Oneworld carriers American Airlines, British Airways and Qatar Airways bring you the unique opportunity to combine two long-haul segments in business class for less than US$1,000 (~€935)! These carriers currently sell oneway tickets from Nairobi, Kenya to a plethora of cities in the United States. Your ticket usually consists of three legs:
- Business Class from Nairobi to London/Doha
- Business Class from London/Doha to the United States
- Domestic First within the United States
You can extend your break between the first and second flight for several months, making it a more attractive offer for European citizens, as they can combine two trips with this ticket. You can also book a roundtrip at twice the price.
While most European citizens may enter Kenya visa-free, you need to apply for online registration and pay a US$32 (~€30) fee.
Here are some examples we found for cheap flights without a stopover:
- Oneway:
- Nairobi → Pittsburgh for US$885 (~€827)
- Nairobi → St. Louis for US$885 (~€827)
- Nairobi → Baton Rouge for US$891 (~€833)
- Nairobi → Tampa für US$903 (~€844)
- Nairobi → Billings (Yellowstone NP) for US$933 (~€872)
- Nairobi → Oklahoma City for US$936 (~€875)
- Nairobi → Salt Lake City for US$951 (~€889)
- Nairobi → Midland, Texas for US$940 (~€878)
- Nairobi → Tucson for US$952 (~€890)
- Nairobi → San Diego for US$976 (~€912)
- Roundtrip:
- Nairobi → St. Louis → Nairobi for US$1,536 (~€1,435)
- Nairobi → Pittsburgh → Nairobi for 1,531 USD
These tickets are available on American Airlines’ website. You can find them for departures between today and June 2024, as well as from September through December 2024:
Add a Stopover in Europe for €100
Adding a stopover of several days, weeks or months adds between €50 and €100 to the price – but makes it so more flexible. Even better, you will get at least one more leg in European business class as part of the deal. Here are some examples for these flights:
- Nairobi → Zürich | Zürich → Tampa for US$938 (~€877) (Airport change LHR → LGW)
- Nairobi → Vienna | Vienna → Pittsburgh for US$952 (~€890)
- Nairobi → Munich | Munich → Tampa for US$1 (~€1)
Our Go2 form can help you find these tickets, too:
Starting in Nairobi, you have two choices: Either take British Airways’ Airbus A350-900 (with Club Suites) to London, or fly Qatar Airways to Doha (with a reasonable chance to be seated in a Qsuite). Flights from Doha to Philadelphia are operated by American Airlines, transatlantic flights are either British Airways or American Airlines services. These flights mostly take you to either Charlotte, New York, Miami or Philadelphia, before continuing in domestic first.
Even if American Airlines doesn’t enjoy a good reputation for many, its business class is very good. Every seat has direct access to the aisle and the service, as well as the food and the seat, are at a very high standard. Travel-Dealz founder Johannes tested the Boeing 777 and really enjoyed the flight.
British Airways was the first airline to offer lie-flat seats – over 20 years ago. Sadly, many seats are still from that time and no longer reach today’s standards in other aspects. Especially in the Boeing 747, the seats were extremely narrow. Furthermore, it is unusual that every other seat is facing backward. If you, however, fly in a plane that has the new Club World seats installed, you’ll be flying in a much better product, sometimes even with Suite seats that offer a lot of privacy. A general downside at British Airways: there is no free seat reservation, which is unusual for a business class.
Search & Book
We don’t know how long this offer remains available, but our best guess it will be gone soon. Since this is a oneway fare, no minimum stay applies.
Sadly, there is no elegant way to search for these tickets. While Google Flights multistop search in a bit clunky and time consuming, it gets worse by the fact that the tool does not display all available connections. Because of that, we recommend just taking the time to trial and error yourself through American Airlines’ website.
Mileage
All tickets are issued in booking class R. A trip from Nairobi to Pittsburgh via London and Charlotte earns the following miles points when booked through AA’s website:
- 17,614 Miles on Royal Air Maroc Safar Flyer
- 13,211 Avios + 106 Qpoints on Qatar Privilege Club
- 13,211 Miles on Alaska Mileage Plan
- 13,211 Points on Finnair Plus
- 13,211 Miles on Royal Jordanian Royal Club
- 13,211 Miles on SriLankan FlySmiLes
- 13,211 Award Miles on Etihad Guest
- 11,153 AsiaMiles + 135 Club Points on Asia Miles
- 11,010 Points + 19 Elite Points on Malaysia Airlines Enrich
- 11,010 Miles on GOL Aéreos Smiles
- 11,010 Miles on Japan Airlines Mileage Bank
- 3,647 Miles on American AAdvantage
- 3,500 Avios + 320 Tier Points on British Airways Executive Club
- 3,400 Avios + 1,075 Elite Points on Iberia Plus
You can also use our mileage calculator to see what your favorite itinerary will earn you:
Thanks to our source FlyerTalk!
Comments (2)
Sorry I didn’t find that deal that was on I checked it out and hey $10,000+ for one way I tried a few dates, it would help if there was an expiration on this so called deal, I tried tampa and other us destinations, false hopes and maybe fake
It was definitely not fake (as you can see in the screenshots provided in the deal). However, by now it is sadly expired