£100 off Longhaul Y for 5,000 Avios - this weekend only
Oct 19, 2018, 12:40 pm
#16
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 1,357
Never mind. It appears to be ex UK only bookings and I was looking ex DUB. Actually, the flights are over €150 cheaper ex DUB than ex LHR even after the £100 is taken off for the dates I was looking at to NYC so not that great an offer for me
Oct 19, 2018, 12:53 pm
#20
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
Posts: 2,091
Start in the UK and I see this, and if press the button it drops the price by £100
Oct 19, 2018, 1:37 pm
#21
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold, A3 *Gold
Posts: 887
Answering my own problem here, seems to be because I had selected an AA flight, selecting only BA options gives the correct £100 option.
Oct 19, 2018, 1:50 pm
#22
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 783
- £170 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to New York.
- £206 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to Miami.
- £207 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to Los Angeles.
- £270 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to San Francisco.
- £345 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to Johannesburg.
- £359 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to Singapore.
Oct 19, 2018, 2:23 pm
#24
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: HAJ
Programs: BA Bronze, AVIS Preferred Plus
Posts: 53
- £170 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to New York.
- £206 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to Miami.
- £207 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to Los Angeles.
- £270 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to San Francisco.
- £345 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to Johannesburg.
- £359 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to Singapore.
Oct 19, 2018, 3:01 pm
#25
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 3,061
It will be - Y class will always be expensive, and is normally actually a fixed price. You want a discounted O or Q class to get these prices; N should only be a bit more. Always plenty of O available to the US in November though.
Oct 19, 2018, 3:07 pm
#26
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,610
A good way to find the cheapest long haul prices is via the app. At the bottom of the home screen you'll find a set of offers, and a "show more" button. Next screen allows you to select geography and length of stay. Then you'll get a list of the cheapest fares and you can drill down into them to find out which months and then days they are available.
Great little tool that - there has been a little discussion of it in another recent thread. It's also great for finding avios redemptions.
Note that the cheapest fares are sometimes AA flights, for example Chicago, so you don't get the offer.
Great little tool that - there has been a little discussion of it in another recent thread. It's also great for finding avios redemptions.
Note that the cheapest fares are sometimes AA flights, for example Chicago, so you don't get the offer.
Oct 19, 2018, 3:35 pm
#27
Join Date: Sep 2018
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 67
On the app once you've priced up the BA flight, there is a save £100 with Avios drop down and a single round button rather than the usual £10 off for 1000 miles options hit the button and the £100 is removed.
So a March LGW - JFK return I priced up came in at £188 and as silver the flight earned 5,193 miles, so I'd be positive even after usng the 5,000 avios redemption.
So a March LGW - JFK return I priced up came in at £188 and as silver the flight earned 5,193 miles, so I'd be positive even after usng the 5,000 avios redemption.
Oct 19, 2018, 3:42 pm
#28
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,610
Get something completed before the end of the year and you'll get double base avios too. I'm quite tempted except that hotels in many of the cheaper destinations are very expensive. It's a very neat promo.
Oct 19, 2018, 3:44 pm
#29
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Montreux CH
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I think if you're careful, there are bargains to be had here, with such offers. I took advantage of an extra cash price to reduce the number of Avios needed back in July, and I figured it was a good deal (anything exceeding 1,000 for GBP10 is a fair deal, I think). So I saved 4,000 Avios (I don't have a huge amount, just enough for what I think is the best deal, European RFS) by paying a bit less than GBP40.
Oct 19, 2018, 5:17 pm
#30
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Glasgow, UK
Programs: Seigneur des Tarifs Utils First Class Mucci with Honours :) - BA GGL / CCR
Posts: 1,551
Absolutely not, you get the avios refunded to your account and then the cash element to your method of payment.. I know this for a fact