Dec 20, 2013, 5:19 am
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This thread was archived on 01 February 2015. You can follow the active discussion in the When is the next BA sale? thread.
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[Q: When is the] Next BA Sale? [A: We don't know]
Aug 11, 2013, 9:12 am
#1816
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Near Edinburgh
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 9,034
You know, I think the Advertising Standards Authority would be interested in this pattern of behaviour. BA repeatedly advertises sales as ending on day X, and very regularly extends them for a week or two. It could be construed as misleading advertising on the inference that they intended to extend the sale all along but were advertising an earlier closing date to get people to buy.
Aug 11, 2013, 9:17 am
#1817
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,328
I don't see the ASA being interested in this. BA extending sales by a few days or even a couple of weeks is only going to be seen as a good thing from a consumer perspective. At the end of the day these are sale fares. BA sells tickets on these routes for 90% of the year at significantly higher cost and can prove that.
It's hardly like the sofa retailers who have sales on for 365 days a year and the sale item often goes down in price after the sale ends.
It's hardly like the sofa retailers who have sales on for 365 days a year and the sale item often goes down in price after the sale ends.
Aug 11, 2013, 12:58 pm
#1818
Join Date: Jun 2012
Programs: BAEC Silver, L'Accor Gold, Hilton Silver, IHG Platinum
Posts: 328
ASA only cares about length of sales if they're held for so long that they effectively become the base price. For example, a few years ago one of the sports retailers got told that their near permanent sales breached ASA terms because the prices weren't genuine sale prices. It's not unusual to extend sale periods and that's permissible so long as there is an end to the sale eventually and the prices during the sale are genuinely lower than pre-sale prices.
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Aug 11, 2013, 1:29 pm
#1819
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
Programs: BA Silver, ICH Plat, Club Carlson G, SAS S
Posts: 1,175
Aug 11, 2013, 2:21 pm
#1820
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Aug 16, 2013, 3:23 am
#1821
Join Date: Aug 2006
Programs: BAEC Gold/GGL, IHG Diamond AMB
Posts: 1,074
I7SALE on now - cannot believe I have just booked BRU-LHR-MIA-SFO-JFK-LCY-LHR-BRU for me and Mrs our_kid in J/I/A/A/I/J for next April
At least £500 off the previous fares I have been quoted - get to it
At least £500 off the previous fares I have been quoted - get to it
Aug 16, 2013, 5:27 am
#1822
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
Programs: BA Silver, ICH Plat, Club Carlson G, SAS S
Posts: 1,175
never heard of I7SALE
Aug 16, 2013, 5:40 am
#1823
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Bristol, UK
Programs: HH D, Rad Plat
Posts: 5,354
I believe it is only ex EU (and I'm not trying to start a bun fight with that term either!) that is seeing this. (AMS or BRU starting points for example).
Go to any mainland European BA site and price up a CW ticket...it will be the I7SALE fare if I'm not mistaken (and I could be!)
Hope this helps.
Go to any mainland European BA site and price up a CW ticket...it will be the I7SALE fare if I'm not mistaken (and I could be!)
Hope this helps.
Aug 16, 2013, 6:18 am
#1824
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
Programs: BA Silver, ICH Plat, Club Carlson G, SAS S
Posts: 1,175
I believe it is only ex EU (and I'm not trying to start a bun fight with that term either!) that is seeing this. (AMS or BRU starting points for example).
Go to any mainland European BA site and price up a CW ticket...it will be the I7SALE fare if I'm not mistaken (and I could be!)
Hope this helps.
Go to any mainland European BA site and price up a CW ticket...it will be the I7SALE fare if I'm not mistaken (and I could be!)
Hope this helps.
To me EU includes UK but appreciate rules differ
Aug 16, 2013, 6:25 am
#1825
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: LON (mostly)
Programs: FlyingBlue Platinum Elite / BAEC Silver
Posts: 1,953
ex-EU is a long-established phrase on this board, referring to departures from the continent. These tend to be considerably cheaper than departures from the UK.
Aug 16, 2013, 6:25 am
#1826
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Glasgow / London
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 3,457
Basically it's an I class (restricted business) sale fare from a number of European cities. Depending on where you are going usually determines where you are best to leave from. Brussels, for example, is generally good for places like SFO and HNL; Rome tends to be good for YVR. You still take the same flights from London, but need to position yourself elsewhere to start with and then fly back to the UK as your first leg. It's also a great way of racking up extra tier points quickly.
Aug 16, 2013, 6:33 am
#1827
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
Programs: BA Silver, ICH Plat, Club Carlson G, SAS S
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Basically it's an I class (restricted business) sale fare from a number of European cities. Depending on where you are going usually determines where you are best to leave from. Brussels, for example, is generally good for places like SFO and HNL; Rome tends to be good for YVR. You still take the same flights from London, but need to position yourself elsewhere to start with and then fly back to the UK as your first leg. It's also a great way of racking up extra tier points quickly.
looking at the WAW-JFK open jaw option is cheaper but leaving from ABZ it adds some 14 hours and the extra cost on so its marginal in the end. I guess I could use avios to get there, would mean ABZ-LHR-WAW-LHR-JFK-LHR-ABZ
could be worth a try, will have to get some body armour before making this suggestion
Aug 16, 2013, 6:35 am
#1828
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Moscow / Aylesbury / Leeds
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Why don't we start to use Ex-M EU, so as to differentiate between the UK, which is part of the EU and Mainland EU, then we don't have loads of posts correcting, agreeing and disagreeing each time it's used
Aug 16, 2013, 7:51 am
#1830
Join Date: Aug 2006
Programs: BAEC Gold/GGL, IHG Diamond AMB
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