Sale time – Etihad business class, Virgin West Coast and a rare SWISS First Class offer

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• Talay says:

  6 Jul6 July 05:50

  I also rate Etihad and use them for most of my SE Asia routes but booking yesterday, Singapore Airlines was less than 2/3rds of Etihad’s price and with over £2000 difference (2 x pax) then it was a no brainer for the A380 13 hour flight.

  To add capacity, Etihad has dusted off some of their “retired” A340s and has some (presumably) ex Jet Air rubbish in the mix as well.

  No chauffeurs is a miss though.

• Talay says:

  6 Jul6 July 05:54

  OT

  I am going to be cancelling 2 seats in Club World via Amex Avios 2 for 1 on the following flights which will presumably see them relisted as available for redemption. If anyone wants one and wishes to try to bag it seconds after I release it then let me know (if allowed to discuss this here ?).

  LHR-BKK 19/07/16
  BKK-LHR 05/09/16

  • Genghis says:

    6 Jul6 July 08:04

    That’s one long holiday! Jealous

    • Talay says:

      6 Jul6 July 10:40

      Summer break for wife and child – they have flown out today for an even longer one !

• James says:

  6 Jul6 July 09:24

  I don’ think I will be recommending Etihad to anyone soon following my experience yesterday. They managed to lose/misappropriate my luggage along with 5000 others ( according to the agent I spoke to) in Abu Dhabi.
  No clue as to where it is or if I will ever see it again. Gold member on a First class ticket has little bearing. I can only hope.
  Internet research suggests it can be quite a recurring theme with Etihad.
  Seat might be a bit nicer on the plane, but not worth the subsequent hassle.

  • Talay says:

    6 Jul6 July 10:41

    Etihad has few if any seats left right now judging by their pricing, which I follow carefully.

    It is also a religious time in the ME so all and sundry travelling.

• Rob says:

  6 Jul6 July 09:54

  OT

  I saw flights to Hong Kong from Birmingham for £250 with Qatar over on secret flying. There are dates going into March 2017. I wondered if anybody could shed light on whether these should be booked ASAP or will the prices hold for at least a month or 2?

  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 10:23

    You’re joking – you can’t even get to the Middle East for less than £300 most of the time. If they are offering you £250 – which hardly even covers the taxes – you need to jump on it immediately.

    • John says:

      6 Jul6 July 11:44

      This must be in Y, so the taxes are UK APD of £73 and HK departure tax of £12 plus whatever BHX and DOH charge for ‘security’, so hardly “hardly”

    • Rob says:

      6 Jul6 July 12:28

      Thank you. Sorry I’m quite inexperienced at this. I’ve seen similar priced offers from gatwick via turkey but understandably not too keen to jump on that. Wasn’t sure whether to wait if I could or book now. This answers it though.

      • Mr Dee says:

        6 Jul6 July 21:52

        This Momondo looks very useful to find some cheap flights

  • AndyGWP says:

    6 Jul6 July 15:10

    Ah – didn’t realise this was a publically known issue as such – I picked up flights from BHX out to SIN and back from KUL earlier for £370, when yesterday they were £500+ and all other oneworld airlines were coming in at £600+

    • AndyGWP says:

      6 Jul6 July 19:28

      What I meant to say was that I didn’t realise these prices weren’t the norm (as such). Never really gone East beyond Europe so wasn’t sure what I should be paying, and whether it was a natural dip.

      Neither did I realise that it was being publicised to far and wide as an error fare (SecretFlying) else I would’ve booked earlier rather than leaving it till lunch time 🙂

      Final point – I booked mine direct from Qatar via. Google Flights

• Clive says:

  6 Jul6 July 14:12

  One World Business to Seattle £874 over Christmas

  https://www.google.co.uk/flights/#search;iti=inv_sea_2016-12-30*sea_inv_2017-01-07;tt=m;sel=INVLHR0BA1469-LHRORD0BA297-ORDSEA0AA1377,SEAORD0AA1017-ORDLHR0BA294-LHRINV1BA1468;sc=b;px=1,0,0,0;a=ONEWORLD;so=p

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 15:15

    It is possible Swiss was matching this when it launched its deal but no-one ever saw the original!

• harry says:

  6 Jul6 July 21:59

  Raffles – what is Secret Flying then?

  • Rob says:

    7 Jul7 July 00:07

    I know nothing about it beyond what you can learn from their site.

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