The BA.com sale is now on and lasts until 22nd September.

Example prices for long haul destinations:
London Heathrow to New York (JFK) from £299 return
London Heathrow to Boston (Logan Int’l) from £309 return
London Gatwick to Antigua (V.C.Bird Int’l) from £399 return
London Heathrow to Johannesburg (Tambo) from £579 return
London Heathrow to Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji) from £319 return
London Heathrow to Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion) from £274 return
Example prices for short haul destinations:
London Gatwick to Bordeaux from £49 one-way
London Heathrow to Copenhagen (Int’l) from £55 one-way
London Heathrow to Larnaca from £89 one-way
London Heathrow to Moscow (Domodedovo) from £99 one-way
Additional information:
Travel dates vary by destination but covers 01 Sept 2009 – 31 Mar 2010
Book by midnight 22 September 2009

Expedia are challenging you to a geography test with £4000 to spend at their site for the winner.

Click here to enter

You have to click the map where you think each landmark belongs and the more you get right the more entries you get.

Free airport lounge pass

flybmi has a great offer for anyone not already a member of their frequent flyer scheme who joins up soon. If you join the bmi frequent flyer scheme “diamond points” bmi will post you (within a month of joining) a free airport lounge pass for use before 31st August 2009 at any of these UK airports:  Belfast City, Brussels, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Heathrow terminal 1 and Manchester Terminal 3.

How do you get a free airport lounge pass?
Go to FlyBMI.com and sign up as a first time member of their diamond club.

Terms & Conditions of this free lounge pass offer
• This promotion is only valid for new members joining Diamond Club. Only one enrolment per individual will be accepted for membership of the Diamond Club programme.
• Any duplicate Diamond Club accounts will be closed and promotional miles deleted.
• The free lounge pass entitles one bmi passenger one time entry to a bmi lounge before 31 August 2009.
• The free lounge pass can be used to enter lounges in Belfast City, Brussels, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Heathrow terminal 1 and Manchester Terminal 3.
• The free lounge pass will be posted within 28 days of joining Diamond Club.
• The voucher must be surrendered to the lounge co-ordinator on duty upon arrival at the lounge. Use of bmi lounges is subject to the terms for use of lounges in force from time to time.
• The voucher is non transferable.
• No cash alternative will be offered.

Special Offer for Holiday Home Owners. . . .

If you have a holiday home you would like to advertise, we have been sent a special code for use at holidaylettings.co.uk, the UK’s leading holiday home rental website.

Code 45220 gets you 15 months for the price of 12 when you choose the annual option to pay for your advert.

- – > Why Holiday Lettings ? < – -

Most visited website: More than 2 million holidaymakers visit the site each month. Over the past year, we have consistently had more traffic than any other website in the holiday home rental sector.

Best value for money: 20 photos, availability calendar, free SMS text alerts all included (no commission)

Dedicated customer support: Help and expert advice is just a phone call away +44 (0)1865 312 000 – more than half of our staff are employed in a customer service capacity

Unrivalled marketing: We invest millions in online, print and outdoor marketing and PR campaigns

Market leader: Award winning company in our 10^th year and part of Rightmove, a top 20 UK website

Discount alert for anyone wanting to book longhaul flights with Air France between now and the end of November this year. Here are the details . . 

Online Bookings only at www.airfrance.co.uk

Offer Code: MAY09508
Book between: 11th May – 31st MaySaving: £45

Air France routes: Valid on flights from UK to long haul destinations
Minimum Ticket price: £225 (before taxes)
Flight dates: 11th May – 30th November 2009

For five days only, British Airways are offering customers an incredible opportunity to purchase two
tickets for the price of one to any long haul destination* in BA’s premium Club World cabin. Club World gives you the chance to enjoy fully flat beds, excellent food and wine and access to club lounges.

Book a return flight in Club World to any longhaul destination* and receive another free. 

Both tickets must be used for travel on the same flight and date.

Book by Midnight 5th May.

Some of the great offers now available on selected travel dates between 01 June 2009 and 31 October
2009 include: (all departing London Gatwick or Heathrow)

New York (JFK) from £1,666 return for two people
Miami (Int’l) from £1,959 return for two people
Cape Town (Int’l) from £2,996 return for two people
Hong Kong from £2,633 return for two people
Mumbai from £1,604 return for two people
Antigua from £2,000 return for two people
Rio de Janeiro (Int’l) from £3,022 return for two people

* BA Mainline scheduled flights only – Travel on other BA franchises, codeshare partners or alliance
airlines are not included in the promotion

[WPMID=26] have sent us a promo code to get 10% off holidays booked online.

Use code “summersun” to get 10% off

Here are the terms and conditions :

Promo code summersun applies to:

All Holidays booked between 12th March 2009 and 31st May 2009*
All Holidays departing between May 1st 2009 and September 30th 2009* and returning within this period (on or before 30th September 2009)
Minimum spend of £150 per person applies. Holidays under this amount are not entitled to the discount.
Holidays to all Jet2holidays destinations.
Discount is on basic package holiday price and does not include transfers, car hire, excursions or insurance. With exception of Sharm el Sheik where transfers are included in the basic package holiday price.
Amendments and Cancellations will be subject to the normal terms and conditions.
Discount is not to be used in conjunction with any other offer.
*Offer is subject to availability and there are a restricted number of holidays available in conjunction with this promotion.

Holidays from Glasgow could be getting cheaper with the news that easyJet is adding flights in May and June. The orange airline is adding a Tuesday and a Thursday flight

Flights from Glasgow to Palma are available this summer with easyJet, Thomson, flythomascook and flyGlobeSpan so the competition will keep airfares low – especially in off peak periods. As a test airline-news looked at Holidays-From-Glasgow.co.uk and found flight + hotel deals from Glasgow to Mallorca for around £250pp for two weeks based on 2 people sharing an apartment and travelling in June.

Latest Flight deals from Air-France UK & KLM (scroll down for KLM offers)

Air France Offers :

Sales Period: 03Mar09 – 30Jun09
Travel Between: 17Mar09 – 30Jun09

Flights to Paris
Heathrow From £89 Return
Bristol From £89 Return
Southampton From £79 Return
Birmingham From £79 Return
Manchester From £79 Return
Newcastle From £99 Return
Edinburgh From £99 Return
Aberdeen From £149 Return

Air France Deals from London City Apt LCY
(Direct Flights)
Paris From £89 Return
Dundee From £99 Return
Dublin From £89 Return
Strasbourg From £99 Return
Nice From £89 Return

Europe Deals (via Paris)
Istanbul / Toulouse / Sofia / Madrid / Florence / Lyon / Naples / Marseille / Rome / Prague / Zurich / Milan… and many more European destinations.
London City From £149 Return
Heathrow From £149 Return
Bristol From £ 149 Return
Southampton From £149 Return
Birmingham From £159 Return
Manchester From £159 Return
Newcastle From £159 Return
Edinburgh From £159 Return
Aberdeen From £179 Return

KLM flight offers

Flights  to Amsterdam
London City           From £ 85 Return
Heathrow              From £ 85 Return
Manchester            From £ 89 Return
Liverpool *           From £ 89 Return
Birmingham            From £ 89 Return
Bristol	              From £ 89 Return
Cardiff	              From £ 89 Return
Leeds Bradford        From £ 99 Return
Edinburgh             From £ 99 Return
Newcastle             From £ 99 Return
Glasgow	              From £ 99 Return
Humberside            From £ 119 Return
Durham Tees Valley    From £ 119 Return
Norwich	              From £ 119 Return
Aberdeen              From £ 149 Return

Europe Deals e.g.BARCELONA / ROME / BERLIN /BUHCHAREST / ISTANBUL / VENICE

London City/Heathrow            From £ 129 Return
Bristol/Cardiff                 From £ 129 Return
Birmingham/Manchester           From £ 139 Return
Newcastle/Edinburgh/Liverpool*  From £ 139 Return
Leeds Bradford/Glasgow          From £ 149 Return
Aberdeen/Teesside/Humberside/   From £ 159 Return

* Liverpool - Flight to commence w.e.f 29Mar09 

Guest post from Win a Holiday blog.
At our blog we do one thing, list online entry competitions with flights or holidays as prizes.
We publish daily and include free prize draws with flights, cruises and holidays (UK, Europe and longhaul) as prizes.
Below is an example of what we publish. Airline News readers might also fancy this comp to win business class flights to Chicago.

Prize:
In this free to enter competition you can win a £1000 voucher to spend on a Thomson holiday.

How to Enter:

Go to the Win a Thomson holiday page on the Thomson website and enter your contact details. You will be registering to recieve email updates from Thomson.

Once you have registered on the site you will automatically be entered into the prize draw. No purchase is necessary.

Closing Date:

There is one prize draw for the £1000 holiday voucher every month. The winner will be selected at random by computer on the last working day of each month.