Its relatively easy to book british airways reward flights using avios. This is only available to members who have earned avios within the past 12 months. British airways do not offer a company travel loyalty programme in the us but our partner american airlines does. Now if i hadnt forgotten one of my gold rules when booking i could have protected myself from this risk and saved myself a considerable sum of money. British airways executive club problem on checking reward flight availability hi everyone, im having problems on looking for reward flights this morning. Flights that you book using avios are called reward flights. Nov 23, 2019 in this post, i talk about tips for success when booking british airways reward flights. As such in comparison to a normal british airways flight, redeeming avios points can help save a considerable amount of money. You can book to any worldwide destination, where theres availability, with british airways and our airline partners. British airways reward flights using avios to book ba flights.
Jan 29, 2015 if there are milesaaver award seats, you can book the flight using british airways avios points. Using british airways avios points for amazing reward values. Tuesday 16 july, london british airways executive club members can now book a reward flight using avios and pay as little as. British airways reward flights using avios to book ba.
Using our flight search tool its easy to find and book flights across the entire one world network. Minimum timeframe necessary to make a reservation via 2 hours 6 hours 24 hours 48 hours 72 hours 96 hours. During offpeak periods, which are two thirds of the year, you need less avios for your reward flights. How to book reward flight saver flights with avios points. The app also includes a clever slider function where you can see what redemption options there are for different avios amounts. The british airways reward flight saver can save you cash on british airways europe flights and comair flights. Reward flight saver is one of the best ways to use your avios points. Jan 21, 2020 because british airways has a distancebased award pricing system, youll want to search for and book ba reward flights that are nonstop. Reward availability executive club british airways. 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. Pay for the flights using your avios you just need to pay the taxes fees and charges with cash. Reward flight finder is not affiliated with british airways or avios. 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. How to book award flights using british airways avios the points guy.
Or, use our reward availability tools to search for inspiration and availability. How do i use british airways avios to book american airlines. I thought as long as alaska has reward flights i can use avois for that. So, you pay half of the avios required per two people. How to book partner award flights with british airways avios. While ba doesnt limit the number of stops you can take, each segment will price out individually. The best ways to redeem british airways avios for max value. This usually means extra avios availability being released. 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. As a rule of thumb, if americans website shows the flights with milesaaver availability, british airways avios can book the flight. You can also spend your avios on reward flights on.
Booking partner award flights using british airways avios. So it seems that ba is actually good for something other than aa domestic short haul flights after all. M and i go down to cape town first or club on miles about once every 18 months. Use our new tool to search and book available flights with aadvantage miles, including premium economy and web special awards.
Reward flights more than 355 days in advance flyertalk forums. You can book to any worldwide destination, where theres availability, with british. Pay with avios to get money off the cost of any aer lingus flight when you book through. Reward flights more than 355 days in advance flyertalk. Reward flights book flights with our airline partners on. Feb 28, 2020 at the most basic level, the voucher allows 2for1 travel on british airways reward flights.
You can book the outbound flights when release at 355 days and then add in the inbound flights when they are released later. Results are displayed by the lowest number of miles needed so you can easily choose the dates that best fit your needs. Here are some tips to help you get the flights you want. You pay with your avios plus a cash amount for taxes, fees and carrier charges. Be aware of route and aircraft changes all airlines including ba, constantly change destinations, aircraft types and frequencies. If you cant find availability on your preferred routes or dates, you may be able to part pay with avios instead. Best value with flat tax rates on eligible bookings. You pay avios plus a cash amount to cover the taxes, fees and carrier charges. Booking aer lingus with british airways avios travel miles 101. Jan 16, 2020 british airways executive club part 1, overview of the program and the different tiers british airways executive club part 2, other avios partners and why you should register at all of them british airways executive club part 3, alternative ways to earn extra avios. Youll be shown availability for british airways flights only. One of these is to book as far in advance as possible to secure available seats and this proved to be no different when i booked these flights for our friends. You cant book any ba flights more than 355 days before, this includes revenue and reward flights.
When booking reward flights, you can choose all peak dates, all offpeak dates, or a mixture of the two. How to book alaska airlines flights with british airways. This product is not available to either i current cardmembers of this credit card, or ii previous cardmembers of this credit card who. The best ways to redeem british airways avios for max. On a longhaul flight, you could upgrade from economy world traveller to premium economy world traveller plus.
Search flights multiple cities multi city vacation packages search vacation packages, opens another site in a new window that may not meet accessibility guidelines. British airways offers up to 50 per cent off avios flight. Ba do not release the flights until 355 days before and even then they do not show any first class seats. This will bring you to a dialog box that lets you input your desired airports, dates, class of service, etc. Check availability of british airways reward flights in just one click, and receive email alerts whenever seats become available. How to book award flights using british airways avios. British airways your account must have earned avios in the past 12 months to be eligible for reward flight saver. How to book aer lingus award tickets with british airways. How to use british airways amex 2 for 1 companion voucher. The same holds true for alaska airlines flights, which has a huge network in the western part of the us, but for simplicity well focus on american airlines.
Theres dozens of examples of times that it makes sense to book american airlines award flights with british airways avios. You can take reward flights with british airways, iberia and our oneworld and other partner airlines. I wanted to book one of the ba flights from manchester to mykonos and then open jaw santorinilhrman in club, using my 241, only to find the voucher doesnt work in those ba cf flights which have lower operating costs from ba mainline, so. I would book when you know your exact schedule, and it matches the ba schedule from phx to lhr. Log in british airways book flights, holidays, city.
Jun 27, 2019 redeem avios on ba flights within europe for a flat fee. Cathay pacific flies 6x daily between hong kong and bangkok, and if you wanted to call british airways you could piece together your own itinerary with the evening. This reduces the fees, taxes and surcharges to a single fixed payment of. The british airways executive club program can be incredibly valuable.
Best ways to use a ba companion voucher the points guy uk. Cancelling avios flights the british airways avios. You can book to any worldwide destination, where theres availability, with british airways and our oneworld partners. You can take reward flights with british airways, iberia and our oneworld and other partner airlines, wherever theres availability. Search for flights with aer lingus or our aerclub airline partners british airways and iberia book your reward flight using your avios, plus taxes, fees and charges payable in cash feel like adding a seat, bag or priority boarding to your reward flight booking. There was scant availability with british airways in club class. You can get excellent value from british airways avios, but if youve never booked an avios award, youll want to read our guide on how to do it. Book a roundtheworld trip with one world explorer, opens another site in a new window that may not meet accessibility guidelines. British airways only offer a small number of seats on each flight for avios redemptions. How easy is it to book reward flights with ba and virgin. If you subscribe to this blog, you will find out pretty quickly. Specifically, im wanting to travel from lhr to jfk and having selected no stopovers, i get diverted back to the page to select whether i. There are 2 coach award seats on the nonstop alaska airlines flight from san jose to honolulu.
Mar 03, 2020 in 2011 ba introduced reward flight saver which essentially capped the taxes on shorthaul british airways reward flights at. Mar 02, 2020 as there was no reward availability or even ba cash tickets on the day i wanted to return, i found myself paying. With thousands of offers available every day, there are over 100,000 hotels across the world to spend your. If you are a small or mediumsized business and would like to earn your company points when your employees travel. I am not the biggest fan of the ba web site, though i book 100% online with various airlines, and am always lost there. On a shorthaul flight, you could upgrade from economy euro traveller to business club europe. Redeeming your avios for flights should be simple, but that is not always the case. After saving avios for a long time i am trying to book ba first class flights to las vegas in may 2014.
Reward flight finder home page british airways book. With the trial starting today, the new avios pricing options can be redeemed on flights in the uk and europe. Simply enter your departure city, destination, and the dates you wish to travel, and every available option will appear. Once, i turned a travel agent loose to use our avios to book one of our london trips, and after a week, came back with i cannot make heads.
Avoid paying high fuel surcharges when booking flights with. Guide to british airways reward flight saver redemptions. May 30, 2019 reward flight savers are priced per flight, not per journey, so if you are flying from edinburgh to geneva via london on british airways, you will have to pay 2 x 4,000 or 4,500 avios depending on the peak or off peak date and 2 x the. Just because you can book a seat with cash through a travel agent or the ba website doesnt mean you can use your voucher. The british airways frequent flyer award chart governs these redemptions, which means that shorter flights in actual distance cost dramatically less than a normal frequent flyer award flight using regular american airlines miles. 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. British airways executive club reward flights more than 355 days in advance mrs. Booking aer lingus with british airways avios travel. Rather than surcharges on flights within europe, if youre flying intraeurope on ba with avios, youll be charged a flat fee. I explore the tricks and tips which even seasoned british airways flyers. Jan 02, 2019 the other thing to remember is that, irrespective of the airline policy, can only book 355 days in advance. There is also another, lesserknown award chart for ba. British airways executive club reward flight prices.
Jun, 2019 booking partner awards with british airways avios. May 29, 2018 british airways is very sneaky because it does not show partner airline flight awards online and instead you must find the availability on your own and then call british airways to book. Jul 16, 2019 if you dont have enough points, ba are still running their previous reward scheme. Most of the time when american airlines has milesaaver availability you can book the same award flight on using avios. Turn your everyday spending into exciting travel rewards collect avios on flights, hotels, car hire and online shopping. How to book british airways reward flights using avios. Oct 27, 2016 american airlines and british airways are both part of the oneworld alliance, which means they have access to each others award flight availability and you can book flights with each others miles or points. Importantly, taxes, fees and carrier charges still apply, and only the avios themselves are 2for1. A beginners guide to using british airways avios the. An avios upgrade is always to the next cabin, which can vary depending on the route and airline. Reward flight finder formerly ba redemption finder is a trading name of tim rogers ltd. Sep 29, 2016 i see reward flights available alaska airlines, but when i call ba agents to book for me, they said the flights are not available for using avois. You can take reward flights with british airways, iberia and our one world and other partner airlines, wherever theres availability.
Write down the flight number and call british airways at 8002479297 to book. Aug 07, 2019 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. The only two awards british airways shows with first class availability involve the 11. I wanted to book one of the ba flights from manchester to mykonos and then open jaw santorinilhrman in club, using my 241, only to find the voucher doesnt work in those ba cf flights which have lower operating costs. How to book award flights using british airways avios the. View our 2019 calendar and 2020 calendar with peak and offpeak dates detailed for the year. 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. My executive club and search using book with avios. You can search for reward flight availability to your destination city, country or continent up to one year in advance.
May 20, 2019 for flights under 2,000 miles ba operates a scheme called reward flight saver. However, the process of finding aer lingus flights with award space is incredibly easy. In 2011 ba introduced reward flight saver which essentially capped the taxes on shorthaul british airways reward flights at. Weve spoken and emailed with many people through our free travel rewards coaching program and so many are astounded when they hear the deals you can get by using british airways avios points on actual american airlines flights. Finding reward flights if youre looking to spend your avios on a flight, or want to use a companion voucher, the inapp reward flight finder tool on the rewards app provides an easy way to search and book available reward flights. You should pay 12,500 british airways avios points per person. As the seats tend to go quickly, i usually book outbound 355 days in advance once they are released, or so i thought and then wait for return. Nov 26, 2019 and by using iberia avios which can be transferred 1. To be able to use your companion voucher, youll need to find two reward seats together on the same flights.