NEWS & OFFERS: Etihad business class sale from £1332, £50 off Hilton and Border Force strike suspended

Etihad business class sale

Etihad has a new Spring Deals sale that is live for Europe but not the UK yet. You need to book your flights by 13 April for travel until 15 June 2024 or 7 October – 30 November 2024 for Australia. 

Etihad has a good business-class product that has improved a lot recently. The business class studio seats and the new business class suites are comfortable and modern with a stylish design. They also now operate from the new Abu Dhabi terminal with a huge new lounge and also introduced new amenity kits with Armani. 

Here are the prices from Europe:

• From Amsterdam – Find the sale page here to check availablity
  • Bangkok £1852
  • Singapore £1981
  • Sydney £3218
  • Auckland £4211
  • Seoul £1723
  • Mumbai £1511
  • New Delhi £1422
  • Nairobi £1374
  • Maldives £2581
• Barcelona – Find the sale page here to check availability
  • Singapore £1774
  • Kuala Lumpur £2062
  • Nairobi £1635
  • New Delhi £1420
  • Maldives £2320
  • Colombo £2060
  • Johannesburg £1807
• From Brussels – Find the sale page here to check availability
  • Bangkok £1546
  • Singapore £2104
  • Seoul £1460
  • Mumbai £1460
  • New Delhi £1460
  • Maldives £2061
  • Colombo £2060
  • Johannesburg £2010
• Frankfurt – Find the sale page here to check availability
  • Singapore £1730
  • Seoul £1559
  • New Delhi £1332
  • Colombo £1859
  • Johannesburg £1997
  • Nairobi £1246
• Milan – Find the Italy offer page here to check availability here.
  • Bangkok £1816
  • Johannesburg £1798
  • Mahe Seychelles £1906
  • Maldives £1866
  • Colombo £1617
  • Phuket £1669
  • Mumbai £1402
• Rome – Find the Italy offer page here to check availability here. 
  • Phuket £1626
  • Bangkok £1764
  • Colombo £1505
  • Maldives £1746
  • Mumbai £1377
  • Abu Dhabi £1891

£50 off Hilton hotels

American Express has a new Hilton hotel offer, which is showing on my BA Premium Plus Amex card. The offer gives £50 off when you spend £200+ at participating hotels. The good news is that the spending is cumulative as long as you have completed the spending by 1 July 2024. The bad news is that it has to be checkout spend and meetings/events are excluded. 

The hotels that are participating are spread across Europe in Austria, Finland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. 

You can combine the offer with the 3 for 2 luxury Hilton Impressario offer which I wrote about here. 

Border Force strike suspended

The strike by Border Force staff at Heathrow, which was due to take place between 11-14 April, has been suspended to enable further negotiations with the Home Office.

The PCS union claims that new rosters could see as many as 250 staff forced out of their jobs by the end of April. 

According to PCS, the Home Office has refused to withdraw its proposals or amend the new roster meaningfully until now. The strikes have not been called off as such, so if an agreement is not reached, they will still go ahead at a future date, but the union will have to give 14 days’ notice of intended action again.