Great Etihad Business Class Deal to Copenhagen

Etihad Airways Boeing 787 Business Class
Etihad Airways Boeing 787 Business Class. Photo: Etihad.

Etihad Airways currently has some great limited-time Business Class sale fares available from Australia to Copenhagen, with return flights available from $4,820 return on the Etihad website.

Etihad flies from Sydney and Melbourne to Abu Dhabi, with onward connections available to destinations all over Europe. With this particular sale fare, you’d fly with Etihad to Amsterdam or Brussels and then connect onwards with KLM or Brussels Airlines (respectively) to Copenhagen.

For example, you could book the following Etihad Airways Business Class itinerary for $4,842 return on the Etihad website:

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An example of an Etihad sale fare from Sydney to Copenhagen. Screenshot from Google Flights.

Google Flights also shows lower prices available for booking through various online travel agents (OTAs). You could save a bit more money by booking through one of those OTAs, but this is at your own risk.

If crediting the flights to Velocity Frequent Flyer, the above itinerary would earn you at least 27,868 Velocity points (or more if you have Velocity status). You could also earn 560 Velocity status credits.

Fares out of Melbourne to Copenhagen are slightly cheaper than those from Sydney:

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An example of an Etihad sale fare from Melbourne to Copenhagen. Screenshot from Google Flights.

Some, but not all, of the sale itineraries have a long transit time in Abu Dhabi. An optional free stopover in Abu Dhabi of up to 21 days is also permitted with this fare.

The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen is a great destination in its own right. It’s also a good gateway for onward travel to other parts of Europe, with Copenhagen Airport being a hub for SAS, Norwegian Air Shuttle and easyJet.

Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo: Matt Graham.

The cheap tickets are available for selected travel dates between now and 1 December 2023. These are mid-week fares available on flights departing between Sundays and Thursday afternoons (i.e. not on Thursday evenings, Fridays or Saturdays). These fares book into “Z” class, so there must be availability in that Reservation Booking Designator (RBD).

This sale ends on Tuesday, 13 June 2023. You can book until then on the Etihad website or through travel agents.

Thanks to mlg for posting the Etihad deal on the Australian Frequent Flyer forum. You can join the discussion here:

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That is a cracking fare! Especially for VA platinums with first class lounge access in AUH! Hopefully this is the start of some good deals ex AU again 🙂

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Can knock off a bit more through Amex IAP too

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Sensational deal. How did you find it?

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I was just doing some open date searches on Google Flights and came across it. Unfortunately the dates don't work for me, which is a shame because I wouldn't have minded spending some quality time in the first class lounge in AUH!!

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These are ‘value’ fares, but worth noting that they still come with lounge access unlike some other unbundled fares.

Miles earn to say VA would be 1.3 velocity points per mile. do gold and plat get their bonus on top of that?

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It looks like 25% bonus for Gold and 50% for Platinum. Value fare still earns full business SCs too according to Virgin website. No chauffeur in AUH included in value fares for anyone looking at the flights with an overnight stopover.

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It looks like 25% bonus for Gold and 50% for Platinum. Value fare still earns full business SCs too according to Virgin website. No chauffeur in AUH included in value fares for anyone looking at the flights with an overnight stopover.

not bad! so a platinum would get roughly 40k points, which is roughly 3 x one way SYD-MEL/BNE… or around $900 value. Makes the fare very attractive!

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AUH- I reckon the best biz and first lounge anywhere in the world.

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AUH- I reckon the best biz and first lounge anywhere in the world.

Best business class? My experience there was really disappointing 🙁 it was a pretty average lounge I thought compared to some like Cathay’s Pier.

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Best business class? My experience there was really disappointing 🙁 it was a pretty average lounge I thought compared to some like Cathay’s Pier.

Yeah, that’s probably pushing it. The J lounge is nice if you have it to yourself but it was always heaving when I was there. The F lounge is good, but not in the league of DXB or DOH (or QF F SYD, CX F HKG).

It‘s been a few years for me but onboard, J service plus F&B was hit and miss. Although I did have an exceptional Op Up to F once flying CDG-AUH.

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