Swiss and Lufthansa are once again running an awesome companion sale for flights departing from the United Kingdom. You can book your return flight in first or business class to Asia, Africa, or the Middle East at really low prices. Tickets from Birmingham to Dubai, for instance, start at only £755 (~€868). The only requirement is that you book for at least two passengers.
Here are selected highlights of the business class sale. The price mentioned is per person, but you have to buy at least two tickets to get it:
- Birmingham – Dubai at £775 (~€891)
- London – Bangkok at £1,127 (~€1,296)
- Edinburgh – Dubai at £1,140 (~€1,311)
- London – Delhi at £1,141 (~€1,312)
- London – Seoul at £1,211 (~€1,393)
- Manchester – Windhoek at £1,259 (~€1,448)
- Manchester – Chennai at £1,300 (~€1,495)
- London – Mumbai at £1,323 (~€1,521)
- Glasgow – Hong Kong at £1,345 (~€1,547)
- Manchester – Singapore at £1,442 (~€1,658)
As you can see, the range of destinations is even broader than the landing page above suggests, though availability and prices are not as brilliant as the similar offer from Scandinavia. You can search for additional flight dates yourself, or let our Go2 tool forward you to Lufthansa’s and Swiss’ website. The travel period for this deal ends on June 3, 2025.
The flights in question are operated by either Swiss or Lufthansa. Swiss features the same business class product across its entire long-haul fleet of Boeing 777-300ER, Airbus A330-300 and A340-300 aircraft.
With SWISS, it very much depends on the specific seat, as SWISS has a throne seat in every row. While the double seats share a platform in the middle, the throne seat has its own platform on each side, which you won’t have to share with anyone. Those seats thus offer privacy and comfort to an extent that the other seats cannot compete with. Therefore, you may be disappointed if you don’t get one of the throne seats, even if the other seats obviously also have a very high standard. In the future, SWISS will have a new business class, called “Swiss Senses”, which is basically Lufthansa’s Allegris cabin, but in red.
Lufthansa is currently in the process of overhauling its business class. But in most cases, you can expect lie-flat-seats in a 2-2-2 seating pattern.
Generally, Travel-Dealz writers and readers are not big fans of the Lufthansa business class, even though it is definitely not bad. One reason for that is that the service is too inconsistent: From extremely friendly and quick to unfriendly and slow – everything is possible with Lufthansa, even in business class. Regarding the seats, they are mostly fine, though not really on-par with the competition anymore. That’s why the airline is now slowly installing their new Allegris seats.
Search & Book
According to the fare rules, these deals can be booked until September 3, 2024. We expect availability to plummet within days, if not hours – so you shouldn’t wait too long. The travel period ends on June 30, 2025, but availability depends quite a lot on the destination and can often be quite limited. The minimum stay for this offer is 8 days.
While the landing page clearly states the deal expires on September 3, 2024, some of the individual fare rules mention August 22, 2024, as the expiration date.
You can find suitable dates quickly and easily using Google Flights. Please be aware that the preview calendar only works if you set a maximum duration filter. To purchase tickets, we recommend using Lufthansa’s or Swiss’ landing page for this sale.
Regrettably, these tickets are not refundable.
Miles & Points
The business class flights are issued in booking class P. If you want to earn as many miles as possible with your booking, it makes a huge difference is you purchase a Lufthansa or s Swiss ticket. For example, the cheapest flight from Birmingham to Dubai earns the following when flying Swiss via Zurich:
- 8,838 Miles on Singapore KrisFlyer
- 8,838 Miles on ITA Volare
- 7,526 Miles on Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles
- 7,070 Award Miles + 1,414 PQP on United MileagePlus
- 7,070 Miles on Aegean Miles+Bonus
- 7,070 Miles on Asiana Club
- 7,070 Award Miles + 3,536 Tier Miles on Avianca LifeMiles
- 7,070 Miles on Copa ConnectMiles
- 7,070 Miles on Ethiopian ShebaMiles
- 7,070 Miles on EVA Infinity MileageLands
- 7,070 Award Miles on LATAM Pass
- 7,070 Miles on TAP Miles&Go
- 7,070 Miles on Thai Royal Orchid Plus
- 7,070 Miles on Egyptair Plus
- 6,498 Miles on Air Canada Aeroplan
- 6,498 Points + 1,300 SQC on Air Canada Aeroplan 2026
- 4,948 Miles on ANA Mileage Club
- 2,728 Award Miles + 480 Points on Miles&More
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While Lufthansa via Frankfurt only earns the following:
- 8,712 Miles on Singapore KrisFlyer
- 8,712 Miles on ITA Volare
- 6,970 Award Miles + 1,394 PQP on United MileagePlus
- 6,970 Miles on Copa ConnectMiles
- 6,970 Miles on Thai Royal Orchid Plus
- 6,970 Award Miles on LATAM Pass
- 6,494 Miles on Air Canada Aeroplan
- 6,494 Points + 1,300 SQC on Air Canada Aeroplan 2026
- 4,878 Miles on ANA Mileage Club
- 2,728 Award Miles + 480 Points on Miles&More
- Customize Calculation
To calculate the mileage for your own personal itinerary, feel free to use our mileage calculator:
Comments (15)
Lots of new availabilities unlocked today for FEB/2022, can only be found with ITA Matrix, not on Google Flights yet!
Hi,
I have been looking into the companion sale and I just cannot get the prices to match anywhere near the numbers advertised.
I am searching the route for any 4 week window, London or Paris to Cape Town between July 1st and September 13th
Hi Ed!
I quickly looked into the dates you have been looking for, and you are right. It seems like for these dates, the companion fares are already sold out or not available at all.
A great deal, again, but Swiss takes forever until they reveal the cancellation penalty on the First Class tickets.
Good morning, would you be able to advise me of any deals in business or premium economy fares to medellin from london next year? many thanks.
Currently, we don’t have any active deal for Medellin. Generally, good fares to Medellin are quite rare since not many airlines fly there internationally. I would, therefor, recommend to check flights to Bogota as well.
You could always use our Telegram Bot to get notified once a new deal to the chosen destination emerges:
https://travel-dealz.eu/bot
I want to go to SCL in March for a time of approx 15-20 days. I am up to now very flexible with the dates. Eventually I have a companion.
How ever I want es well to requalify for Senator this year. So besides the price the status miles are important for me as well?
Any proposal for my situation?
Thanks
SU
Hi Sebastian! Thanks for reaching out to us? At the moment, there are no deals to Santiago that we could recommend to you if you’re looking to re-qualify for M&M Senator. However, Lufthansa and Swiss have been promoting companion sales in the past that included Chile. Not sure how flexible you are regarding the airport of departure? Best thing would be to set up our bot (https://travel-dealz.eu/bot/). That way, you’ll be the first to know about a nice business or first class deals to SCL.
Oha, nein, bei mir ist es noch als “Gültig” gekennzeichnet.
Tatsächlich. Der Artikel bei Travel-Dealz.EU stand auf abgelaufen, die Weiterleitung auf Travel-Dealz.de aber noch auf gültig. Sollte jetzt passen – danke für den Hinweis.
Dieses Angebot scheint (leider!) abgelaufen zu sein… zumindest Tansania.
Ja, ist schon im Mai abgelaufen. Eigentlich sollte dir rechts oben im Titelbild auch “expired” angezeigt werden?
We are 4 guys travelling from Hamburg to Johannesburg or Capetown in Business or First
Jan 30th – Feb. 7th, 2020. Would appreciate info about specials
Thanks and regards Dieter
Hallo Dieter! Aktuell gibt es leider keine Angebote für Business oder First Class Flüge nach Südafrika ab Hamburg. Wenn ein anderer Abflughfaen in Frage kommt, ist die Auswahl vermutlich auch größer. Den Newsletter unserer deutsche Seite hast du schon abonniert? Sehr empfehlen kann ich dir auch unseren Schlagwort-Alarm: https://travel-dealz.de/bot/ Dadurch verpasst du nie mehr einen Deal, der für dich persönlich interessant ist.
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