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NEWS & OFFERS: Etihad flash sale from £1318 business class, BA Double TP change and Another Gatwick strike looms

Etihad flash business class sale

A new flash sale from Etihad is on over the weekend and covers the UK and other European departure points. You can sometimes find better bargains by starting your flight from another European city. For example, the Maldives is often cheaper from Italy for some reason. 

  • Sale Starts: 12th August 2023
  • Sale Ends: midnight, 13th August 2023
  • Travel From: 1st September 2023
  • Travel Until: 10th September 2023

At the time of writing, the sale is not live, but I will check back on Saturday morning and update with any bargains that I spot.

Here are the headline prices for the best departure points with prices for return business class flights per person:

UK Flights

Maldives

Fly from London or Manchester to:

  • Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Bangkok £1833 (limited dates in late Nov/early Dec)
  • Manila, Philippines
  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Male, Maldives
  • Mumbai, India
  • Seychelles £1762
  • Delhi £1494

Prices: Starting from: £1499

You can check prices here. 

 

Germany Flights

Phuket

 

Fly from Frankfurt, Munich or Dusseldorf to:

  • Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Phuket, Thailand
  • Mumbai, India £1386
  • Male, Maldives
  • Manila, Philippines £1569
  • Delhi, India
  • Bangkok £1731
  • Johannesburg £1566
  • Muscat £1551
  • Bahrain £1369
  • Sydney £3769

Prices start from: £1362

You can check prices here. 

 

Ireland Flights

Fly from Dublin to:

  • Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Delhi, India
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Manila, Philippines
  • Male, Maldives
  • Phuket, Thailand

Prices start from: £2303

You can check prices here.

 

Italy Flights

Qatar sale australia business class
Great Ocean Road near Melbourne

 

Fly from Rome or Milan to:

  • Delhi, India
  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Male, Maldives
  • Seoul, South Korea
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh

Prices start from: £1318

You can check prices here. 

 

Increased frequencies

It is also worth noting that Etihad has recently added extra flights to improve frequency to their destinations. So if you discounted something for next year due to connection times, it could be worth looking again. 

There are increased frequencies to Chennai (MAA), Islamabad (ISB), Kochi (COK), Madrid (MAD), Milan (MXP), Munich (MUC), Rome (FCO), and Phuket (HKT). 

In addition, here are some more specific improvements:

    • Cairo (CAI): An additional 5 flights per week to make triple daily operations to Cairo, effective from 1 Jan.
    • Colombo (CMB): 7 direct flights per week with 3 flights effective from 1 Dec and 4 flights effective from 1 Jan 24.
    • Maldives (MLE): An additional 7 flights per week, with 3 flights effective from 1 Dec and 4 flights effective from 1 Jan

 

BA Holidays Double Tier Points change

After the recent extension of this promotion to 31 December 2024 and the changes to the T&C, there is one more change that has appeared this week. It is good news if live in the US or wanted to start a holiday from there. You can now get double tier points on holidays starting from the UK (including Jersey) and the US.

You can find the full rules and details here for the UK and here for the US.

 

Another Gatwick strike looms

Gatwick airport

New strikes could affect Gatwick airport later this month, with eight days of industrial action, including the August Bank Holiday weekend. The workers are employed at Red Handling, a ground handling company and Wilson James, which operates the passenger assistance contract at the airport. Red Handling is responsible for ground handling for Norse Atlantic, Norwegian, Delta, TAP Air Portugal and Saudi. During the first four-day strike action at Red Handling, Unite believes that 216 flights could be disrupted or delayed. Obviously, it may never happen, as most of the disputes are being settled before it comes to strike action. 

Strike dates

  • Red Handling workers are scheduled to begin their first tranche of strike action at 00:01 on Friday 18 August with strikes concluding at 23:59 on Monday 21 August. The second strike will begin on 00:01 on Friday 25 August, ending at 23:59 on Monday 28 August. 
  • The strikes at Wilson James will begin at 00:01 on Friday 18 August ending at 23:59 on Sunday 20 August and then from 00:01 on Tuesday 22 August ending on Thursday 24 August at 23:59.

 

 

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16 comments

  1. I’d hoped you would give details of the BA changes rather than simply posting a link !

    1. I don’t know if you been reading the TFFL articles or get BA emails. I’ve got an email from BA, the only change is you can get double TP starting from US. So no I agree with the post it is an update, the extension of double TP is not new.

  2. Yes, what.s the change please? Link still says flight originating from uk only.

  3. There is nothing wrong with a short article announcing a beneficial promotion that directs us to a service provider’s website for further details.

    We should be grateful for sites like TLFL who give us free daily travel updates and ideas, and especially grateful when you consider that many – like TLFL – are run
    single-handedly.

    We all have the right to have opinions but I’m saddened to see the number of unpleasant and uncalled for comments that have been appearing on here recently. Setting out to belittle and humiliate another person is bullying, and doing it anonymously on sites like this is cowardly.

    1. Bullying?
      I think your comment calling others bullies when they.re just trying to get more info is an example of abuse.
      I.m just trying to get more info cos link t and cs state clearly from uk only.
      Thanks.
      And original poster used a ! which indicates not a vicious comment

      1. It’s wrong to assume that bullying only presents itself as a single aggressive action or comment.

        In recent weeks there have been a number of unnecessary and unkind comments appearing on this site, and my initial comment today is a result of these.

        Anyone who has been involved in people management will know that some of the most damaging bullying comes in the form of seemingly harmless actions, like snide comments or statements which, on their own, might seem innocuous. However, this drip-feed of negative comments can be extremely damaging for anyone on the receiving end, especially if they’re working on your own.

    2. Thank you Duncan. I think people just think it is a faceless website but it’s just me and frankly it’s really getting to me. I can think of few jobs where everyday someone basically says that you are terrible at your job from people that pay nothing to access your content as well!

      1. Just delete the unnecessary posts and if they persist, block them! Simple….

        1. It’s rarely the same person and sadly I still have to read them. I do ban people that are particularly offensive.

  4. Good call, Duncan.

    I suspect the website is different depending on US or UK IP addresses accessing it.

    Worth noting, though, that the hire car/hotel conditions for the US departing holidays are different from the UK departing T&C. Has to be for full duration of the holiday, minimum of 5 nights

  6. I have tried a few options with the Etihad sale on matrix on google flights, but all cheaper options seem to have vanished, or maybe they have postponed it? I do miss the old days of Qatar sales!!

    1. I added a few that I found last night (where the city has a price next to it) so there were certainly some deals yesterday. Usually there is only a limited number at that price so they could have gone. Yes I do wonder if we will ever see those sort of Qatar fares again!

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