Good British Airways business class fares to Australia from Oslo

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• Andy says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:05

  Those Perth sectors clock up quite a few TPs too

• Alan Wan says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:22

  I called Trailfinders in the UK to inquire about an ex-DUB flight. They said I’d have to call their Irish branch to get a quote

  • Fiona Whyte says:

    26 Mar26 March 12:13

    I booked ex DUB at Trailfinders in a UK branch. BA CW DUB-JFK-LHR-DUB for an additional fee of £50 pp. Since the price was a third of going on a UK departure then £50 fee was a small price to pay. The TF guy was most helpful too.

• Flyersj18 says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:24

  I recently booked one of these fares to Perth travelling in late June. OSL-LHR-HKG-SYD-PER-SYD-SIN-LHR-OSL for just under 2.3k earning 940TPs. Nice stopover in Hong Kong outbound and Syd on the way back. Connecting flights EDI-OSL return with Norwegian cost £98.00 including luggage and choice of seat. Really is a no brainer to start Ex EU if you are based in the regions.

  • Alan says:

    26 Mar26 March 08:45

    Totally agree, EDI-OSL with Norwegian is great, my parents did it twice last year when going out to Oz. They ended up paying about £1800 each!

• MB says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:28

  Currently in Oslo, having just come back from Sydney on one these fares. Bought in the sale so a nice 25% reduction on the prices quoted.

  Sadly, my luggage is AWOL. I made a tight connection in HKG but the bags didn’t. It’s due to arrive in OSL after I fly out.

  MB

  • Danksy says:

    26 Mar26 March 06:34

    I always wondered what they do with lost luggage if your final destination is different; I guess they just forward it without any problem?

    • pauldb says:

      26 Mar26 March 07:33

      They usually take responsibility for getting it to you, though I’m not sure how far that goes. I lost a bag on the way to Nice last year but told them I was staying in Marseilles. The bag was already on its way to Nice but they routed it Nice-Frankfurt-Marseilles (unbeknown to me).

      • MB says:

        26 Mar26 March 09:41

        They’ve said they forward them on to my final destination, LCA.

        Latest is one bag is on its way and may arrive before I fly back out; other bag is currently lost.

        • Polly says:

          26 Mar26 March 09:52

          Do keep us updated, as it could affect any one of us flying ex EU. Hope it gets to you eventually. Guess they are obliged to get to you in the UK?

        • JamesLHR says:

          26 Mar26 March 12:30

          The airline will reunite the bag with you, wherever you end up. I regularly have passengers arrive who are no where near Heathrow for their missing bag. It is either rushed on another carrier or couriered to them.

        • MB says:

          27 Mar27 March 07:53

          Home and with both bags. They were on the first flight to OSL, despite BA saying they had no idea where one bag was, so I was able to collect and check them in for my LCC flight home.

          I’d happily, and probably will, book a similar itinerary again though a longer transit in HKG would make sense.

    • zsalya says:

      26 Mar26 March 09:52

      I think airlines (at least legacy carriers) will generally deliver to hotel or home, even if in a different country from destination airport.

      The only time my bag failed to arrive (probably the fault of United for not getting it to BA in IAD) I reported it at LHR, and they just needed to know my home address and the nearest airport. I gave them TXL rather than SXF since they fly to the former. The bag arrived a couple of days later by courier to home in Poland which is 1.5 hours from TXL.
      Admittedly my IAD-LHR flight was in Z.

      Does anybody know whether LCCs do the same?

  • Polly says:

    26 Mar26 March 09:49

    Yes agree that QR ex EU can be fab in sales. We actually cancelled a BA 241 in F to KUL, to buy our cash ex CPH J seats via DOH. Cabin 1-2-1 config, but more spacious than BA F. Not much more than the taxes and fees on BA F. Plus it got us close to our silver, 560 TPs, in that one trip. We very quickly did our two BA return flights each, again in BA sale, so are now silver, for next two years. Works a treat, but you do have the stopover in Doha to contend with. We hope to do AKL with QR at some later point.

• pauldb says:

  26 Mar26 March 07:52

  OSL is the default search but you can also start in Bergen or Stavenager which are shorter flights, lower band at 4500 avios RFS and probably more interesting places to visit.
  You can also book to Norway to Auckland for £2,288 via HKG, even more of a bargain and a reward-killer, with the AKL-HKG on Cathay.
  I can’t see any date restriction at all (?) which is unusual.

  • Matthew says:

    26 Mar26 March 18:40

    I think the HKG-AKL route with Cathay will be using A350’s later this year too 🙂

• Amit says:

  26 Mar26 March 07:54

  Argh I’ve got £3k in trail finders vouchers – what to spend them on!?

• Ralphy says:

  26 Mar26 March 08:02

  Very topical Rob since myself and Mrs R. fly to Sydney in J tonight! but I see the value proposition differently since when I checked the other week a return business class ticket on BA was just shy of £6,000. Even at £2,200 for a cash ticket, plus costs to Oslo etc etc, that’s a bit steep for us and I couldn’t justify it. Collecting Avios through credit card bonuses and spend works for me though. We booked 355 days out and then the return on the phone for four weeks later and it looked to me like BA opened up two seats in J most days there and back. The cherry on top? Being guested into the CCR through the Lounge Meet up thread from Flyer Talk

  • Polly says:

    26 Mar26 March 09:02

    Hi Ralphy, what is this Guest Meet up you mention via flyertalk? Do we have to join. Only check it out when there are links here. We are flying J to NYC in July, so would love to do the CCR is way. Any info most welcome. Thank you.

    • Ralphy says:

      26 Mar26 March 11:08

      http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1735484-lounge-meet-up-2016-master-thread.html

      Hi Polly. It pays to be a member and have asked done questions our contributed. We offered CCR it when we flew to Beijing last year so reciprocation helps too. Good luck!

      • Leo says:

        26 Mar26 March 11:19

        If it’s anything like the request thread for Club House guesting on V flyer I should imagine people get quite shirty if the first ever contribution made is a request for guesting into a lounge!

      • Polly says:

        26 Mar26 March 17:28

        Thanks Ralphy, ignoring Leo’s not so nice comment. As if a first posting would do that! As it turns out, we have used avios to u/g to F on the way back, so we could actually reciprocate on our return sector from JFK to LHR. We think it’s a fab idea, so will look into it further. Always happy to help people here with queries, so am sure it’s similar on flyer talk, but they appear to be such experts on that forum, it’s almost intimidating!

        • fiona says:

          27 Mar27 March 16:05

          Don’t feel intimidated. I find FT a fantastic source of knowledge. Would never have managed CW or First without it. Also, I found this site through it 🙂

• BrianDT says:

  26 Mar26 March 08:08

  Sorry,but maybe a daft one. Taking Rob’s example above and you want your two stopovers etc., how do you get back to Sydney to get back home? Or is it simply an extra paid flight from wherever you end up, ie Brisbane in Robson example?

  • pauldb says:

    26 Mar26 March 09:14

    You can probably include a Qantas flight BNE-SIN on a the same/similar fare in which case rather than BNE being your destination, it’s a ticket to Perth, out via SYD and back via BNE. Then again, you could probably opt for QF SIN-PER too so LHR-SIN-PER(stop)-SYD returning SYD-BNE(stop)-SIN-LHR would save on flying time. (Or if you want to a stop in SIN, book an open jaw back BNE-SIN(stop)-LHR: BNE is thereby not a stopover and SIN can be your free one. Then you would need a separate ticket or overland travel Sydney-Brisbane but that would be cheaper than paying the €200 supplement.)

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