BA AMS-CPT £1,269 in business 440TP

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Nov 7, 2018, 8:01 am

wijibintheair

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BA AMS-CPT £1,269 in business 440TP

Not sure if this has already been posted somewhere.

Just booked seats through OTA for January 2019 AMS-LHR-JNB-CPT rtn for £1,269 - books into I class, added booking to the app and it confirms it will earn 440TP.

There are a smattering of dates on ba.com as well at good fares 10 Jan 2019 back 23 Jan 2019 booked on ba.com in business AMS-LHR-CPT for £1,262.00 (although will earn fewer TPs)

Nov 7, 2018, 9:10 am

Raffles

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You can get better than this - ba.com has it down to £1113 (€1275) return on some dates.

Fare is available until at least March, mainly on a Thursday outbound for some odd reason.

May be even cheaper if you find dates that price and then plug those into the BA Holidays website, adding a cheap car hire (which you never collect) on top.

Nov 7, 2018, 9:14 am

wijibintheair

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When I looked earlier today at the 10-23 Jan it was showing the £1113.00 fare, but a couple of hours later it had already increased, and only seemed to have 1 seat availability when I tried to book 2 the fare jumped. The advantage of the OTA fare is that it is via JNB which adds an extra 80TPs the ticket.

Nov 8, 2018, 2:41 am

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Looks like most days have gone (or going as I'm looking for two). Some Mondays in March seem open and I noticed that some routings fly back CPT-LHR / LGW AMS thus avoiding the checked bag dilemma. So I'm hoping that Mrs S will be up for this one with the bonus of not having to do HBO.

Nov 8, 2018, 3:48 am

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Yes, seems availability is quite limited.... trying for mid february.. but prices are much higher than the lowest of ~1250Euros. Wonder if it is because they are still opening up the inventory or....even trying with BA holidays, prices are not moving down for this one....

Cheers!

Nov 8, 2018, 7:13 am

wijibintheair

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There still seem to be quite a few dates open say leaving 18 Feb back 28 Feb etc on skyscanner at the £1,250.00 price, but AMS-LHR-JNB-CPT route

Nov 8, 2018, 7:48 am

SavvyTravel

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Originally Posted by wijibintheair

There still seem to be quite a few dates open say leaving 18 Feb back 28 Feb etc on skyscanner at the £1,250.00 price, but AMS-LHR-JNB-CPT route

I found the best option to pick the dates was via Matrix as that showed very clearly that the length of stay affected price. Managed to get 2 x €1250 / £1100 with AMS LHR CPT / CPT LHR LGW AMS routing. 20th to 26th March - and it looked like there were still some days at that level of price that week. Indeed I had a choice of 3 flights back at a €20 difference in fare (2 to LHR, 1 to LGW; 2 x 747 and 1 777).

Good luck

Nov 8, 2018, 8:59 am

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Originally Posted by wijibintheair

There still seem to be quite a few dates open say leaving 18 Feb back 28 Feb etc on skyscanner at the £1,250.00 price, but AMS-LHR-JNB-CPT route

A piece of advice from recent experience: Leave ample time for the Domestic to International connection in JNB on the way back. Security + Passport Control add up to a double whammy of queues.