British Airways Club World to North America from Dublin from £785 (AA from £732)

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• John says:

  18 Dec18 December 05:30

  Checking Iberia’s site for flights from Dublin to the US also throws up some interesting options, including on BA and AA.

• Brian says:

  18 Dec18 December 06:36

  So actually the cheapest fares are NOT for BA Club World, but rather for AA with their angled-flat beds. Still cheap, though!

  • Rob says:

    18 Dec18 December 08:53

    True. I wrote the headline and forgot to change it when the cheapest ones were AA ….

• Alex says:

  18 Dec18 December 06:59

  OT. BA have reversed the 480 Tesco”bonus” on some of my HH BAEC accounts. Hope they post the correct 4800 now.

  • Jon Dear says:

    18 Dec18 December 08:34

    same here.

  • Jon Dear says:

    18 Dec18 December 08:37

    say you moved these to Iberia “temporarily”. would your BAEC account can go into minus-?

    • Rob says:

      18 Dec18 December 08:42

      No

      • Jon Dear says:

        18 Dec18 December 09:58

        Thanks for the reply Rob!

        • TimS says:

          18 Dec18 December 13:36

          There is a slight risk though that they may not process the “correct” bonus until the “mistake” bonus is received back?

        • Tariq says:

          18 Dec18 December 18:43

          Not a problem if the error is in your favour though…

• John says:

  18 Dec18 December 07:08

  Had no problem shortchecking bags from HKG, although I always take the final flight and will do so in the future unless there is an emergency.

• Mark says:

  18 Dec18 December 07:26

  Question to all, do you think it’s time to credit all my points and tier status from BA to AA? Your through please.

  • Rob says:

    18 Dec18 December 08:52

    AA is reducing credit earned on BA flights next year. It depends on your mix of cabins and flight distances – some would earn status quicker, others slower.

    No soft landing on AA and harder to earn miles apart from flying. No Reward Flight Saver. Upside is no fuel surcharges on non-BA redemptions.

• mark2 says:

  18 Dec18 December 09:09

  OT
  Don’t forget that Shop Small ends on Sunday 20th

• Chris says:

  18 Dec18 December 09:11

  Quite like to know where you’re getting that exchange rate for Hawaii flights. Seems to be off by a fair margin

  • richard says:

    18 Dec18 December 09:29

    look on americn airlines website. that’s the price on there in pounds for some dates

    • Chris says:

      18 Dec18 December 09:38

      so it’s not €1302 then? It can’t be both €1302 and £874

      • richard says:

        18 Dec18 December 10:08

        yes it can I have seen fares as follows,
        AA pricing at 880 pounds
        ba pricing at 1301 euros

        • Chris says:

          18 Dec18 December 10:23

          ha ha cos that’s the same thing. scary logic there

          cheers Raffles, ironically I’ve since found it €1210 so £880 🙂

        • richard says:

          18 Dec18 December 10:31

          im not saying that 1300 euro is equal to 880pounds, im just saying iv seen both those. both are ridiculously great value. considering these fares will give you over 1000tp and a bucket load of avios

  • Rob says:

    18 Dec18 December 10:13

    Probably punched the wrong number into my phone 🙂

• Keith says:

  18 Dec18 December 09:19

  For those that may question or think it is too good to be true, here’s a brief overview of doing the same promotion ex Dublin to Kona Hawaii last year. The fare return Dub/LHR/LA/Kona/LA/LHR/LGW/Dub was £1020 in business class/First. I got a cheapie to Dublin and stayed at the excellent Travel Lodge.
  A380 to LA was great. American to Kona is not great but hopefully they have a new plane. First Class it isn’t.
  During our trip last July H4P ran an article about BA clamping down on these runs so we were a bit worried. At Kona airport they had NO FACILITY for checking the bags through to Dublin. They had to go to LHR so we even didn’t have to ask! We got to LHR picked up our bags and went home. No you’ve been a naughty boy email either. So for me it worked.

  • John says:

    18 Dec18 December 09:36

    Err, nowhere in the world is able to check bags through a LHR-LGW transit, which is why if you don’t want to have this bag problem, you deliberately book it like that

  • Polly says:

    18 Dec18 December 09:51

    For newbies….Smart booking, play dumb, collect your bags and just go home! Same for us from NYC. Bottom line is always book your last leg from a DIFFERENT LON Airport. Use multi city/book option. People need to be discreet, read the threads, learn and book. This method has been discussed ad infinitum on previous HFP BA sale articles.

    • Nick says:

      18 Dec18 December 10:21

      That’s no longer good advice. As Rob says, Propeller has felt BA’s wrath on this recently and it is NOT pretty – people doing this will cost him tens of thousands, and possibly hundreds of thousands. AA have invoiced some serial hidden city ticketers, and escorted others to the departure gate for the final leg. When you book on BA it explicitly states that failure to check luggage through to the final destination could create significant additional cost. The idea that it is in any way discreet is a nonsense: BA are well aware of it and they don’t like it.

      If you buy an ex-DUB fare, you should fly an ex-DUB route. Flying from the UK is more expensive for the very reason that people seek to turn ex-EU in to flights returning to the UK. I know I’ll get the “stop making a fuss – what are they going to do about it?” type responses, but we are starting to find out. Stage 1 is BA battering travel agents. Whilst this is ugly for Propeller because he is paying for the actions of his customers, I do have sympathy with BA. Stage 2 could (and, frankly, should) be BA invoicing customers for travelling short.

      • 1nfrequent says:

        18 Dec18 December 12:35

        I’d be interested to see how BA could invoice a customer for travelling short – they’d be under a common law duty to establish their loss and show how they have attempted to mitigate it. Even if they inserted a contractual clause to recover the difference in fares, they’re leaving themselves open to an UCTA challenge and would again have to establish their loss. All this is not to mention the negative PR they would get for going after individual passengers – there’d be a lot of Daily Mail sad face coupled with unwelcome scrutiny of BA’s pricing and ‘rip off Britain’ headlines.

        • Nick says:

          18 Dec18 December 13:20

          I agree that it’s a bit messy but they’ve already invoiced travel agents for it – it’s not a huge leap to do the same for people who book direct. And I think I read somewhere that AA have already invoiced some customers for the difference under similar circumstances. Train companies fine customers for travelling short – I don’t see why it should be any different for airlines. If a traveller wants to get off in London, he/she should book a shedule that terminates in London really.

          I do agree though, the publicity would be dreadful and would put real focus on the price differential, which might be a bad thing in the long run. Especially if BA have to back down and allow people to travel short.

        • Rob says:

          18 Dec18 December 13:24

          BA sold you a ticket on the basis that you need certain things and you have failed to do those things. You are therefore in breach of contract. It really is that simple. BA does not need to show it has suffered a loss. It only needs to show that the penalty is fair, and since the penalty is the price you would otherwise have paid for the routing you flew, I doubt it can be challenged.

          It is like buying a ticket for Friday and instead turning up on Saturday and expecting to get on the plane. The fact that the plane has empty seats (and so BA could let you fly without suffering any financial loss) has no bearing.

        • will says:

          18 Dec18 December 17:22

          There could well be an argument that BA should tell state clearly at booking time the penalties for not getting on any plane at any part of the route.

          Hotels do this, they clearly state the penalty for a no show or cancellation beyond certain dates.

          I think it stinks, in theory at present you could be facing a charge which can be completely fabricated by BA retrospectively. That’s how I would legally challenge it, the ambiguity of the surcharge.

        • Nick says:

          18 Dec18 December 23:12

          They make very clear that there could be a charge if you check your luggage short. And the fee would hardly be a fabrication: they publish the fares for routes ending in London. I’d look at it the other way: i think it stinks that passengers pay for a-c beacause it’s cheaper than a-b, but then fly a-b anyway without paying for it.

      • xcalx says:

        18 Dec18 December 14:10

        “If you buy an ex-DUB fare, you should fly an ex-DUB route.”

        I totally agree (and this is from someone who has in the past skipped the SIN-MLE section back in the BMI days).

        The thing is, this game is forever changing and the forecast is you will get stung eventually.

        The wise will heed the warning the rest will be on here sometime in the not too distant future bemoaning the fact that BA have demanded the price difference.

        The writing is on the wall .

    • Andy says:

      18 Dec18 December 11:21

      And don’t use a TA, if your going to do soething that is againt the rules then dont involve someone else that might have to carry the can

  • Oh! Matron! says:

    18 Dec18 December 11:43

    “excellent Travel Lodge”

    I hope that this is sarcasm…

    The Ghetto would be a better description. One of the worst hotels I’ve EVER stayed in.

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