Malaysia Airlines business class fare sale is back with more great deals

No sooner did I write about how hard it was to get cheap premium cabin fares ex-SIN than Malaysia Airlines pops up with some very intriguing offers for year end.

Unfortunately MAS’s route network has been scaled back ever since they ran intro financial difficulties, but they offer a good variety of medium and long haul routes to Sydney, Melbourne and London. Business class on the first two will be on their A330s, and London is operated by the A380. All will have full flat seats.

Here’s the list of Business Class return fare deals from Singapore. One way deals are also available but they’re generally not as great a deal. See the full list (including economy deals) here.

Observations

• In general these fares are slightly more expensive than the last fare sale. Melbourne and Sydney are about S$100 more than last time, London is S$200 more expensive, Toyko and Taipei about S$50 more expensive. I wouldn’t let that put me off buying though

• Singapore to London in business class (S$3.1K) is even cheaper than SQ in premium economy (S$3.6K). My word. And SQ wonders why it needs to resort to a bidding system to fill up its PY cabin

• You can get to Sydney and Melbourne for less than 1.5k round trip. That’s again fantastic value, considering SQ charges 3 times that

• As usual, fares are even better departing from Phuket (check out fare deals from Phuket here). I personally think it doesn’t make sense to fly up to Phuket before flying down to Australia, but if you want to go to London it’s sort of along the way. Phuket to London is S$2,050 in business class round trip. That is amazing value (although, again, the last time round it was a jaw dropping S$1,620. Unreal). Throw in a cheap budget flight to Phuket and you could potentially fly to London in business for less than full fare economy on SQ.

Of course not all business class is made equal. I’d be less likely to spring for business class if it’s on a narrow body 737 (which MH operates to places like Bali)

The following routes do have the new A330 and full flat business, so check below and see which ones work for you.

When you consider the fact that SQ operates A330s and 772s with angled flat business class to places like Perth, Beijing, Adelaide and Seoul yet charges more than three times the price of MH…

The sale is on from now till 25 November and all travel must be completed by 30 June 2017.