Excellent SWISS long-haul business class sale from the UK

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Who needs a Qatar Airways sale anyway? (Well, unless you are after BA tier points of course …..)

SWISS has launched a rather uncharacteristic deeply discounted Business Class sale from the UK. The prices are EXCELLENT as long as two people travel together.

SWISS has a fantastic business class product, by all accounts. I haven’t flown it – I was lucky to fly the excellent SWISS First Class product on my last two flights – but it looks great.

The seat above is the most coveted – the layout is either 2-2-2 or 1-2-1 depending on row. The seat above, for which SWISS will charge you a fee to book (all other seat selection is free), is regarded as the ‘throne’.

As you will need to be travelling with a partner to get these sale prices, however, one of the centre pairs above or a window pair will suit you just fine.

These are the fares on offer:

Tel Aviv – £578

Cairo – £672

Muscat – £978

Dubai – £1,028

Delhi – £1,079

Mumbai – £1,128

Beijing – £1,178

Shanghai – £1,178

Nairobi – £1,278

Singapore – £1,378

Johannesburg – £1,398

Dar es Salaam – £1,526

Bangkok – £1,529

Hong Kong – £1,579

Bangkok is oddly expensive given that other airlines are massively discounting that route. Johannesburg is a fantastic deal, as are the Indian and Chinese routes. The Middle East pricing is pretty good too although BA can get as low as £1,300 in a sale.

The miles you earn from these flights will go into Miles & More, the Lufthansa / SWISS programme, or any other Star Alliance airline. If you want the flexibility to top up your account, SAS and Singapore Airlines are Amex Membership Rewards transfer partners whilst Miles & More and United MileagePlus have their own UK credit cards.

You can depart from London Heathrow, London City, Manchester or Birmingham.

Here are the key dates:

Book by 3rd July

Travel between 1st July and 31st March 2018

Minimum stay 3 days

No changes / no refunds

Blackout dates apply

The SWISS booking page is here. Remember that you must book for TWO people to get this pricing.

Category

Lufthansa and Miles & More

This article is closed to new posts. Discussion continues in the HfP Forums.

Yanky Fischer says:

22 Jun22 June 20:00

Don’t book To TLV.

We flew that route and they switched the plate to one of those small aircrafts which don’t have business, every one in business class complained but those Swiss ***** told us to shut it and appreciate that we have an empty seat between us “which is better then original business seating which we paid for…” Scum!

Apparently they do it all the time!
- the real harry1 says:
  
  22 Jun22 June 20:14
  
  plate? right royal dolt on board?
  - Genghis says:
    
    22 Jun22 June 20:21
    
    I booked TLV with BA in March for just under £1k. V pleasant flights
Will says:

23 Jun23 June 00:41

Hi all. does anyone know can you book this fare with a stopover in switzerland?
- Roger I* says:
  
  23 Jun23 June 08:57
  
  No stopovers allowed in Europe. A transfer of up to 24 hours is available in theory, but I haven’t found one that suits me.
  
  Fare basis is LX PCNP2GB
  
  I was hoping for a deal to Cape Town, and see that one possibility is to route LON-ZRH-CPT-JNB, but sadly no CPT stopover so I’m booking to JNB. Thanks, Rob!
Roger I* says:

23 Jun23 June 17:25

Which *A programme should I credit to? Since my BD Gold disappeared, I’ve really only got basic M&M membership, which I don’t normally use.

Last year I did the Avianca Brasil status match to get Diamond = *A Gold. According to the website today. ‘You are Diamond level, updated 06/23/2017’. Great, except my card shows an expiry date of 2017/03/30.

Has anybody experience of extending Diamond status into this year? Thanks.
- Alan says:
  
  23 Jun23 June 20:52
  
  Personally I’ve been crediting to UA mainly as any miles credited extend the validity! I use SQ too, but tend to transfer MR points into them for use given their hard expiry rules.
Oli says:

25 Jun25 June 10:10

Slightly off topic but hoping someone can help…

I got a status Match from BA Gold to Turkish airlines which gave my Star Alliance Gold Elite. Is there anyway to make my Lufthansa account see that I am Star Gold Elite? I am using Lufthansa quite regularly but they won’t allow my lounge access by showing my Turkish card (they say it is because I am not on a Turkish Airlines flight).
- Alan says:
  
  25 Jun25 June 10:29
  
  They’re wrong, but LH staff can be a bit rubbish on lounge access! Can’t you change the FF number on your booking to your TK one? Obviously points would then go to them too unless you manage to get it switched in the lounge pre-boarding.
James Wagner says:

25 Jun25 June 23:03

I’m so gutted these are companion fares. Us single folks get screwed again – and not in the good way 🙁
Need a Cairo flight and this would be ideal but I’m only one person 🙁
- Mark F says:
  
  26 Jun26 June 09:52
  
  Plenty of FlyerTalkers heading to Cairo these days. Buddy up on the forums?