These airlines are in the OneWorld Alliance and British Airways uses a distance - based chart to determine how many
Avios points it costs to fly on British Airways or their partners.
Not exact matches
As a part of the Oneworld Alliance, British Airways offers flights to a variety of locations for the
cost of very few
Avios points.
If you're making Tasmania part of a longer trip down under and just making a short jump to Hobart, transfer Ultimate Rewards
points earned on your Chase Sapphire Reserve to British Airways
Avios for a lower
cost Qantas partner redemption.
A lot of popular routes only
cost 4500
Avios one - way with no fuel surcharge (which will
cost you 5,625 MR
points).
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.
The most interesting
point my example above illustrates is that they appear to use a formula to weight mixed - cabin redemptions, such that adding short - haul economy legs radically reduces the total
cost in Iberia
Avios, sometimes below the
cost in British Airways
Avios.
Taxes and fees can vary greatly between the 3
Avios programs, so it is worth checking each one for a total
cost in
points and cash before transferring your
points over.
A way to travel from Miami to Lima, Peru is via British Airway
Avios with a
cost of only 20,000 Amex Membership Rewards
points.
Note what this does and doesn't mean: while the
Avios cost (in Membership Rewards
points) of such tickets is reduced by 28.6 %, the taxes, fees, and surcharges remain the same.
But with
Avios, it
costs only 25,000
points.
Multiply by 2 to find the
cost in Membership Rewards
points without a companion ticket, or by 1.4 to find the
cost in
Avios without a Membership Rewards transfer bonus (or by 2.8 without either);
So flying from Reno to Oakland and then to Honolulu will
cost 34,000
Avios points, not 25,000, because you have to add the 9,000
points round - trip for RNO - OAK and then the 25,000
points round - trip for OAK - HNL.
If she has just 10,000
Avios available, or can mint some by converting
points from another program like Ultimate Rewards, Membership Rewards or SPG, she can knock another $ 300 off the
cost.
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.
Flyers can use
Avios points (at one cent per
point) to pay for things, but this represents a rather poor value since a short - haul flight
costs only 4,500
points in economy.
If you want to fly from New York to Munich, connecting in London, the flight in business class will
cost 98,000
Avios, requiring 66,000 MR
points.
The same trip in first class
costs only 120,000
Avios, or 80,000 MR
points.
I could find flights from some major cities in the US to Europe, but the minimum
cost was 50,000
Avios (with the 50 % transfer bonus, it would
cost me 34,000 American Express
points, plus fees of $ 651.52!).
With a simple division, each
point will
cost just 0.67 cents, which is a great price for
Avios.
When logged in to your BA
Avios account, you can navigate to transfer
points between the two programs at no
cost.
Redeeming
points for Business Class seats isn't necessarily the best deal for
Avios, but, a one - way business ticket on Air Japan from Los Angeles to Tokyo will
cost 75,000
Avios plus $ 6 in taxes and fees.
As a quick example, I used 30,000
Avios to fly my husband and myself to the Bay Area round trip on American, which would have
cost 50,000 AAdvantage
points.
convert
Avios points are extremely
cost effective when redeemed for short - haul flights on both American Airlines and British Airways, although the
cost of an award flight will increase if there are multiple segments as the
cost of a ticket with multiple segments is based on the combined
cost of each individual segment.
Other good departure
points include Dallas / Fort Worth, which will
cost 40,000
Avios in economy or 80,000 in business.
I
pointed out that even with the extra
cost of connecting flights, which are included in other carriers» more expensive Hawaii awards,
Avios could still come out ahead.
As a part of the Oneworld Alliance, British Airways offers flights to a variety of locations for the
cost of very few
Avios points.
It
costs only 12,500
Avios points each way in economy, which is one of the best redemption options if you're already in South America.
There is a base fee for buying
Avios and the
cost of the
Avios points varies based on how much you purchase.
This can add hundreds of dollars to your
cost in addition to the
points / miles /
avios you pay.
Similarly, using
Avios on Alaska will
cost the same 12,500
points each way in economy class and 37,500
points each way in business class.
With this change, it will
cost us even more when transferring Membership reward
points to BA
Avios.
Some of these flights were less than 650 miles long, and only
cost 4,500 British Airways
Avios points per person, in economy.
They also own Aer Lingus (which also calls their
points «
Avios»), and 2 low
cost European airlines, Vueling and LEVEL.
Beginning today, the
cost of award travel on Alaska Airlines - operated flights will vary with the distance traveled, much like award travel booked with British Airways
Avios points.
For example, if you want a ticket from New York to Bermuda that
costs 15,000
Avios (on American Airlines) per round - trip you need to transfer 18,750 AMEX
points.
British Airways uses a distance - based award chart and flights of up to 650 miles can
cost as few as 4,000
Avios points each direction on off - peak dates.
For example, flights of 2,001 to 3,000 miles
cost 12,500
Avios points one - way.
Flights within Australia are also reasonable: Sydney to Gold Coast, for example, are 6,000 elevate or 9,000 Membership Rewards
points (plus $ 36 in fees) for a roundtrip ticket (the same as it'd
cost you for
Avios.
When it only
costs 15,000
Avios to fly RT from NYC to Bermuda or 25,000 RT from Boston to Dublin or 9,000 RT from DC to Chicago, those
points are insanely valuable.
We used our British Airways
Avios points to book this American Airlines flight (since the two airlines are alliance partners) and it only
cost us 15,000
Avios plus $ 63.25 each in unavoidable taxes and fees (30k
Avios total plus $ 126.50).
For example, an award flight from Dallas to Cancun is only 7,500
Avios points, while the same flight will
cost 12,500 American Airlines miles.
This is one of the best uses of British Airways
Avios, as these short - haul flights
cost only 4,500
points each way, or 9,000 round - trip.
As I've
pointed out many times, I almost always suggest using British Airways
Avios rather than American Airlines AAdvantage miles to book short - distance American Airlines flights since it
costs less miles /
points /
Avios.
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).