Today we received official confirmation from BA that their first A350 will touch down at Heathrow on 26 July after its delivery from Airbus. TLFL has been invited to attend which we are extremely excited about. We will be doing some live streaming videos and lots of photos of course! More details to come nearer the time.
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British Airways sale
BA yesterday launched their latest sale which has some great prices to celebrate their centenary year. The centenary fares are available for booking until midnight on July 16. The special BA sale page is here.
Andrew Brem, British Airways’ Chief Commercial Officer, said “In our centenary year, we want to say thank you to our customers. We’re offering a range of fares to suit all budgets – customers can choose to hop to Europe, head East or catch some winter sun – these are just some of the many destinations on offer.”
I will look at the Club fares below but it’s worth remembering you can also use Avios as part payment as illustrated by the offers below. Although we don’t concentrate on economy fares here, there are some real bargains for cash prices when you use some Avios as well. With part cash/part Avios you can still upgrade afterwards with Avios as well!
| New York (World Traveller) | £182 + 17,000 Avios |
| New York (Club World) | £929 + 80,000 Avios |
| San Diego (World Traveller) | £189 + 34,600 Avios |
| Singapore (World Traveller) | £179 + 42,900 Avios |
| Beijing (World Traveller) | £139 + 48,750 Avios |
| Antigua (World Traveller) | £160 + 48,750 Avios |
BA Holidays
Booking flights with a car or hotel can often be cheaper than a flight alone or have additional savings over booking them separately. It also offers the opportunity to just pay a deposit until nearer the time as well as collecting an additional 1 Avios per £1 spent on top of the usual flight and car hire Avios. Some of the prices below are only marginally more than the cost of the flight!
VenicePrices based on two people sharing a room with Club Europe flights prices start from:
- Venice + 3 nights hotel from £242 pp
- Rome + 3 nights hotel from £199
- Barcelona + 3 nights hotel from £251 pp
- Amsterdam + 3 nights hotel from £260pp
- Algarve + 7 nights hotel £271
- Mallorca + 7 nights hotel £354
- Dubrovnik + 3 nights hotel from £284pp
Long haul holidays with Club World return flights prices based on two sharing start from:
- New York + 3 nights hotel from £1519
- Dominican Republic + 7 nights £ 1891
- Boston+ 3 nights hotel from £1744 pp
- Las Vegas flights + 5 nights hotel from £1734 pp
- Los Angeles flights + 5 nights hotel from £1910 pp
- Orlando flights + 7 nights hotel from £1806 pp
- Miami flights + 4 nights hotel from £1982 pp
- San Francisco flights + 5 nights hotel from £1724 pp
- Barbados flights + 7 nights hotel from £2223 pp
- St Lucia flights + 7 nights hotel from £2017 pp
- Cancun flights + 7 nights hotel from £1996 pp
- Seychelles flights + 7 nights hotel from £2390 pp
- Hong Kong flights + 4 nights hotel from £2231 p
- Bangkok + 4 nights hotel from £2160
- Abu Dhabi flights + 3 nights hotel from £1318
- Dubai flights + 3 nights hotel from £1791 pp
You can find the BA special sale page here.
Club World flights
There are some excellent deals in Club World to New York and Abu Dhabi. The rest of the flights are a bit of a mixed bag with some very pricey (Jo’burg for over £3300?) and some a little cheaper than the last sale.
Caribbean and South America
- Antigua £1994
- Barbados £1993
- Buenos Aires £1995
- Cancun £1748
- Grand Cayman £1745
- Lima £2194
- Nassau £1745
- Punta Cana £1644
- Rio de Janeiro £1795
- Sao Paolo £1795
- St Lucia £1878
- Santiago £1995
You can find the BA special sale page here.
USA and Canada
- New York £1326
- Tampa £1694
Africa, Asia and Middle East
- Seychelles £1849
- Beijing £1899
- Shanghai £1822
- Hong Kong £2198
- Osaka £2364
- Tokyo £2210
- Seoul £1998
- Abu Dhabi £1350
- Nairobi £1599
You can find the BA special sale page here.
Club Europe Flight only
There are some very cheap routes for Club Europe for a short break perhaps combined with some tier points. Some like Amsterdam are the cheapest prices you will generally see. Destinations in bold get 160 tier points return versus 80 for the rest. Though you may wonder if all the cheaper prices are adding up to some very busy Club cabins where service starts to slip. Read more here.
- Aberdeen £168
- Amsterdam £146
- Alicante £190
- Almeria £188
- Barcelona £196
- Basel £180
- Belfast £166
- Berlin £200
- Bologna £196
- Bordeaux £144
- Brussels £200
- Bucharest £270
- Billund £170
- Budapest £240
- Catania, Sicily £262 (tier point break guide here)
- Cologne £148
- Dublin £158
- Edinburgh £158
- Faro £206
- Funchal (Madeira) £272
- Geneva £186
- Glasgow £158
- Gothenburg £178
- Helsinki £248
- Inverness £162
- Innsbruck £190
- Leeds £160
- Luxembourg £146 – great for a short break read my tier point break guide here
- Manchester £158
- Malaga £170
- Marseilles £184
- Marrakech £291
- Milan £154
- Munich £246 (read our guide here)
- Naples £182
- Newcastle £162
- Nice £216
- Oslo £264
- Palma £204
- Paris £216
- Pisa £194
- Prague £228
- Rome £158
- Seville £182
- Sofia £226
- Stockholm £226
- Venice £150
- Valencia £194
- Vienna £158
- Warsaw £204
You can find the BA special sale page here.
