BA Business class flights sale e.g. London to Luxembourg £88 each way / Barcelona £94 each way / Amsterdam £101 each way - inc 2 x 32kg bags

I thought short haul business class wasn't real business class, just no-one sitting in the middle seat which you sometimes get lucky with anyway?

just TBA business class on BA is club europe, essentially economy seats with the middle seat converted to a table of some sort. For this price its probably worth it

If anyone is interested, combine this with double tier points offer for BA club members. Basically book a flight + hotel or flight + car package booking and you get double the points. By taking the business class fare you’ll get higher points anyway. So if you’re smart you can take one trip and get bumped from blue to bronze in one trip or all the way to silver with two trips.

I am doing this LHR to IST for easy bump up in time for my long haul flights later in the year all with BA.

Use this link to calculate tier points

britishairways.com/tra…_gb

I have always wanted to do long haul business class or upper but I don't think it will ever happen in my time.

As a regular flyer with work I can say without question that BA are shocking. Zero customer service, a disaffected workforce and little interest in the customer. European business class flights are rarely worth the extra spend but this does seem like a good price.

All airlines are not voted poorly. The Middle Eastern airlines are head and shoulders above the traditional carriers. Emirates, Etihad, Qatar are all excellent. You also have some great service from established players like Singapore and some relatively new names such as Vietnam.

If you want to try business class, apart from watching Skyscanner like a hawk or being good at collecting points is to buy an economy ticket and bid for an upgrade. Haven’t done it for a while but Aer Lingus was always good for that. Despite being in the same group (IAG) as BA, their service puts BA’s to shame.

Worth it for the lounge access if from Heathrow. I just went business or Club Europe to Germany and ate my body weight in the Cathay Pacific lounge. Plane food was well presented too.

When you get access to any of their lounges, is the food and drink all free? And are there any other benefits of their lounges?

Here are photos from Heathrow Terminal 3 BA lounge












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wasn’t BA voted recently one of the worst Airline for customer satisfaction?! I’d void them at all costs

I used to fly a lot in my job, EU and transatlantic, accured lots of BA points, but using them was very difficult.

One day I decided to switch to preferentially using a US airline in a different point sharing scheme JUST because of the ease of use of airmiles schemes.

Was like night and day, accured more points quicker and could use them easily. Staggeringly different.

You could upgrade a return US flight, often on the day, for 3,000 miles. Often less.

Generally the points schemes seem to have a preference for non-national users.

I finally cashed in my 300k+ BA miles for a stack of Laithwaites wine a few years ago as I could never seem to conveniently use them. At one instance I was looking at flights to Oz, only openings were >365 days in advance. I'm still flying on my US scheme, they no expiry date anymore. Most EU destinations have an affiliated carrier, to acquire points.

As others have mentioned, staff attitude, politeness and quality of travel on BA aren't best. But the airmiles scheme was really poor.

Brilliant! Was just about to book Bologna, upped to Business for not much more. Thanks.

Isn't it time they renamed themselves London Airways?

sadly short haul with BA is pretty useless unless you live near London. as a national carrier they should do more flights from other UK airports. upvoted anyway, but would almost say this is a local deal (edited)

This could make a good mileage or tier point run for UK-based Oneworld members...

Business class short haul in BA is basically economy class with no one sitting in the middle seat and a free meal…..that is literally it… (edited)

Business class gives you access to the BA lounges. That's the main reason people pay the extra. 

Managed to grab Business Class tickets on Sale for £725 one way from Newark (EWR) to Heathrow in August. I think thats a great deal. It's on a 777 so Club Suites, and of course includes priority check in, priority security, extra baggage, and BA's own lounge in Newark.

Luxembourg was a shade under £150 return on the last sale, at £88 each way calling this a "sale" is a bit far fetched but nothing like a bit of fake marketing to capitalise on the fear of missing out. (edited)

The Gatwick BA lounge is great, and flights are not hugely different but the luxury of the lounge with table service is a great plus, especially when travelling with young kids

business flights for short haul arent worth it imo