Missed BA sale :(

Jami74

We are looking to book flights from London to Singapore (or London to Phuket) next June. Last month BA prices for the four of us (2 adults, 1 over 12 and 1 child) was about £1700 but we missed those prices and they are now about £2500. Can anyone tell me if BA are likely to have another sale any time soon?
Or if Singapore might have a sale? Would rather have a direct flight and would rather fly with a well known airline.
Really appreciate any help and advice. Thank-you.

tomtontom

There is usually a post Christmas sale (fares often loaded around Christmas Eve).

NiftyDigits

Neither BA or Singapore fly direct to Phuket from London. So if you fly to HKT, you are going to have to stopover. The only issue is where and for how long.

richardw

Thomson fly direct non stop to Phuket this winter from Gatwick.

Look at Thai, Emirates, Etihad and Qatar airways for one stop flights to Phuket.

NiftyDigits

richardw wrote: »

Thomson fly direct non stop to Phuket this winter from Gatwick.

Look at Thai, Emirates, Etihad and Qatar airways for one stop flights to Phuket.

OP is looking at June. Thomson fly November to April.

richardw

NiftyDigits wrote: »

OP is looking at June. Thomson fly November to April.

I said "winter" and was sharing general information for other readers and the OP who may consider April for the convenience of a direct flight.

NiftyDigits

richardw wrote: »

I said "winter" and was sharing general information for other readers and the OP who may consider April for the convenience of a direct flight.

Are you joking? You think the OP will move their dates form June to April in order to fly directly to HKT?? Perhaps you are over-estimating the 'convenience' of a 'non stop' flight.

It's not entirely clear if the OP wants to visit both Singapore and Phuket or just one or the other.
The OP has the choice to fly direct to BKK with Thai Airways for considerably less. Under £1900 from 4th to the 19th of June with NetFlights. Substituting HKT for BKK takes it to £1950.

SW17

Jami74 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if BA are likely to have another sale any time soon?

Although these things are not always easy to predict, there are often post-Christmas sales as mentioned above. The below blog is a useful resource for monitoring the historic dates on which BA (and some other airlines) have had sales for various cabins and destinations.

http://blog.continentalclub.co.uk

Jami74

It's not entirely clear if the OP wants to visit both Singapore and Phuket or just one or the other.
The OP has the choice to fly direct to BKK with Thai Airways for considerably less. Under £1900 from 4th to the 19th of June with NetFlights. Substituting HKT for BKK takes it to £1950.

Actually both.


Originally we thought we'd fly direct to Singapore, stay there for a couple of nights and then go to Phuket for ten nights before returning to Singapore for the last couple of nights.


Then we missed the BA cheap direct flights from Heathrow and were looking at Emirates from Gatwick (closer to home and short half-way stop) and realised it might be just as easy to fly to Phuket and visit Singapore for 3 or 4 nights halfway through our holiday.


It has to be June or July as that's the only time we are all free.

richardw

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Are you joking?....

Nope.

The word 'may' preceded 'consider'.

Give money savers information and let them decide. OPs take on board all kinds of suggestions, consider or reject them and often ask for further clarifications or advice and other money savers may benefit from information on the same subject. None of us have perfect knowledge of what an OP may or may not do.

There's no requisite for the perfect post, only to be nice to money savers.

richardw

Air Asia fly between Singapore and Phuket, so you could do an open jaw ticket Lon-sin, hkt-Lon on one itinerary with sin-hkt on air Asia separately.

Multi stop searches are good for open jaw tickets. Try Kayak and Google flights.

Sounds like you are fairly flexible, which should mean you get flights for less than £2500 and nearer £1950.

Many aircraft on the long haul sectors have 3-4-3 and/or 2-4-2 seating, which means the four of you should be able to sit together.