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EOS Airlines, the all-business carrier will start flying daily from London Stansted to New York Newark from May 5th. The airline has served JFK airport to Stansted for over 2 years.

To mark this event EOS is offering a 10% discount on flights to/from Newark up to September 7th. Use the promo code ‘EWR10′ and book by April 11th.

EOS also has a mileage offer where they will give you 30,000 Club 48 points if you book a round-trip by April 11th.

There are some reasonable London to Los Angeles business class airfares on the market currently. With the demise of Maxjet who flew the route for under £1,000 and with the prospect of Open Skies bringing more competition let’s take a quick look:

Air France will begin a service from London Heathrow to LAX from April. You can pick up a return ticket for £1,800 in business class (£320 in economy) for travel during April. We also found an Expedia Special Fare with Air France of £1,650.

A few other airlines are pitching their business class products at this £1,800 level. You can presently find deals with British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines and Air New Zealand. BA and Virgin have sales bookable until March 4th to a variety of destinations.

All business class airline Silverjet is running its “Very Sivilised Sale”.

Flights from London Luton to both New York Newark and Dubai are available for £879 return, all-inclusive. (Normal prices are £999)

Bookings must be made by January 31st 2008 for travel up to October 31st 2008.

Oasis Hong Kong are currently offering a new year deal on London Gatwick to Hong Kong flights. Returns are available from £336 all-in (economy) and £1196 all-in (business class).

You must book by December 15th and travel between January 6th and March 12th 2008. Checking their site we found it was a little difficult to find the £336 deal (only a few dates are available) but the biz class offer is easily found.

British Airways currently has a Club World Sale with 41 destinations worldwide on offer from London. Here are a few examples of pricing:

New York £1199
Washington Dulles £1299
Boston £1299
Chicago £1499
Los Angeles £1699
Denver £1749

Cairo £999
Abu Dhabi £1159
Delhi £1284
Tokyo £1699
Hong Kong £1714
Singapore £1892

These flights should be booked by November 27th. Travel dates vary for each destination, generally from December to March.

Virgin Atlantic have a similar Upper Class Fare Sale (12 destinations available) also bookable by November 27th for travel in December and January. Prices are similar to BA.

So there are currently plenty of options if you want to travel cheaply from London to the US in business class in the next few months - with the all business class carriers like Maxjet and Silverjet and these sales from BA and Virgin. With Open Skies coming in 2008, the market should continue to hot up.

For those in the UK not on a biz class budget, BA also has an economy fare sale (30% off) to many destinations worldwide with the option to upgrade to World Traveller Plus (premium economy) for an extra fee. Available until November 13th.

Book a London / New York return trip on EOS Airlines (spending a minimum of £1,000 / $1,998) and EOS will give you the option of purchasing an extra flight at £300 / $750 each way (certain dates in November) or £500 / $999 each way (dates in December and early January).

Book the Nov flights by Novemebr 9th, the Dec-Jan flights by November 23rd.

Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, the budget long-haul carrier is offering a free return flight to Singapore from Hong Kong. Passengers who fly a round trip with Oasis to HK from London Gatwick or Vancouver are entitled to the ‘free’ economy flight with (Qantas) Jetstar Asia.

The offer is valid until August 15th 2007 and travel must be between August 15th and November 30th 2007. The Jetstar flights must be taken within the dates of the Oasis round trip. Note, the passenger must pay the additional taxes and charges for the flight. Checking Jetstar’s website, taxes for the trip should be around HK$ 545 (US$ 70).

British Airways is offering some excellent Club World (business class) deals from London to many of its destinations worldwide. The offer is for travel in July and August and must be booked 21 days in advance (book by June 30th).

Some return prices all-in from London include:

Abu Dhabi £1,199
New York £1,199
Lusaka £1,460
Chicago £1,499
Los Angeles £1,599
San Francisco £1,599
Vancouver £1,699
Buenos Aires £1,999
Rio de Janeiro £1,999
Tokyo £2,020
Bangkok £2,089
Singapore £2,086
Sydney £2,929

Virgin Atlantic is also running a summer sale (book by June 8th, travel between July 20th and Aug 31st.) All-in return prices are:

New York £1,299 - £1,499
Dubai £1,300
Boston £1,349
Washington DC £1,349
Chicago £1,599
Miami £1,599
Barbados £1,399
Tokyo £2,199

All business class airline Silverjet is offering a £100 discount for its London Luton to New York Newark flights this summer.

The offer is available for UK bookings until June 1st for travel between July 1st and September 15th 2007. You need to enter the promotional code “100days” to get the discount.

Silverjet’s cheapest fare is currently £999 return all-in, so you pay £899 with the promo.

Silverjet also has 2 night package deals available priced between £1095 and £1259.

All business class airline Maxjet will begin a 4-times-weekly service from London Stansted STN to Los Angeles LAX from August 30th 2007. Flights will operate Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday.

Special offer introductory prices are £349 plus tax each way ex-UK and $699 plus tax each way ex-US. This amounts to £773 and $1548 all-in for a return journey - pretty good value.