It seems Lufthansa is into this flash sale malarkey that airlines seem to love at the moment, with a flash sale of Business Class Tickets.

All prices are from London, and are starting prices.

The magic link: http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/uk/specials/booking?l=en&nodeid=2612785&cid=1000243&no-mobile-redirect=Y&WT.mc_id=GB_Nlemail

Abu Dhabi from £1,199
Bengaluru – Bangalore from £1,449
Beijing from £1,599
Bogotá from £1,769
Mumbai/Bombay from £1,449
Buenos Aires from £1,769
Busan from £1,699
Cape Town from £1,599
Caracas from £1,769
New Delhi from £1,449
Dubai from £1,199
Hong Kong from £1,599
Johannesburg from £1,599
Lagos from £1,849
Malabo from £1,769
Muscat from £1,199
Osaka from £1,849
Nagoya from £1,929
Rio de Janeiro from £1,699
Sao Paulo from £1,769
Seoul from £1,699
Shanghai from £1,599
Tokyo from £1,849

Departures from other UK destinations available, subject to the usual.

Now, lets get to the important bits – T&C’s

You’ve got until end of play 14/11/2012 to book these tickets. It’s a 3 day minimum stay, max of 3 months, valid for departures from 20/12/2012-05/04/2013, returns valid from 23/12/2012-04/07/2013.

There also appears to be a Lufthansa First Class offer too – but it seems Lufthansa hasn’t loaded those fares.

Now, the kicker on these fares is these are low mileage earning fares (Business Basic), which will earn 100% miles ONLY – or in other words the dreaded Lufthansa “P” bucket.

If you need to head in that direction, these fares offer reasonable value but from a mileage runners perspective, its something to stay in bed for.

There seems to be a flurry of two day “snap” sales at the moment that appear and disappear faster than you can say “Can I have a week off work please?”.

Here are today’s offers which have wandered past my eyes:

• ANA is at it again, this time with fares from Europe to Nagoya and Osaka. Prices start at £579 from the UK, €679 from Austria and Germany, €629 from some west European points and CHF 849 from Switzerland. Book by 23:59 18/10/2012 for flying between 05/01/13 and 28/01/13
• Lufthansa are also offering a lot of their long haul network on the sale block in economy too. See http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/uk/specials/booking?l=en&nodeid=2036613&cid=1000243&no-mobile-redirect=Y&WT.mc_id=GB_Nlemail for the UK offers. Book by 23:59 18/10/2012 for flying between 05/01/13 and 28/01/13

As usual, these fares will probably earn a small pittance in miles, but do represent reasonable value for money if you actually want to travel.

I’d expect more inventory clearing snap sales to excite the public some more as time goes on as this seems the most popular way to flog seats at the moment…