This one is credit to One Mile at a Time.
There are business class roundtrip fares next summer on Skyteam airlines from the West Coast to Europe for less than $1500 roundtrip through end of the schedule.
$1500 isn’t cheap per se but it’s about what you’ll often pay for summer travel in economy, and it’s the cheapest regular fares I’ve seen for business class from the West Coast.
Here’s what it ‘normally’ costs on other airlines.
Sample itinerary, though you can fly KLM, Alitalia or Delta or some combination as well.
Here’s the fare breakdown — it’s a $224 fare each way (!) plus $856 in fuel surcharges.
There is also apparently a San Jose – London roundtrip fare for ~ $1633 all-in in business class that has you flying San Jose – Los Angeles roundtrip on Delta and Los Angeles – London Heathrow roundtrip in Virgin Upper Class.
Award travel is often hard to get to Europe from the West Coast, but here it doesn’t even make sense to spend 100,000 or 125,000 miles and hunt and peck for seats when you can spend $1450, have your choice of flights, and even earn miles and credit towards status. (After all you’d only be getting about 1.1 cents a point in value.)
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What tool are you using? I only see $2300 for SJC-LHR
The $1,600 doesn’t actually price. It gets bumped to $5,800 when you click to book.
It’s $2130 now.
I’m pretty sure it is gone – probably back in a couple of days for $1,300 though 🙂
Deal is dead already methinks.
How is this a fare war, when only one side is fighting? Oh, I guess it’s a French war…..
@Gene. Ouch, a stinging comment that did make me LOL.
They’ve gone to war, no one has struck back (yet?), it isn’t a mistake fare
And based on what do you think this isn’t a mistake fare? Filed fare is missing the leading 1 that would make it fit nicely into the usual structure, and on top of that some of these have already been fixed in the last few hours since being filed yesterday.
@ Jim — And just to be clear, I do realize that the USA likely would not exist if not for French help, but they make a fun target for jokes. 🙂
@Gary — Yes, I know and I bought two r/t this morning, flying on your favorite airline! I would have preferred to fly on Alitalia, but I’m not clear on how that will credit to DL next year. At least flying Delta will be WAY better then flying Air France (lay flat seat, usually very good food, no French attitude, and no connecting through the hell know as CDG).
Me thinks getting rid of my Delta miles would be better than paying for this. Not ??
Hmmm…would’ve loved to take advantage of this but have Summer award tickets to Europe already locked down: AA F LAX-JFK-LHR on the transcontinental 321 and 77W with a return on TK J class BCN-IST-SFO. For a moment considered canceling award tickets but decided that $2800 ($1400×2) is more valuable to me.
Hmmm…would’ve loved to take advantage of this but have Summer award tickets to Europe already locked down: AA F LAX-JFK-LHR on the transcontinental 321 and 77W with a return on TK J class BCN-IST-SFO. For a moment considered canceling award tickets but decided that $2800 ($1400×2) in my pocket is more valuable to me.
I don’t see the cheap fares anywhere. I could really use the savings. Can anyone help me find it?
Need three tickets biz class
sfo-psa on June 27 with a return psa-sfo on July 5.
Let me know if anyone finds a cheap biz class flights on this day.