United & other carriers discounting business class across the pond for the holidays. (Image: United)
Before we get to the Top 10, let’s take a look at something exciting. Over the weekend, airlines have started to put business class on sale for Christmas/New Year’s flights. Since business travelers typically shy away from travel during the holidays, airlines will lower fares signficantly to fill up those empty flat beds. So if a lie-flat flight to Europe sounds nice, check out a few sample roundtrip business class holiday season fares that caught our eye when taking a spin through Google Flights on Saturday. Keep in mind that business class fares to Europe usually run in the $5,000+ range.
- New York or Washington DC – Paris: $2,118 (United)
- Atlanta-Paris: $2,368 (Air France)
- San Francisco-Paris: $2,618 (United)
- Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose-London $2,800 (British Airways, Virgin Atlantic) First class is $3,800
- Boston-Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon: $2,250 (Delta, KLM, TAP)
- New York-Amsterdam, Frankfurt: $2,345 (KLM, Delta, Lufthansa)
- Miami-London: $2,625 (British Airways, Virgin Atlantic)
British Airways also has a nice business class sale going on with fares from east coast cities at just under $2,000, but it’s a two-for-one sale. Details here.
Note: These fares available on Google Flights on Saturday, Nov 26 and subject to change.
United’s new Polaris business class rolls out December 1! Stay tuned to TravelSkills for details. Any guesses on the first route to get it? (rendering courtesy United Airlines)
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UGLY: This happened on Delta this week- and has already received 2 million views on Facebook. Yuck. Delta has apologized for the incident. Foul language warning! Click on video below or see full Facebook post here. Interview with witness here.
Delta’s statement on the incident: “Our responsibility for ensuring all customers feel safe and comfortable with Delta includes requiring civil behavior from everyone….The behavior we see in this video does not square with our training or culture and follow up will continue so we can better ensure our employees will know they will be fully supported to make the right decisions when these issues arise.”
How would you react if a passenger went off the hook like this on your flight? Leave your comments below.
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A boor on an airline flight? Please. I’ve witnessed plenty of such boorish behavior this season from both Democrsts and Republicans, so I don’t see why this is sudddnly newsworthy or even interesting. I DO find it quite hypocritical (and boorish) that a writer who makes his living exercising his First Amendment right to write a travel website would condemn another who exercises the same right to free speech. After all, the First Amendment only protects offensive speech. (Nobody ever wants to ban inoffensive speech, right?). “Yuck” is word that cuts both ways, Chris.
UA new seat doesn’t roll out this month. It rolls out at the end of Feb (after a few delays) and will be domestic only for the first few weeks. The soft product (food, pajamas, etc) rolls out on Dec 1st.