When is the next BA sale?
#2266
Join Date: Mar 2018
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I managed to catch the “2 for 2018” Chinese New Year Sale and with part pay with Avios, got two CW seats from LHR-PEK for @Ł795 each. Amusingly, this was a rerun of the sale that the has been running since 2016 and they just added Ł2.00 to the price, but as BA IT is the worst in the country, they cocked that up and got the decimal point in the wrong place so this year it was “2 for Ł2016.20.
#2268
Join Date: Sep 2013
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#2269
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
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The Facebook add is for a South African sale on BA operated by Comair and mainline to LHR, the red "Sale" image shows that in the bottom right corner. It isn't obvious and clearly they aren't using Facebook's location targeting data.
#2270
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Sale now on
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- Fares available on British Airways operated by Comair within southern Africa.
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#2271
Join Date: Jan 2011
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It's extremely short. Finishes tomorrow.
#2272
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Much like the last one, then: BA [Comair only] 24 Hour sale - 17 April 2018
#2273
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Why the surprise? It is no less a BA sale:-
#2274
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Nor from me. But when the OP then said "But it was a BA-advertised and BA-pointing link... Who knows!", it seemed to suggest that a Comair sale possibly shouldn't have been BA-advertised and the link shouldn't have been BA-pointing. But a Comair sale is no less a BA sale, even if only for a small geographical area.
#2276
Join Date: Jul 2014
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#2277
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
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It's a knock out match so a draw is not possible. I think a lot of posters are kidding themselves holding out for a sale because it happened in the past. Who knows though? I certainly don't. Anything could happen at anytime. Then again, it might not. I have always found this thread interesting to monitor but largely meaningless.
#2279
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Sweden until recently was one of Englands bugbears, like Germany and Argentina. Beaten them recently but pre 2010 had not in 40 years.
Always amazes me how overconfident the England fans get when they scrape a win...
But back on topic, sales seem to be disappearing. Even the pretence of a sale isn't happening anymore (lets face it they have not been great recently) but sounds like BA doesn't match VS much recently and even the incredibly predictable Virgin trains sales of recent times (one month before christmas, easter and summer holidays, something like 4 years in a row) hasn't happened for first time. I think we're looking at 2008 economics sadly.
Always amazes me how overconfident the England fans get when they scrape a win...
But back on topic, sales seem to be disappearing. Even the pretence of a sale isn't happening anymore (lets face it they have not been great recently) but sounds like BA doesn't match VS much recently and even the incredibly predictable Virgin trains sales of recent times (one month before christmas, easter and summer holidays, something like 4 years in a row) hasn't happened for first time. I think we're looking at 2008 economics sadly.