Sep 11, 2015, 3:46 pm
Last edit by: NWIFlyer
This 2015/16 thread is now closed. The 2017 thread is:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1818553-premium-fare-deals-j-f-2017-edition.html
FIRST CLASS - RTM/AMS/BRU to West Coast (SFO, SAN, YVR, SEA) starting at £2330... (just click on the book with American link to get the good price.
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Oneworld: Italy and various EU to New York in club €1250
CONSOLIDATED QR 2017 Travel Festival Fares
Current QR Sale Fares (yes, I did...)
QR/UL FRA-MLE via DOH+CMB: 1380€ RT across the board. 640 TP.
Switzerland/Italy/Sweden to East & West Coast USA in WTP (PE) €600/690 (3x Avios)
LHR-Asia/Oz for £1100/1500 on MH
Finnair J, ARN / GOT - BKK, 1150 GBP return (valid till Jan 9th)
TXL and Portugal to JNB for £1350/1450 on BA discussed from post 5021 onwards..
For promos to the US (often, but TP heavy routes in general) it is always a good idea to look at BA Tier Point Runs 2017 master thread. Current sales are often in the Wiki there.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1818553-premium-fare-deals-j-f-2017-edition.html
A collaborative collection and discussion of nice Avios-earning and TP-earning J & F premium fare deals. This thread is not for TP runs or published sales.
Some links to relevant threads can be found below.
Enjoy your Premium Experience.
Some links to relevant threads can be found below.
Enjoy your Premium Experience.
FIRST CLASS - RTM/AMS/BRU to West Coast (SFO, SAN, YVR, SEA) starting at £2330... (just click on the book with American link to get the good price.
)Oneworld: Italy and various EU to New York in club €1250
CONSOLIDATED QR 2017 Travel Festival Fares
Current QR Sale Fares (yes, I did...)
QR/UL FRA-MLE via DOH+CMB: 1380€ RT across the board. 640 TP.
Switzerland/Italy/Sweden to East & West Coast USA in WTP (PE) €600/690 (3x Avios)
LHR-Asia/Oz for £1100/1500 on MH
Finnair J, ARN / GOT - BKK, 1150 GBP return (valid till Jan 9th)
TXL and Portugal to JNB for £1350/1450 on BA discussed from post 5021 onwards..
For promos to the US (often, but TP heavy routes in general) it is always a good idea to look at BA Tier Point Runs 2017 master thread. Current sales are often in the Wiki there.
Premium Fare deals (J and F)
May 28, 2016, 11:13 am
#2506
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: LHR
Programs: BAEC GGL & CCR / QF LTG
Posts: 829
It's not perfect, but it works for some pretty weird itins I tried. There is always the power tools of course. Just suggesting another instrument. AFAIK there is no silver bullet....
Sometimes you can revert to UK pricing, simply by changing the .com to .co.uk after you priced it up on an OTA.
Sometimes you can revert to UK pricing, simply by changing the .com to .co.uk after you priced it up on an OTA.
Expert Flyer validated the fare rules and also identified the problem... R0 for all flights. Seems ITA Matrix was not genuinely checking for available seats.
May 28, 2016, 11:14 am
#2507
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 1,499
May 28, 2016, 3:00 pm
#2508
Join Date: Aug 2013
Programs: BAEC Gold, IHG Spire Elite
Posts: 1,713
Today I.booked a DUB-ORD and return for mid September, via several places with a overnight in NYC on the outbound, almost exactly a year after booking the same thing in the spring DUB sale of 2015. £1108 this year which is a very similar price, and a good deal.for a trip I would otherwise have to make in WT+ so thank goodness for this sale. Both TATL legs are on the UD of a 747 too. In addition the TPs earned will retain gold for another year, a status I never thought I'd achieve just over a year ago.
May 28, 2016, 5:38 pm
#2509
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 2,592
DUB-LHR-LAS why they only offer BA metal ?(at a good rate)
May 28, 2016, 9:07 pm
#2510
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,500
May 28, 2016, 10:31 pm
#2511
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Wild Wiltshire
Programs: Demoted to gold, Cats protection
Posts: 3,455
Following the alert by gorps1 and the ILN8S4E1 ex-DUB, I managed to find some DUB-OGG at £1344 in January and £1363 in March.
As nufnuf77 observed above, not exactly the bargain of the year, and yet ... that's a lot of miles/TPs for the money. Still too many 757 sectors showing up, though.
As nufnuf77 observed above, not exactly the bargain of the year, and yet ... that's a lot of miles/TPs for the money. Still too many 757 sectors showing up, though.
May 29, 2016, 12:20 am
#2512
Join Date: Jan 2005
Programs: BA Gold, AA Lifetime Gold 1.8mm, IC Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold et al
Posts: 4,350
What I've noticed on AA's site is that if you use a straightforward return search it returns almost exclusively BA metal for sale fares but if you break down the segments into a multi city the AA options appear.
May 29, 2016, 1:19 am
#2513
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,041
QR to Tokyo from OSL/ARN for around £1100 is a good price, TYO is rarely that cheap.
May 29, 2016, 2:49 am
#2514
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,500
Could it be that you have them organised by flight times? Obviously MCT for T5-T5 is significantly shorter than for T5-T3, which therefore imposes longer connections and higher overall flight times. That could explain why AA routings won't appear towards the top of the list (whether they appear on the list at all would depend on number of search results selected).
May 29, 2016, 3:24 am
#2515
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Shoreham By Sea
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 1,316
Could it be that you have them organised by flight times? Obviously MCT for T5-T5 is significantly shorter than for T5-T3, which therefore imposes longer connections and higher overall flight times. That could explain why AA routings won't appear towards the top of the list (whether they appear on the list at all would depend on number of search results selected).
May 29, 2016, 3:35 am
#2516
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,500
May 29, 2016, 3:42 am
#2517
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 5 miles from EMA
Programs: BD, BAEC Pleb, VS Pleb, Accor Pleb, HHonors Gold, Big White Season Pass
Posts: 5,902
May 29, 2016, 4:21 am
#2519
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 5 miles from EMA
Programs: BD, BAEC Pleb, VS Pleb, Accor Pleb, HHonors Gold, Big White Season Pass
Posts: 5,902
May 29, 2016, 10:11 am
#2520
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Great Britain
Programs: Air: QR Silver. BA Silver Emirates, Hotels: CC Gold, IHG Spire AMB, Hilton Diamond.
Posts: 1,487
ExDE they had Windhoek a while back, but that is gone now.
I would start exARN. You can do it for £1090 or so.
I would start exARN. You can do it for £1090 or so.
Jo'burg earns the 1st badge (of 4 needed for me to keep Platinum & earn a shed load of Qmiles - perhaps 200k+) if travelled to between 15th May & 25th July.
So I'm umming and arring at the moment.
I've seen ARN-CPT in that time frame for £1141 (no badges)
LON-CPT (no badges but convenient for me) £1650
ARN-JNB £1141 (one badge, 1st)
TXL-JNB £1520 (two badges, 1st & 2nd)
MIL-JNB £1650 (two badges, 1st & 2nd)
So I'm currently trying to weigh up whether to do BER(TXL)-JHB for £1520 for the first two badges (as DOH-BER gets the 2nd badge) or save myself £400 towards another trip for the 2nd badge somewhere else.
It probably makes more sense if I am going to really target the 4 badges to go for the pricier option upfront (costing £760 per badge for the first two + one holiday) vs the cheaper flight now to save £400 on my July holiday but cost me £1140 per badge for the 1st badge.
Shame the Scandi countries aren't listed as destinations for the Globetrotter campaign !
http://www.qatarairways.com/Privileg...id=EMALL548860
If anyone spots excellent prices for any destinations (or pairs of destinations) within the campaign list & dates I'd be seriously grateful for a heads-up.
I appreciate this is the BA J & F thread but as QR earns TPs in BAEC (although not if crediting to QR) I hope no one minds too much I'm posting this here. If I find other good J/F prices on QR I'll post here of course.
Last edited by Sisyphus1carus; May 29, 2016 at 11:11 am