Book British Airways Business Class to South Africa from £1,250 – when you book it with a car

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• Lynn R says:

  23 Dec23 December 11:09

  I looked for flights plus car from LHR to JNB at the start of February and found a great deal, aound £2500 in cw for the 2 of us. But as soon as I add flights from ABZ into the equation it jumps to over £4000. Is there anyway around this other than to book on seperate tickets, ie. economy ABZ to LHR and then cw LHR to JNB? We don’t need “business seats” for the short hop from ABZ to LHR. But I do understand that by doing seperate tickets there is a risk with connections etc.

  • MikeL says:

    23 Dec23 December 11:33

    Same from Glasgow and Edinburgh on all all of these “London offers”. Only suggestion I can make is, as you suggest, is to book separate tickets or use avios as you have your CW luggage allowance to consider on the domestic leg if it’s economy. There’s always the train of course re the luggage allowance but then again, that’s not a cheap option either.

    • Lynn R says:

      23 Dec23 December 11:44

      I priced the train and even with a “two together” railcard its £550 rtn for the 2 of us. Flights are £257, no wonder so many folk choose to fly rather than take a train! I suppose we could just pay excess baggage which would work out much cheaper than paying for business tickets all the way?

      • Helen says:

        23 Dec23 December 14:21

        That’s probably the price for an Off Peak or Anytime fare. Advance tickets aren’t usually released 6-8 weeks prior to the date

  • Alan says:

    23 Dec23 December 11:34

    Not sure if it’s worth trying calling BA Holidays instead? Their website is pretty poor for non-London options but agree it wouldn’t be ideal at all to have separate tickets from a protected connection perspective, esp now they won’t through-check bags.

  • Rich says:

    24 Dec24 December 13:38

    A missconnect is much less problematic on the return. You can always get yourself home from LHR – at a price.

• Kevin says:

  23 Dec23 December 12:42

  Very important: the same ’24 hour cooling off period’ for flights DOES NOT apply to package deals. I just found this out the hard way, and thankfully, had only paid the minimum deposit rather than the full amount.

  Package deals are only refundable within 24 hours if you book over the phone. Completely nonsensical, but it is what it is.

• Neal says:

  23 Dec23 December 12:58

  Thanks very much. Just booked for August at £4995 for 4 seats. Take it from reading the other comments that the car does not need to be collected.

• JC says:

  23 Dec23 December 15:03

  This is a great deal, JNB looks the cheapest as Rob says.

  What sort of holiday are you guys using for, safari? Keen to get some ideas!!!

  • Neal says:

    23 Dec23 December 16:04

    I think tbd at the moment – just wanted to secure the seats. Will definitely do a safari and fly to Cape Town. Already used 50k for 2 seats (me and my wife) to upgrade to 1st 😎

  • Lynn R says:

    23 Dec23 December 19:43

    We usually stay with friends and then go to various places, game reserves, the coast etc. I have booked seats for February 2019 along with a car which will allow us to do our own thing. Probably go to Kruger Park for a week. We will be away for 4 weeks in total. A trip to one of the game reserves is a must do. We lived in RSA and Botswana for 6 years and it’s got a hold on us for sure. We were back earlier this year for 3 weeks with friends who had never been to Africa before, we covered some 2000+ miles and had a ball. We already have a 5 week trip to Namibia and Botswana booked on a 2-4-1 in May/June 2019 so that we can celebrate our 40th anniversary. We have managed 4 trips to JNB in CW or F using 2-4-1’s. Thanks to HFP and Flyertalk for all the tips and advice, it’s allowed us to have wonderful adventures.
    This latest offer was too good to resist, thanks Rob!

• Dawn says:

  23 Dec23 December 17:12

  I’ve already got 2-4-1 flights booked for Feb/March/April so will stick with it.
  However, we often go multi city from London – Joburg – Australia – London
  We like to stay in S Africa for longer than the 2 weeks.
  What would happen if we got the ‘2 week’ holiday price to Joburg for £1200 per person CW but just didn’t get on the return flight home?

• Al says:

  23 Dec23 December 18:32

  Down to Port Elizabeth and I’ve found flights for £915 beginning of Jan (with care hire)!

• Bhav says:

  8 Jan8 January 20:01

  Firstly, a big thank you for this. Was toying this morning between a trip to Asia (Qatar ex Europe) or Cape Town and decided to go with the latter. Given that we are a family of four (infant and child in tow), a more direct route appeals. Could not find any availability to CPT, so decided to fly in to JNB and then book the internal leg separately. Rather than not pick up the car, I wanted the car hire, but for CPT which I could not get to work online (through the custom holiday option as suggested by Craig above), so called BA holidays who managed to work it. There is no surcharge for booking over the phone and you also get the 24 hour cancellation policy applied. Now just too book some decent hotels.

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