New British Airways sale launched in World Traveller and World Traveller Plus

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Just six weeks after its previous World Traveller and World Traveller Plus sale ended, British Airways launched a new raft of offers yesterday, which are available for booking until July 14th.

Depending on where you want to go, you can book for travel up to June 2016. In general, these fares are for travel after 1st September 2015.

The special home page for the sale is here.

The sale ONLY covers World Traveller (economy) and World Traveller Plus (premium economy). There are no Club World or First Class discounts at present – although you may be able to ‘upgrade using Avios’ and book your World Traveller Plus ticket directly into Club World.

(Of course, the rates for upgrading from World Traveller Plus to Club World were increased substantially on April 28th. You also need Avios reward availability to be showing in Club World for an upgrade to be possible.)

Here are the summary terms:

Book before 14 June 2016

Travel dates vary considerable but are generally between September 2015 and March / May / June 2016 depending on destination

Black-out dates apply.

The easiest way to check out the best prices to a specific destination is with the British Airways Low Fare Finder tool on ba.com. This will show you the cheapest price on any route, in any class, on month by month basis.

If you can be flexible with dates, there are some decent fares available. The cheapest available seems to be (these are all World Traveller):

New York £381

Miami £461

Dubai £369

Mumbai £493

Bangkok £559

Tokyo £567

Note that many US West Coast fares have not moved much, eg San Francisco is £678 which is £150 more than the previous sale.

World Traveller Plus routes start at £650 (Dubai, decent price for a day flight where WTP is fine), £787 to Delhi, £884 (Antigua) and a tempting £874 to Orlando or Tampa.

The best thing to do if you are interested is to pop over to ba.com and have a look around.

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Kipto says:

26 Jun26 June 07:52

Out of interest, historically, what are ex DUB,AMS fares like in World Traveller Plus. ? Is there much of a saving to be had when going long haul. With a family in tow, and with what I have seen with award availability since April I will be struggling to get award seats in club to the west coast next year for four of us.
- Aspirational Flyer says:
  
  26 Jun26 June 08:33
  
  I was looking at Dubai in WTP out of Dublin last night, and there doesn’t seem to be too much difference – it came out at about £560 instead of about £670 for direct flights from London. CW was about EUR 1000 each way.
- Clive says:
  
  26 Jun26 June 09:32
  
  I picked up CPH-LHR-LAX-SFO-LHR-GOT for £288 the other night
  - idrive says:
    
    26 Jun26 June 09:58
    
    Welldone, where did you book it?
    - signol says:
      
      26 Jun26 June 10:41
      
      My sister booked a similar itinerary, though just to JFK. Booked on AA.com
      - Clive says:
        
        26 Jun26 June 11:28
        
        Yes booked on AA. All in Y unfortunately but when 4 are travelling it makes a big difference. With status was able to get Y+ on the AA 777 and emergency exit so won’t be painful.
    - Clive says:
      
      26 Jun26 June 11:29
      
      Just a suggestion but map it out on Matrix first then go and replicate on AA.
  - Kipto says:
    
    26 Jun26 June 11:03
    
    Was that in traveller or world traveller plus ?
  - AB says:
    
    26 Jun26 June 12:17
    
    Would you mind sharing how you managed to achieve this fare (dates, etc.)? I’m not able to find anything even remotely close on ITA Matrix.
    - Clive says:
      
      26 Jun26 June 14:16
      
      Just ran a quick check which came back with an interesting play on the routing. You can fly into LHR and out of STN for a little more:
      
      Flight: Copenhagen to Los Angeles, Mar 25 – Apr 5
      ► Complete trips► Individual flights► Time bars
      PRICE ▼ AIRLINE ▼ DEPART ▼ ARRIVE ▼ DURATION ▼ FROM/TO ▼ STOPS ▼ ADVISORY ▼
      kr3,258
      Copenhagen (CPH) to Los Angeles (LAX) — Fri, Mar 25
      Long layover
      
      Copenhagen (CPH) to London (LHR) — Fri, Mar 25
      American Airlines Inc. 6532
      Dep: 7:35 am
      Arr: 8:50 am
      2h 15m
      Airbus A319
      Economy (S)
      Meal
      OPERATED BY BRITISH AIRWAYS
      Layover in LHR
      5h 10m
      
      London (LHR) to Los Angeles (LAX) — Fri, Mar 25
      American Airlines Inc. 135
      Dep: 2:00 pm
      Arr: 6:15 pm
      11h 15m
      Boeing 777
      Economy (O)
      Lunch, Snack or BrunchMovieIn-seat Video Player
      San Francisco (SFO) to Gothenburg (GOT) — Tue, Apr 5
      Overnight flightLong layoverThis itinerary has arrival and departure at different airports
      
      San Francisco (SFO) to London (LHR) — Tue, Apr 5
      American Airlines Inc. 6189
      Dep: 7:00 pm
      Arr: 1:15 pm
      10h 15m
      Airbus A380
      Economy (O)
      Meal
      OPERATED BY BRITISH AIRWAYS
      Layover in LHR
      Wed, Apr 6
      6h 10m
      This flight contains airport changes
      
      London (STN) to Gothenburg (GOT) — Wed, Apr 6
      SAS 2570
      Dep: 7:25 pm
      Arr: 10:10 pm
      1h 45m
      Boeing 737
      Economy (T)
      Food and Beverages for Purchase
MR says:

26 Jun26 June 08:37

Does this mean we can expect to see another CW sale soon? (and more importantly, an ex-EU CW sale)?
- Rob says:
  
  26 Jun26 June 08:48
  
  Not necessarily but you never know. I get a feelings bookings are soft which is why this sale has come around again so quickly.
  - MR says:
    
    26 Jun26 June 11:54
    
    Let’s hope CW sales have been soft too. I’ll keep punching options into the Matrix in the mean time!
Rob says:

26 Jun26 June 13:11

The problem with Cape Town is that it is one of the best flights to do direct. With no time difference (near enough), you can jump on at Heathrow at night, get a full 8 hours sleep and wake up in Cape Town feeling perfectly fit.

Changing in the Middle East not only wrecks your chances of a decent sleep but also means you are hanging around Doha at 3am or whatever which is not ideal.
- Vacation Smarter says:
  
  26 Jun26 June 20:29
  
  Definitely agree that you want to avoid silly times as much as possible (and the return from CPT doest look great with a 3.5hr layover) but, at some point, price will come into it and, for £300 less/person the Qatar option could well work for some.
krys_k says:

26 Jun26 June 14:03

Checked out just how great this sale was by checking flights to Toronto for September. In short. What sale?!
YKW says:

27 Jun27 June 09:40

Found flights to go to Florida for two adults and two children for £3100 all within the April school holidays flying on American Airlines metal.

Then double checked with sky scanner and found that finnair were offering same flights for £2800