The British Airways Sale is targeting leisure travellers rather than business travellers.
Bookings in Club World and First Class are non refundable, non changeable and non transferable.
But economy tickets can be changed at a charge of £60 for European flights and £90 for worldwide flights.
Book by Tuesday 24th January
The government announced an increase in rail ticket prices for 2012 of 6% rather than the intended 8% and as a result, it is taking some time for the rail companies to update their computer systems.
Thus, if you book train tickets before Tuesday 20th December for travel next year, you’ll pay 2011 prices.
This applies to all flexible type or walk up ticket fares, Anytime/Off-Peak/Super Off-Peak
Unfortunately, for season tickets, you’ll have to wait until the new fares are available and pay the higher prices (from Tuesday 20th December onwards)
Use our rail booking page to further avoid all booking fees and credit card charges.
If you have significant rail ticket expenses, do contact us to look at alternative managed solutions.
These are the cheapest club world fares that I’ve ever seen but you need to act fast and book by Monday night.
The airline is selling long haul business class (Club World) seats for only £503 each way! Yes, £1,016 return, including tax!
Book by Midnight Monday 5th December 2011
For travel outward 20 – 31 December 2011
Return by 12 January 2012
Visit our British Airways Page to check availability and book or go direct to British Airways here
Save 35% off the onboard price of £37 return
I have sat on the Heathrow Express Train and watched in disbelief a number of people paying this fare.
By booking online the current promotional discount fare is £24.00 a saving of £13 or 35%
For more details read my post here
Discount Heathrow Express Tickets are currently on sale directly from Heathrow Express with a 25% reduction. That’s a discount of £8.00
A standard class return ticket is discounted from £32 to £24
And the Heathrow Express discount single fare is now £16.50
This offer applies to tickets sold up to 31st December for outward travel up to 31st January 2012
NB The return date can be up to one month after outward travel (so you can return in February)
This discount offer is not available from the machines, the ticket office or on the train. Neither is it available from online train companies such as thetrainline.com or Redspottedhanky or travel agents or travel management companies
Even the Heathrow Express website does not automatically give the discount. You must visit their site by clicking on a Google advert. Simply Google “Heathrow Express Sale” and you should see the advert at the top of the page.
Return fares on the Heathrow Connect service which takes 32 minutes against Heathrow Express’s 15 minutes still cost £16.50 return.
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The Eurostar 10% Discount applies to travel from now up to 9th February but bookings must be made by midnight Friday.
You need to add a “promo code” to the last stage of the booking process.
Here are the voucher codes for Eurostar:
LONPARIS
ASHPARIS
EBBPARIS
LONBRUSSELS
ASHBRUSSELS
EBBBRUSSELS
LONLILLE
ASHLILLE
EBBLILLE
Book through our Eurostar Page here
For the lowest hotel rates, use our Hotel Comparison Page here
NB This offer is not available through travel agents, travel management companies or via Eurostar mobile apps.
All fares on all trains reduced by another 10%
Example: London to Brussels fares available from only £49.00 return
Using the PROMO CODE: LONBRUSSELS this is reduced at the check-out stage to just £44.10 !
Offer ends Friday 2nd December and is available for train journeys through to 9th February 2012
Other promo codes – use the one appropriate to your origin-destination:
LONPARIS
ASHPARIS
EBBPARIS
LONBRUSSELS
ASHBRUSSELS
EBBBRUSSELS
LONLILLE
ASHLILLE
EBBLILLE
For further information, to make bookings, and for some essential booking tips, please visit our Eurostar Page
And if you need a hotel, our search engine checks the prices of over 20 reputable hotel brokers to find you the best deal.
Gatwick Express is offering a discount fare of £20 per person return, for two adults travelling together;
The normal online fare is £27.40 return per person (that’s with an online 10% discount applied) so by booking two together you will save £14.80
This offer ends 15th December.
For more details and to make bookings, visit Gatwick Express direct
And remember, Booking Business Travel has the best hotel search engine that we know of
Members of the BMI reward scheme called Diamond Club are receiving offers of 30% off their next flight booking.
A discount code is provided if they click on the email notification.
Only one discount code is issued and can only be used when booking a flight on flybmi.com between 20 October and midnight on 12 November 2011 for travel between 10 December 2011 and 31 March 2012
It is available for the member or a friend and includes new routes such as Agadir, Amritsar, Basel, Bergen, Casablanca, Marrakech, Nice and Stavanger.
RULES
The promotional code will be valid for a new bmi return booking, travelling in any of the following classes; J, C, D, Z, P, I, Y, B, M, U, H, O, G, Q, V, W, S, T, N, E on any bmi operated routes, excluding codeshare and bmibaby flights.
Bookings must be made on flybmi.com
Classes L and K are excluded on all routes for this promotional discount code
To book please click on the link below
Book by midnight Tuesday 8th November
Applies to varying travel dates but generally, from November – 10 January
A Saturday night stay is required on all bookings. Reservations have to be made in advance and fares are not flexible.
These rules are designed to be impractical for business travellers. However, if your journey meets the above criteria, the fares are exceptional:
Return Fares
USA East Coast, from £1,499
USA West Coast, from £1,999
INDIA from £1,566
MIDDLE EAST from £1,379
FAR EAST from £2,450
To book, please visit our British Airways Page
or click here to visit BA direct and for more information
Emirates fly to Dubai, and Etihad to Abu Dhabi, at similar fare levels.
I was recently asked how their individual traveller loyalty schemes compare.
The Etihad Guest Account is a clear winner, whether you are a Pearl, Silver or Gold member.
Emirates Skwards Blue Account
Heathrow-Dubai Business Class earns 7,500 miles (discounted air fare)
And a free reward flight will cost 90,000 miles.
Let’s say that the average discount Emirates fare on the Airbus service costs £2,800
That’s approximately 3p per mile.
Therefore the miles earned on a return booking represents a value of £225
There is a Skywards mileage calculator here:
Etihad Guest Account:
Heathrow-Abu Dhabi earns approximately 10,277 miles for a Pearl member, 11,932 for Silver and 13,636 Gold member
A reward flight costs 87,851 miles
Take the average discounted fare of £2,800
That’s approximately 3.2p per mile and the reward value for a return ticket equates to:
Normal Etihad Guest: £328, Silver Member £381, Gold Member £436
Hilton is has a “flash sale” of 50,000 rooms worldwide with astonishing rates, but it is for weekend stays only, between 14 October and 16 December
These rates are not displayed in the hotel comparison sites.
Choose Hilton Hotels even if the rates appear higher, and check.
You’ll be offered the discounted rates after you click through.
We recommend you always compare by using our Hotel Comparison Page
BA has reduced fares for departures from Gatwick by up to 20 per cent.
12 routes now cost less than £40 each way: Amsterdam, Bologna, Bordeaux, Edinburgh, Genoa, Glasgow, Malaga, Manchester, Marseilles, Naples, Turin and Verona
Other reductions include flights to Faro and Innsbruck (from £49), Salzburg (from £59) and Marrakech £69)
Unlike most “sales” these price reductions appear to be open-ended
The airline has moved to North Terminal with a new dedicated check-in hall.
Hand luggage allowance is one bag of up to 23 kg PLUS laptop or handbag
BA provides free online check-in and advance seat selection.
More information – visit British Airways here
Or visit our British Airways Page
With so many companies using premium rate telephone numbers, and keeping you holding for an eternity, here are a couple of ways to avoid a hefty phone bill:
Use alternative telephone numbers
Visit www.saynoto0870.com where you can enter the name of the company you’re calling and you’ll be given alternative numbers to use.
Use a re-route app on iPhone or Android smart phone
Mobile providers charge up to 41p per minute – even on 0800 ‘free-phone’ numbers.
Download the 0800Wizard app from Skycom Ltd which reroutes your 0800 number via a landline.
Identical selling dates as the British Airways sale, the BMI is sale prices include:
Cairo return from £328
Marrakech return from £149
Agadir return from £189
Nice one way from £98
Beirut return from £388
Amman return from £339
Plus, a 1,000 bonus miles for economy bookings or 2,000 miles for business class, to your Diamond Club Account.
I’ve enjoyed several free flights this summer courtesy of the most generous airline and credit card reward scheme:
Sign up to BMI Diamond Club and apply for a BMI American Express Card
Spend as little as £250 within 3 months on the card and you’ll receive up to 24,000 bonus miles, enough for two return tickets within Europe.
Currently, BMI has a half price sale:
Heathrow to Moscow / Agadir / Casablanca / Nice Economy Class: 4,000 miles
Heathrow to Beirut, Damascus, Baku: 15,000 miles
Book by midnight Friday 2nd September
If you have a BMI Diamond Club Account, you can maximise your rewards by taking advantage of the BMI Half Price Sale.
This offer is valid for travel between 1st September 2011 and 31 March 2012
You can check availability online, or ask your travel agent to check for X class (economy) or I class (business class)
You can only book by phone however, on 0844 8480 808
If you’re not a member of this scheme, see my article here:
British Airways Executive Club members have until midnight Friday 12th August to redeem miles against travel bookings using HALF the usual miles required.
Even if you don’t have many miles on your account, you’ll be surprised at the discounts that may still be available.
Login to the British Airways Executive Club here
Remember, you can boost your BA MILES account significantly by using a BA AMEX card for your travel bookings.
British Airways has cut prices on hundreds of flight+hotel and flight only bookings.
Long Haul return bookings require a Saturday night stay, to deter business travellers and to encourage leisure travellers.
But the sale also applies to short haul European destinations where one way fares are quoted and these benefit leisure and business travellers alike.
Prices range from £52 to £99 each way to European Cities.
Istanbul is only £65 each way!
For more details and to book, go direct to BA here or use our search tool
Travel dates vary by destination, some up to March 2012
Bookings must be made by Tuesday 12th July
The BMI Sale ends on Wednesday and applies to flights to the following destinations:
Middle East
Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh
Europe
Vienna, Berlin, Stavanger
and Moscow
Click on the link below for more details and bookings
The British Airways Sale applies to premium and business class bookings.
See more details and restrictions in my article here.
You need to book by midnight on Tuesday to take advantage of these heavily discounted fares
Our promotional discount of Heathrow Express Tickets has ended but we still recommend that you purchase round-trip tickets rather than single journeys, that you book in advance online and save money compared to purchasing onboard.
UPDATE December 2011
Heathrow Express discount of 25% for bookings in December 2012 and outbound travel up to end January 2012
The normal online fare for Express Class Return is £32 but the sale fare saves £8 at a price of £24.00
To obtain the discount Heathrow Express fare you have to click on a Google advert, otherwise you will be charged the normal fare.
Simply Google “Heathrow Express Sale”
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The BA sale is directed at leisure travellers as all tickets require a Saturday night stay. The airfares are non refundable (although government tax and airport charges of up to £270, included in the fares below, are refundable)
Canny business travellers who stick to their travel plans, and maybe add a weekend holiday to the beginning or end of their trips, thus staying a Saturday night, can benefit from these prices too.
Bookings generally need to be made in advance – by as much as 28 days before departure.
Example return fares in Business Class:
New York £1,869
Mumbai £1,750
Hong Kong £2,447
Bangkok £2,650
This offer is for travel through to 31st December 2011 and should be booked in advance to avoid disappointment!
British Airways do not discount these prices through any travel agent – or any online agent. The price you see is the price you pay except for a £4.50 charge should you choose to pay by credit card.
If you travel on Wizz more than 3 times a year, as some of my clients do, you can access cheaper fares….
Pay an annual membership of £25.49 (EUR29.99) and save up to £8.50 per flight
For more information and to sign up, on the Wizz Xclusive Club visit their site here
You should continue to use our flight search tool because you never know what other airline options may exist. You can still sign in to Wizz after you see the public fares
Apply for a British Airways AMEX card now and get 3,000 bonus miles.
This offer has been extended until Monday 23 May 2011
Click on the advert to the right of this article to receive 3,000 miles after spending just £500 over the first 3 months and collect future miles at 1 mile per £1 spend
You’ll also earn extra miles if you recommend the card to others