I’m always envious of people who can take advantage of fantastic flight deals. There have been some in the past I was not eligible for, with rules such as two people must travel. After a year of few deals, things are getting back to normal.
I managed to pull the trigger on an airline ticket that was such good value I was almost gasping with excitement. Here’s the story and here’s how good a deal it is.
Getting Back To Normal
Friends have decided to do a double birthday celebration next year in Hawaii and I wanted to go. The hotel was booked, but the flights were another story. Dublin to Honolulu prices out at €1,144 in economy class, which is pretty much what you would expect.
A Stroke Of Good Fortune
For some reason, British Airways put flights on sale from Paris to Honolulu via London and another US city – in business class. For €1,131.57 (£971/US$1,376/A$1,778) all in for the return flights! That is Paris to London Heathrow, London Heathrow to Seattle, Seattle to Honolulu and back, six flights in total.
How Much Of A Deal Is This?
The deal is gone, pulled pretty much just after I made my reservation. No doubt the work experience kid has been sacked. This morning, the exact same flights I’m on are pricing at €3,113 (£2,675/US$3,790/A$4,900) – so almost €2,000 more expensive.
Overall Thoughts
It’s been a four years or so since I’ve got really lucky on a fare like this, so it was high time I lucked out once again. Considering I am paying the economy fare for a business class ticket… well! I’m still surprised! This deal is a sure sign of things getting back to normal in my book.
Of course, I’ll have to pay for flights to and from Paris, but that should only be another €120 or so, which is not going to dent the savings all that much. Regardless, I can’t wait to travel!
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Awesome score!! Sometimes I’m jealous about the ex-Europe deals that come up. I feel like there have been far less from the U.S. of late.
I was almost shaking making the booking, as I could barely believe it myself! I’m sure more will come along once things start to ramp up again and airlines begin to compete for passengers.
I think that deal was also for ex_USA. If this was end of March, there was a deal from US including Honolulu to several cities in UK. I was able to book for my family of four, round trip from SEA to Inverness and back in new BA business suite on 787 for just $1140 per person all in through Amex platinum travel portal. I thought that was almost a mistake fare. but sadly I had to cancel it as we were planning a different type of trip to Asia at the time and a trip to cold Scotland didn’t appear to my family compare to a trip to Phuket we were planning before the BA deal popup. We already have done a Christmas market trip in Edinburgh couple of years ago. I was counting the Alaska miles we could have earned on the trip. Oh well…
Sounds amazing – you wouldn’t have had Club Suite on a 787 though as it has not been rolled out to that aircraft yet. What a shame you couldn’t go! Oh well. Better luck next time.
Tjp74 is correct btw, the BA Club Suite is on the 787-10 which operates on the LHR-SEA route (though club suite is unavailable on 797-9 and 787-8)
BA currently have 2 of the 787-10 in their fleet
Sorry, that should say “not available on 787-9 and 787-8”
Of course. Can’t wait for the rollout to happen across the rest of the fleet, but it will take some time.
Yes, and with two in the fleet, they are not always operating SEA, as my flight to SEA is 787-9. So we’re all correct, which is good 🙂