British Airways Is Adding Flights To The Seychelles In 2018

I am just in the process of looking at going to Seychelles, I am based in Doha who fly direct, for approx GBP 800-900 return, though as I am doing a tour of the middle east, have found that both Qatar Air and Emirates massively reduce prices if you are flying from Istanbul. Istanbul return to Seychelles on Qatar Air or Emirates, you're looking at £310-330. Or Colombo to Seychelles is about the same. If you've got that flexibility and are traveling with a family, these are definitely options worth considering.

Plus, you don't have to fly BA, which you can't put a price on.

Seychelles are so tempting...

British Airways is not.

You can also redeem United Mileage and fly Austrian to connect at Vienna. They fly direct to Maldives, Seychelles, and Mauritius.

actually, just returned last week from the Seychelles; transferred 250K SPG points to JAL and booked 2 Emirates F seats JFK>DXB>SEZ>DXB>ATH>EWR with a stop in Dubai, Seychelles, and Athens. Seychelles was pretty damn special and there was decent award space when we booked. Would definitely recommend to split the stay across both major islands.

The reason for LHR is that all of BA's 788/789 only fly from Heathrow. Also they make two award seats in CW and 4 seats available on each flight.

That doesn't seem like a coincidence with QR upgauging its own flight to SEZ..?

Lucky, FYI, you can also get there using *A miles on Ethiopian (via Addis) and (much more appealingly) on Austrian (via Vienna).

Although you should definitely continue your tour of "obscure business classes of the world" and fly Air Seychelles for at least one leg.

If Air Seychelles has availability, they don't show up much (or ever) on Etihad. I ended up booking EY for a fairly high (to my way of thinking) 38,000 points + $330 apiece

I'm flying there next month. Used ANA business class award to the Middle East via Etihad for 104k + ~$150 in fees. They had amazing award availability out of SFO (R.I.P to that route). With a stopover and openjaw allowed on their awards ANA had some amazing values. I ended up having to use AA to bring my boyfriend along. Cost was 200k and that's flying economy between AUH and SEZ. Stupid AA routing rules.

Doesn't Turkish also fly to Seychelles? I wonder what their award space availability is like

How are only 4 Y and 2 J award seats considered "good availability"?

Additional commentary provided by readers on how to get to Seychelles on miles is very helpful.

can you redeem AA miles all the way from the US to Seychelles on BA? Since AA allows travel to Africa on a single award if you go via London , would it cost the same as any other award to African continent?
Also - what about Alaska miles? Alaska shows BA availability - do you think it'll show this?

1310 USD one way can take you from the Seychelles to London in SriLankan's new reverse herringbone seat if you want to try them on a longer flight (and review their A320).

If QSuites still appeals, Qatar Airways is selling 1770 USD one way from the Seychelles to Doha to London.

@Alvin Tse

I'm seeing the UL flight at $920 next month, problem is flight timings. Either you have to take the flight at 535AM for a same day connection to LHR or on the days that the 1135AM flight runs spend the night in CMB as the only flight to LON has already left by the flight from SEZ lands.

And if you take the LON-SEZ route on UL you have to spend the night in CMB regardless.

It's cheap, because the connections suck.

I'm flying Srilankan to the Seychelles in the end of November.

Air Seychelles only recently cancelled their SEZ-DUS flight, which I loved because it seemed so strange. By the way Lucky, if you’re thinking of flying on the airlines of the Indian Ocean, don’t forget Air Austral (who operate 777s and 787s from Paris to Reunion and Mayotte respectively) and Air Mauritius (who operate A330s and A340s from Mauritius to London and Paris).

We managed to get two BA first reward flights (one with companion voucher). Two weeks, flying on Saturday towards the end of May and back on Sunday. The first cabin on the 787-9 looks a step up from the rest. I quite like the idea of the permanently fixed bigger screen but let’s see. I also like the idea of BA’s own first class security channel that takes you straight into the lounge at T5. Just adds to th3 exclusivity of the experience.

I’ll message after to tell you how it was.