BE QUICK: British Airways launches Gatwick – Cape Town flights, wide open for Avios

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• Alex says:

  28 Jul28 July 16:36

  re BA cancellations – how fast is the usual response re hotel / alternative flight compensation ?
  I had flight cancelled at 3 hour notice with next availability in 6 days , so had to spend 1500 for last minute alternative flights and still waiting for any compensation response for 1+ month …

  • Rob says:

    28 Jul28 July 16:38

    I’ve had it processed in a week and also in 3 months (the 1 week one was processed whilst I was waiting for the 3 month one) – seems random.

• SGJNI says:

  28 Jul28 July 20:48

  Why would you?
  Booked months ago for Christmas, DUB/ZRH/ JNB in J, JNB/FRA in F and FRA/Dub in J on LX/LH for £1400pp! Stuff BA and their truly rubbish product. Lufthansa 2 for 1 sale. Only sorry the Oz sale dates didn’t work out.
  The side trip to MRU was £700 rtn pp in J and the trip down to CPT was ALMOST £200 rtn pp with Airlink, in J !

  • Richie says:

    28 Jul28 July 22:08

    It’s great that you found what you wanted months ago. If the LH flights are B748 operated, that’s pretty darn good.

  • Harry T says:

    29 Jul29 July 09:39

    Well, I have a BA Holiday to CPT in November with return business flights (NCL-LHR-CPT-LHR-NCL) and two weeks of car hire for less than £1200 per person. But I still fancied booking these flights over Christmas, as they are convenient, well timed, exUK and can be cancelled for £35pp at my leisure. If you value at an Avios at 1p per point, these are around £1500 per person with a 241 voucher; which is very decent for that time of year, especially if you factor in the flexibility and the direct flights. Plus we are both BA Gold, have high six figures Avios, and can choose the best seats on the plane for free and use the first class lounge at LGW. We also don’t need the tier points, as Gold re qualification is pretty much locked in with our current plans. Cash flights at the moment are absolutely horrid, so burning some Avios made sense, especially on a route that is so difficult to find availability on. So the decision seemed right for us.

    Those are undoubtedly some great prices on LH/LX too, and I hope you have a very enjoyable holiday (and your J flights are on LX and your F flights are on LH 😉). We will be flying them for the first time in Jan/Feb – booked from Dublin to Sydney for £1250 per person return on a combo of LX, LH and SQ. They do run some very keen sales! I think the best time to book cash flights was a few months back, as it’s all gone crazy now for LH and BA.

    • SGJNI says:

      29 Jul29 July 18:12

      Harry T

      Yes, the F flight is on LH 748i and 4 hours in the F Terminal to secure another duck!!
      Well done on the Oz seats, we just couldn’t get the dates we needed. Perhaps next year?

      • Harry T says:

        29 Jul29 July 19:40

        Excellent work there, I’m very jealous. Still not managed to collect a duck. Hope you manage to get a good price for some Oz flights next year. Have a great F flight.

• Alan says:

  28 Jul28 July 22:35

  Since BA killed off most domestic connections to LGW these kind of things are sadly even less of an option. Any word on them ever bringing connections back or is LGW just their SE only departure hub now?

  • Harry T says:

    29 Jul29 July 09:40

    Yes, it’s really annoying they’ve axed the domestic routes. I hope they bring them back later this year, but I haven’t heard anything. There’s not been a NCL-LGW recently but EDI-LGW would have worked for us with these flights.

• VinZ says:

  29 Jul29 July 10:35

  Snatched mine for NYE yesterday – thanks Seatspy! 🙂

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