British Airways & Virgin Atlanic worldwide sales

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Both British Airways* and Virgin Atlantic* are running seat sales from London Heathrow, with return flights to New York from £299, Dubai £319, Mumbai £319 and more, including most taxes & charges.

Many prices are identical with both airlines, but while they're reasonable for BA and Virgin (and upgrades to Premium economy especially), they're often easy be undercut; for example, the cheapest we found to NYC was £241 and Dubai was £244.

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The dates you can travel vary according to destination and most end March 2010, with exclusions for Xmas.

• Got a specific date & location in mind?
  
  If you're looking to go away to a certain destination on specific dates don't bother looking at the sales direct, as the results are included in the cheap flight screenscrapers Kayak* and Travelsupermarket*.
  
  So use those and it'll show you the sales costs and also the cheapest general cost so you can see if its worth it. See Cheap Flights guide for more info.

• Just browsing for a bargain?
  
  In this case it's worth looking at the specific sales details yourself for available dates and destinations, and seeing if it's worth planning your getaway around them. Check out the full lists of flights and dates at BA & Virgin Atlantic. Then compare then to the best of the screenscrapers above.

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richardw

BA have kicked off the season with their sale http://www.britishairways.com/travel/flights-sale/public/en_gb

Perhaps we can add links to this thread as other airlines' sales start.

miss_edith

There's some on Virgin too http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/specialoffers/usawintereconomy.jsp

walkz

Who is best to fly with VA or BA?
Prices are the same

Also who has the better premium upgrade?

Im flying to vegas

SwissLe

I view Virgin's offering is more along the lines of a "Business Class Lite" whereas BA offer a better than economy service. I would always choose the best flight times, but with that discounted it'd be Virgin.

malkie76

Virgin's offering is more along the lines of a "Business Class Lite"

I totally disagree here, and suggesting that is raising the expectations of potential passengers. Both BAs and VAs premium economy products are basically that - a minor improvement on economy seats and service. In no way are they 'business lite', where almost all carriers offer fully-flat or lie-flat seats in business, lounge access, higher quality food, a proper wine and champagne menu etc.

You get a few extra inches in premium ecomony products, and occasionally a newspaper on take-off.

The best use of premium tickets is the ability to upgrade them to business tickets using FF miles.

madeinleeds

Hi

Am looking at booking flights from London to New York for end of May 2010 First week in June 2010

The sale flight costs are £879 for 2 adults and 1 child.

Is this the best I will get? Is there any other BA promo codes that could be used?

Also - is it worth booking hotel and flight together or getting an apartment (radio city?)

Thanks

richardw

American Airlines sale has started http://www.americanairlines.co.uk/aa/i18nForward.do?locale=en_GB&p=/specialOffers/fareSale3.jsp

Some fares available for travel to June 2010.

Air Canada Sale, including one change flights to the US http://www.aircanada.com/uk/en/offers/air/fall_aug09/fall_aug09.html

Air France offers which also include UK-USA direct flight on Delta/NWA with AF codes http://www.airfrance.co.uk/GB/en/local/resainfovol/meilleuresoffres/promo_sales.htm?BV_SessionID=U6jwuFKhbKlk76YVigW_q8D&BV_EngineID=140ufom6o

easyJet sale http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/cheap_flights_sale_now_on.html

Donnie

walkz wrote: »

Who is best to fly with VA or BA?
Prices are the same

Also who has the better premium upgrade?

Im flying to vegas

Unless Virgin have changed their Economy seating of late, BA

Premium Economy. Can't remember my experience with BA, as it was a while ago. PE in Virgin was just ok. Less leg room than I expected.
I took a walk towards the back... Looked akin to sitting in a cramped box.

I've been spoiled by the Arab and Asian airlines; with their decent legroom and tasty food.

BA? I can tolerate BA Economy, but prefer Club Class. Virgin? PE as a minimum.

leew

Hi,

is this the Bank Holiiday sale that people go on about? looking to get away to Orlando in Nov and i was wondering if this would be the cheapest time to book - going with Virgin from Mcr.

richardw

leew wrote: »

looking to get away to Orlando in Nov and i was wondering if this would be the cheapest time to book - going with Virgin from Mcr.

From http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/specialoffers/usawintereconomy.jsp

Departing from
London to: Flight number: Sale fare from departure dates:
Orlando 15/16/27/28/49/50 £355 01 Nov - 09 Dec 09

MAN might not be much more expensive.