French all-business class airline La Compagnie has just launched a “Blue Friday” fare sale, which seems to be an annual promotion from the airline. 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, plus the carrier becoming more well established, 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 November 21 and November 25, 2024. With this, you can pay $2,200 all-in roundtrip for travel from Newark (EWR) to either Paris (ORY) or Milan (MXP), which are the carrier’s year-round routes, in addition to a seasonal flight to Nice (NCE).
What’s awesome is that the promotion is valid for travel all the way through April 30, 2025, so that gives you quite a long travel window.
There are blackout dates, and you can see all available dates for the La Compagnie fare sale through the carrier’s website. 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 aren’t that far off from the carrier imposed surcharges that some airlines have on business class 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 for “Blue Friday.” For tickets booked by November 25, 2024, and for travel through April 30, 2025, you can book roundtrip travel on La Compagnie for $2,200 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 value.
Does anyone plan on taking advantage of this La Compagnie fare sale?
Can you really call 2 planes "a fleet"?
I don’t get it, Ben. What makes this a good deal?
And the same flights ex Europe are 1300 EUR, so this is why everybody thinks US travelers are just their bank. If possible one should only position in Europe and buy tickets originating there.
The yields have always been the highest out of the US.
Politics aside, we have the highest GDP and the 3rd largest population in the world. That's why everyone is always scrambling to launch US service so they can milk us for our money.
It's not really that- Norway is one of the richest, if not the richest, countries in Europe but there's no shortage of €1600 business class fares from OSL to the Far East. The difference is that the US legacy airlines effectively operate as a state-sponsored cartel.
Looks like JetBlue is at the same price point! I think I'd choose B6 > B0 with a preference for JFK > EWR + Terminal B at EWR is ROUGH
There's absolutely nothing special about the fare in this post, in fact La Compagnie themselves are offering the same flights ex-ORY for just €1278.
Indeed I remember sale fares pre pandemic €999 and long gone are the BA and VS sale fares of £999 ex LHR to US East Coast.
I've seen much more cheaper fares regularly offered