£266 Los Angeles returns available on British Airways in the New Year

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• Scott says:

  24 Jul24 July 08:26

  15392 Avios (gold 100% bonus) earned for CPH-LHR-LAX-LHR-CPH according to a dummy booking I did just now.

  • rich says:

    24 Jul24 July 08:55

    Would silver give me 50% extra or 100% extra. Or 0% extra when crediting a ba flight to American airlines scheme.

    • Rob says:

      24 Jul24 July 09:55

      Silver gives you 50 per cent of the full amount, so you end up with 75 per cent of miles flown. See example from a Gold member below.

      • rich says:

        24 Jul24 July 11:18

        Even if crediting to American?

  • Rob says:

    24 Jul24 July 09:57

    That is because the Gold and Silver bonuses are based on the full rate and not the 25 per cent rate. Which I find very odd, to be frank – BA missed a cost cutting trick here. Need to email Mr Hillier …

• Lambs says:

  24 Jul24 July 08:51

  When you Get a quote from say Dublin, do you put you are in UK on entering the Ba site or Dublin? As with the example of the Copenhagen price it wasn’t in £’s? Thx

  • Rob says:

    24 Jul24 July 09:56

    It prices in the currency of the departing currency whichever site you use. You can stick with the UK site just fine.

• JS says:

  24 Jul24 July 09:30

  Same sort of prices to go to LAS at that time of year as well, thanks for the article.

• Ian H says:

  24 Jul24 July 09:34

  Never flying BA to LA again. 1 meal over the course of an 11 hour flight. Not even any snacks to have either. Don’t know if this is standard for this flight, but almost passed out from hunger before we landed. (This was in economy, but still).

  cabin crew laughed at us when we asked if they had any fruit.

  • Rob says:

    24 Jul24 July 09:53

    They have just improved the catering on US flights in economy, I did an article a couple of weeks ago.

  • CV3V says:

    24 Jul24 July 09:58

    Some colleagues went in BA economy to LAS last month and it was similar to your experience, the crew also advised that they had ran out of food and alcohol! Not sure how BA do their catering but sometimes the ‘ran out of booze’ excuse is used by airlines to save enough for the return flight – which is an issue on Vegas flights!

    • James67 says:

      24 Jul24 July 16:34

      Yup, need to help everybody drown theif sorrows. Such a pathetic depressing place thought, it would drive anybody to drink imo.

      • Kipto says:

        24 Jul24 July 18:58

        Totally agree.

  • Erico1875 says:

    24 Jul24 July 20:42

    only 1 meal in 11 hours ? Bob Geldof should organise a concert

• Robert says:

  24 Jul24 July 10:03

  About 4 years ago I booked a LHR-LAX-JFK-LHR with BA in WT costing £303 earning me around 26,000 miles (this was pre Avios and pre the devaluation of course) – great value!

• Ant says:

  24 Jul24 July 10:47

  I am struggling with this. First time I am trying to book an exEU. Interested in CPH-LAS Jan/Feb time.
  as an example can I do the following stopover:
  Sunday CPH-LON
  Thurs LON-LAS
  Mon LAS-LON
  Sat LON-CPH

  where would be the best site to try and book this, I can’t find where I can put it the stopover dates on the BA website.
  Also is there a possibility that I will be allowed to upgrade using avios later on?
  Appreciate any help

  • Rob says:

    24 Jul24 July 10:56

    Click ‘multi-city’ on ba.com on the booking page and you can do what you want to do. It opens a new page where you can input leg by leg.

    HOWEVER …. your plan is a bad plan! By stopping more than 24 hours in London on the way out, you will cause Air Passenger Duty to be added to the fare. This will add £65 or so to the price – the tax for long-haul economy flight. Stopping for less than 24 hours in London means no APD.

    Expedia offers similar functionality.

• Barry Stanley says:

  24 Jul24 July 11:14

  Any idea if on the return flight I can check bags just to LHR and not have them go onto CPG so I don’t have to complete the final leg?

  • rich says:

    24 Jul24 July 11:22

    The most asked question on this site. Or possibly 2nd to ‘do I have to actually take the first flight , why cant I just get on in london’. The answer is : You can try and leave a bit of time in between the connections and tell the check in staff you need your bag in London to get changed/ or you have a >100ml bottle of medicine that you need to access. Or you could fly the last leg from either city ir Gatwick. And then they need to give you your bag. Or you could travel hand baggage only.

    • pauldb says:

      24 Jul24 July 11:41

      Or, when travelling TATL, book the final leg early the next morning, still within 24hrs so it’s a connection rather than a stopover. Your bags won’t be checked through for an overnight stay at LHR.

      • Gavin says:

        24 Jul24 July 13:01

        I’ve heard conflicting reports about an overnight stopover at LHR. Apparently if it’s less than 24 hours your bags will still be checked through and stored overnight at LHR, so you’re still relying on whether or not the check-in agent is willing to check your bags to LHR instead of the final destination.

        • Polly says:

          24 Jul24 July 18:42

          Best to depart from London from a different airport ad mentioned above. Try City or LGW. That way you definitely get your bags on arrival.

• TrekTrendy says:

  24 Jul24 July 12:48

  Awesome deal, i’ve had a play around with the dates, and have found it for 2,655 DKK incl of all taxes (£251). 9th Jan > 13th Jan. If you did go for just under a week, carry on baggage could be sufficient, then just terminate your journey at London Heathrow.

  • richard says:

    24 Jul24 July 16:29

    yes my dates came up at £253 I think. I need to be in rome for the england Italy 6 nations game so im going to book the final leg to rome, which is still only coming in at £309. bargain!! cheers HFP

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