12) Over to you
Hopefully you have read at least some of the above, and have found it useful. This thread is here to help you find a good British Airways fare, or at least on a BA partner bookable via BA.com, the App or Contact Centre. And we would encourage you to place questions here, and maybe an expert will come along and give you some tips, or confirm that actually you have got a good fare.
However
- This is essentially for BA / BA codeshares and partner only. If your booking is essentially on Qatar, Qantas, AA or anyone else, please go to those forums and pursue the matter there. These forums have good subject matter experts to hand.
- Please avoid very vague questions. Specific questions get specific answers. Give exact dates, start point, end point, what flexibility you have.
- As a courtesy to the other forum members, please at least read some of the advice in the posts above, and find one fare as a start point. It's a lot easier to provide constructive feedback that way.
Links
And before closing the lead posts of this thread, here are some useful links in the BA forum and elsewhere. Now the reason we have put them all here is that many are very fast moving threads and therefore get annually refreshed. If there are dead links here, please press the red triangle on the lower left, however in January we're probably working on it. The better route in for many of these threads is therefore via the BA Forum Dashboard, which is the main knowledge board of this forum
- TP thread
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...er-thread.html
Now some advice about this: the usual users of this thread can be fairly hardcore TP runners, and not all the ideas presented are sensible or viable. You best have a look at the wiki at the top of the thread, the first few posts 1 to 8, and also the last two dozen or so posts to see what deals are live at the moment. Some of the older posts may have expired in terms of validity. By all means ask questions in that thread, but if you haven't done at least some homework first you may well be invited so to do.
- Premium Fare thread
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...9-edition.html
This is mainly for limited publicity sale fares, one off opportunities, fare mistakes and so on.
- BA Sales thread
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...t-ba-sale.html
This give guidance on BA's regular sequence of sales, which affect both revenue and BA Holidays bookings. Note, however, that on a particular route or flight a sale fare may not be cheaper than out of sale periods, and also that not all sectors are covered by every sale anyway.
- B2B thread
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...tinations.html
This thread gives a lot of information on where to do back to back travel, to take advantage of third country itineraries, particularly in Europe.
- Weekend day returns
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...rip-fares.html
- Best Price Guarantee
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...guarantee.html
- Avios searching (third party provider)
www.rewardflightfinder.com
Other forums on FT:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-deals-372/
Note the two sub forums below. This can be a fast moving forum when a mistake fare comes up, they don't always survive to viable bookings.
Helpdesk threads hosted elsewhere on FlyerTalk:
American Airlines and other oneworld carriers [hosted in the Mileage Run Deals forum]
The following thread is a dedicated helpdesk facilitating fare requests for travel on oneworld carriers
AA/One World: 2019 Consolidated Mileage/Status/Challenge Runs help needed
Qatar Airways [hosted in the Qatar Airways | Privilege Club forum]
QR runs promotional fare deals throughout the year including irregular flash sales with very short booking windows and announced at very short notice. These can be very tricky to spot but fortunately the QR forum hosts a couple of great threads where members help each other out by highlighting these deals as they materialise and sharing discount codes
Sale Fares Discussion
Sale Fares Pricing ONLY