Flying Yazata

I assume you've booked on the phone by calling the Irish (ROI for any political purists) number? Well, then you just need to change to calling the UK contact number. The contact number used defines the POS and currency used.

VSLover

i feel ex-EU deals are going to be incredibly rare thru the summer until they can more accurately gauge what demand will be there now that people will finally be free to travel and move more easily (not incl asia right now). so would sadly not expect many great bargains...though i recently did have some luck with an ex-ATH booking in sept to the US.

paulaf

Ridiculous cost for 2 to Rhodes in September £1786!! Hope there's a sale or more fares added.

stevie

Not a dig at the OP but why would anybody pay for BA F in this day and age. Especially going to the trouble to travel to a different origin from their home airport.

Cymro

BA F, when it is done even vaguely acceptably, is still one of the nicest ways to cross the Atlantic without starting in the Middle East (or on a Middle Eastern airline, anyway). It might not be AF or LX standard, but they have their own issues.

As for why you'd start from something other than your home airport: the OP doesn't say, but there can be a massive difference in cost between starting in Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg or Düsseldorf, for instance; and if you live in Aachen or Maastricht there's not a huge difference in terms of convenience. Likewise, First fares tend to offer free stopovers, so a weekend in a European city, followed by a long-haul a few weeks later, is no hardship (and is completely different from an ex-EU back-to-back), even if you do have to pay Air Passenger Duty on the leg from the UK.