Business class fare sale to Europe Jul/Aug 2012
Jun 28, 2012, 7:07 pm
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Business class fare sale to Europe Jul/Aug 2012
There are a lot of very low business class fares to Europe now for travel between July 14th and September 2nd. I found a lot of "P" class round trips for $2000 from SFO to LHR, even on the non-stops, for example. Apparently, if you bought a business class ticket within the last 30 days at a higher fare you can "re-fare" for a $50 charge and get the refund as a transferable dollar amount voucher good for future tickets. (I am not sure whether the low re-fare fee is for everyone, or just for cerain levels of elites.)
Jun 28, 2012, 8:16 pm
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There are a lot of very low business class fares to Europe now for travel between July 14th and September 2nd. I found a lot of "P" class round trips for $2000 from SFO to LHR, even on the non-stops, for example. Apparently, if you bought a business class ticket within the last 30 days at a higher fare you can "re-fare" for a $50 charge and get the refund as a transferable dollar amount voucher good for future tickets. (I am not sure whether the low re-fare fee is for everyone, or just for cerain levels of elites.)
Jun 28, 2012, 8:28 pm
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There are a lot of very low business class fares to Europe now for travel between July 14th and September 2nd. I found a lot of "P" class round trips for $2000 from SFO to LHR, even on the non-stops, for example. Apparently, if you bought a business class ticket within the last 30 days at a higher fare you can "re-fare" for a $50 charge and get the refund as a transferable dollar amount voucher good for future tickets. (I am not sure whether the low re-fare fee is for everyone, or just for cerain levels of elites.)
Jun 28, 2012, 9:44 pm
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With the merger, have the refaring rules changed to avoid the drastic $250 international refare fee? $50 sounds much more reasonable to me.
Jun 28, 2012, 10:34 pm
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They gave me the voucher code and the associated pin over the telephone, so I could use it today if I wanted!
Jun 28, 2012, 11:03 pm
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Jun 29, 2012, 9:45 am
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Great deal..comparable the brief LHR fares for the Diamond Jubilee... I'm hoping I can arrange some business travel for the latter half of August.
Jun 29, 2012, 10:06 am
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Can you take advantage of the sale fare on the return? Wonder if it's possible to have one leg in P if part of a roundtrip?
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Jun 29, 2012, 10:08 am
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According to the rules it is possible to combine on a half round trip basis. The fares to LHR are indeed right around $2,000..but other cities in Europe are more..up around $2,700 to $2,800.
Jun 29, 2012, 12:51 pm
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Thanks OP! Booked several seats on SFO-LHR nonstop return last night at $2K and glad I didn't wait like normal. Looks like that route for July/Aug is pricing out much higher now even with stops.... the deal may be gone.
Updated to add: it's a few hours later and the prices are back to 2K for this route.
Updated to add: it's a few hours later and the prices are back to 2K for this route.
Last edited by zephyr; Jun 29, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Jun 29, 2012, 1:53 pm
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And, rebooking/upgrade pricing is still all over the place.
I had a fare for ORD-MAN in July I'd originally booked in Y since they wanted way too much for BF.
My original fare in Y was $1240.
Just checked.
Cost to upgrade using $$ was around $1K each way
Cost to upgrade using miles was $550 plus 20,000 miles each way
Cost of a new ticket in BF was $2200
Cost to rebook into BF? $760 plus a $250 change fee.
Rebooking was cheaper than either buyup options, and equal to the price of a new ticket even including the change fee. And I get the bonus miles and other bennies for paid BF.
An upgradable Y ticket is pricing out at $3K.
There is simply no logic.
Update: just checked a similar ugrade/rebook for FRA in October. For this I could do the $1100 plus 40,000 miles, but they want $12,000 for a new ticket, looks like some of the legs have no availability in paid BF so it's booking into GF, but here are upgrade seats available.
I had a fare for ORD-MAN in July I'd originally booked in Y since they wanted way too much for BF.
My original fare in Y was $1240.
Just checked.
Cost to upgrade using $$ was around $1K each way
Cost to upgrade using miles was $550 plus 20,000 miles each way
Cost of a new ticket in BF was $2200
Cost to rebook into BF? $760 plus a $250 change fee.
Rebooking was cheaper than either buyup options, and equal to the price of a new ticket even including the change fee. And I get the bonus miles and other bennies for paid BF.
An upgradable Y ticket is pricing out at $3K.
There is simply no logic.
Update: just checked a similar ugrade/rebook for FRA in October. For this I could do the $1100 plus 40,000 miles, but they want $12,000 for a new ticket, looks like some of the legs have no availability in paid BF so it's booking into GF, but here are upgrade seats available.
Last edited by milepig; Jun 29, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Jun 29, 2012, 3:27 pm
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