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I know the summer sun is blazing, and you’re more likely to be thinking about a trip to the pool than what you’re doing this Thanksgiving or Christmas, but believe me, there are always reasons to start your holiday airfare shopping early. Case in point: at FareCompare, we’ve found business class seats to Europe over Thanksgiving and Christmas for less then the cost of economy seats. Joe Brancatelli of Joe Sent Me wrote about unexpected holiday business class deals on Continental Airlines, and we discovered while scouring our airfare feeds for the best deals for our Travel Deals blog is that these BusinessFirst airfares were filed by Continental Airlines on June 6th. There are some restrictions involved, but if you’re flexible on travel dates, you can still take advantage of them. You’ll find deals to a wide range of European destinations from Newark, Houston, and Cleveland. Deals are good for travel on selected days around Thanksgiving and Christmas — prices are a bit higher for Christmas than Thanksgiving. Remember, you can book these business class seats right now for less than you can book economy seats on Continental. I just booked 4 for my family and father in law to London over Thanksgiving (from Houston) — Check out how first clsss can be cheaper than coach and the list of non-stop first class deals from Newark below: |
BusinessFirst for less than economy:
Non-stops from Newark (you can find similar deals from Houston and Cleveland for about $200 more)
- Brussels
- Copenhagen
- Paris
- London
- Frankfurt
- Hamburg
- Dublin
- Shannon
- Rome
- Amsterdam
- Oslo
- Madrid
- Barcelona
- Lisbon
- Geneva
- Zrich
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Manchester
- Belfast
- Bristol
- Birmingham
- Milan
- Stockholm
- Berlin
The holidays are never quite as far away as you think you are. Start shopping for deals now, and you might get the perfect gift a little early this year.
No meals on a 7-hour flight in Economy? Does anybody fly for more than $1500 and no meal? That’s outrageous. We have some kind of meals/drinks (not just peanuts and soda) on any domestic flights in Russia in legacy airlines for free.
Comment by andyash — June 18, 2008 @ 7:47 am
There are meals on all those flights. That second flight is a codeshare with Virgin, and therefore Continentals system does not register the inflight service for Virgin… Hope that makes sense…
Comment by Luis — June 18, 2008 @ 9:24 pm
Hope the traveler is not diabetic….
Comment by Steve Filson — June 18, 2008 @ 10:35 pm
What abt Cathay Pacific?? Do you any inside tip how to get first class dirt cheap?? Is there any insider tips how to get your hand at a bargain price to travel Asia?? We would to combine with airfare+hotel to China Beijing for this JUNE trip?? When is the best time buy ticket?? Today dated JUNE 23 or tomorrow JUNE 24 2008. Or the day we want to travel?? We looking to travel on either JUNE 27,28 OR 29 whenever offers us cheaper airfare on First class or business class.
Comment by jupiter — June 23, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
RICK, WHERE ARE THESE FIRST CLASS TICKETS FOR TRAVEL TO EUROPE? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE Y-UP PAGE? YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO CLICK ON THE CITY AND IT WOULD BRING UP THE FARE, BUT NOW IT REDIRECTS YOU AND THE PRICES AREN’T EVEN CLOSE. THE Y-UP PAGE SHOWS $700.00 AND THE PAGE I KEEP GETTING DIRECTED TO SHOW $2300.
Comment by STEPHANIE — June 24, 2008 @ 10:40 am