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ENDS SUNDAY: Get 20% off ALL British Airways flights to May 2022 in an Olympic flash sale

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Timed to coincide with the opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, British Airways – Official Airline Partner of Team GB and Paralympics GB – has launched a flash sale.

You can save 20% off all flights booked between now and midnight on Sunday.

Full details of the sale are on this special page of ba.com.

British Airways A350

How does the sale work?

The sale is only available to British Airways Executive Club members.

What this means is you must log in to your BA account before you start to book, or the code will be rejected.

The discount is only available on trips which begin in the UK.

You need to use the following promotional codes when booking:

  • TeamGB1 for short haul flights – £100 spend needed
  • TeamGB2 for long haul flights – £300 spend needed

Obviously the codes only work when booking at ba.com or via a British Airways call centre.

There is a slight niggle in how the codes work looking at reports. If you have a child on your booking, and the child ticket is under £100 / £300 even though the adult tickets are not, you cannot use the code. This seems a bit weird to me – surely it would have made more sense to allow the discount on the adult tickets and just ignore the child tickets?

Is the discount off the base fare or the full fare?

Impressively, it is off the full fare. This means that you are getting a 20% discount on the taxes, fees and charges too.

Can I use ‘part pay with Avios’ as well?

No. The ability to reduce the cost of the flight with Avios disappears once you have input the discount code.

Are all flights and classes included?

You get the discount on all British Airways operated and marketed flights, including BA CityFlyer services from London City and Southampton.

It will not work on codeshare partners such as Loganair or flights on franchise partners such as Comair.

All travel classes are included except First Class.

Can you use a Future Travel Voucher?

Looking at the comments below, yes.

This means, of course, that you could refund an existing flight (the voucher usually appears immediately) and then rebook, assuming you save money.

What are the travel dates?

You must fly between 1st August 2021 and 25th May 2022. This seems surprisingly generous as it includes Christmas, February half-term for ski trips and Easter 2022.

Full details of the British Airways flash sale and the small print are on ba.com here.

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Comments (110)

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  • Billy says:
    23 Jul23 July 18:52

    You were a bit late with this. Saw it on bargain sites around 11am. Are you not given insider information anymore?

    • Tom says:
      23 Jul23 July 19:01

      You should immediately cancel your direct debit for your headforpoints membership. What a rip off!

      • Rob says:
        23 Jul23 July 20:56

        And it matters why? Nothing is going to sell out.

        First we heard about it was 10.51 when we got an email from BA’s agency. None of my family BA accounts have had an ‘official’ email and no reader forwarded one before 10.51.

        Whilst it is possible to create a 2-line post on a Deals site in 5 minutes, it takes at least 45 minutes to write an article like this one. This includes the text itself, creating screenshots, writing the Twitter and Facebook data and creating the Google metadata and the article schema. This assumes we look at our email every 5 minutes, which we don’t. It went up at 12.10 in the end.

        • Bagoly says:
          23 Jul23 July 22:33

          Hoorah for a business that does not check its emails every five minutes!

        • Billy says:
          24 Jul24 July 06:43

          Understood, just thought BA gave you advance notice of sales etc., and you’d have the copy ready.

    • Mike says:
      23 Jul23 July 20:29

      Billy – request a refund of your HFP membership!

    • VerdantBacon says:
      23 Jul23 July 21:12

      May as well stick to reading bargain websites then, if you think the two are comparable 🙄

    • Lady London says:
      23 Jul23 July 22:09

      I told you yesterday BA was about to have a sale. On rhid thread. You can hardly complain, because you were not paying attention.

    • Patrick Cold says:
      23 Jul23 July 22:13

      Brilliant. This wonderful contribution has made my day.

  • r* says:
    23 Jul23 July 19:58

    Hmm, I have a flight in premium which works out at like 150 pp cheaper now, but I have upgraded one of the legs to business with avios and theres no business availability showing now. How likely is it that the business seats would go back being available if I cancelled the existing booking?

    • Jonathan says:
      23 Jul23 July 21:55

      I’d stick rather than twist in this situation.

      • Jonathan says:
        23 Jul23 July 21:56

        No way of knowing in advance though & CS can’t predict accurately either.

    • Babyg says:
      23 Jul23 July 22:08

      depends where you are flying, if its just new york or something similar id take the risk… if its a much longer overnight flight id not risk losing my bed

    • Lady London says:
      24 Jul24 July 13:16

      Do another one if you’ve got the avios then cancel this one

  • HBommie says:
    23 Jul23 July 21:02

    Canada in the fall would be very nice.

    The Delta India comment at the end of the article may be a stinger?

    • Paul Pogba says:
      23 Jul23 July 21:08

      Our cases seem to be falling now the schools have broken up and the football fans have nothing to cheer (or boo :p). I’m going to keep my fingers crossed for a change 🙂

  • Babyg says:
    23 Jul23 July 22:08

    tempted with TLV to get some TierPoint…

  • fw says:
    23 Jul23 July 22:32

    Anyone know if I request a FTV for a flight I part paid with Avios, if I get a eVoucher that I can use to book with the discount? I don’t want to request a voucher for it to not come before the book by date on Sunday…

    • John Caribbean says:
      24 Jul24 July 08:20

      Mine came in 5 minutes.
      It was for the cash amount before the avios were applied in the original booking

  • Rich says:
    24 Jul24 July 07:22

    I presume I can just book via the website with the code and then call up CS to have an infant added at full price right? Has anyone tried?

    • Graham says:
      24 Jul24 July 07:41

      You can fully cancel flights within 24 hours for free. There’s no risk to you doing so and then trying.

      • Rich says:
        24 Jul24 July 08:40

        I think that’s exactly what I’ll do… well when their website decides it wants to work anyway!

    • Rob says:
      24 Jul24 July 10:17

      I would do the whole booking by phone in this case because you should never underestimate BA’s ability to find a way of refusing to do something which should be logical (eg they may claim this is a special fare and they can’t add people).

      • Rich says:
        24 Jul24 July 19:44

        I ended up having to anyway as I’ve got a FTV that can’t be used online. All sorted really easily and saved about £70 on when I originally booked and had to cancel (booked in a sale last time). Thanks for the heads up with this article!

  • Dave1985 says:
    24 Jul24 July 10:11

    People said vaccine passports for travel wouldn’t happen though…

  • Anne says:
    24 Jul24 July 13:13

    20% when all BA flights have increased their prices threefold since the pandemic begun. Gotcha.

    • VerdantBacon says:
      24 Jul24 July 15:44

      Wow I had no idea BA was selling tickets to NYC in J for £600 pre pandemic

      • kitten says:
        24 Jul24 July 15:53

        They were doing close enough to that

        • VerdantBacon says:
          24 Jul24 July 20:52

          Yes if you found specific dates and booked far enough ahead. But considering the original comment stated ALL flights, I certainly didn’t find regular J flights to NYC for £600 like regular ones are £1800 now and I flew that route monthly in 2019

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