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[Q: When is the] Next BA Sale? [A: We don't know]
Aug 19, 2010, 2:57 pm
#151
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 2,483
Welcome to FT!
Pull the trigger - there will probably be a WT/WT+ sale near the end of August but it is very unlikely you will save on WT+ as they generally have a 21-day advance purchase requirement. You may save on a WT fare as advance purchase is sometimes less onerous but no guarantees and Lagos is not an 'always in the sale' destination anyway.
See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...les-ex-uk.html for historical info (better on First/CW but I am trying to collate more WT/WT+ info!!)
Pull the trigger - there will probably be a WT/WT+ sale near the end of August but it is very unlikely you will save on WT+ as they generally have a 21-day advance purchase requirement. You may save on a WT fare as advance purchase is sometimes less onerous but no guarantees and Lagos is not an 'always in the sale' destination anyway.
See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...les-ex-uk.html for historical info (better on First/CW but I am trying to collate more WT/WT+ info!!)
Last edited by matthewuk; Aug 19, 2010 at 2:59 pm Reason: added welcome - forgetting my manners!!!
Aug 19, 2010, 6:22 pm
#153
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 5
Welcome to FT!
Pull the trigger - there will probably be a WT/WT+ sale near the end of August but it is very unlikely you will save on WT+ as they generally have a 21-day advance purchase requirement. You may save on a WT fare as advance purchase is sometimes less onerous but no guarantees and Lagos is not an 'always in the sale' destination anyway.
See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...les-ex-uk.html for historical info (better on First/CW but I am trying to collate more WT/WT+ info!!)
Pull the trigger - there will probably be a WT/WT+ sale near the end of August but it is very unlikely you will save on WT+ as they generally have a 21-day advance purchase requirement. You may save on a WT fare as advance purchase is sometimes less onerous but no guarantees and Lagos is not an 'always in the sale' destination anyway.
See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...les-ex-uk.html for historical info (better on First/CW but I am trying to collate more WT/WT+ info!!)
I'm hoping they will have a WT+ sale at the desk on the day, i've seen it before for an extra Ł75 so maybe if i'm a really good girl and eat all my veg between now and then it will happen again!
Loving this thread by the way... whatever happens I'll keep an eye on the messages here, if only to torment myself!
Aug 19, 2010, 11:23 pm
#155
Join Date: Jul 2008
Programs: EBG4Life, EBD, 1MM
Posts: 1,397
Sale just started, looks like ex-EU (although I have only checked ex-Germany and ex-Austria).
Aug 20, 2010, 6:26 am
#156
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You're not alone. After discussion with my companion, and knowing BA's propensity to zero award availability in Club when a WT+ sale starts (presumably to limit the number of W->J MFUs at sale prices), we also decided to pay the current prices to get guaranteed MFUs rather than to gamble on what might happen in the sale.
Aug 20, 2010, 12:23 pm
#157
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: MAN
Programs: BAEC: SILVER. BMIDC SILVER
Posts: 668
You're not alone. After discussion with my companion, and knowing BA's propensity to zero award availability in Club when a WT+ sale starts (presumably to limit the number of W->J MFUs at sale prices), we also decided to pay the current prices to get guaranteed MFUs rather than to gamble on what might happen in the sale.
Aug 20, 2010, 1:44 pm
#158
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 312
i'm sitting here like a patient assassin waiting to pull the trigger on two sale flights to LAX for Oct.
come on BA and comply.
come on BA and comply.
Aug 20, 2010, 5:18 pm
#159
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I've never personally had the dilemma in quite this form before, because I've never seen as much J award availability on my usual routes as now.
However, I have often seen it reported here by regulars, and I personally wasn't prepared to take the risk. My take was this: for Golds MFUing on JNB, the W->J MFU is almost free - so if the risk-free route means paying a couple of hundred pounds extra for the underlying cash ticket, so be it.
However, I have often seen it reported here by regulars, and I personally wasn't prepared to take the risk. My take was this: for Golds MFUing on JNB, the W->J MFU is almost free - so if the risk-free route means paying a couple of hundred pounds extra for the underlying cash ticket, so be it.
Aug 23, 2010, 12:06 pm
#160
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Chelsea
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,227
In case it proves useful to someone, an ex-France traveller/traveller plus/club sale has just commenced. Though for club in particular I think the term 'sale' should be treated with caution. Book by 20 September.
Aug 23, 2010, 2:08 pm
#161
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA`
Posts: 209
Thanks. It doesn't look like the sale is amazing at least to the USA or South Africa, to look at markets I know a little bit about (in Y or Y+). Anyone, feel free to tell me if I have missed an amazing fare to a fabulous destination somehow
Aug 23, 2010, 4:10 pm
#162
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: London
Posts: 2,385
Some of the WTP fares aint too bad. They have cut the sale just short of easter though; sly ol' dogs!
Aug 24, 2010, 2:58 am
#163
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[Pardon me. Totally misread an earlier post!]
Last edited by Globaliser; Aug 24, 2010 at 3:26 am
No, BA WTP. On the french site, the sale is already on, and includes WT, WTP and Business.
Aug 24, 2010, 3:26 am
#165
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Sorry, completely misread an earlier post ... d'oh!