Monday, July 26, 2010

Get Your Fill of Classical Music this summer at the London Proms 2010

Summer in London if the weather holds out can be a glorious season for the British capital offers a whole host of events like the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, the FA Cup Final, music, dance, food, art and film festivals and more. One such highly anticipated event is London’s annual celebration of classical music which is known as the BBC Proms.

If you are a fan of classical music then the BBC Proms is the one event that you can’t afford to miss and getting to London from the US is quite easy as numerous airlines offer convenient trans-Atlantic connections from various US cities. However most of these journeys involve long haul flights which can be quite tedious and tiring. To avoid the resultant jet lag and fatigue that arises from such a journey you should try and find cheap business class fares to London for your classical music odyssey. Discount business class airfares to London do exist and can be obtained if you know where to look for them.

The BBC Proms festival extends over two months and features orchestral concerts, operas, choral concerts and world music performances many of which are held at the landmark venue of London’s Royal Albert Hall. However despite the event’s grand setting, tickets to these concerts are quite inexpensive as they are priced at just £5 and entitle the classical music lover to stand in the arena area or recline in the gallery of the Royal Albert Hall. This year this event which kicks off on the 16th of July 2010 and extends until September 11th 2010 will feature 76 main concerts which will be held at the Royal Albert Hall along with whole host of smaller performances and concerts to be held at various other venues around the city.

Often airlines themselves offer incredible deals on business tickets to London which if you act quickly can help you save substantially on a trip across the pond.  However the conditions for these cheap business fares to London often require substantial advance purchase or travel on specific days. If for some reason you are unable to meet these conditions but yet want to find cheap business class tickets to London then your next best option is to work with an airfares consolidator. An airfare consolidator usually has access to heavily discounted tickets to nearly all worldwide destinations.

These airfares consolidators work as ticket brokers who deal directly with airlines to negotiate prices which are often 70% lower than the airlines’ published prices.  Airfare consolidator contracts are usually awarded to those companies which have an established track record in selling fares and do huge volumes of business. They usually work with a network of travel agents and guarantee the airlines regular and repeat business and hence they have access to discount business class airfares which are not usually available to a single travel agent.

So even if you haven’t bought your business class flight to London just yet, there is no need to despair, you can still make join the other ‘prommers’ at the BBC Proms 2010 by snagging some  cheap business fares to London from  a reputed air consolidator who often has numerous business class deals to share.