PxC

For 10 months away, don’t you have plenty of time to wait for a decent (2k ish) sale with QR/CX?

lizban

Hi there, need to get to SE Asia - (BKK,Sin,HKG all fine) for Easter next year.

Ideally in J as I’m taking the family - happy to consider ex-eu.

any tips welcomed

Lefly

Since this thread is about BA: ARN/OSL-SIN and FRA/AMS-HKG at this moment are around 1850 eur


Otherwise AY and QR have interesting prices to BKK and HKG from Scandinavia. AY out of BRU too.

PxC

Wait for a decent QR sale and then use an OTA to book via LHR on the return and skip the final leg...
ie. ARN-DOH-BKK/BKK-DOH-LHR-ARN(+2days)

ARN-HKG was recently £1k I think?

EDIT Forgot this is meant to be for BA, so mods apologies and feel free to delete. But QR >>> BA for these routes...

wilsnunn

Now that dates are finalised, it would be great if I could have some assistance from anybody here. We are now looking to depart from UK on 19/20/21/22 December and return on 4/5/6 January. Still looking for sub £1000 if possible but that looks to be difficult even in Y. Still happy to travel from anywhere within Europe if we can get there on Avios but redemptions are looking rather scarse and cost of positioning flights (without using Avios) is rising quickly.

Another option is that we have an Amex 2-4-1 and I would be willing to spend up to 200,000 Avios if this method would be economicaly sensible.

If I can get 340TPs then all the better, that would bring me to Gold!

The fare that I found in the previous post is long since gone, but there are a few similar available on Kayak/Skyscanner but for £1100 ish and on slightly different dates. The best that I can see is MAD-HKG-CGK return in PE on CX for about £850 on Kayak.

TPRun

Hi there

I am looking for a cost effective way to get to New Delhi around 17 Feb 2020, returning 10 days later or so. Any advice appreciated, open to all.

flashware

It's a heavy route for business travel but booking in advance can often provide some decent fares. WTP return is good otherwise WTP out and then CW or F on the return prices up well. Budget? Desired cabin?

interleukin

Hi everyone,
I haven't been paying attention as much as I used to and find myself 280 tier points away from gold this year.

I have the following options for flying on a mileage run and hoping you may be able to advise.

November 16th from NYC area airports
November 22-24 from London UK airports
December 21-23 from Bangkok

Any advice would be great.

TPRun

Thanks! I'm happy with Economy (!!) but for anything better, I'd stick under £2k pp returned.
Prefer to fly LHR, and happy to stop once.

I'm seeing £575 with Qatar which doesn't seem too bad (does a BA gold have any lounge access in T4?)

Thanks in advance!

SavvyTravel

Ex London you could nest 2 HEL trips for £700 (and 320 TPs) with 2 back to backs so not for the faint-hearted. But also no extra hotel nights.

TRIP 1 LHR HEL Fri 22nd Nov 07.55 (£335)

Trip 2 HEL - LHR Fri 22nd 13.50 (£362)
Trip 2 LHR - HEL Sun 24th 07.55

TRIP 1 HEL LHR Sun 24th Nov13.50 arr 1505.

Other combos are possible, of course

Muzer

This is from another thread. I'm reasonably new to this sort of thing — I feel like I know some basics but not much more.

We're travelling next August from London to Johannesburg, and back from Victoria Falls. There's two of us. We would like to go Business. Out to JNB on 4th on the later departure from London, back from VFA on 19th on the later arrival into London, are my preferences (the dates are pretty firm but the departures can be shifted if it's required to produces a better deal). I'd previously seen AMS-JNB, VFA-LHR as a decent deal, for about £3500 or thereabouts, via ITA Matrix and Google Flights, and the plan was to make a day of it, a small trip to Amsterdam going out on the evening of the 3rd with the feeder paid for by Avios. However, the outbound fare, INCEU60, has increased in price I think. The fare on the way back was always INNT00Y7; now it's showing as using that fare in both directions. Now the prices on Google Flights are showing as nearly £4000. However on the BA website I can get the same itinerary for €4330.14, which is £3736 right now, so substantially cheaper. I'm not quite sure why this would be (as I said, I'm new to this!).

I believe INNT00Y7 is a fare from the current London sale — is that correct? My question is if it's worth waiting to see if an ex-EU sale comes about (as my friend has suggested, given August is still quite far away), or if I should buy it for the £3736 price while I have the chance. Or if there are any alternatives I've missed.

Globaliser

I can't fully debug this at the moment, but there are two things you need to be aware of.

First, ITA quotes include the GDS fee. That's £10.50 per fare component if pricing in GBP, or €12.50 per fare component if pricing in EUR. For a price that combines AMS-LON-AMS fares with LON-JNB-LON fares (etc), four fare components are involved - so ITA's quote will be £42.00 or €50.00 higher than BA's for this reason alone. (See the wikipost at the head of BA (and IB) to impose GDS booking fee from 01 Nov 2017.)

Second, a very quick look on ITA suggests that the cheap itineraries that do combine those fares are only available on those dates if you do AMS-LGW-AMS and change airports for the long-haul flights. Flying AMS-LHR-AMS requires different (and higher) fares. So if you are not strictly comparing like with like on every single flight, that may explain you are getting different prices from ITA and BA.

Muzer

Definitely comparing like-with-like on an AMS-LHR flight. BA433+BA57 on outbound, BA6282+BA54 on the return. Going into LHR, and the total cost for two people is coming out as €4330.90; compared to €4646.14 on ITA Matrix. Not complaining but I'd love to know where that figure comes from!

Globaliser

It's worth comparing the base fares.

Muzer

€1622 on the BA website, €1780.04 on ITA Matrix. Not sure if you can drill down into any more detail on the BA site?