Gillymonkey

Hey,
I just wanted to flag that BA have their winter flight sale now on. If I wasn't due my baby in a week I'd be booking a visit home...

civilservant

That'll about bring them into line with the American carriers prices then...

Leah326

Dammit I've already booked mine

markwm

The fares are nuts. Just checked a flight around Christmas (okay, I know that pushes the price up) from LA to Heathrow. Over $3000, cattle class!!! Thats $1380ish in fees and extortions. Ridiculous.

Ozzidoc

Me too

I booked three return trips earlier this week....two were with BS...

Mummy in the foothills

Not a very good sale is it. I just this afternoon booked Dh on a flight back to UK from SFO to MAN $1200 and some change.
Dd and I are on Virgin a week earlier and it's about the same price.

scrubbedexpat027

What?!! And I need to do LAX-LHR this Christmas.

scrubbedexpat027

Just had a look and $1250 on the 21st with Virgin isn't too bad.

Melly

Christmas 2009 my family of 3 flew from Seattle to LHR on BA for a mere $1,500 & some change. What BA now adds on for "surchargers" is criminal. They advertise ticket prices as low as $300, but when you add all the other charges that ticket is $1000+. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.

markonline1

Most of those extra charges will be government taxes and airport charges, so not really BA or any other airlines fault to be fair.

tonrob

Just had a look at their homepage and the sale fares headlined include taxes and fees. Where did you see them advertise sale fares that didn't have taxes and fees included?

Melly

I wasn't necessarily referring to their sales fares, but fares in general. I just took a look at their site (haven't looked in ages) and did see a disclaimer about "fees" being included in their prices. It hasn't always been that way when booking from the US. In fact, the disclaimer would read "fees" were not included. I emailed their customer service dept. years ago noting my dislike of how they advertised their fares. I felt like I had no idea how much my ticket would finally cost, due to the unknown fees that were added at the end. The advertised fare could be $600 return, but when you get to the end there's another $350 in "fees". I remember the days when you looked at the fare and said "yeah" I can afford to go home for a visit, because the price at the start, was the same as when you got to page 6 of the transaction (probably pre 9/11). Anyway, that's been my own personal experience and who knows, maybe someone read my email

Steve_

Most of it is an adjustment for "fuel prices" or whatever. Not taxes.