Wozza2404

There have been plenty. I booked AMS-LHR-JFK-LAX-LAS return for under a grand last week.

OTP-PHX is still around for £1400.

There's stuff out there.

mikeyfly

These flash deals / price matches across alliances aren't published - don't expect a BA sale banner - keep an eye on the Premium Fare thread and grab anything that comes up and then use the 24 hours cooling off to make your mind up. There's been two or three USAs for £1000 this year (exAMS and INV)

POG

Ned1968

Good find. NYC and Chicago in First are just under £2K for the same dates from INV; Vegas in Business is under £1,300 in case anyone needs to be on the west coast

Soulfish

Out of interest can anyone see anything in June/July/Aug to the west coast US (specifically the SFO area) for under £1800 in business? I can get to around there with an exEU from Dub flying into SJC but can't see anything approaching some of the prices people have mentioned recently

Ned1968

You can get from Inverness to Las Vegas in August for under £1,300. LAS to SFO should be easy to find at a cheap price

Fiona Low

Family of 4. We need to back by August 22nd though but can leave from 24th July onwards. Please tell me how I can access the deals you mention from Inverness or anywhere easy to get to from London. I have tried Matrix, Google flights etc and can't get anything for less than 7k.
is there a trick to finding these deals?
We have 300, 000 avios and silver status but can't seem to find any upgrade availability. Happy to fly to Las and make out own way to Lax.
im very intrigued about how people in the know find these flights and manage to book them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Misco60

Assuming two kids under 12 and a 12 night stay, this search returns a number of options at around £1200 per person (to LAS - fares to LAX are significantly higher).

Fiona Low

Wow! Thank you, I'm not sure why I have not been able to do this myself. I shall try again replicating your example. Have a great day.

Misco60

You're welcome!
If you get stuck, or have any further questions, do come back and ask. There's a lot of experience here, and we're happy to share it.

And welcome to the forum, by the way.

scottish minnie

Tiger_lily

alexb1212

MarkedMan

If you look at the screen shot from Matrix above, you can put your preferred route in the Routing Code space and it will pick out routes that way for your search, so for INV to LAS you can put LHR JFK LAX and see what comes up. Similar for return, rinse and repeat. Some have reported you can route the TATL from HEL, so go to London, then Helsinki, then head to the US from there. Haven't tried this, but you can play with the options. Might add a bit to the price, but you'll get an extra 80 TPs potentially each way.

This looks a bit like a variant of a fairly standard BA advance fare to the West Coast, bookable super early and with AA this time, which opens up the connection options; usually you can get fares like this with minimal messing around on BA, ie direct London to the West Coast. Main thing is that the lowest price requires departure and return on certain days. I think this one is departures on Mon to Wed, returns on weekdays, haven't gone through this in detail but if you see the fare jump to above 1400 quid, say, it's not that it isn't there for you, it might be that you need to pick the right days of the week to travel to get the absolute cheapest version of it.

One thing to note: I did try going out from INV and returning to MAN and the fare jumped by 300 quid; might be doing something wrong, but I am not sure that on this one there is so much flexibility about the point of return as there is sometimes with the BA fares.

Keep it Riel

I managed to squeeze MAD in without a noticeable increase in fare when playing yesterday - INV - LHR - MAD - JFK - LAX - LAS and return which got me up to 800 TPs.