As of February 2, 2016, you'll pay 7,500 British
Airways Avios points for all flights under 1,150 miles.
I actually discourage you from using
Avios for British Airways flights since they add on fuel surcharges.
You can earn British Airways
Avios points with the British Airways Visa Signature card or transfer them to British Airways at a 1:1 ratio from Chase Ultimate Rewards or from American Express Membership Rewards.
Another nice perk of
using Avios on American Airlines is that you get «Priority AAccess» written on your boarding pass, so you're able to zip through security with the other priority members and you are able to board the plane early as well.
You can book BA flights
with Avios earned from shopping.
it's still important to have a good intended use
of Avios in mind before deciding to transfer; we don't recommend transferring points speculatively.
Earlier this afternoon I posted about an offer for bonus
Avios on business and first class transatlantic trips when you credit oneworld flights to your British Airways Executive Club account.
Executive Club Members can
earn Avios points per the terms and conditions of the Executive Club.
For instance, the card usually comes with 50,000
bonus Avios after $ 2,000 in spending during the first 3 months (the exact terms may vary from time to time).
The same flight only costs 8,000 British Airways
Avios in economy and 15,500 in business.
Generally, these offers will involve a retailer issuing an increased number of
Avios per dollar.
You have until 9/17/17 to transfer to British Airways or
Iberia Avios programs with a 40 % bonus.
If you make $ 30,000 in purchases on that card in a year, you'll receive a «Travel Together Ticket,» which enables a second person to accompany you when you redeem
BA Avios miles for a free trip.
Fortunately, there will be no changes when
redeeming Avios points for travel in economy class for travel of any distance.
If you're flying from Philadelphia and have British Airways
Avios award miles, use them on non-stop US Airways flight.
Although very similar, the Iberia
Avios program allows you to pay for award tickets in full, or at predetermined tiers of miles plus cash.
You will receive 50,000 British Airways
Avios after spending $ 3,000 within the first 3 months of opening your account.
But I guess this just shows how subjective mile valuations can be; because my home airport is DFW, I value BA
Avios at 2 — 3c.
In general, business class awards cost twice as many
Avios as economy, and first class awards cost three times more.
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Iberia has a 25 % off sale on award flights and 25 %
more Avios awarded on all your paid flights.
I am choosing to transfer a few points into my British Airways
Avios account in order to keep my points from expiring.
I just wrote a post a couple days ago about how you can combine
Avios redemptions with your preferred region - based miles to spend less miles overall and see more places all at the same time.
Customers can collect
Avios when booking cash flights with partner airlines as well as on international hotel stays, car rental and on everyday purchases through partners.
By using
Avios miles for flights within the Americas, the savings with the 40 % bonus is substantial!
but it also offered me a number of
Avios + cash options that I wasn't expecting:
Earn
Avios Rewards Program Agreement: For more information about the British Airways card rewards program, view the latest Rewards Program Agreement.
You can earn tons of bonus
Avios by staying with British Airways» hotel partners.
These offers don't appear to be restricted to UK Executive Account holders so US flyers with
Avios balances can take advantage of this too.
Currently British Airways is offering a 40 % transfer bonus until September 27th, 2012, which means you can get a lot more
Avios if you were to transfer your American Express rewards points over to your BA account.
Following the horrific devaluations earlier this year British Airways flyers can probably do with as
many Avios as they can get their hands on, but is this sale any good?
For $ 80 more, I could lower the number of
Avios needed from 15,000 to 9,000.
You can reduce a lot of this cost by using
Avios through Iberia instead.
If your ticket price don't amount to many rewards, you can simply
buy Avios so as to boost your rewards balance.
From many major West Coast airports, you can book a nonstop economy class award for 25,000 British Airways
Avios round - trip.
Eligible purchase via British Airways
Avios eStore between 00:01 Thursday 5 October 2017 and 23:59 Sunday 8 October 2017.
For Iberia, British Airways, and Vueling flights, you can save time by using the Iberia Plus
Avios Calculator here.
You can transfer
Avios between BA and Iberia accounts for some cheaper awards with lower surcharges.
You can also
purchase Avios if you are short of a reward, share them with a Household Account, or transfer them to friends for a fee.
This example is particularly relevant for redeeming
Avios because British Airways operates from the UK.
Importantly, for those who are not excluded from this promotion, the double
Avios offer applies to flights booked with a BA flight number so this includes all flights on partner airlines (American, Finnair and Iberia) as long as the fare is purchased through BA.