New, cheaper, British Airways Club Europe ‘weekend break’ tickets launched

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• Neil says:

  13 Mar13 March 07:27

  Full tier points/avios? If so this is a great deal for me.

  • Richie says:

    13 Mar13 March 07:36

    Yes you will get 40 tp ew on these fares. Plus an avios bonus.
    80tp for longer European routes such as hel and ist

• Toby says:

  13 Mar13 March 08:38

  People were paying almost £450 to go to Paris!?!?

  • Rob says:

    13 Mar13 March 09:59

    My old employer had an ‘all J’ travel policy and I frequently flew to Paris in CE on tickets costing even more than £450.

• Manuel says:

  13 Mar13 March 08:43

  Great for some TP runs 😉

• Tim says:

  13 Mar13 March 10:26

  Can I sense a Tesco-Avios conversion bonus coming along? Three discount BA fare schemes launched in not many more days…. Are they short of money or just optimising the loads?

  Like M&S could abandon all their brands but ‘Autograph’ and ‘Sartorial’ and become the old M&S before it lost its way, BA could abandon economy and clearly differentiate themselves from the low cost carriers. Whatever it is BA do business class well and I like their current direction.

  • John says:

    13 Mar13 March 18:28

    I’m not going to get my hopes up for Tesco

    Club World is not bad but not amazing either compared to some, but Club Europe seems to me to be a waste of time except for niches such as TP runs, or if you have no status but want lounge access. If you have lots of Avios that you can’t spend, then you might as well RFS in CE too, and obviously if connecting long haul you want something more, as well as for true business travellers who don’t care so much about the cost.

  • E14 says:

    13 Mar13 March 20:52

    This is to do with optimising the aircraft currently in operation, if you look at the iag financial statements, BA wants to grow its customer base, not the Avios balance. Tesco needs to increase its market which unless a bonus was announced way in advance isn’t going to happen (and they only appear to have copied the Morrisions fuel recently)

• Chris Sutter says:

  13 Mar13 March 10:27

  I agree, they seem to have locked in I fares from the last sale to some destinations.

  When they announced it yesterday, I was surprised and very happy to see VIE and OTP fares at previous sale prices, but checking again today it seems that was just the sale lasting a day longer than officially announced. Looking today, it’s only the handful of destinations mentioned here that are discounted, and everything else is back to usual fare levels 🙁

• Vicky says:

  13 Mar13 March 14:58

  A random question, but can I redeem my miles for a ticket with virgin for someone else? I know that you can do that for BA but I’m not sure about virgin – I don’t want to transfer my MR to virgin and then realise that I cant redeem the ticket! Many thanks!

  • John says:

    13 Mar13 March 18:28

    You can, but it’s really difficult. Raffles wrote a post about it earlier this year, and there is a sticky thread on FlyerTalk. Search.

  • stevejnr says:

    14 Mar14 March 08:14

    I found it very easy – I recently booked a return LHR-ABZ for a relative (and we weren’t travelling together). Just book it using points online and it asks for all the information.

• owain thomas says:

  13 Mar13 March 15:12

  Is this just from London airports?

  • Vicky says:

    13 Mar13 March 15:25

    No I am hoping to redeem a ticket from shanghai to london one way only

  • Pete says:

    13 Mar13 March 18:06

    We’ll as an example to AMS.

    Out from London £119 Manchester £170
    Return London £122 Manchester £176

    It’s about £50 more each way, which is what I’ve found is normal for a business return to the regions. Seems to add about £100 for a return so no change there really.

    Good though if it books into business UK as another 40 TP return total 120 for the trip. However I was booked into J class to get business UK. Perhaps in I class you’d only get 10 each way on a Domestic…..?

    • Pete says:

      13 Mar13 March 18:21

      Sorry I stand corrected!

      Class was ‘R’ for Club Europe which is still described as Discounted Club.
      Domestic was ‘J’ which I don’t understand as that is supposed to be Full Fare Club.

      But that’s what my transaction history shows anyway.

      • John says:

        13 Mar13 March 18:29

        Isn’t Business UK J?

• Anon says:

  13 Mar13 March 19:43

  I’m lost. What’s I, J, R and G class?

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