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(GONE?) Book Manchester to New York in Aer Lingus business class for £850 return

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Alaska Airlines has been offering good deals on its partner Aer Lingus for some time now (see here, for example). It’s not entirely clear why – they do not seem to be mistake fares, because they wouldn’t have carried on being offered this cheaply.

It’s not a codeshare issue, because the tickets are being issued with Aer Lingus flight numbers.

Whatever the reason, there are some good deals out there.

EDIT: This deal seems to have died overnight, sorry. We published it during the afternoon yesterday. Well done to those who booked.

Book Manchester to New York in Aer Lingus business class for £850 return

Via the Alaska Airlines website, you can book the direct Manchester to New York flight on Aer Lingus for £850 return in business class.

(Aer Lingus UK flies DIRECT and non-stop from Manchester to New York, and indeed Barbados and Orlando. You do not stop or change aircraft in Dublin.)

If £850 is too expensive, you can get it cheaper (around £675) by starting your trip in Dublin and booking Dublin – Manchester – New York – Manchester – Dublin. This seems a bit unnecessary to me if you can fly direct for £850, assuming you can get to Manchester easily, but the option is there.

You do not need to stay over a weekend to get this fare.

Here’s an example for a midweek trip in October:

Book Manchester to New York in Aer Lingus business class for £850 return

The fare is $1,147 return, so around £850. Booking direct via Aer Lingus would be £1,750 return.

You have 24 hours to cancel if you change your mind.

You can book for pretty much the entire forward schedule, until next May.

You can credit the flight to Aer Lingus AerClub or The British Airways Club to earn Avios and a handful of tier points. The British Airways Club will give you 1.5 Avios x miles flown, with no tier bonus. AerClub will give you 4 Avios per £1 on the base fare element.

There are no bargains to Barbados or Orlando

Before you ask, there are no similar deals on the other two direct Aer Lingus routes from Manchester, to Barbados and Orlando.

(EDIT: the comments say that there is some Orlando availability in early 2026 at a similar rate to this.)

Check out our Manchester flight reviews

Aer Lingus generally operates an A330 from Manchester to New York.

Here is a review by Rhys of Manchester to Barbados on an Aer Lingus A330.

Conclusion

We don’t normally run ‘mistake fare’ articles. The fare is often dead by the time you read it, and people who book usually find their tickets are cancelled.

This one feels different because Alaska Airlines has been selling heavily discounted Aer Lingus flights for some time. However, just in case, I wouldn’t book a hotel or any other non-refundable costs around a trip until nearer departure.

You need to book on the Alaska Airlines website.

Hat-tip to Luxury Flight Club.

Comments (66)

  • Peter A says:

    Tried to book as soon as I got the e-mail. Looks like there aren’t any left or Alaska has corrected their mistake.

    • yorkshireRich says:

      You can thank Pat

      • Mickyb says:

        Yes, the fare going was obviously due to Pat’s “previous” report to Alaska, and not due to hundreds of people trying to book the fare in the last 24 hours.

        /s

  • Paulw says:

    Was published on secret flying as an error fare around 5pm yesterday and was available until at least 10pm.
    3 seats booked. Hoping they don’t cancel them but nothing lost if they do.

  • Duck Ling says:

    This offer has/had been around for at least a year and flown under the radar.

    Of course when it became widely published within the past day or so the airline has woken up to the oddity and re-filed the fare. 🙁

  • Gagravarr says:

    Booked one of these last night – was actually looking at an Aer Lingus flight already, but this worked out quite a bit cheaper even when factoring in the US domestic flight to where I need to be.

    Anyone have a sense of how long to wait for Alaska Airlines to review these and decide to keep / cancel, before I book the separate US domestic flights I need? Is a week probably enough?

    • Rob says:

      Unlikely they will cancel them, if only because you’ve actually paid the proper base fare – only the surcharge was missed off.

      • BJ says:

        If they now have a huge number of them thanks to HFP page viewsl they may have a rethink. They could also just downgrade most to Y as the compo due would be minimal.

        of them thanjs to HFP page views

        • Gagravarr says:

          If Alaska try to downgrade the tickets from Business to Economy, wouldn’t it be Aer Lingus who’d have to pick up the tab for the EU261 downgrades as the operating airline?

          As long as Alaska are the ones on the hook for the missing fuel surcharges, I can’t see that being popular or Aer Lingus agreeing to it!

    • Jim Lovejoy says:

      They didn’t cancel my Rome to Seattle flight for about 1k pounds RT in business. So they probably won’t cancel yours.
      But no harm waiting a week.

  • Danny says:

    Should send Rhys on one 😁

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