New British Airways fare reduction by using Avios

Posted on October 30th, 2013. Written by bookingbusinesstravel.

Up until today, you could only redeem Avios by buying an Avios Ticket.
You had to search for a flight with Avios availability. And if you were lucky enough to find the date and time that you wanted, you could then choose to pay more – and use less Avios.

If you could not find reward seats, the only solution would be to sign up to Avios.com as per my suggestion in this post, in order to find availability.

It’s a frequent complaint – that you have thousands of Avios and are unable to spend them. This is because Avios seats are usually offered in a very limited availability.

Now however, when booking via ba.com or the BA call centre, you buy a ticket priced in any class and you can part pay with Avios.

The maximum discount is £30 per ticket but if you buy two singles you could achieve a £60 discount per roundtrip

This is excellent news because you can travel when you want – on a commercial fare. It’s just a pity that the discount is restricted to £60.

It is good for people with small Avios balances wanting to spend just 1,500 , 3,000 or 4, 500 Avios

The maximum discount of £30 costs 4,500 Avios which is a valuation of 0.67p per Avios, which isn’t terrible – but not very exciting either. If you collect Avios via Tesco Clubcard you in effect buying those Avios for 0.41p each

There are occasions where I have managed to achieve approx 2p per Avios by using the points when the air fare was expensive.

A benefit is that you will earn Avios and Tier points on these tickets too. So, whilst you may spend 4,500 Avios reducing a fare to say Copenhagen, you will earn 1,188 Avios back on the trip! Avios that you would not earn on a pure Avios reward flight

To book, visit ba.com via the link above. You’ll be offered the Avios discount after selecting flights.

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