HKG's still alive but very limited dates

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I can't seem to find it?

Ok I managed to ticket

LHR-ZRH-HKG (P, Business)
BKK-ZRH-LHR (A, First)

£1,427.97 p.p.

Not too bad.

Hmm, I wonder what happened here? It’s not a mistake fare. The fares are in line with the companion fares we had last year. The only thing I can think is that they launched the promo too early before they had published it on their website, so they have pulled it. Hopefully they are planning to re-launch it properly?

Needed SIN in Feb but only a few random dates available last night with had decent availability from April onwards.

It seems there's still availability on destinations in Africa & Middle East (though with some strange 35hr multi-hop feeder routings, e.g. BHX->MUC->FRA with long layovers), but Asia is virtually gone.

Odd to have such a brief sale and without any associated marketing. GSTP is reporting rumours "a strong rumour that Swiss and Lufthansa will add Asian destinations tomorrow".

Possible (/ wishful thinking) that some were released too early, and we might see another wave along with their usual companion promotion pages?

It might be early. It is not yet loaded into the affiliate marketing system, and whenever they run this we (ie those of use who get paid for writing about fare sales) are giving direct links to the special booking page.

Does anyone know an end date for this sale? I start a new jobs b on Monday and don't want to risk jumping on this as I normally would without running it by the new boss!

According to another web the sale ends on the 3rd Feb

I did not receive it either. However, it seems that the usual landing page for partner offers of LX for departures from LHR work for this as well:

It would be
LX First ex London
LX Business ex London

There is not really any availability in First to HKG, SIN and BKK (except for one or two days in December 2020). I managed to see some availability using the aforementioned pages for NBO, DXB and DEL

I also managed to get a some fares for Premium-Economy-Class Partner offers (but in Euro). I am unable to get the LH landing page yet.

• Bangkok ab 622 EUR
• Delhi ab 622 EUR
• Dubai ab 535 EUR
• Hong Kong ab 649,50 EUR
• Mumbai ab 622 EUR

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Valid for departures between January 20, 2020 till December 10, 2020. MinStay is 6 days (some destination have Sunday Return Rule), MaxStay is 3 Month. You can book via LH Homepage and use the usual code for the premium offers.

If you like and if you understand German or use Google translate, you can have a look at the report on my German Speaking page about this offer (you can see the above mentioned examples in F to NBO, DEL and DXB there)

I think the discussion in this thread was along the lines of a lack of availability due to the sale not actually meant to be live yet. Or at least that was the hope.

It isn't that the sale isn't live, the fares are filed. It's that LH has basically zeroed-out A class ex-LHR for most dates now that the promotion is live. It's actually ridiculous... can't even book a normal A class fare for one person now.

That is what actually surprised me. I was expecting a sale this time and checking fares regularly. The availability of A from the UK disappeared.

The fares of the partner sale are loaded in the system. LX even put the page live (but not from any other city in the UK). And let us be honest, no availability over the low season time for a destination like HKG in July or August is not the norm (though the Olympic Games in Tokyo might have an impact on the availability).

The fares are simply due of lack of availability not bookable in First. The only fare code available for many destinations is "F". I might be wrong and it might be temporary, but it seems, that "A" has vanished from a number of destinations in the last couple of days. And not only around the time of the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Yes, this is strange. But this fare is not the regular fare, but a special fare. I hope (time will tell), that the fare is loaded, but someone has not adjusted the availability yet.

GF appears to be having aproblem with these fares. It is showing about £1200 for an individual fare, but changes to £1600 when you click through to the summary page.

Yes, beyond ridiculous, all A class is zeroed out ex MAN also, someone at RM lost the plot :rolleyes:

Maybe the responsible person still has to release availibility and will be therefore released during the work days (e.g. tomorrow).