Originally Posted by daz211
Ba 14sep-18sep LHR-FCO £552.30
FR 14sep-18sep STN-CIA £113.75
Like so many of these purported BA/FR price comparisons, this BA "price" is a flat lie.
BA LHR-FCO-LHR for travel 14/18 September is available for £60.00 + £46.30 = £106.30 total (1820 departure out, 1335 departure back).
The lowest FR fare for those dates is £37.98 + £28.77 = £66.75. (This involves 0610 and 0635 departures, which may not be to everybody's taste.)
So the cash saving, just looking at the tickets, by flying FR is less than £40. Not £440, as daz211 would like to suggest.
The difference between the train fare from Liverpool Street to Stansted and back, and the Tube fare to Heathrow and back, will make a serious inroad into the £40 before you count anything else.
In fact, I don't even know where this supposed fare of £552.30 comes from. For a leisure traveller, you could fly BA business class for £254.00 + £51.30 = £305.30 on the same flights. The fully flexible Club fare is a total of £754.30. So one wonders whether the quoted price of £552.30 was actually just fabricated.