Don’t forget you can find all our Black Friday deals for 2022 here.
Etihad launches Black Friday sale
Etihad’s sale has launched and has some fairly decent prices. Etihad’s seats all aisle access, although their business studio suites on their B787 and A350 aircraft are much better than the B777 older seats. You can read our latest reviews here.
Book by 29 November 2022 for travel from 15 January 2023 until 20 June 2023.
As usual, you will get the best bargains from outside the UK, but the Muscat and Seychelles offers are good:
Business class returns fares per person:
From London
- Abu Dhabi £1974
- Muscat £1795
- Colombo £2162
- Seoul £1796
- Manila £1957
- New Delhi £2782
- Mahé (Seychelles) £1952
- Maldives £2299
From Manchester:
- Kuala Lumpur £1999
- New Delhi £1782
From Dublin:
- Maldives £2028
- Jakarta (good for access to Bali) £2008
- Bangkok £2403
- Mumbai £1698
- Muscat £1695
- Maldives £2028
From Amsterdam
- Maldives £1689
- Mahé (Seychelles) £1695
- Mumbai £1431
- Manila £1695
- Johannesburg £1588
From Brussels
- Mahé (Seychelles) £1692
- Johannesburg £1637
From Paris
- Singapore £1938
From Rome:
- Mumbai £1563
- Maldives £1501
- Singapore £1876
- Bangkok £1906
- Tokyo £2206
- Sydney £3078 (very limited – 2 days in April and May)
From Madrid:
- Singapore £1999
- Colombo £1756
From Frankfurt
- Phuket £2033
- Mumbai £1714
From Munich
- Singapore £1821
You can find the offer page here.
Finnair UK Flight deals from £1188
Finnair has some good deals from the UK at the moment despite not being a Black Friday sale officially. They recently launched a new business class service on board that I was really impressed with. All their business class seats are decent with aisle access. You can read about their new business class service and new seats in this article.
If you are looking for tier points, these are good options as the extra route to Helsinki gives you another 160 tier points round trip as well as the flight from Helsinki’s tier points. You can select a long haul aircraft for the route from London, although in the winter there is only one per day and two in summer.
I’ll be taking a look at their ex-EU fares in a separate post.
Round-trip flights from London:
- Bangkok
- Premium Economy £1,257
- Business £1,590
- Boston
- Business £1,797
- Brisbane
- Business £3,846
- Cancun
- Business £1,819
- Chicago
- Premium Economy £739
- Business £1,797
- Delhi
- Business £1,557
- Dubai
- Business £1,188
- Hong Kong, China
- Business £1,605
- Koh Samui
- Business £2,266
- Melbourne
- Business £3,895
- Mumbai
- Business £1,507
- New York
- Premium Economy £610
- Business £1,758
- Perth
- Business
- £3,891
- Phuket
- Premium Economy £1,277
- Business £2,178
- Seoul
- Business £1,704
- Sydney
- Business £3,725
- Tallinn
- Economy £214
- Business £581
3 comments
A word of warning before booking Finnair with the new seats pictured in the article. I’m currently in Thailand having flown out this week on the A350 with the new seats. I didn’t sleep at all on the journey and consider the seats to be fundamentally flawed. This is a shame as I’m a big fan of Finnair and their previous business class seats were excellent. Michele was spot on in her review and I concur with her experience that the new seats are great for sitting but not good for sleeping. Like Michele, I found it was the restriction around the knees that is the problem. With most tunnel style seats, your knees are outside the tunnel. With Finnair this is not so and there is simply not enough space around the knees for someone of my stature 100kg / 1.8m. This makes sleeping uncomfortable and manoeuvring difficult. With a normal business class seat, you can press a button and it lifts you up into the sitting mode. With the older flip over Virgin seats you could get off the bed at the foot end. With these seats you have to somehow manoeuvre yourself out of the tunnel to get up. Due to the lack of space around the knees it is difficult to bend your legs and push yourself back and then get upright. I found I had to grab the seat back screen (fortunately robustly attached) and haul myself out of the tunnel and pull myself upright. That’s awkward but just about OK for someone like me in their 50s who is reasonably strong and fit but I think would be exceptionally difficult for anyone elderly and losing muscle strength or suffering a physical disability. In all other aspects the flight was excellent.
I will just add that a lot of people I know have flown the new seats and said they slept extremely well. A lot depends on your size and how you naturally sleep in terms of position.
In contrast I flew on the new seat to Singapore in the summer and LOVED it. Service was spot on as well and the extra TPs very helpful. Have also booked LHR-HEL-DXB next spring at the fare sale, although that’s the old seats. That’s another 440TPs – I’m now on target to hit BA GFL next year!
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