Virgin UC v BA Club - Big price difference-

I am currently trying to book a surpise return to Barbados for my wifes 40th next March and cannot believe the price difference between BA Club VS UC. Having just returned once again to a fantastic UC experience I am so dissappointed. Called VS today and they quoted me €4400 (3080 stg)euros return from Dublin on the 28th March 2007 and then called BA and they offered @ €2950 (2065 stg). Really wanted to stick with VS but not at that difference.The girl said in VS thay it was school holidays - I was going to try via VH but they dont do the hotel we want.

[Scrooge]

This has been a noticeable trend of late I am afraid to say, what seems to follow is a fire sale for all the unsold UC seats.

[Nottingham Nick]

Originally posted by Scrooge
This has been a noticeable trend of late.....

As discussed at some length in this recent thread. :D


Nick

And yet yesterday when I needed to change a return to the UK and there was only Upper and Club availability for tomorrow, the BA Club fare was more than twice the price of the Upper one.

Jon it just shows you - Even though we want to remain loyal to VS we all need to shop around.

I'm traveling to JFK in August, the Club World price is ~£1250 each, the Virgin lowest UC price is £2400 each.

Mark

Looks as though maybe BA are getting more aggressive on their pricing

As far as PE pricing goes at least, some of Virgin's most popular US destinations (eg: SFO) are served by "older" 747's with limited PE seating. On the 3 SFO-LHR flights I've taken this year on Virgin, PE has been completely full. Until they reconfigure for more PE capacity, or add a second daily flight, they seem to have no problem filling the seats, hence the (very) high PE price ($1900 and $2300 are recent examples for me). When compared to United's Economy plus for example, although admittedly not quite the same as PE, Virgin's cost is about double. (see pricing toward the end of this thread:) http://www.v-flyer.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19713

IMHO, Virgin's UC on the other hand is priced reasonably well when compared to US carrier's business class at least. BA may have more aggressive pricing in play - we'll see if Virgin gets the hint

I think the other factor for the BA JFK Club World is the shear number of daily flights. I think I had a choice of 8 different departure times. That does give more seats, and a lower price when there is plenty of supply. (My guess)

[Scrooge]

Casey you are of course right, supply and demand is the key.

On that note it will be interesting to see what will happen at LAX once MY starts a full schedule, 700 extra J seats a week to the London area.Of course it will take time for them to get a full schedule, but something to look forward to I guess.

[preiffer]

Well, they don't seem to have (yet) made any dent in the LAS prices...

UCS to LAS is just ridiculous.....AND there's never G class avail..