he stand - alone Avios Travel Reward Programme is, for a very limited travel window, offering a 50 % discount on
Avios Economy Class award flights to New York & Boston From London Heathrow & Gatwick.
The stand - alone Avios Travel Reward Programme is, for a very limited travel window, offering a 50 % discount on
Avios Economy Class award flights to New York & Boston From London Heathrow & Gatwick.
Not exact matches
With Aer Lingus AerClub, you can use 26,000
Avios to book a round - trip
economy class award ticket.
From many major West Coast airports, you can book a nonstop
economy class award for 25,000 British Airways
Avios round - trip.
If you want to book the same
award flight in
economy class, it will only be 23,000
Avios for a one - way
award booking.
With
award tickets starting at 4,000 - 4,500
Avios in
economy or 7,750 - 9,000
Avios in business
class for any flight less than 651 miles you'd be able to book 22 flights with that 100,000 point bonus.
However, adding a short - haul
economy flight to a long - haul business or first
class flight may, as in my example, drastically reduce the number of Iberia
Avios required for your
award redemption.
If you want to book the same
award flight in
economy class, it will only be 23,000
Avios for a one - way
award booking.
With Aer Lingus AerClub, you can use 26,000
Avios to book a round - trip
economy class award ticket.
From many major West Coast airports, you can book a nonstop
economy class award for 25,000 British Airways
Avios round - trip.
In general, business
class awards cost twice as many
Avios as
economy, and first
class awards cost three times more.
For
Economy Class flyers this will probably make little difference as the British Airways Executive Club already essentially factors in the cost of a fare when it
awards Avios — that's why the cheaper
Economy Class tickets only earn
Avios based on 25 % of the distance traveled.
If you get poor value by redeeming
Avios for
Economy class awards under these promotional conditions just how bad is the value when the promotion isn't running?
They could earn the
Avios by flying but, if they booked the cheapest
Economy Class tickets, it would take 57 round trip flights between New York and London to earn the 100,000
Avios needed for that
award (865
Avios in each direction).
The April
Avios devaluation made Business
Class awards decidedly poor value but, without huge surcharges, there is definitely value to be had out of the
Economy Class redemptions.
Level will offer 6 fare
classes: Basic
Economy offers a flight from A to B with 1 piece of handluggage and you'll pay extra for seat assignment, food and checked luggage, but do earn (some)
Avios award miles.
Since British Airways uses a distance - based
award chart, this route will cost you only 20K
Avios in
Economy and 40K in Business
Class, which represents a better value all around versus using AA miles.
Also, business and first
class awards cost a LOT of
Avios, so we'll focus on
economy travel only.
The British Airways website can find and book almost any partner
award pretty easily, and
economy class awards start at just 4,500
Avios.
Awards for business and first
class are always two or three times, respectively, the number of
Avios needed for an
economy fare.
With
award tickets starting at 4,000 - 4,500
Avios in
economy or 7,750 - 9,000
Avios in business
class for any flight less than 651 miles you'd be able to book 22 flights with that 100,000 point bonus.
These
awards cost 7,500
Avios one - way in
economy class.
The promotion, called «Reward Flights For Less», allows passengers to book
awards in
Economy Class (World Traveller) for 40 % fewer
Avios than would normally be required.
Premium
economy awards require 1.5 times as many
Avios, while business -
class awards are double the price and first -
class awards are triple the price!
Collect American Airlines miles for international First
Class;
Avios for short, direct,
economy awards; and Arrival miles for low - cost carriers and super-cheap cash flights.
-LSB-...] since
Avios devalued last month, Business
Class awards are now triple the
economy price on those routes.