£1,100 business class fares ex-Scandinavia across all alliances to US West Coast

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• DS says:

  14 Jan14 January 14:53

  The prices from Copenhagen went up today, untill yesterday New York
  with SkyTeam and Star was 6700DKR (ca £700) now it’s around £900.
  OneWorld prices has also gone up, but was never as low as Star and ST.
  Would have been a good way to try AF and KLM’s new
  Business Class, AF one way KL the other.

• Jeremy I says:

  14 Jan14 January 15:00

  I’m sure most are aware but last night I found ex-Dub business class fares to NYC (Returning on BA2 into London City if you want) for around £850 in the summer holidays, vs £900 for flights from London in economy! Madness.

• Tony smith says:

  14 Jan14 January 22:17

  If you use the employee promo code you can get 13% off ba com . Just managed to find it after 2 months of looking! Thanks Rob!!

  • Brendan says:

    15 Jan15 January 00:25

    And the code is…? I’d have thought they would require to see something as proof when you travel

• Manuel says:

  15 Jan15 January 08:55

  Interesting tips here all. This hobby is becoming an addiction 🙂

• Andy Green says:

  15 Jan15 January 23:20

  I’m found a terrific deal flights from Dublin via Heathrow to Los angeles in September return for two people business class with British airways is £1300 all in plus 18000 avios points.

  Can anyone tell me, do we gain avios points in the flight even though we have upgraded our seats using avios from premium economy
  To business?

  Also we are taking the flight from Heathrow and missing the Dublin connections. Would we get credit for this part of the journey even though we don’t actually travel it?

  • Brendan says:

    15 Jan15 January 23:26

    Andy I hope you know that you MUST take the first flight from Dublin. If you miss a flight on the itinerary the rest of it will be cancelled. You can drop the last leg from LHR to DUB but you might have problems if you have checked baggage as they may refuse to short check it to London instead of Dublin

    • Andy Green says:

      15 Jan15 January 23:46

      Thanks for this I had no idea.

      Not an issue now I know as we can book a night or stay with a friend in Dublin for the first night

      Is this definitely the case?

      • @mkcol says:

        15 Jan15 January 23:48

        Yes.
        Definitely.
        Has been warned about multiple times on here (& elsewhere).

        I’d thoroughly recommend sorting yourself out a positioning flight to DUB, however you’re welcome to try & skip the first sector to prove us all wrong.

        • Andy Green says:

          16 Jan16 January 00:02

          British airways flights duly booked to DUB the day before for the princely sum of £74 each

          Total trip is £720 instead of £2600. Happy with that

      • Alan says:

        16 Jan16 January 08:59

        Absolutely 100% totally absolutely the case! Please don’t book these sort of tickets if you’re not sure of the rules. The Flyertalk thread goes through this all in great detail and Raffles has also highlighted it in his posts. It would be a disaster to miss the first leg as you’d lose your entire booking and holiday – there’s also no way BA would countenance allowing this otherwise who would ever book ex-UK if there wasn’t even the hassle of positioning to the EU destination.

        • Rob says:

          16 Jan16 January 09:51

          Thanks Alan, I might have missed this comment. You MUST take the first flight. Skip the last one if you want but not the first one.

        • Andrew says:

          18 Jan18 January 06:51

          Sorry for my ignorance but how do you skip the last leg?

        • Rob says:

          18 Jan18 January 10:11

          Er, you just don’t get on the plane!

          However, your bags WILL go on the plane which is why you want to book the last leg from a different airport if you can to ensure the bags are returned at Heathrow (eg City if Dublin).

          If no flights from another airport, book the last leg for the next day (but under 24 hours stopover) and tell check in at your origin that you in a hotel at Heathrow and need your luggage. Should work, does for me.

        • Andrew says:

          18 Jan18 January 08:07

          forget that found all the info I need, many thanks.

  • Alan says:

    15 Jan15 January 23:33

    You’ll get credit for the underlying paid for fare, ie WTP in this case. You won’t get credit for not flying a sector (not unsurprisingly!), remember any subsequent sectors are then automatically cancelled so this is only ever possible for your last sector. Even then I wouldn’t make a habit of it in case BA decide to ask you for the fare difference!

• Mark H says:

  16 Jan16 January 08:36

  As a corporate travel agent myself I was looking at these yesterday to fly OSL – LHR – SFO//LAX LHR – OSL which was £1368 and today it has jumped to just short of £2k!! I also checked Ex ARN and HEL and these fares since yesterday have increased by around £500. Seems that BA must read this page as they have now pulled all the sale fares Ex Scandi 🙁

  • Andy says:

    16 Jan16 January 11:38

    The sale ended on 15th Jan for certain locations e.g. BRU, ARN, OSL, that’s why the prices went up. The sale for DUB or CPH ends on 27th Jan so there is still time.

• oyster says:

  16 Jan16 January 13:05

  It’s getting harder and harder to justify using Avios on long haul now.

  Avios in CW to New York is 80k return plus £600ish of rip-off fees. These ex-europe fares of around £1,000 assuming an Avios positioning flight earn at least 10k Avios.
  So a net loss of Avios of 90,000 for £400 – 0.44p per Avios and only 0.88p using a 2-4-1 voucher.

  Oh and not to mention the stack of tier points thrown in.

  I am obviously talking leisure fares, have no idea how anyone can do an ex-EU for work.

  • Polly says:

    16 Jan16 January 15:47

    Easy if you are booking your work flights yourself! But that’s the problem, work plans can change, and most of these ex EU fares are fixed In Stone! You fly or you lose em!

• Speedbird_ABZ says:

  16 Jan16 January 14:26

  I’m confused.
  I recommend ITA Matrix and find flights for friends all the time, but I can’t find availability on these ex-Scandinavian deals.
  I have promised a friend I will take him to the US in business class this year.
  Firstly the best fares are the current ex-DUB in August to HNL/LAX/NYC etc etc.
  BUT, seeing the above I got a tad excited because I want to travel in October, but I really am struggling.
  My ITA Matrix site is in meltdown because I’ve put in so many options that I think I’ve exhausted it.
  Has anyone found any Scandinavia-West Coast US fares as above for October?
  Ideally the HNL trip was what I wanted but second choice is LAX/SFO stopping off on NYC on the way home. I’ve tried without the NYC stop as well, but well, it ain’t happening.
  I hate asking because I am usually the one giving advice, so any help gratefully received!
  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    16 Jan16 January 16:21

    Hmmm. Despite the rules it does seem that nothing is loaded for October, even on other airlines, based on a few examples I ran.

    • Speedbird_ABZ says:

      18 Jan18 January 09:58

      Thanks Raffles, thought so. I shall be keeping an eye out for the next sale – got my friend very excited about his first Business trip.

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