Get the full details of applicable airlines and booking classes at the time of booking. Reward flight saver allows anyone who has earned one avios in the last year to book a shorthaul economy reward flight with a subsidised level of taxes and charges. A roundtrip through phoenix would be 2,717 miles, which would require 23,000 iberia avios in economy. The reason is quite simple otherwise people would book lots of flights, get their avios and then cancel which would result in ba giving out.
Book flights directly with any of our airline partners and use your avios to discount the. Just call the ba rep and provide the flight information you would. To book flights online with ba avios, you must log into your british airways executive club account at, then hover over the book menu item and click book a flight with avios. Just call the ba rep and provide the flight information you would like to book, and the agent will quote you a price. Booking a flight with british airways avios can be complicated and fees can be high, but executive club members who dont mind doing some digging can find a great deal. In our example, if you find a flight on operated by alaska airlines available for aa mileage redemption, that same flight should be available for avios redemption with british airways. You can take reward flights with british airways, iberia and our oneworld and other partner airlines, wherever theres availability. Mar 03, 2020 like most airlines, the number of avios points required to book ba reward flights is based upon the distance of the flight flown. British airways reward flights using avios to book ba.
Using the card on the chase iberia portal, you get a 10% discount on iberia flights. You pay with your avios plus a cash amount for taxes, fees and carrier charges. British airways is one of my favorite frequent flyer programs due to the distancebased award chart and ability to book shorthaul award tickets on the cheap. We will be regularly covering all the different parts of the avios programme, so this guide will continue to be updated as those additional resources are published heres what you need to know about earning and. Booking ba flights with avios points air travel forum. Using british airways avios would have saved you 10,000 miles. British airways avios are arguably the most popular airline points currency in the united kingdom, so its only fair that tpg u.
A brilliant guide to british airways upgrades using avios. Reward flight finder allows you to search once and see a year of availability. Yes, your assumption is right that you would earn avios only after you wouldve completed your flights. Aug 06, 2019 other blog posts ive seen have said to book aer lingus using ba avios, you would call british airways and ask them to waive the phone charge because it cant be booked online. They officially commit to making four seats in economy and two business class seats available for avios redemption on every flight. If you use 2 or more oneworld partner airlines for your redemption, a different number of miles applies. How to book american airlines flights with british airways. Indeed, if youre looking for award flights from the u. You can only collect avios for travel on eligible sectors, booking classes and flights with selected airlines. Feb 12, 2020 these zone 1 avios awards are not available for flights to, from or within the us. It wants to charge me a fee comparable to the cost of the flight without points plus about 50,000 avios points. How to find award availability with iberia avios one mile. How do you book partner airline award flights with ba avios.
Flights that you book using avios are called reward flights. How to book award flights using british airways avios the. Meanwhile, connecting in dallas instead puts the roundtrip at 5,091 miles, pushing it into the 42,000 avios tier. Redemptions are charged oneway, on a per flight basis according to the distances above, so two short flights or 250 miles each would be charged as 2 x 4,0004,500 avios. A brilliant guide to british airways upgrades using avios or. Save avios by not flying ba round the world redemptions. Apr 29, 2019 booking a flight with british airways avios can be complicated and fees can be high, but executive club members who dont mind doing some digging can find a great deal. You can book to any worldwide destination, where theres availability, with british airways and our oneworld partners. If youre an iberia plus member, you not only get elite points, enabling you to upgrade to the next tier, but also earn avios every time you travel on a flight operated and sold by any of the more than 30 airlines in the oneworld alliance. We can be quite flexible on dates and so have found ba great for booking city breaks. Pay for the flights using your avios you just need to pay the taxes fees and charges with cash. How to book british airways reward flights using avios.
You can collect avios on the class of travel you booked and paid for that appears on your ticket. British airways reward flights guide to using avios to book. After saving avios for a long time i am trying to book ba first class flights to las vegas in may 2014. It would be worthwhile to try using the avios flight calculator on the ba website, and having a play with some example dates and destinations whilst logged into the ba website. The best tool for upgrading british airways flights is rewardflightfinder. Best ways to redeem british airways avios without huge. How to book award flights using british airways avios. Using avios points on aer lingus british airways avios aer. Ba agent was adamant that this could not be booked as a connection with avios due to the different airports in london. How to book vueling flights using avios tricks of the trade. Jan 21, 2020 there currently isnt a published british airways avios award chart, but they do have peak and offpeak redemptions for british airways award flights. Their offpeak redemptions can deliver great value on your ba avios points, especially given you can find offpeak pricing for nearly 8 months of the year on flights operated by ba.
Here are some tips to help you get the flights you want. The best uses of 100,000 british airways avios the points guy. From british airways homepage, click register now at the top right or click this link, enter your information then click join now at the bottom once youre registered, you can start the search process. Jun 24, 2018 a roundtrip through phoenix would be 2,717 miles, which would require 23,000 iberia avios in economy. The 8 best ways to redeem iberia plus avios for max value. I phoned the ba exectutive club they were no help as they do not know when any first class seats will become available or how many. Jan 11, 2015 the points guy, brian kelly, answers a reader question about booking partner airline award flights using british airways avios points. British airways do not offer a company travel loyalty programme in the us but our partner american airlines does. Mar 03, 2019 the best tool for upgrading british airways flights is rewardflightfinder. Apr 07, 2020 reward flight saver allows anyone who has earned one avios in the last year to book a shorthaul economy reward flight with a subsidised level of taxes and charges.
The ultimate guide to using bas avios for japanese domestic. Book flights directly with any of our airline partners and use your. Redeeming your avios for flights should be simple, but that is not always the case. If you are a small or mediumsized business and would like to earn your company points when your employees travel. In my demo, i will book an american airlines flight, but the steps below will work with us airways, british airways, and most oneworld alliance airlines. This applies to both shorthaul and longhaul flights. Besides, your avios will take you further becaues you can use them to fly with the airlines in the alliance. Best ways to redeem british airways avios without huge fees. British airways not offering cash refunds on avios flights. Best value with flat tax rates on eligible bookings. The best uses of 100,000 british airways avios the. So it seems that ba is actually good for something other than aa domestic short haul flights after all. Whenever the topic of british airways avios comes up, we hear complaints that avios are worthless. We have around 54,000 household avios points which is enough for 1 free ticket return.
Using avios points on aer lingus british airways avios. Booking partner award flights using british airways avios. How to cancel or refund british airways avios award tickets in this howto guide, i will show you how to book a british airways avios award ticket. And by using iberia avios which can be transferred 1. If a flight has milesaaver availability as shown by the american airlines awardsearch engine, it is available for booking with british airways avios and should but doesnt always display on the british airways website. You can even use your avios for hotel nights, car hires and leisure options, and when you shop at the more than 90 partners you. The content on this page is accurate as of the posting date. You cant use it on qatar airways, cathay pacific etc even though you can book such flights on avios. How to book reward flight saver flights with avios points. There is a chart for redeeming avios that not many people are aware of.
Lets look at how many avios that same flight will cost us. For reward flights with british airways, you will pay either a peak or offpeak avios amount, depending on the date of your flight. Much like when trying to book alaska using ba avios. When you go to use part pay with avios on the ba website, the amount of avios you can use towards your flight is capped. Book us airways flights with british airways avios. This will bring you to a dialog box that lets you input your desired airports, dates, class of service, etc. September 14, 2016 by brad 36 comments travel miles 101 has partnered with cardratings for our coverage of credit card products. How to find award availability with iberia avios one. The only exception is when booking a uk domestic connection tofrom london to connect to a longhaul flight. If you find a flight on but cannot find it on, you will have to. I want to book a tenerife tfs to hel flight but the tenerife flight on ba goes to gatwick and the ay flight leaves within 24 hours from lhr. You pay avios plus a cash amount to cover the taxes, fees and carrier charges.
As you will notice there is a further variable which affects the number of avios required to book a british airways reward flight booking. Its relatively easy to book british airways reward flights using avios. British airways releases avios seats 355 days in advance. We have a found a way to get around ba s block and to allow a cash cancellation. Aug 07, 2019 the ultimate guide to japan airlines domestic flights booked using british airways executive club avios air travel february 22, 2018 august 7, 2019 by keishi nukina a couple of times in the past, especially in connection with groupon spain and venteprivee france promotions, i wrote about how using british airways avios miles for japanese. My last experience of booking a vueling flight, about a year ago, was a bit of a horror story. Spending avios executive club british airways book. If you subscribe to this blog, you will find out pretty quickly. This is a much better option than british airways avios, which would require 30,000 avios for the foursegment routing. This means, for example, you cant use it on the comairoperated but ba branded flights between johannesburg and cape town. Since ba is part of the oneworld alliance, you can use avios to book award tickets on airlines like. The ultimate guide to japan airlines domestic flights booked using british airways executive club avios air travel february 22, 2018 august 7, 2019 by keishi nukina a couple of times in the past, especially in connection with groupon spain and venteprivee france promotions, i wrote about how using british airways avios miles for japanese.
This usually means extra avios availability being released. How to book aer lingus award tickets with british airways. How to book british airways reward flights using avios points. All flights have a minimum number of guaranteed seats for purchase with avios. Log in british airways book flights, holidays, city. Ba do not release the flights until 355 days before and even then they do not show any first class seats. Where planning to go to hong kong from glasgow around late january 2014. It cant be used on franchise or codeshare services. Like most airlines, the number of avios points required to book ba reward flights is based upon the distance of the flight flown.
The distances are split into a total of 9 zones as summarised below. How to use british airways avios to book award flights. Reward flights executive club british airways book. One topic has dominated my inbox and the hfp comments over the last couple of days the withdrawal by british airways of the ability to refund an avios flight online for cash. Why is british airways deliberately blocking online cash refunds for avios ba flight bookings. How do i use british airways avios to book american airlines. I cannot seem to find a flight from jfk to cdg that will just let me fly with avios points. A beginners guide to using british airways avios the. Looking across all frequent flyer schemes except avios, short haul redemptions are a waste of time unless you need flexibility or are travelling at short notice. I guess what i am asking is where is the link where i can book with just avios points and no other fees.
If youre just making plans use our book and upgrade form to search for specific flights and dates to see if you can upgrade as you book. Nov 04, 2017 yes, your assumption is right that you would earn avios only after you wouldve completed your flights. Apr 23, 2019 you are essentially part paying with avios, except, unlike when you do this on the british airways website there is one key difference. How to book american airlines flights with british airways avios miles. Mar 04, 2020 assuming you were planning on flying from say london to boston, a british airways operated return flight in economy would require a grand total of 26,000 avios points and. This free website allows you to see all dates where seats using avios are available in your desired cabin. The ultimate guide to using bas avios for japanese.
Vueling allows you to use avios for the cost of your entire flight if you wanted to do so. Apr 21, 2020 in our example, if you find a flight on operated by alaska airlines available for aa mileage redemption, that same flight should be available for avios redemption with british airways. Options for any eligible flight will be shown automatically as long as you are logged in and have a sufficient avios balance. We can be quite flexible on dates and so have found ba great for booking. Now, that used to be a terrific deal for shorthaul flights because the bottom level distance band is just 4,500 avios for flights up.
There currently isnt a published british airways avios award chart, but they do have peak and offpeak redemptions for british airways award flights. However a flight booked with aer lingus and starting in dublin would have cost just. You must find milesaaver american space in order to be able to book the american flight with avios. When booking reward flights, you can choose all peak dates, all offpeak dates, or a mixture of the two. When does british airways release avios reward flights and. Travel miles 101 and cardratings may receive a commission from card issuers. If you have an existing booking log in to manage my booking, select your flight and choose upgrade this flight with avios to see if your flight can be upgraded.
Its not that useful for simple point to point itineraries but if you fancy doing a multicentre holiday, around the world or new zealandaustralia this is a trick worth knowing. Earlier this week i booked a vueling flight using avios and thought it would be a good idea to share some details about the booking process as there doesnt seem to be a whole lot of information out there about this i didnt want to book this flight. You can also set free alerts, which will email you when and if a seat opens up. Nov 11, 2018 its relatively easy to book british airways reward flights using avios. Being able to book us airways flights with british airways avios has opened up some great possibilities. With the trial starting today, the new avios pricing options can be redeemed on flights in the uk and europe. Other blog posts ive seen have said to book aer lingus using ba avios, you would call british airways and ask them to waive the phone charge because it cant be booked online. Theres dozens of examples of times that it makes sense to book american airlines award flights with british airways avios. Since british airways has a distancebased award chart and american airlines is a oneworld partner, you can use avios to book any aa flight with saverlevel award availability and have the price based on the avios chart. Or use them on iberia flights to upgrade from flexible economy fares y, b or h to business class. Nov 26, 2019 and by using iberia avios which can be transferred 1. Choose your preferred pay with avios discount from the options displayed on the payment page get money off the cost of your flight while still earning tier credits and avios. Oct 23, 2018 british airways releases avios seats 355 days in advance.
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