Autumn BA sale fares

[Metty]

I’m not sure whether anyone is interested – or as mad as me – but the BA sale has some good Business fares showing for domestic flights and this throws up some reasonable Tier Points easrning opportunities especially with the BA Best Price Guarantee In my past experience BA are very quick with this, essentially, you find a cheaper fare for the same flights (Google Flights is straightforward), screenshot the booking and payment pages. Then book with BA, submit a best price guarantee claim and they send a voucher for double the fare difference in a day or two.

To get the best price, don’t search a day return, go for outbound date X and return date Y , then book another return for the same dates, starting at the destination back to the origin.

Newcastle is a good option as on the dates I booked the BA fare NCL-LHR-NCL is £146rtn but OTA £112 so as Exec Club members get 2x difference as a voucher, the effective cost should be (146-112) = £34 x 2 = £68 as a voucher meaning the fare is (146-68) = £78rtn, not bad for 80 Tier Points. OTA price for LHR-NCL-LHR isn’t as good, so effective fare is £129 on my dates.

You’ll have different booking refs and cramming multiple sectors into a day is optimistic given weather and rescheduling but at least UK domestic back to backs are easy if things work.

[Londonsteve]

That’s a fantastic tip, thank you. I didn’t know about the best price guarantee thing. A tier point for less than a pound is a superb deal.

Can one do back to back domestic flights at all UK airports?

Only downside of domestics is having to take 8 round trips to qualify for Silver which is a lot of flying but it could make sense for someone that just needs a TP top up to push them over the line.

[Metty]

@Londonsteve I assume that you’ve seen Immediate turnrounds at BA dests

Manchester is a bit of a pain. I am risk averse so wouldn’t be comfy with that.

I’ve done 4 sector days before, am trying 6 next year. What could possibly go wrong (apart from exploding after 6 J meals?)

[Metty]

I booked another set of Newcastle and Glasgow day trips in the sale.

This time I thought I’d try applying two £70 price match e-vouchers to a £146 NCL-LHR-NCL booking, so £6rtn net. Then applied for the price match to get another £70 voucher as the cheaper OTA fare for £112 is still there.

BA refused my price match claim as I’d used e-vouchers to book. Drat! Foiled my rinse and repeat plan.

[Super Secret Stuff]

I have to say after my virgin flight, I don’t want to fly BA again if I have a choice