Air China bringing back its amazing business class Oceania deals for Black Friday

Air China is bringing back, for Cyber Week, the exceptionally strong deals it ran over Singles Day weekend in early November.  If you are happy to start your trip in Germany there are deals to be had.

Take a look here and see.  We’re talking, departing Frankfurt, Munich or Dusseldorf in Business Class:

• Tokyo – €1,184 (£1,053)
• Seoul – €1,186 (£1,055)
• Singapore – €1,194 (£1,062)

• Hong Kong – €1,133 (£1,007)
• Sydney – €1,506 (£1,340)
• Melbourne – €1,506 (£1,340)
• Auckland – €1,506 (£1,340)

You must book from TOMORROW (22nd) and before 27th November (Tuesday).  You cannot book today.

Travel dates for the Business Class sale are:

• 11 December 2018 – 3 January 2019
• 29 January – 8 February 2019
• 2 April – 21 April, 2019
• 28 May – 24 June,2019
• 28 June – 23 August 2019

Air China is part of Star Alliance so you could (depending on which booking class the ticket books into) earn miles and status credit with Lufthansa Miles & More or one of the other Star programmes.  Use wheretocredit.com to find the most generous programme – you are looking for ‘R’ class earning which is typically 125% of miles flown.  

I know very little about Air China, so do some research on what planes are flying which route and what kind of seating it will offer.  A typical Air China business class is pictured above.

Some flights use brand new A350-900 aircraft with the impressive 1-2-1 layout above.

Earlier this year reader Joel reviewed the Air China Boeing 777 business class service from Heathrow to Beijing for us – see here.

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