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Apr 10, 2013, 1:09 pm

#1651

BAGoldBoy

Join Date: Jan 2005

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Just managed to book (on hold)

BRU-LHR (I)
LHR-MIA (I)
MIA-LAS (A)

and separately

LAS-LAX (P)
LAX-SFO (P)

for the grand sum of £1848 each (1020 TPs)

ex-AMS LHR-SFO in I was coming in at over £1600 each - what a difference!

Apr 10, 2013, 1:55 pm

#1652

Hannibal Lecter

Join Date: Oct 2009

Posts: 5,041

New Sale starting tomorrow?
This is on the Italian and German sites

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_it

Apr 10, 2013, 2:07 pm

#1653

greg5

Join Date: Oct 2012

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Also on the Helvetic site.

BA's FB page has something about 'Perfect Day Live'.

Personally, I'm more excited about being able to choose my seats at T-7 tomorrow.

Apr 11, 2013, 12:56 am

#1654

Wozza2404

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Quote:

Originally Posted by greg5

Also on the Helvetic site.

BA's FB page has something about 'Perfect Day Live'.

Personally, I'm more excited about being able to choose my seats at T-7 tomorrow.

Perfect Day is a Twitter thing. They're getting people to send in their favourite things to do in certain cities (today it's Rome) for a chance to win a trip there.

Edit: Actually I don't know if it's specifically a Twitter thing, but it's being heavily promoted on their feed.

Apr 11, 2013, 2:14 am

#1655

Blueboys999

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BAGoldBoy

I asked a question about LAS-SFO on another thread a few days ago.

Be careful to avoid AA1967 which is 2 flights (via LAX) but retains the same flight number through to SFO. As a result, it counts as only 1 flight for TP purposes.

Apr 11, 2013, 2:18 am

#1656

orbitmic

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hannibal Lecter

New Sale starting tomorrow?
This is on the Italian and German sites

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_it

And on French site too but it is still not working

This being said, I think it is the 'free night in London or New York' operation (that's what the link looks like although it keeps going in circles) rather than a flight sale (

again)

Apr 11, 2013, 10:29 am

#1657

greg5

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Quote:

Originally Posted by orbitmic

And on French site too but it is still not working

This being said, I think it is the 'free night in London or New York' operation (that's what the link looks like although it keeps going in circles) rather than a flight sale (

again)

You can see the stars in the London and New York pictures. Meh.

Apr 11, 2013, 10:39 am

#1658

BAGoldBoy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Blueboys999

Thanks - I was careful to avoid that - the price for LAS-LAX-SFO has come down considerably - I looked at it last year and it was nearly £600

Apr 23, 2013, 7:43 am

#1659

irmster

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just a quick reminder that the last day to book the decent ex-BRU (or LUX) J fares to US is tomorrow 24/4.

I am just about to book BRU-LHR-LGW-LAS-JFK-LCY-BRU for £1480 and 640 TPs. (giving the LGW-LAS flight a go as I'd rather have an earlier arrival time given the shortness of the trip).

Apr 25, 2013, 1:13 pm

#1660

lwildernorva

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New WT/WT+ sale ex-US through May 8

Not much of a sale, but it's for summer bookings so with high demand probably can't expect much. Looks like a drop of about £250/$400 RT for bookings in WT+ for DC flights to the UK/Ireland. Lesser savings in WT but still a drop. Looks tied to demand--a quick comparison with fares out of JFK, normally cheaper than DC, indicates that a number of comparable fares are higher during this sale. Email from BAEC says buy by May 8 for travel beginning June 1 through December 15.

I have a summer trip to Ireland so I'll take advantage of this sale to get some WT+ seats, needed TPs, and a possible UuA to CW, but for fall travel through December 15, I'd think BA might have a better sale after the end of the summer travel season.

Apr 25, 2013, 4:06 pm

#1661

luvthesun

Join Date: Jan 2009

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Posts: 129

I received the e-mail about this "sale". I've been tracking prices every day for over two weeks and for the departure and arrival cities and "flexible" dates I need.....there is NO reduction in price from my previous searches - at least once a day. Unfortunately, I procrastinated and missed the Club World sale that ended on 9th April.....silly me!

BTW.....go thru the AARP prices; at least save something!