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Not sure if this is a mistake, but BA is selling one way tickets LHR-EDI for the bargain price of £1178 in a couple of weeks’ time. At least it’s in CE…
Not really sure what to make of that. Except I won’t be using BA that trip.
I’ve seen £600 between LHR and MAN before now, but that is spendy (though I suppose proportionate to the distances involved) Is there a big event in Edinburgh on that date?
This is when you can be very pleased that you collect avios, however!
No idea if there is an event but easyJet from BHX is a fraction of the price! Know it’s chalk and cheese but £22.99 was the cheapest I could see on U2…
It could be the flight is about to be cancelled. I bought a single ticket from Oslo to London for about £50 last year. A friend tried to buy a ticket on the same flight the following day and all flights had gone up to nearly £1000 (nok equivalent). Two or three days later BA cancelled lots of flights on the route including mine. Same happened with Inverness. Or it could be the flight/CE is full and they don’t want to sell any more tickets.
Yeah – we had an offer of 4x £1,000+ LHR-EDI in club Europe last summer. If you have to fly to make that deal you will pay. I’m surprised it’s that high two weeks prior though.
It ended well for us as it meant there was a row of unsold seats that British Airways made available as Economy a few hours before departure and I changed our economy seats on a much later flight to the one we actually wanted while waiting at Heathrow.
The kicker is we had row 6 to ourselves so ended up sitting 2×2 with a spare seat on each side of the aisle.
9/10/11 May? I suspect a gremlin- if you actually try clicking through on them in the app it creates an error.
My economy MAN-LHR flight on Thursday is currently showing at £372! I know it’s coming up to a bank holiday weekend but sheesh. Our entire BA holiday booking of 6 short haul sectors plus 5 days car hire was only just over £500.
@freckles – it was May 18/19 that threw them back. Oddly it’s not every flight – some are a bargain at “only” £240…
Looking again now, May 19 seems to have calmed down a bit, it’s just the Sunday morning flights.
Could be useful if you’ve decided to partake in the new TP system and can’t be bothered to do a longer “TP run”
Sadly these fares are not unusual with even Y being in excess of £600 or £700. It’s more likely that there is a large number of transfer passengers and the impact is that point to point fares have increased. It’s also unusual for it to be every flight and therein lies the benefit of same day changes and Y+ fares!
It’s the new normal on peak weekends.
Check the first weekend of the Scottish school holidays (Friday 27th June) it’s over £1,000 in club and £800 in economy from EDI.
Who would pay these fares when a walk-up train fare is much cheaper (and no slower when accounting for travelling to the airport and check in times)? Or is it the case they’re deliberately at the sort of levels designed to deter bookings?
Gold members are guaranteed seats, so perhaps the fares are for those people (and BA’s cost in having to bump someone). Perhaps the flight is full and they are overbooking? Have seen LHR/SFO as high as £17k in F after I booked for a fraction of that.
Supply and demand. And possibly a bit of cash-grabbing via over-selling?
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