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, Rio £389, Mumbai £329 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 can often, though not always, be undercut. For example, the cheapest we found to NYC was £250 and Mumbai was £287 - Rio was a winner.

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The dates you can travel vary according to destination, with exclusions for Xmas. Some destinations are for flights from 8 Nov '09 to 1 Dec, others are for the New Year, from 11 Jan to 31 March '10.

• 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 it's worth it. See Cheap Flights guide for more info.

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  In this case, it's worth looking at the specific sales at British Airways* and Virgin Atlantic* websitesdetails yourself for available dates and destinations, and seeing if it's worth planning your getaway around them. Then compare them to the best of the screenscrapers above.

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dmg24

Earlier than predicted, BA have just started a worldwide sale!

https://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb

These are good prices for what is not usually one of the big sales (usually around Christmas/ New Year).

Enjoy!

richardw

Kenny_Powers wrote: »

NYC Return £299 - Anyone else remember the (not too distant) days of £199!!

Yes, but they were expecting lower demand this winter and have cut capacity with fewer Jumbo Jets flying the route.

rpstdavids

There is a small advert on the BA homepage stating that the January 2010 sale starts on 23rd Dec.
Does not give any routes or prices yet, but will be interesting to see what the prices will be to try to win back some of the custom they have probably lost with all the recent strike talk.