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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.

Silverjet, the all-business class airline has announced today that it is to start flying from London Luton to Dubai (DXB). The daily service will commence from November 18th 2007 and is timetabled as follows:

Luton to Dubai departs 2100, arrives 0830 (+1)
Dubai to Luton departs 1030, arrives 1445

Return prices start from £999 all-in.

Silverjet already operates a twice-daily flight from Luton to New York Newark in competition with other start-ups Maxjet and EOS Airlines. Silverjet uses Boeing 767s configured with 100 seats of 75″ pitch.

The Luton - Dubai flight marks the significant milestone of being the first non Trans-Atlantic all-business class international service.

Read our articles on Silverjet and background on Silverjet

The inaugural flight of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 ‘Super Jumbo’ will depart for Sydney, Australia from Singapore at 0800 on October 25th. The SYD-SIN return leg leaves at 1600 on October 26th.

Most of the seats have now been sold via an ebay auction which has raised US $1.3 million for charity (a few seats still remain open at time of writing). One bidder paid over US$100,000 for a Suite package while the cheapest economy seat went for only US$560.

However if you missed out on the auction, you will soon be able to experience the A380 on SIA’s Singapore - Sydney scheduled service. The aircraft will start flying on the route (daily return) from Sunday October 28th.

If you want to book, these are the following flight numbers:

Flight SQ221 SIN - SYD (departs 2030, arrives 0700 +1)

Flight SQ220 SYD - SIN (departs 0850, arrives 1345)

There will be 471 seats on board the A380 aircraft: 399 economy class seats, 60 business class seats on the upper deck and 12 first class suites.

All-business class EOS Airlines is offering a free companion ticket between London and New York if you book a roundtrip ticket (7 day advanced fare basis ‘SRT7CMA’ which costs $4999/£2495 plus taxes and charges).

Book by September 5, valid for travel between September 1 and November 30 2007. Companion must travel with the paying passenger.

The promo code for this offer is BOCO1.

Alternatively, if you book a flight on EOS up to August 31st, you can receive either 45,000 points in their Frequent Flyer program Club 48 (or an Apple 80GB Video iPod®). Note, 80,000 points are needed for a free one-way ticket so you will need to take 5 qualifying flights to get a free ticket.

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.