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Anybody know if Virginia likely to do any deals for Black Friday had an email saying ba doing some deals

Sunseeker wrote:Anybody know if Virginia likely to do any deals for Black Friday had an email saying ba doing some deals

With regard to the BA deals (some punctuation in your post would be helpful), a friend texted me one for her to visit her sons in Seattle but I found a cheaper one via Expedia.

Sorry prices emailed to me are
New York £349
Boston £387
Bangkok £494
Las vagas £429
San Francisco £487
Sydney £687

What is Black Friday?

pjh wrote:What is Black Friday?

An awful American tradition that the UK has started copying. Last year was disastrous (both for retailers and customers : it disrupted pre-Christmas spend and police had to be called to manage rampaging crowds.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/busi ... r-TVs.html

Sealink wrote:

pjh wrote:What is Black Friday?

An awful American tradition that the UK has started copying. Last year was disastrous (both for retailers and customers : it disrupted pre-Christmas spend and police had to be called to manage rampaging crowds.)

Ah yes, a fine US import along with Proms and Halloween (and no, we aren't resurrecting an ancient Celtic tradition). I wonder how long before we're celebrating Thanksgiving too.

Sorry to the OP for wandering off topic as they had a valid question, I'm just being a grumpy old git.

I believe it exists because thanksgiving, which is 4th Thursday in November, led to people having the Friday off "sick".

Also like anything, the marketeers decided to make it about a big pre christmas sale. Which baffles me a bit, cos pre christmas is the one time of the year a whole bunch of crap is full priced.

Sealink wrote:

pjh wrote:What is Black Friday?

An awful American tradition that the UK has started copying. Last year was disastrous (both for retailers and customers : it disrupted pre-Christmas spend and police had to be called to manage rampaging crowds.)

Indeed!

Has anyone noticed that VS aren't really price matching BA like they've religously done so in the past?

In other news, VS's Black Friday offering is below. Just better value MPM fares.

3,000 Flying Club miles for an Economy fare and get a £60 discount per ticket (instead of £30).
7,500 Flying Club miles for a Premium Economy fare and get a £160 discount per ticket (instead of £80).
15,000 Flying Club miles for an Upper Class fare and get a £400 discount per ticket (instead of £200).

http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/fl ... money.html

They seem to be quietly matching some fares - presumably anyway. Just did a dummy booking for LHR-JFK 26/12 - 29/12 and UC is coming in at £1398

Smid wrote:I believe it exists because thanksgiving, which is 4th Thursday in November,

Unless you are Canadian

Some good fares to be had especially when using 15,000 miles to take £400 off. Makes a NYC trip £990. Good value of miles?

Just booked it all.

Into Boston, out of JFK, 3 nights at The Lenox, 4 nights at The Iroquois and an internal flight with JetBlue. All booked for £1500pp & 30,000 miles. It'll be a cold start to 2016 but couldn't say no at that price.

Sealink wrote:

pjh wrote:What is Black Friday?

An awful American tradition that the UK has started copying. Last year was disastrous (both for retailers and customers : it disrupted pre-Christmas spend and police had to be called to manage rampaging crowds.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/busi ... r-TVs.html

and this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2448085

pjh wrote:

Sealink wrote:

pjh wrote:What is Black Friday?

An awful American tradition that the UK has started copying. Last year was disastrous (both for retailers and customers : it disrupted pre-Christmas spend and police had to be called to manage rampaging crowds.)

Ah yes, a fine US import along with Proms and Halloween (and no, we aren't resurrecting an ancient Celtic tradition). I wonder how long before we're celebrating Thanksgiving too.

Sorry to the OP for wandering off topic as they had a valid question, I'm just being a grumpy old git.

wait until we all start dying our hair orange and develop a peculiar urge to build a huge wall !!!

Yet another old 2015 post being revived

pjh wrote:

Sealink wrote:Ah yes, a fine US import along with Proms and Halloween (and no, we aren't resurrecting an ancient Celtic tradition).

Halloween has been celebrated in Scotland similarly to the US since my childhood. The trick or treat part was particularly american, but it's certainly a scottish (I think I heard Irish too) tradition to dress up like monsters and go around the doors getting snacks.

It was barely in England when I moved there in 1987, and not in Belgium when I was there in 1998. Both seem to have not only that, but pumpkins being part of it too.

So there is a celtic tradition of it.

Smid wrote:

pjh wrote:

Sealink wrote:Ah yes, a fine US import along with Proms and Halloween (and no, we aren't resurrecting an ancient Celtic tradition).

Halloween has been celebrated in Scotland similarly to the US since my childhood. The trick or treat part was particularly american, but it's certainly a scottish (I think I heard Irish too) tradition to dress up like monsters and go around the doors getting snacks.

It was barely in England when I moved there in 1987, and not in Belgium when I was there in 1998. Both seem to have not only that, but pumpkins being part of it too.

So there is a celtic tradition of it.

Agreed Halloween has roots in a celtic tradition, but the crass commercialised version that is now the norm has about as much relationship to that tradition as the Coca Cola truck does to the true spirit of Christmas.

Smid wrote:

pjh wrote:

Sealink wrote:Ah yes, a fine US import along with Proms and Halloween (and no, we aren't resurrecting an ancient Celtic tradition).

Halloween has been celebrated in Scotland similarly to the US since my childhood. The trick or treat part was particularly american, but it's certainly a scottish (I think I heard Irish too) tradition to dress up like monsters and go around the doors getting snacks.

It was barely in England when I moved there in 1987, and not in Belgium when I was there in 1998. Both seem to have not only that, but pumpkins being part of it too.

So there is a celtic tradition of it.

in Wales we 'celebrated' Halloween for as long as I can remember - apart from dressing up, we even used to make things in school, etc. Then annoy the surrounding streets for treats!
We would also have traditional things like toffee apples, play games like apple bobbing & trying to bite an apple strung up!

pjh wrote:What is Black Friday?

Next year we are going to celebrate Black Sunday as an event that marked the introduction of the new Virgin website.

Eggtastico wrote:
in Wales we 'celebrated' Halloween for as long as I can remember - apart from dressing up, we even used to make things in school, etc. Then annoy the surrounding streets for treats!
We would also have traditional things like toffee apples, play games like apple bobbing & trying to bite an apple strung up!

We used to do the apple bobbing and the like, but generally the focus for us was the good old English tradition of burning effigies on November 5th.

Silver Fox wrote:

pjh wrote:What is Black Friday?

Next year we are going to celebrate Black Sunday as an event that marked the introduction of the new Virgin website.

LOL !! Love it

pjh wrote:We used to do the apple bobbing and the like, but generally the focus for us was the good old English tradition of burning effigies on November 5th.

Dressed up as something, not particularly monsters, went around the doors getting sweets in Scotland.

Did November the 5th too I suppose, but fireworks relatively expensive at the time, so just burning stuff....