1 million British Airways seats bookable for less than £40

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• Tyra says:

  22 Jan22 January 08:16

  For these deals, you also need to factor in destination country quarantine measures. For example, “Passengers arriving at Larnaka or Pafos Airports from UK airports, will undergo a molecular test upon their arrival at the Airports and will be transferred to hotels provided by the Republic for compulsory 7-day self-isolation.”

• Anna says:

  22 Jan22 January 08:39

  How many tier points are needed to get to Silver now? I have MAN-LHR-MIA return for cash in J later this year (if it happens) and could probably sneak in a couple of e.g. MAN-LHR-AGP in various school hols before my membership year ends (Jul 8).
  Ghengis, I note you are in fine form this morning for calculating these things!

  • NvT1115 says:

    22 Jan22 January 09:05

    450 TPs

    • Anna says:

      22 Jan22 January 09:07

      Thanks – will that apply to my next tier year (Jul 21 – Jul 22)?

      • Yuff says:

        22 Jan22 January 09:15

        You get it for the rest of your year plus the following year. So ideally you want your Miami flights after your membership year ends and achieve silver as soon after jul 8th with the additional flights, as soon as you achieve the TP’s you achieve the status.
        Qatar flights to DXB etc will make it a lot easier especially ex -eu

• Niomi says:

  22 Jan22 January 09:04

  Question: if I booked with miles within those dates, does the change policy still apply (ie no fee to move the flights)?

• Anna says:

  22 Jan22 January 09:14

  No let up in the gouging of families with school kids – MAN-AGP return at October half term is over £700 in CE!

  • Jimmy says:

    22 Jan22 January 10:04

    I think if you’re flying CE to Spain during half term, it’s a bit out of touch to complain about being gouged. You’re well off enough to have benefitted from supply and demand plenty of times in other areas

    • Anna says:

      22 Jan22 January 10:31

      But the price discrepancy applies to any class of travel if you bothered to inform yourself prior to sniping, it’s a general point about the way families of all incomes are treated by travel providers.

      • Rob says:

        22 Jan22 January 10:47

        It’s pure supply and demand, nothing more. The flight will be full at £700, so why should BA sell the seats for £50? If BA decides by early September that it is looking like it won’t be full at £700, the price will fall.

        Even if BA DID sell the seats for £50, your chance of getting them would be virtually nil as they’d sell out instantly.

        • Chrisasaurus says:

          22 Jan22 January 18:53

          Indeed the ‘cheap’ off peak pricing is sometimes below cost, just as much as the peak pricing is well above it, so the gap isn’t as simple as gouging you’re simply choosing to see the cheapest price as the ‘correct’ price and using that as your frame of reference

        • Rob says:

          22 Jan22 January 21:14

          BA is not in the business of selling tickets at a loss for PR reasons, unlike Ryanair.

      • Callum says:

        22 Jan22 January 12:39

        They were probably “sniping” because you were using an absurd example for exaggerated effect.

        The price for economy is well under half that price, and only seems to be about £50 higher than the week before. Though if you’re price sensitive, I don’t know why you wouldn’t be taking one of the direct LCC flights for even less?

        The travel industry doesn’t remotely treat families badly. Are you also suggesting that airlines should all have a set price-per-seat and ditch variable pricing altogether? It’s the exact same thing.

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      22 Jan22 January 18:54

      Since this was criticised I wanted to add my thought that it was very nicely put.

  • The cyclist says:

    22 Jan22 January 10:40

    Simple solution, send your kids to private school, I did, loads more flexibility with dates, and the schools are a lot more flexible regards taking your children out. 😀

    • Gringo says:

      22 Jan22 January 11:08

      Not sure if the cost saving on flights offset the fees

      • Jill ( Kinkell) says:

        22 Jan22 January 16:24

        Sent our 3 privately as boarders…. holidays? Huh … very much staycations for a good few years until they were all through uni. Not complaining, just making up for it now. Well, we would be, if allowed out of the country!

  • Jonathan says:

    22 Jan22 January 11:22

    Get used to it! If Business travel drops off then the pool of high yield travellers will be substantially smaller. BA need a proportion of price insensitive customers to offset the £40 sale fares out of season. Since they have no realistic competition for business class to Spain you can guarantee they’ll be squeezing you as hard as they can.

    The cheap fares are misleading, they’re the equivalent of a supermarket selling you a fillet steak for 20p 5mins before closing time on the sell by date. £350 is probably about par for a 1500 mile flight in business so 2x that is perfectly acceptable for one of the top 5 annual periods of demand on that route.

  • ChrisBCN says:

    22 Jan22 January 12:12

    If they weren’t priced at 700 you’d only be complaining that they are sold out. Some people are never happy!

    • Freddy says:

      22 Jan22 January 13:04

      I’ll be taking the kids out of school during term time once covid has blown over. The schools didn’t seem particularly desperate to get back to proper teaching last year and this year seems like a repeat

• GaryE says:

  22 Jan22 January 09:38

  I think if BA wanted to attract a substantial amount of money they should have extended their Book with Confidence cancellation peiod to the end of 2021 as there is still alot of uncertainty about travelling abroad upto the end of August.

  • ChrisW says:

    22 Jan22 January 09:51

    Agreed.

  • ankomonkey says:

    22 Jan22 January 10:48

    +1

• tony says:

  22 Jan22 January 10:17

  £1692 to Seattle in First. Blimey! But as others have noted, without the BWC scheme beyond August, there’s no way I’d be happy to lay out cash. The current vouchers have to be used by April ’22 as well, so with government chatter about another lockdown next winter, it’s just too risky.

  Have now booked Avios seats for the revised summer family holiday and won’t be booking anything else until there’s absolute certainty we can travel.

• Fadi says:

  22 Jan22 January 10:33

  I need 40tp and 4 ba flights to hit silver (from blue!) by early March. Can’t see that happening. My airport is Manchester if anyone knows a way.

  • Alex says:

    22 Jan22 January 10:42

    Manchester to London is still running if you needed to travel for business. 5-20 TP’s in economy based on booking class or 40 in club. If you had enough tier points you could call BA and see if they’ll give status despite being flights short due to covid etc…

  • Rob says:

    22 Jan22 January 10:45

    The 4 BA flights is an issue – you’d be looking at an economy domestic flight and a Club one-way / economy back domestic flight. This assumes domestic travel restrictions relax.

    • Fadi says:

      22 Jan22 January 13:31

      Yeah I’m not feeling optimistic. Did all my flying with QR and probably shouldn’t have credited to BA. Would need the domestic J/Y twice which is an expensive outing.

• Nic says:

  22 Jan22 January 11:14

  Perhaps hang on until Monday which is when EU Council discuss the possibility of banning all non-essential travel within (and certainly from outside) of Europe, proposed yesterday, while they get a handle on Covid situation.

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