Global BA Business Class sale – discounts on Business and First Class
British Airways has just launched a “Luxury World sale” – with First and Business Class flights and holidays heavily discounted.
You need to book by 9 June 2015, but can generally travel until the middle of 2016 (see terms and conditions for the full range of dates).
Some headline fares from the UK include (all-in Business Class return):
North America
- Las Vegas £1999
- Montreal £1812
- Orlando £1698
Latin America and Caribbean
- Antigua £1694
- Kingston £1594
- Cancun £1693
South and Central Asia
- Chennai £1762
- Mumbai £1647
- New Delhi £1572
Middle East
- Abu Dhabi £1424
- Dubai £1598
- Tel Aviv £1031
Far East
- Beijing £1856
- Chengdu £1861
Given some of the ex-UK Business Class prices currently available on, for example, Finnair, it’s worth shopping around, but these BA Business Class sale fares are certainly very competitive prices in a number of cases.
Note that we have found headline fares substantially cheaper from European starting points such as Amsterdam (with Business Class all-in return prices including New York at €1590, Rio at €1863 and Cape Town at €1519). However, we are really struggling to find available flights at the stated fares. However, if you can be flexible in your departure point, it is well worth searching for potentially even cheaper ex-Europe fares.
Some of these are getting close to the fuel surcharges of award tickets alone, not even counting the mileage earnings, promos and not having to burn your own Avios or AA miles.
Which is why redeeming on Long Haul Economy is seldom a good idea. However, for these premium seats it might make sense to do a cost per mile analysis.
Also bear in mind that BA requires offers one way to status by earning Tier Points (you can also do it on a very high number of segments). Tier Point earning in a premium cabin for a sale price might be an excellent way of earning or retaining status.