Should you use Avios to discount your British Airways flight?

Posted on September 19th, 2014. Written by bookingbusinesstravel.

You can now use Avios to reduce the cost of a flight booking but is this a good value?

Discount £10 Costs 1,500 Avios
Discount £20 Costs 3,000 Avios
Discount £30 Costs 4,500 Avios

BA has recently increased the offer so that On longer European routes, if you are booking two or more travellers, you can save up to £100 total:

Discount £60 Costs 9,000
Discount £100 Costs 15,000

Longer routes include London to Athens and London to Istanbul

The redemption value is 0.666 p per Avios (That’s £0.006)

If you’ve converted Tesco Clubcard points to boost your AVIOS you will have actually paid 0.4 p per Avios

So you are in profit – but not by a great margin.

And consider that for 9,000 Avios you may be able to buy a return flight ticket that may cost as much as £200

In which scenario you’d achieve a value of 2p per Avios – which is much better. But finding availability can be difficult, and the discount offer applies to any flight that has an economy fare available.

If you are booking business travel, the Avios discount will be more attractive than attempting to find a completely free ticket.

To obtain your discount, book flights as you would normally on ba.com and after selecting your preferred schedules, you will be offered the opportunity to choose the discount.

You will also earn additional Avios on the booking which will increase the overall value of the deal.

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