British Airways
The British Airways Visa currently has a 100,000 Avios (miles) bonus until Thursday. The spend requirement is a little high (although do-able for anyone) to earn the last half of the Avios. However, for just a little more you can earn their companion pass, known as the Travel Together Ticket.
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This has turned into an acidental series of how to use stopovers to actually save Avios. It's taking advantage of the way the pricing program works and being strategic when booking. But understand there are some hefty fuel surcharges that come when using Avios to fly to Europe. This post purely deals with saving the points - Avios - and not at all about saving cash. However, Feb 26th, Tuesday morning I will start a series on how to avoid fuel surcharges when using Avios. For now, here are specific example on how to save Avios with stopovers...
British Airways is a distance-based program but has a funny chart. 7,002 literal miles costs 50,000 Avios but flying 3,999 literal miles costs 20,000. Therefore it's cheaper to fly two flights under 4,000 Avios. This is a series explaining that concept and this is a post giving specifics for using Avios to get across the Pacific.
- Introduction
- Using Stopovers to Save Avios to South America
- Using Stopovers to Save Avios Across the Pacific
- Using Stopovers to Save Avios to Europe
- Using Stopovers to Save Avios to India
- Conclusion
One of the more odd things...
Read moreThere’s a lot of complaining about how worthless Avios are because they switched to a distance based pricing for their awards program. But if I may be so frank; does British Airways suck, or do your booking skills suck? Are they as good as they once were? Of course not. Are they still awesome? If you know how to use them.
Read up on the rest of this series. But for now I’m going to give you specific examples of how you could book a flight in such a way that will save you Avios by adding stopovers.
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