tenille wrote:1st - April -LHR to Delhi with Virgin -£2200. I then want to connect from here to Sri Lanka, not stopping in Delhi.
I don't think thats a bad fare in its own right, its a about average for the cheapest fare to Delhi in Upper, but don't forget that as LREDI says, sale fares have existed about £1700 for Delhi.
Just remember that you will have to book the flights to Sri Lanka as well, and if you're booking them with a separate airline on a separate ticket if you have a misconnect in DEL you are screwed so I would allow plenty of time in Delhi, probably even a night. I had a quick look on Expedia, and a through ticket ticketed with Expedia was showing in the region of £7k each.
I did also remove the criteria of flying VS, and you can actually get a through ticket with China Eastern via Shanghai for £1900 although this seems like the long way around, its cheap. Ethiad and Qatar (I am a fan of neither!) are offering about £2.2k for business class.
tenille wrote:2nd - November LHR to Miami - £2100. I then want to connect somehow to Columbia. Ideally I want to do this trip in late December for 3 weeks, will the Jan flights be released before the Virgin sale ends?
Again, personally I don't think this is too bad, but I have seen MIA cheaper than that on several occasions, and as cheap as £1600 with dates around the 22nd November showing both Miami flights as around that price for both outward and return. Late December you will almost certainly get something cheap if you fly 23rd or 24th of Dec dependant on your Christmas plans! But the flights have only been released until the 1st Dec as we speak currently.
I wouldn't get too fussed about the current sale for Business Class you can get some real bargains as the business travellers with the really high fares tend to be out of the mix and off for Christmas, so there's more inventory to sell. I got San Fran for £1700 flying out just before Christmas in Upper!
