the available dates become less and less…

        • dynamo says:

          22 May22 May 21:30

          Is there anyway that I can force BA to only show LHR-LCY transfers on the return leg?

        • Pol says:

          22 May22 May 12:47

          Expedia or ebookers are the easiest way to book. Click advanced options under where you input your flight details and choose your class and preferred airline.

  • RIccati says:

    22 May22 May 09:07

    UNLIKE the previous sale, BA.com does not bring up AA choices ex DUB anymore (that is, to depart from LHR on AA metal). Cannot bring AA flights even with extended search.

    Transatlantic sharing agreement or not, Oneworld Alliance or not but BA clearly does not want “their” customers purchasing/flying other airlines.

  • Marly says:

    22 May22 May 16:37

    Is it the new AA plane that departs from Dublin?

  • Jon says:

    22 May22 May 22:56

    I bagged an PE to F upgrade from LHR-YVR (ex-DUB) for €280! There seems to be some great deals out there!

• Liz says:

  22 May22 May 08:38

  OT: I have just received an email from BA Exec Club CS saying my husband has just requested a reset of his password under our household account. As I do all the airmiles stuff and he hasn’t a clue about any of it – he didn’t request a reset and neither did I. The email does not show any official BA headers, only text, with a link to change the password. All looks a bit dodgy to me – so I have logged in and changed all 3 passwords in our account manually. Has anyone else had this? Be on your guard.

  • stealthmoose says:

    24 May24 May 12:54

    I hope you logged in from the BA site and not via the link.

• Imbruce says:

  22 May22 May 08:44

  OT: does anyone know if Cityflyer is part of an airline alliance as my partner uses them to go to Dresden as they offer direct flights. Cannot find anything on their website.

  • DONE4 says:

    22 May22 May 09:13

    Also CityFlyer does not fly to Dresden, so you really mean CityJet.

    • Imbruce says:

      24 May24 May 17:01

      Oops that’s what I meant Cityjet.

• Luke says:

  22 May22 May 09:18

  I looked Monday at flights for my wife and infant to Orlando in April next year, was £2711 in club.
  Sale price was £1881!
  Then used my founders card to check if it worked in the sale and it dropped to £1759.

  Glad I didn’t book Monday!

• Jo says:

  22 May22 May 09:49

  Is it possible to use BA’s low fare finder tool for departures other than London?

  • Andrew says:

    25 May25 May 09:51

    Not that I can find… Tried switching countries (e.g. to Ireland) but then the low far finder option disappeared.

• Andy says:

  22 May22 May 10:15

  Just realise I need 150 TPs by first week of June… Struggling with ITA matrix!!

  • Rob says:

    22 May22 May 10:59

    Helsinki was about £380 and would knock it on the head in one trip (I think). Lovely place and you can pop across to Talinn on the ferry.

    • Mike says:

      22 May22 May 11:41

      If going to Helsinki I’d also recommend visiting Suomenlinna, I spent several hours there.

      • Andrew says:

        25 May25 May 09:51

        Ps – have been out to visit family there, it’s a lovely place and would thoroughly recommend.

    • Andrew says:

      25 May25 May 09:50

      Thanks – sadly not available until the end of the month. Can’t find anything else so think I’m going to miss out on that GUF2…

• Nathan says:

  22 May22 May 11:58

  Annoying that I have a cash+upgrade with Avios in October to New York flying from Dub.. can’t get a refund on it 🙁 basically used 35,000 avios for a £200 discount 🙁

  • Brendan says:

    22 May22 May 12:44

    October is not covered by the sale fare (and never is) if that makes you feel better

    • Worzel says:

      22 May22 May 13:38

      Nathan, you’ve done OK; having got the base/hotel rate of 0.57p-you can’t win them all !

      We recently lost a 2-4-1: expired, passed on, ceased to be, it is no more!!

      Sent in jest, 🙂 .

      • Danksy says:

        22 May22 May 13:59

        I’m seriously considering knocking BAPP on the head, the 241 vouchers don’t really hold much value in the face of sale prices. I might re-cycle cards every two years, using the year in between cycles to clock up Avios using Sale prices on Oneworld partner airlines!

        • Worzel says:

          22 May22 May 14:29

          Danksy,

          We’re now about 25% into what will probably be our last 2-4-1.

          Little point now, it appears to me, in working towards a reward(half cost avios) within a system subject to devaluation at any time, and with limited flight availability(has to be on BA metal) !

        • CV says:

          22 May22 May 16:33

          agreed, and when comparing BA Club World versus Qatar et al it makes the BAPP look even worse value.

        • Polly says:

          22 May22 May 20:14

          We are in the same boat. We can earn one every year but using it solely for F to Asia. Using these sales for any other trips. Just canceled our BA F to KUL recently and are now going J on QR directly to HKT. Using the F 241 for SEA, in March 16, but now see this sale. Admittedly it would be in J, so happy to use our 241 for F only. That’s our current strategy.

          James, we have never been able to get good o w flights in BA.

        • pj says:

          22 May22 May 20:24

          241 sounds a bit rubbish at the mo

        • James67 says:

          22 May22 May 21:26

          Generally agree on these sentiments, however, don’t fkrget theone big plux on avios redemptions remains flexibility go change and cancel. If it were not for that I would very likely defect to some other, or more likely cash tivkets. Anybody needing ow fares on BA should chech out ebookers.

• Simon says:

  22 May22 May 12:46

  BA used to show different minimum fares from each London airport under the Low Fare finder but now just show a blanket minimum, even if the destination is served by multiple London airports. Any idea why they changed this? As a frequent City Airport user (and Heathrow as 2nd choice), I do find this infuriating when trying to check fares using this page as the City Airport CE fare is always far more expensive than the Heathrow or Gatwick counterparts (with Zurich seemingly the sole exception to the rule!)

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