The Avios flight price must be paid for the Member and an additional individual in order that the 2 Companions can travel on that booking.
With
avios this flight prices at 4,500 + 4,500 Avios.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, British Airways no longer offers the 4,500
Avios price point for
flights within the U.S., but any
flight up to 1,150 miles within the U.S. or abroad will only cost you 7,500
Avios in economy class.
You can also part pay with your
Avios so as to reduce the
price of your
flights.
You can be booking the same
flight with your
Avios and get 3 different
Avios prices and fees!
Unfortunately, British Airways no longer offers the 4,500
Avios price point for
flights within the U.S., but any
flight up to 1,150 miles within the U.S. or abroad will only cost you 7,500
Avios in economy class.
While there are some ways around these fees, including using Aer Lingus to cross the Atlantic, you'll generally get the best bang for your
Avios using British Airways for short
flights that would otherwise be
priced three times as much on carriers with region - based award charts.
So the next time you see a short
flight available on ba.com for that terrific 4,500
Avios redemption
price, don't book it without first checking the cash fare and considering other points in your collection.
If you need to fly connecting
flights, the
prices go up even more as
Avios normally charges the mileage rate of at least 4,500 points per leg of the trip.
That blows, but for a
flight this short it still only comes to 18,000
Avios (remember, the first class
price is 4x the economy
price, which for this 496 - mile
flight would be only 4,500
Avios).
Partner economy awards were unchanged, including the super valuable short haul
prices of 4,500 to 10,000
Avios for
flights up to 2,000 miles.
If you fly a lot of short - haul
flights that are often highly
priced then buying
Avios at 1.63 cents can be a very good deal.
Using the Iberia
Avios award chart, the short
flights within North America are still
pricing at the lower level, with some restrictions.
All other
Avios reward
flight pricing will remain the same as it is today.
Compared to 7,500
Avios in economy, for example, 30,000
Avios for a short American Airlines
flight in first class is probably not worth it (this looks to be corrected to business class
pricing in 2017).
British Airways implemented a devaluation back in October of 2015 in which
flights originating or terminating in the U.S. were no longer eligible for the 4.5 K
Avios price for
flights of 650 miles or less.
In fact, for
flights in the US you can essentially combine Zones 1 and 2 since the Zone 2
price is also 7,500
Avios each way.
The one drawback here is that for
flights within the US the lowest award
price is 7,500
Avios, but this still represents a solid savings over a typical roundtrip economy award booked with one of the three US legacy carriers.
Instead, they effectively eliminated the cheapest
price tier for U.S. flyers and combined it with the 2nd tier, which costs 7.5 K
Avios each way for
flights up to 1,151 miles.
One way awards start at 4,500
Avios for
flights outside the U.S. and 7,500
Avios for those originating or terminating in the U.S. Even with the slightly more expensive
price for U.S. short haul awards, they are still cheaper than domestic awards on the big 3 US carriers which are typically 10,000 - 12,500 each way.
This chart can result in significantly more expensive award
prices at times, so I would generally try to avoid using
Avios to book
flights with two or more oneworld partners.
Here are the same Chicago - Budapest
flights in business class,
priced out at 62,750 British Airways
Avios and $ 491, allowing you to buy 30,950
Avios for $ 805, or 2.6 cents each:
Nonstop
flights to Hawaii from the West Coast will generally fall under 3,000 miles, regardless of where on the West Coast you are starting from, making the
price of a round trip 25,000
Avios.
Unfortunately, Dallas is a little far from my home base of New York City to be in the lowest British Airways
pricing bucket (9,000
Avios round - trip), but I was able to find literally dozens of
flights available for 20,000
Avios per person.
Because British Airways has distance - based
pricing for its rewards, short one - way
flights within Europe will potentially cost as little as 7,500
Avios.
Prices for
flights are based on distance, and the cheapest awards in North America start at 7,500
Avios (4,500
Avios elsewhere).
Since British Airways always
prices partner
flights at just one rate, regardless of demand, we found
flights for 9,000
Avios roundtrip on American Eagle.
All other programs that I know have rigid connection and stopover rules —
Avios have no such rules since each
flight you get on
prices based on the distance.
Also: The
Avios program is a «one way» program — there is no
price break for booking r / t
flights.
When using
Avios, I need to find non-stop
flights on the right dates to pay the cheapest
price.
We looked at real
flights at least six months in the future (to avoid the higher
prices you might find just a few weeks before departure) and compared them to the number of
Avios required to book the same itinerary.
If you do have to make a connection, however, this deal isn't quite as sweet because you'll have to pay that
price for two
flights for a total of 15,000
Avios.
Because
Avios price by the segment doing segment searches is important when you're looking for tough to get
flights.
Since British Airways has a distance - based award chart and American Airlines is a Oneworld partner, you can use
Avios to book any AA
flight with saver level award availability and have the
price based on the
Avios chart.
So for a
flight like New York (JFK) to Miami (MIA), you'll only be charged 15,000
Avios one - way in business instead of the previous 30,000
Avios price.
However, in November American finally began coding its domestic premium cabin as «business class,» which means you can now use
Avios to book seats up front on domestic AA
flights at the middle, business - class
price, which is much more reasonable.
More savvy point earners may find good value in smaller programs like British Airways
Avios which allows redemption on American, Alaska, and US Airways for as few as 9,000 points round - trip, though with more expensive
pricing for connecting
flights.
In fact, it's often preferable to use B.A. miles for travel within the U.S. because when you use
Avios for
flights to the U.K., you'll face enormous fuel surcharges, despite years of low fuel
prices.
So in the example below, a
flight from Edinburgh, Scotland to London, with a stop in London for a week before continuing on to Dusseldorf, Germany, is
priced at 4,500
Avios, since the total distance flown is under 650 miles.
British Airways determines how many
Avios an award
flight will cost based on two factors: the distance of your
flight — multiple - segment itineraries are still
priced per segment then added together — and if you have only a single carrier or multiple Oneworld carriers on your ticket.
Note that
Avios prices each
flight segment separately, so if you're flying from Phoenix to Dallas to Atlanta, you have to calculate the number of miles from Phoenix to Dallas (7,500 miles), then add the miles from Dallas to Atlanta (7,500 miles).
GCMap.com Once you've found award seats on Qantas or ExpertFlyer, you'll need to figure out how far the
flight would be to calculate the
price in
Avios.
Then turn your spending into savings when you book a reward
flight ** with British Airways or any of the oneworld ® partner airlines, or simply reduce the
price of your British Airways
flight when you part pay with
Avios.
If more than one
Avios and Money
price option is available for a British Airways
flight, it is not possible to change the
price option or class of service chosen by a Member after a booking has been made.
New bookings,
price or availability enquiries for
flights, hotels, car hire including new bookings using
Avios or American Express vouchers
Members can use their
Avios to pay for part of the total
price of selected
flight bookings made with Airline Partners.
Before you point out that this
price is from the west cost, note that a domestic
flight across the country is at most 12,500
Avios (8,250 MR points during a 50 % bonus).