Very aggressive British Airways Club World Christmas flight sale from £1,000 return

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• Jonboy says:

  2 Dec2 December 12:57

  Came across it by chance early this morning, booked GRU at 5am, took no chances on that price dissapearing!

• colm says:

  2 Dec2 December 13:00

  Doesn’t look like a mistake – just a very aggressive three-day sale. Maybe it was intended to be a CyberMonday thing but they forgot to announce it? 🙂

  VALID FOR TRAVEL COMMENCING ON/AFTER 22DEC 13 AND ON/
  BEFORE 01JAN 14. ALL TRAVEL MUST BE COMPLETED BY MIDNIGHT
  ON 12JAN 14.

  TICKETS MUST BE ISSUED ON/AFTER 02DEC 13 AND ON/BEFORE
  05DEC 13.

• craig says:

  2 Dec2 December 13:09

  Totally gutted – am off to Brazil for Xmas and booked back in Jan to get a decent price (which it was by normal standards) of around £900ea economy. Ho-hum……

  • signol says:

    2 Dec2 December 13:38

    Craig – is that economy price on a flexible / refundable ticket? In which case, book Club now and cancel the Y ticket!

    • FromTheRail says:

      2 Dec2 December 13:42

      exactly what i was thinking

    • craig says:

      3 Dec3 December 10:40

      Looks like I can pay Opodo £100 per transaction to cancel (presumably a single charge then) but I paid £2619 for TAM flights to Curitiba 20/12 to 6/1. Whilst internal flights in Brazil are pretty cheap (v.little tax at all) – it looks like I can get ones for £273 on top of LHR-GRU for £2,900 for 3 of us – the hassle of changing carriers and paying c.670 extra in all for what would be 3 less days holiday (22/12-5/1) as well as inconveniencing our family there is just a little too much for it to work this time. Just a little irritating given it’s normally c.£4,000 to go business.
      Will watch out for a similar sale next winter though, just in case.

      • Rob says:

        3 Dec3 December 11:06

        Be careful with Opodo cancellation rules. It probably says that Opodo will charge you £100 ON TOP of the airline cancellation charge, which would be 100% anyway if it is discounted economy.

• Eastwood says:

  2 Dec2 December 14:26

  Got the email above and logged in, thought I would post if people are quick enough. I am sure Raffles will be along shortly to tidy it up

  • Rob says:

    2 Dec2 December 14:58

    No mention of 100 Avios for me, but did it anyway. And deleted it!

• Paul says:

  2 Dec2 December 14:30

  No special fares for Sydney not that I was expecting any lol

• Scottnothing says:

  2 Dec2 December 16:29

  I will be raising a glass to you Raffles when I fly LHR to GIG on 22 Dec (and again on the return leg). Thanks so much.

• Tim says:

  2 Dec2 December 18:23

  Raffles, do you not ever pinch yourself in the bottom and think ‘reality’. £100 would be worthy of a post. £1,000??? Who ever pays that????

  You are probably bored of my lectures on how to obtain real hotel value.

  I have not yet met in my life a person who has or would ever stay at these hotel chains of yours.

  I always report from the hotels I stay in. The next, as some others have already commented on, will be ‘The Colours West’ in four week’s time. This is £7.90 per night for sole occupancy on an all-inclusive basis.

  T.

  • Janeyferr says:

    2 Dec2 December 18:47

    When i first saw this post I did chuckle to myself about how I live in a different world to the target demographic of this blog. Reading the details makes it even more amusing, as if I did have a spare months wages to spend on a flight I can just imagine trying to get last minute cover over the holiday period at work.

  • CV says:

    2 Dec2 December 18:58

    You should set up a separate budget blog, would be fun to read. If you read some of the comments on here you will see that in this case, with this offer, there is a drastically reduced difference between economy and business. Although its possible to get a cheap ticket to Turkey trying to get one for long haul is nigh on impossible, but when they do appear it’s on here i can read about them e.g. Norwegian Air.

    Its always good to write reviews about hotel experiences, i do it too to share with others – good and bad. I see you have already written a comprehensive review of Colours West on Tripadvisor after a brief visit, and yet before staying there – that’s a novel and inventive approach.

  • danksy says:

    2 Dec2 December 19:56

    Tim, I think you might be being a tad harsh! Thanks to raffles I bagged a night in the melia grand (madrid) for free, now I am on the way to 250,000!

    Would you care to point me to some of your links on hotel value I’d be interested to save a few quid !

    Cheers
    Danksy

    • danksy says:

      2 Dec2 December 19:57

      correction 250,000 Avios

  • CV says:

    2 Dec2 December 21:08

    Raffles i have thought a few times that you should do an article and let everyone post what they have achieved/accrued this year in reading your blog, perhaps the year end would be a good excuse?

    What i have gained this year, and more importantly, what is planned ahead makes me a happy man! I would struggle to remember it all as its a diverse list (i.e. Achica free stuff, Redspotted hanky vouchers, as well as the 250,000 avios and 180,000 IHG points)!

    • Volker says:

      3 Dec3 December 08:30

      I like the idea of the achievements article. It could be a nice opportunity to say thank you to Raffles as well. I am not (yet) one of Britain’s top earners, but thanks to Raffles I sit in the same lounges and premium cabins and sleep in the same suites like many of them.

  • Mike says:

    2 Dec2 December 21:21

    Tim, I think you’re being a bit harsh too! You may not have met anyone who stays in these hotel chains but that doesn’t mean they aren’t out there. I work away. I stay in them regularly. So do lots of my colleagues. Presumably too so do the thousands of people reading Raffle’s blog. There’s lots of different groups in the world different to the one we’re in!

  • Calchas says:

    2 Dec2 December 22:46

    Hi Tim, not to lay into you for your dismissal of the value of Raffle’s blog(!), but a quick look at your profile suggests you were or are an academic? If so, surely you are often staying at Marriotts, Crowne Plazas and so on on research trips and conferences—certainly I stayed at more than a few during my PhD. Plus I’m sure you are aware that if your travel dates are inflexible you can pay a lot more than £1000 even for a deep discount restricted economy ticket. 🙂

    • susan says:

      3 Dec3 December 08:13

      Calchas, whilst I strongly believe that Tim was incorrect I am gobsmacked at your suggestion that academics regularly stay in Marriots and Crowne Plazas – and as for PhD students! Perhaps you are in a discipline with lots of dosh (medicine, civ eng?) but my experience of UK academe (humanities) is that cheap B&Bs and the odd travellodge (more often student halls of residence) is the lot of me and my colleagues. Hence why I love HfP so that, just occasionally, I can de-slum and travel in the pointy end!

      • Calchas says:

        3 Dec3 December 09:04

        I was in the physical sciences, which does seem to attract a little more funding than humanities, and my particular project involved a lot of travel to work on particular facilities with international collaborators. Also my advisor had begun to hate travelling by this point so he preferred to send his students to represent him at conferences and international meetings rather than go himself.
        I had more than my fair share of down-in-the-dump hotels and guest houses but the big American science conferences were usually hosted in very upmarket places. Always economy class flights though.

  • Mummy55 says:

    3 Dec3 December 09:06

    I guess that’s not your boat your on in the picture???

  • craig says:

    3 Dec3 December 10:41

    £1,000 rtn to get to Brazil is fantastic value – it’s normally £4,000 rtn to go business class. This price puts it around the same price as economy class.

• Rob says:

  2 Dec2 December 21:38

  The MBNA / BMI credit card 10% discount also seems to work with these fares! It knocks 10% off the base fare, so about another £40 off the ticket.

  • MBX says:

    3 Dec3 December 19:33

    What discount is this?

    I have an MBNA BMI card but not aware of it attracting a BA discount?

    • Mbx says:

      4 Dec4 December 20:00

      Does this work on the free card too?

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