British Airways gave me a bit of a surprise this morning by launching a ‘flash’ redemption sale via an announcement on the ‘offers’ page of ba.com.
This is a very quick post as I am due at an event at World Travel Market in 5 minutes!
The short haul deal covers 10 European routes.
You need to book your seat before midnight on November 17th and travel before January 31st.
You will pay the usual Avios price but the taxes charge is reduced by £34 to just £1!
The list of participating routes is here. They are all in the 15,000 to 20,000 Avios per seat band which means they are generally ‘Winter sun’ routes. Only economy seats are available.
The long haul deal covers 35 routes.
The number of Avios required for World Traveller (ie economy) seats is reduced by HALF on 30 routes and by a quarter on the remaining five. The taxes figure is unchanged, however.
The booking and travel dates are the same as for the short haul offer.
The list of routes is here. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are included if the Winter weather is getting you down this week.
Not sure if these can be booked via avios.com or if you need to move your points over to British Airways Executive Club first.
Seats are available for booking now. Full analysis tomorrow. Right, off to my meeting ….
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50% on Iberia too
Booking Period: From 5 to 15 November, 2014.
Flight Period: From 1 December, 2014 to 31 January, 2015.
http://www.iberia.com/ibcomv3/content/COMUN/PDF/Rebajas_nov_es.pdf
i will be busy this weekend!
I neither speak or read Spainish so I could be wrong but it looks like Iberia are including some business class seats?
I can’t spell in English either!
ahaha, this is a good one!
EN TODAS LAS CLASES: in all classes
Desde 20.000 Avios por trayecto means “from 20k per segment”
It’s far easier to just use the English language version of the Iberia website!
http://www.iberia.com/?language=en
Here’s the English version of the pdf http://www.iberia.com/ibcomv3/content/COMUN/PDF/Rebajas_nov_en.pdf
Ahah for some reason the browser was setup to Spanish.i am not even Spanish! Are you an Iberia rep?
I’m not an Iberia rep, just a regular reader of this website (thanks Raffles) and thought I’d lend a hand.
Bravo thanks!
Its annoying how Dublin is never included in any of Iberias deals
Mmmm…arrived in Alicante today, 6th November, on a RFS booked last week…so missed out there, no chance of a retrospective I guess!?!
Also, have used a 241 for a trip to Washington in December….so the 50% deal looked good for a cancellation / re-booking, until I saw it was in World Traveller only. Think I’d rather keep my CW booking at full avios and 241. Unless it might be extended across all classes????
I too had to forego a planned visit to WTM, look forward to your WTM post Raffles!
I am not a fan of WTM but was invited to a blogger networking event today. Met one useful trade person and 10 less useful ones but, if that one comes to something, it will have been worth it.
Need some help here guys as I have not booked any RFS before.
Just tried Venice in Dec/Jan on BA, however, it’s still showing 15,000 Avios + £35 tax (not £1)
Just did a dummy flight for you LHR-VCE 9-17 Dec.
Loads of availability then & each side.
Use the links above.
Thanks…just saw some Avios+£1 flights
Not sure what I was doing wrong earlier