Get up to £300 off in the British Airways Holidays Black Friday Sale

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• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  25 Nov25 November 04:20

  TBH my whelm is undered with this sale.and I think a lot of people will likely feel that way as well.

  You’ll notice there are no example trips in the article!

  The one bright spot is holidays with a total cost between £300 and £999 attract only £ 50 deposit rather than the usual £120. That seems to apply to all holidays and not just to those covered in the sale. It doesn’t affect the final price but it does limit your loss if you decided to cancel before the final balance is paid.

  Otherwise most holidays are for a January to March time frame in economy with most covering January only..

  On flight only

  Club Flights to North America are in the June to November range.#9:3 destinations cover all that period but some are only on offer for 2 weeks.

  WT and WTP are in the January to March date range. Not all destinations cover the whole period.

  No other destinations listed that I could see.

  There are some cheap economy flights HBO from Gatwick from £35 each way

  I’m sure there are bargains out there though!

  You might want to read the detailed T&Cs before searching so you’re aware of the cabin, date and destination limitations.

  • Andrew J says:

    25 Nov25 November 06:01

    Indeed Black Friday is a non-event this year. Nothing to see here….

• SammyJ says:

  25 Nov25 November 07:53

  I’m 30 points off silver and had actually planned on doing something to get to gold before New Year, but the prices of everything are just so ridiculous at the moment, especially if you add in MAN/NCL connections.

  • Jack says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:29

    there is still deals to be had before year end you just have to shop around on ba.com on the low fare finder. Hope you can make it before year end

  • dougzz99 says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:39

    Silver. What would you get from it versus what would it cost you to do the flight(s) that take you there, for me it’s that simple. I wouldn’t rate the LHR lounges, some might. But if for example you’d do 1 or 2 long hauls then the seat selection fees could easily be recouped if that’s something you care about. If you travel to the US then Silver would get you in the AA Flagship lounges which are generally rather nice.
    My own view of the hop to Gold is that if you’ve not made Silver then you don’t fly enough to care about Gold.

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    25 Nov25 November 16:47

    Where ar you based?

    There are plenty of threads on the BA forum about this very issue. The TPs required may vary in number but the suggestions apply no matter how many you need

• KevinS says:

  25 Nov25 November 08:11

  Isn’t book with confidence dead now or does it only apply to BA holidays?

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:13

    Yea it doesn’t exist anymore. This seems to be a copy and paste list of benefits and despite it being a paid for article by BA had slipped through the checking process

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:13

    It’s dead. We only have what’s left of its beautiful plumage to admire.

    All that’s left of it is for people to use up their vouchers by the end of September.

• palty says:

  25 Nov25 November 08:26

  Personally i never understood BA’s angle here of “spend 10k and 300 quid off” strategy

  on the one hand these p[people who splash out on a 10k holiday dont really care for the 300 quid savings
  on the other hand the people who want to spend on a holiday get 50 pounds in savings…?
  like it doesn’t even make any sense

  if you ask me personally there’s no logic to this so called “sale” its almost like they are doing us a favor by knocking off a few quid

  where’s the 50% off all avios flight redemption’s or something?

  Or £2023 first class return…. i dont know give us something BA…. not this crap…..

  • BSI1978 says:

    25 Nov25 November 08:44

    +1.

  • dougzz99 says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:42

    Agreed. I don’t quite get the logic of a sale like this. Surely the point of a sale is to trigger additional purchases, those who otherwise wouldn’t buy. If you’re spending 10K are you really ‘triggered’ by £300 off. I bet the price changes more than that with the natural sale of various class tickets and the release of other classes.

• David S says:

  25 Nov25 November 09:46

  Agreed- who spends £10,000 on a holiday

  • Rob says:

    25 Nov25 November 09:57

    Quite a lot of people. The Dubai resort we were in over half term was £1,000 per night (£2,000 if you needed two rooms) and was rammed solid, as were the four sister resorts adjacent to it, primarily with Brits.

    You’re aware there are over 20,000 people in the UK who earn over £1m, and that is just via PAYE? You need to add to that the self employed (who represent the bulk of those who earn £1m+) who often get paid via dividends or who earn the money but don’t withdraw it from their companies. Last set of stats I can find shows there are 2.4 million millionaires in the UK, albeit much of that tied up in property.

    Even someone on £100k could just about justify £10k for a once-a-year blow-out holiday, and there are about 1.5 million people who earn that much.

    There is a reason that Virgin Atlantic is adding The Maldives, and a reason why BA struggles to sell its Economy cabins on Maldives services but could shift Business Class multiple times over.

    • David S says:

      25 Nov25 November 10:02

      Wow – no wonder there are no good BA offers

    • KevinS says:

      25 Nov25 November 12:01

      So a minuscule saving of 3% will make zero difference to these people and have no impact on whether they buy from a competitor?

      • Rob says:

        25 Nov25 November 12:57

        It would push you over the edge if you were 95% ready to book.

        • KevinS says:

          25 Nov25 November 15:56

          If you were 95% ready to book then you would have booked anyway eventually regardless of a minuscule discount

    • T says:

      25 Nov25 November 12:48

      So if only 20.000 high rollers, why piss the other 58980000 off by absolute rubbish offers!!! It’s clear that HFP is the winner by actually getting ” sponsored” for this article. That’s already better then us readers!

      Come on BA!

      • Rob says:

        25 Nov25 November 12:54

        Rhys and I were with Mr Doyle on Tuesday night at BA’s Christmas media drinks. Apparently BA Holidays has grown 18x in the last 10 years – it is a genuine success story for the airline, tapping into a gap in the market for higher end packages.

        • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

          25 Nov25 November 16:52

          I’m part of that!

          In the last couple of years I;ve started to use BA Hols for ‘proper’ Hols – – usually long weekends away – where the price is better than buying separate.

          Also used them for the add one night and turn a flight into a holiday – not only has it saved cash the ability to pay a deposit also helps

          And the double tier points offer has been a boon.

          And the BA Hols staff are excellent.

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  25 Nov25 November 09:47

  Why is GGL never mentioned in these articles? I will qualify this year thanks to the lower TP thresholds. Normally you need 5000 TP the first year to qualify and 3000 TP the subsequent years having the first year level reduced to 3750 has put this status level in reach for me and probably a few other readers.

  • Rob says:

    25 Nov25 November 09:56

    Because, frankly, we don’t have many GGL readers and – perhaps more relevantly – none of the team are GGL so we don’t have first hand experience of it. Hence the lack of Concorde Room reviews since 2015 ….

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      25 Nov25 November 10:26

      I’m sure with the initial qualifying thresholds being lower some people would have been tempted to shift some travel towards BA or the oneworld partners. With First not available on all flights (and not available at all on shorthaul) then GGL is the way to ensure access to a decent lounge in T5, it also means more people with the ability to gift status.

• James says:

  25 Nov25 November 10:05

  These offers are derisory though the lack of discounting is perhaps indicative of the strength of forward bookings that IAG alluded IIRC. I had been planning to book some ME flights for early in the new year but held off. Wish I’d booked under the double Avios offer now. One upside is locking in some holiday bookings with minimal deposits in case plans change…

• Londonsteve says:

  25 Nov25 November 10:53

  BAH not offering any 5 night holidays in Europe next June when the chosen cabin is Business. It’s happy to sell me a holiday in Economy however, although the choice looks poor. You’d think they’d want to take advantage of interest in Black Friday to look in holiday bookings for next summer!

  • Jack says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:32

    I was looking at one recently and it would let me in club if you go to the low fare finder page on ba.com and select nights and business it should work or failing that from the home page or the call centre will gladly help ( got through rather quick recently ). Maybe a temporary glitch

    • Londonsteve says:

      25 Nov25 November 11:52

      Yes that works if you start off by selecting the flight. The thing with BAH is that there is often not a direct corrolation between flight price and overall package price, hence it’s useful to browse the BAH lists to compare overall price. Also to gain inspiration about where one can go within budget.

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    25 Nov25 November 12:11

    I always use the Flight + Hotel opton from the BA landing page (in the middle between the flight only and flight + car options)

    I don’t use the ‘holiday finder’ search (usually on the right hand side of the screen) as I’ve found it’s told me there are no 5 night holidays when clearly they are when you search via the landing page option!

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