Flying Club Class - Save 60%

super_star_2

I saw this on TV last night on BBC1 on the Departure Lounge Show. Bascially in order to get a discount for say a trip to the US from Heathrow, fly to another Europeon country first and buy your ticket there (for the same flight from Heathrow but 60% cheaper).

This link to the BBC site explains it better than I can.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/holiday/tv_and_radio/departure_lounge/club_class.shtml

This could be used for a special occasion or if you just wanted to travel in style.

Apologies if this has already been posted.

alison74

I saw this on the tv and was going to post it aswell.


I looked on BA and tried Lisbon to New York and sure enough it was less than half the full price of flying from London (£4,500) and it was only 2,200 Euros !

Would still have to be a very special occasion, but will definately try it one day !

raeble

BA aren't the only ones to do this, all airlines have cheaper prices for their non - home market depending on where it is, the program should have made this clear. Have a look at KLM https://www.klm.com departing from Amsterdam in Business class to Boston is 4051 euro or about £2590. Now going to the UK site and departing from London Heathrow to Amsterdam to boston works out at £1151.

Altarf

It is not only business class, reasonable savings can be made on economy class.

When I last flew to Canada, Air Canada were charging £650 from Heathrow, but only £350 from Amsterdam (which involved a connecting flight from Amsterdam to pick up the Heathrow flight). The cheapness of an Easyjet ticket to Amsterdam made the diversion worthwhile.

saveapenny

Does it work for prem ecom too? or BA world trav +?
Got a price for Barbados for January for 1500 off the BA site (prem)

digp

wot about for travelling to india/pakistan/bangladesh?

Quasar

I flew to Nice in the South of France on 1st Sept, and flew back to London on the 9th. Booked a couple of weeks before with BA. Economy return £245, Club £490. By asking, I was told that if I flew at 15:00 hrs both ways, I could get a Club return journey for £265 with restrictions, ie. cannot change date/time.

Last year I did a return Club flight to Genoa in Northern Italy, for £170, again with restrictions.

Club class entitles the traveller to first class treatment, and first class lounges serve lovely food and wine... all for free of course.

Moral of the story: it pays to ask. And if it doesn't, nothing is lost.

richardw

BTW BA no longer fly to Genoa, only Ryanair now

pin

this is discussed a lot on https://www.flyertalk.com/forums.