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Here are the British Airways Black Friday to Cyber Monday deals – anything interesting?

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British Airways has released its Black Friday deals.  

These went live today (28th) and run to Tuesday 3rd December.

It is a mixed bag and I’m not quite sure what to make of it.  They don’t appear too desperate to fill premium seats.

Details are the ba.com Black Friday page here.

There are actually FOUR different offers.

Offer 1:  Companion fares on Club Europe short-haul

British Airways is offering ‘companion deals’ on the following routes:

From Heathrow: Barcelona, Berlin, Billund, Bologna, Brussels, Basel, Budapest, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Hanover, Hamburg, Helsinki, Istanbul “and more”

From Gatwick: Turin, Porto, Verona, Geneva, Salzburg, Bilbao, Grenoble, Bergamo, Faro, Naples, Sevilla, Nice, Jersey, Edinburgh, Dubrovnik, Glasgow

When you book for two people, Club Europe will price at exactly £100 per person, return, above the Euro Traveller price.

British Airways Black Friday deals

Offer 2:  Discounted World Traveller and World Traveller Plus tickets

There are ‘special fares’ on the following routes:

World Traveller:  Abu Dhabi, Durban, Johannesburg, Seychelles, Las Vegas, Tokyo, Osaka,
Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, Grand Cayman, Cancun, Kingston

World Traveller Plus:  Cancun, Lima, Orlando, Mauritius, Tampa

Here are headline prices supplied by BA:

  • Abu Dhabi – £297 return
  • Las Vegas – £399 return
  • Kingston – £495 return
  • Johannesburg – £499 return
  • Grand Cayman – £649 return

British Airways Black Friday deals

Offer 3:  Guaranteed ‘buy up’ deals to World Traveller Plus

On the following routes, World Traveller Plus is being offered for a fixed premium over World Traveller.

There could be some good deals here if you also manage to upgrade your World Traveller Plus seat to Club World using Avios.  Remember that this requires Avios availability in Club World.

Remember that World Traveller Plus offers 90-100 tier points each way and a lot more Avios than World Traveller, so the ‘buy up’ is even better value than it looks.  Rhys will be doing a World Traveller Plus review next week, although it will be after this deal has closed.

Routes where WTP is £199 above WT:  Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Jeddah, Muscat, New Orleans, Osaka, Phoenix, Toronto, Washington

Routes where WTP is £249 above WT:  Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, New York, Austin, Pittsburgh, Tokyo

Routes where WTP is £299 above WT:  Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban

British Airways Black Friday deals

Offer 4:  Discounted Club World tickets

Club World discounting is very restricted this year (no ‘2 for £2019’ offer) and will be limited to the following routes:

Durban, Johannesburg, Austin, Nashville, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore

Here are headline prices supplied by BA:

  • Johannesburg £2599
  • Toronto £1595 (Club Suite on the A350 departure)
  • Nashville £1595
  • Austin £1595

Travel dates: Johannesburg: 13/01/20 – 31/03/20, Toronto, Nashville and Austin: 23/12/19 – 29/12/19.

I will update this article during the day if more deals come to light.

Full details are on BA’s Black Friday page here.

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In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

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Comments (74)

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  • Sussex Bantam says:
    28 Nov28 November 10:18

    Anything interesting ? No…

    • Rob says:
      28 Nov28 November 10:22

      £1595 CW is not terrible to Nashville etc, although ‘2 for £2019’ would have been a lot better ….

      • Sussex Bantam says:
        28 Nov28 November 10:37

        You’re right – “not terrible” is a good description !

        Actually the upgrade from WT to WTP is not a bad deal. I’d happily pay £200 for that upgrade.

        • Bijandra says:
          28 Nov28 November 11:39

          looking forward for another 2020 offer, but maybe have to wait a year for it.

        • Lloyd says:
          28 Nov28 November 11:42

          Not fantastic. Booked Nashville last year for c.£1,800 in First so only £200 more than the current CW fare. I’m sure I’ve seen the Nashville prices around the £1,400 mark in the recent past.

  • TripRep says:
    28 Nov28 November 10:34

    Currently in the LGW BA Lounge, had to titter to myself seeing a rack of charcoal burnt toast after the article on the £10k CW MIA-LHR cheese toasty the other day.

  • BJ says:
    28 Nov28 November 10:36

    Better than Qatar Airways, just had their Black Friday email and fares seem higher across the board that they would normally charge any other time of the year. Special offers of some sort for BA flights to Japan seem commonplace these days, and award availability is really good too. Seems like they are struggling with competition to Japan. Offers for Singapore seem more common than they used to be too.

    • Polly says:
      28 Nov28 November 17:16

      Exactly. We actually came in from Singapore today. 1st time on a q r sale via arn. Usually try for kul, hkg or hkt. Our biz cabins on all 4 sectors were full. So l guess we will have limited choice of destinations in future qr sales.

  • riku2 says:
    28 Nov28 November 10:52

    >>Remember that World Traveller Plus offers 75 tier points each way and a lot more Avios than World Traveller

    I am getting 90 points each way in WTP and 100 points for routes like LHR-KUL and LHR-NRT

  • BJ says:
    28 Nov28 November 10:52

    Does the fixed price upgrades to WTP include the extra APD or does that have to be added too?

    • Rob says:
      28 Nov28 November 11:29

      Includes.

      • BJ says:
        28 Nov28 November 11:33

        Starts to look like a potentially very good deal then. Would be interesting if they offered extra value to part pay with avios too on these flights too.

        • meta says:
          28 Nov28 November 12:35

          I think you can. I looked at NY and you could discount £30, £60, £144 for 3.4k, 6.5k or 21k avios bringing down the price between £550-620.

  • maccymac says:
    28 Nov28 November 11:16

    Underwhelming to say the least.

    You’d have though that after multiple data breaches, IT meltdowns, cancellations and pilot strikes they would have used the opportunity to make a positive splash.

  • john mcdibble says:
    28 Nov28 November 11:37

    these are great offers. i am thinking about purchasing for these wife and kids to abu dhabi. not sure how safe it is though as middle east has some dangerous parts. normally only fly miami twice per year.

    • Rob says:
      28 Nov28 November 11:52

      You’re having a laugh John, surely. You travel to Miami twice per year but you think Abu Dhabi is dangerous?! Your chance of being the victim of crime in Abu Dhabi or Dubai is effectively nil.

      • Spaghetti Town says:
        28 Nov28 November 12:09

        Don’t all the drug lords hang out in Miami?

        UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait. All very safe.

    • Alex M says:
      28 Nov28 November 12:11

      States has dangerous places too but it does not stop you flying there?

    • Spurs Debs says:
      29 Nov29 November 08:15

      You will be a lot safer in Abu Dhabi than Miami. I spent a week on my own in Ras Al Khaimah couple weeks ago. I decided as a woman travelling on my own it would be much safer flying into Dubai for a week than going to Caribbean.
      There are very nasty consequences for crimes committed. Especially against tourists, chatting to driver who picked me up we were talking about safety and he was telling me if they are caught doing a crime it’s a harsh fine/ prison sentence then deported and a ban for life. They are there to make money to send back to families and all know consequences of any criminality. Even their fines for minor driving offences are really expensive.

  • Paul says:
    28 Nov28 November 11:41

    Still seem to be matching Virgin BF deals to SEA and SFO @£1550 each club…. at least in June where I was looking…

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