French all-business class airline La Compagnie has just launched a fare sale, celebrating the carrier’s 10th anniversary (thanks to Frequent Miler for flagging this). While it’s not the most exciting offer ever, it has the potential to be a good deal if you don’t have access to miles, and/or don’t see reasonably priced award availability for dates you need to travel.
La Compagnie used to have a lot more fare sales in the past, but with the amount of premium demand there is across the Atlantic nowadays, they’ve become rarer. That’s why I think this deal could very well be worth taking advantage of, and I especially appreciate the long travel window.
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La Compagnie’s transatlantic business class fare sale
La Compagnie is running a fare sale, valid for tickets booked between July 1 and July 21, 2024. What’s awesome is that the promotion is valid for travel all the way through March 31, 2025, so that gives you a really long travel window. In order to take advantage of this sale, at least a Saturday night minimum stay is required.
This sale has the same pricing for all of La Compagnie’s routes out of Newark (EWR). The airline flies year-round to Paris (ORY) and Milan (MXP), and seasonally to Nice (NCE).
There are blackout dates, and you can see all available dates for the La Compagnie fare sale at this link. You can also search these fares through Google Flights. Fortunately availability is largely very good, with many dates during the promotion period being bookable.
This won’t be for everyone, but I do think this could make sense for some. If you value nonstop travel and/or don’t have miles to redeem, you won’t see business class fares much cheaper than this. For that matter, these fares are basically similar to the fuel surcharges that some airlines would impose on business class award tickets.
Note that these tickets are non-refundable, though are changeable. So you have flexibility to change the dates in the future, though any fare differences would apply.
The La Compagnie A321neo business class experience
La Compagnie currently operates a fleet of two Airbus A321neo aircraft, each featuring 76 seats in an all business class configuration. I’ve reviewed the La Compagnie experience, and was impressed.
While La Compagnie’s business class seats as such aren’t cutting edge, there is something nice about traveling on a jet with fewer people, and for that matter the cabin also looks really cool.
The value here is simply incredible, especially when you consider that the airline offers complimentary high speed Wi-Fi (and it’s actually high speed, similar to JetBlue). The food, drinks, and service are all quite good as well, though nothing that’ll blow you away. It’s all about the overall value, plus the convenience of traveling nonstop on a smaller jet.
I’d book La Compagnie again in a heartbeat if I had any firm travel plans that coincided with this sale.
Bottom line
All-business class airline La Compagnie has a new fare sale to celebrate its 10th anniversary. For tickets booked by July 21, 2024, and for travel through March 31, 2025, you can book roundtrip travel on La Compagnie for $2,000 per person. It’s not the most exciting deal ever, but if you value premium travel and this fits your travel plans, it’s quite a good deal.
Does anyone plan on taking advantage of this La Compagnie fare sale?
Ive done this twice and it was a great experience both times, the food and wines were good but not fantastic, an all business class flight in a small jet made you feel special
Seems like JetBlue is offering similar fares in July and August to Paris CDG in Mint!
A great deal. Would snap this up if I had any plans for Europe. My son and I flew them ORY-EWR in January 2021 and would happily do so again.
Looks fantastic! Would be wonderful if the West Coast ever gets a similar service (albeit with different aircraft).
It would be really hard to do something like this without a widebody's range.
Even the A321 XLR range wouldn't work for most West Coast destinations, given that LAX to LHR is something like 5500 miles.
And to operate widebodies in such a configuration on top of being a leisure carrier would be nearly impossible. Way too many seats to fill up.
Leisure carriers that do all business class configs just simply don't work on...
It would be really hard to do something like this without a widebody's range.
Even the A321 XLR range wouldn't work for most West Coast destinations, given that LAX to LHR is something like 5500 miles.
And to operate widebodies in such a configuration on top of being a leisure carrier would be nearly impossible. Way too many seats to fill up.
Leisure carriers that do all business class configs just simply don't work on the West Coast. It's too far away from basically any destination in Europe or Asia.