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British Airways Caribbean flight discounts – Club World business class from £1,399

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British Airways has added some additional Caribbean discounts to the current sale, for Autumn travel.

All are priced at £1,399 return.  The destinations included are:

  • Antigua
  • Bridgetown / Barbados
  • Grenada
  • Kingston

  • Port of Spain
  • Providenciales
  • St Kitts
  • St Lucia
  • Tobago

You need to travel out between 18th August and 2nd October, returning by 9th October.

Clearly this is hurricane season in some parts of the Caribbean, but the risk varies sharply by island so do your research.   Barbados, for example, has not been hit by a hurricane since 1955.

You should also price up any booking via BA Holidays as well as looking at ‘flight only’, since this could lead to additional savings.  You could try a ‘flight and car’ booking if you were determined to book your accomodation separately.

Booking via BA Holidays brings other benefits too – you can just pay a deposit now (the balance is due seven weeks before departure) and you earn 1 extra Avios per £1 spent.  Your flights also earn Avios and tier points as usual.  The only downside is that your flights will not earn points in the BA On Business small business loyalty scheme.

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As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

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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You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

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You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

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There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

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Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

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Comments (146)

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  • Gringo says:
    13 Jan13 January 12:18

    OT – would it be worth flying at a slightly worse time to try out the new A350 *in economy* as opposed to the 787 economy product?

    • Rhys says:
      13 Jan13 January 12:32

      A350 economy should be better than 787.

    • Neil Donoghue says:
      13 Jan13 January 13:08

      Nope!

    • Ikaz says:
      13 Jan13 January 18:41

      I would argue that it is definitely worth it if you need the width of the seat, the 787 is a lot tighter than the A350

      • BJ says:
        13 Jan13 January 20:03

        I thought they were both the same seat, 17.5 inches wide? 787 has the IFE boxes under many seats which seems to be a recurring problem in reviews. 787 appears to be the worse rated economy aircraft ever.

  • pommy ray says:
    13 Jan13 January 13:56

    slightly off topic on IHG:
    anyone got their accelerate target bonus yet?
    normally instant in the past.

    • BJ says:
      13 Jan13 January 20:06

      Had to chase mine up in December, twice actually as thd first response is always give it X more days.

  • Jane says:
    13 Jan13 January 14:05

    OT – can someone remind me if there are any ski hotels (Europe) that I can use points for ? I’m sure I’ve seen one mentioned in the past but can’t find it anywhere. thanks.

    • tony says:
      13 Jan13 January 14:41

      Ones I know…

      Hyatt Centric La Rosiere France
      Grand Tirolia Kitzbuhel (Hilton)
      Radisson Blu Trysil Norway

      My gut feeling however is that you’ll get rotten value using points.

      • Jane says:
        13 Jan13 January 14:46

        Thanks. I thought it was worth a look. might even earn some points if there is a deal to be had.

    • Lady London says:
      13 Jan13 January 17:39

      Can’t help you on points but weirdly, I do remember seeing some outstanding value packages in Austria and some other places on tchibo.de – they have a holiday selling arm too, holidays at all levels, generally you’d sort out your own transport though. So good for families also if required. At this stage of the season guessing some nice ones might have reductions too? IIRC lots of ski-with-spa offers at recognisable hotels.

    • N says:
      13 Jan13 January 23:37

      W Verbier

  • sunguy says:
    13 Jan13 January 15:17

    From Priceless Cities – use a MasterCard and “discount code” Mcard12 at the payment page on the heathrow express website to get 12% discount on some fares ….YMMV

  • Matt says:
    13 Jan13 January 15:24

    Is it still possible to get 10 night credits with Marriott for booking a meeting room, or has that gone away?

  • Gringo says:
    13 Jan13 January 15:26

    OT – if PP website is still showing a restaurant, can we assume that it is still accepting PP or better to avoid and end up with a charge (PP from Amex Plat)?

    • Matt says:
      13 Jan13 January 15:35

      The restaurant will still be accepting PP, but Amex may charge you for it (unless its the Grain Store in Gatwick).

      The restaurant probably won’t know I’d guess.

      • Lady London says:
        13 Jan13 January 17:43

        For this type of card I believe Grain Store is the only one left anywhere….for now (Rob mentioned PP is opening another lounge in that terminal. So sounds like sooner than later might be smarter.

    • paulm says:
      13 Jan13 January 16:22

      Best to check the lounge finder on the Amex app. If it shows there then still ok

  • Aston100 says:
    13 Jan13 January 15:37

    O/T: what is a good site to use to find availability with oneworld airlines using avios?
    BA site is giving me errors on the routes I’m trying to select (a number of countries in Asia to CMB / Sri Lanka).

    • Stu_N says:
      13 Jan13 January 16:37

      Qantas (you need to register) or AA (look at sAAver availability only).

    • Lady London says:
      13 Jan13 January 17:30

      Are you splitting into sectors if there might be a plane change?

      Elsewhere I have seen AA (lowest award category, I think, in each cabin is the only award level available to book from non-AA programs, or QF. I think @lumma is quite handy on where to search.

      • Lady London says:
        13 Jan13 January 17:32

        Ps I think I saw a comment here 2 or 3 weeks ago that Sri Lankan itself releases very, very little award space. So that might make overall less to CMB.

    • BJ says:
      13 Jan13 January 19:44

      Just save your avios and fly Air Asia or some other LCC.

  • Robert says:
    13 Jan13 January 15:45

    Has IHG sale ended prematurely – not seeing any of the flash sale rates online anymore ?? on IHG Site –

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