Airfare Deals

American Express has launched a new targeted offer in conjunction with Italy's ITA Airways in which it's offering card members the opportunity to earn an impressive 17,500 Membership Rewards points on spending made by the end of the year (this is a reprise of an offer that ran earlier this year).

Qatar Airways has now launched its Black Friday sales for departures from various European countries (see here for the Americas promotions) and this year it's also throwing an offer of up to 10,000 bonus Avios into the mix.

With a week to go to turkey day, Qatar Airways has announced a couple of Black Friday promotions for the Americas. The promotions cover departures from the United States, Canada, and Brazil, and offer discounts of up to $350/CA$350 and the chance for flyers to earn bonus Avios and Qpoints.

The Amex Travel portal hasn't been working properly for most of the morning, but now it looks like things are back on track and it looks like we can finally see (to an extent) the flight deals that are on offer for the next few days.

Today, British Airways has unveiled a new set of 'Avios Only' flights which sees over 1,250 Reward Seats released across five of the airline's routes for travel in August 2024. The Avios Only flights are very limited but include travel to a number of very popular destinations, so with demand for these seats likely to be high, anyone interested booking should do so asap.

Chase Ultimate Rewards is currently offering cardholders a limited time 30% bonus on transfers to the Virgin Atlanic Flying Club and, ordinarily, this would be an offer that would only work for a relatively small number of people. This time, however, and for a very limited time, this transfer bonus may come in useful for more people than normal.

Virgin Atlantic has launched a good award sale for travel taken through the end of the year across its entire network. Surcharges on Virgin awards continue to be disappointingly high as they're not discounted, but some of the options that this sale opens up are still pretty good.

United Airlines is running a 4 day Economy Class award sale for travel on its routes between the US and Europe. The sale ends on 29 September and travel has to be complete by mid December.

It's the middle of the month and that means that Singapore Airlines has published its latest set of KrisFlyer Spontaneous Escapes deals. Unfortunately, however, if you were hoping for a respite from the very limited sets of deals that we have been seeing for what seems like an age, you should prepare to be disappointed.

American Express has launched a new deal in which it's offering targeted cardholders a rebate of up to 16% on select spending made with Air New Zealand in the next six weeks.