Every day of the week, the routine of Travel-Dealz editors begins with combing through countless offers and suggesting them to our colleagues. After evaluating them, only the best deals make it on our homepage and into our newsletter. In this post, we want to shine a light on offers that were discussed, but ultimately disregarded. But just because we didn’t feel they would be interesting for a broader audience, it doesn’t mean that some people won’t cherish them.
In this section, you can’t expect our usual service – we will give one example for each deal. We can only give hints about details like availability, travel period, other origins/destinations or fare rules.
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€1,400 Ethiopian Business Class to Windhoek
Complementing their offer to South Africa, Ethiopian Airlines also sells discounted business class roundtrips to Namibia. With a change of planes in Addis Ababa, you can reach Windhoek for NOK 16,643 (~€1,400) from Oslo, while enjoying a lie-flat-bed the entire way.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: It is very similar to the South Africa deal from Monday, so we decided to add this connection to the existing deal. While we selected not to push it to front page for the second time in three days, you can still get additional information like our Go2 availability calendar here.
€900 Premium Economy to Cameroon
You can currently reach Cameroon’s largest city, Douala, in premium economy class for just €900 or less. Flights are operated by Brussels Airlines and available from Paris, Rome, Madrid and maybe even more European capitals.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: Deals to Africa usually need something special to catch on, and we did not see that here. The price is low, but nowhere near a must-buy. Brussels Airlines’ premium economy is not a bad product, but also nothing that we would urge people to try. And Cameroon is one of the safer countries in Central Africa, but usually not that high on anybody’s bucket list.
€766 Avianca Lie-Flat Business from New York to Bogotá
Colombian Star Alliance member Avianca offers a discounted business class fare from New York’s JFK airport to its main hub in Bogotá. You can book roundtrips for less than €800 (~US$939), with both flights in a lie-flat seat. Oneways are available at roughly half the price.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: While this is a nice fare for rides in a lie-flat-seat – we weren’t able to figure out a reliable pattern when the Boeing 787 is deployed and when an Airbus A320 operates the flight. Your odds even worsen when considering the fact that some wide bodies Avianca uses on this route only feature recliners in business class. Considering that risk, the price-tag is too high to fly an Airbus A320 twice.
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Cover Picture: Epupa Falls in Namibia at the border to Angola | © ArtushFoto - stock.adobe.com
Comments (4)
Many thanks for the clarifications provided. Well appreciated!
Thanks for communicating this background info. Very interesting!
It’s something wrong with the Duolingo deal link
Hi Jakob, I’ve fixed the link. Thanks for noticing.