Originally Posted by cd900
Hi
As the title says really - can anyone help with past prices for business class with BA in August (London to Orlando direct)? I have a lot of Avios to use but we need 3 seats and it seems that BA only release 2 Club seats as reward flights during the school holidays for each flight. I’m thinking of doing 2 reward seats and then paying for a third. We are also travelling with a 1yo so the extra space would be a huge bonus!
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It’s hard to say how much you’d have to pay. As a general guideline to BA Club World cash fare pricing to MCO, it rarely gets much below around £1400 return, even in sales. A more regular low end price would be in the £1600-1800 range, and it can often be much more.
The lowest prices available currently are around £2,200, and around £2,500 for next July. That can change (both up and down), due to demand and sale periods. The refurbishment of the 777 fleet at LGW has resulted in less CW seats, which may affect pricing. That is speculation, I don’t have data to support or refute the idea, but it’s a fact that there are less CW seats per flight now.
Part of your challenge would be whether you feel you have to book all 3 seats at the same time, since you need to strike early for the Avios seats, and that may not be the best moment for buying a cash fare. BTW, the two seat thing is not just during school holidays, BA only guarantees two CW Avios seats per flight, though more may be released at any point.
It’s also a little more complicated because you can book the outbound for the Avios seats on the day of release, then add the return later, but you can’t do that for the cash fare (at least not without paying very high one-way fares), the earliest you could book a return cash fare is when your return date is opened for sale.