Avios sale – £1 Reward Flight Saver routes launch and are bookable now

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• Paul says:

  13 Jan13 January 12:55

  2 x £1 return flights to Rome booked plus a free night at the Waldorf Cavalieri using a Hilton free night certificate from taking out the Hilton credit card (something else I read about on HFP). Thanks Raffles!

• Reward flight Saver = £1 + Avios! - Ghetto IFE says:

  13 Jan13 January 12:59

  […] are based on a London departure, but Head For Points notes this also works from the regions (eg, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow […]

• Howard says:

  13 Jan13 January 13:08

  I just looked at terms and conditions and it says flights from London BUT London City is not in the £1 offer.

• Howard says:

  13 Jan13 January 14:01

  I called BA and yes that’s what they told me about London City. Said it was not a BA flight.

• uk1 says:

  13 Jan13 January 14:07

  Easilly satisfied …. a couple of lfights for mrs uk1 and me for a one-day return 31st May to Amsterdam for the new art gallery and a rijsttafel. First flight out … last flight back. Last time we did this was BMI …..

  • Rob says:

    13 Jan13 January 14:08

    I have booked an AMS day trip for the same reason in March!

    • Nick says:

      13 Jan13 January 15:49

      Anyone know how to add an infant (4 months at time of flight) to a 1x adult booking?

      Will it be simply 10% of the current cash price? or 10% of avios and a RFS fee?

      • Rob says:

        13 Jan13 January 16:04

        10% of Avios and 10% of taxes … not sure if RFS is different in terms of how they add the taxes.

      • Jonny says:

        13 Jan13 January 16:05

        Hi Nick

        i just did this to Lisbon – wouldn’t let me include an infant as part of the booking but called up Avios and they sorted it out over the phone.
        Cost me an extra 1,500 Avios (i.e. 1%) and £1 in taxes/charge – though spent about 10-15 mins on the phone whilst they worked out the taxes/charges bit for the little one

        • Jonny says:

          13 Jan13 January 16:07

          sorry, meant 10% of the Avios.
          I think i spent so long on hold as obviously 10% of “normal” taxes would be more than £1, so they had to do some kind of manual override to just charge £1 taxes for the baby, as they seemed to accept it wouldn’t make sense to charge any more than that given the adult cost!

        • Nick says:

          13 Jan13 January 16:14

          Thanks!!

          Raffles – would be great if you could one day do a post on infant and child bookings.

          I recently added a baby to a Virgin flight (LHR- CPT return). Cost £103, which was strange as a cash adult ticket was £880, just before I phoned to add the baby to our existing booking.

        • Rob says:

          13 Jan13 January 17:24

          I am thinking of a general ‘what I have learned about flying with kids’ post! Although it can be summarised as:

          short-haul (either class) is FAR worse than long-haul in Business
          buy an iPad or portable DVD player – one per kid to avoid fighting!
          get a middle pair in BA Club World
          don’t book First
          have no worries whatsoever about booking Club World
          remember to select a child meal in Manage My Booking as BA automatically orders an adult meal, even if you have booked a child ticket (unless ‘child meal’ is in their Executive Club profile)

        • Jonny says:

          13 Jan13 January 16:27

          I’d be interested in such a post too and I’m sure you’ve had plenty of experience recently Raffles!

        • squills says:

          13 Jan13 January 17:37

          It used to be a good idea to get bulkhead seats with our kids when they were in nappies. We went to NZ and back with them 3 times when they were tiny tots and that cot thing you get was a godsend – bulkhead seats only in the old days.

          Funny how people (fellow travellers on long haul) panned out – in a somewhat manichaeistic way 😉 – between inherently good or inherently evil. The good guys who took a whine or two in their stride and even on occasion gamely gave mum & dad an hour’s rest by taking a kid away for an hour or so. And the other ones: let’s call them the ‘evil lookers’ who clearly thought kids don’t belong on planes and you had offended some deep-seated moral code by disturbing their peace lol

        • Chris says:

          15 Jan15 January 14:47

          I had to phone to do a booking including infant and as there were several itineraries they suggested I left them details and my card info whilst they booked them. They are now all booked but each one-way booking has come up with a charge of £7 for 2 adults and an infant, whereas I was expecting just £1.50.

          Weird.

        • Camille says:

          16 Jan16 January 18:23

          Jonny – I have been trying to add 2 infants since Tuesday, to our booking to Nice in May. The BA Rep was not able to do this on the phone and said she would have to refer it to their “Fares Dept”., She thought the RFS element should be £10 per infant. I explained that did not sound right and I made reference to ‘a friend’ who had booked in line with your experience of being charged £1.

          Today, I have been informed their fares dept. have confirmed to charge £10 per infant!! This does not sound right. How can a ‘fare’ paying adult be charged £1, but an infant sitting on that adult’s lap £10?? Has anyone had a similar experience?

          I am think of paying the £10 each and then arguing with them later over the issue in writing.

        • squills says:

          13 Jan13 January 16:08

          Free to call them (if you get free landline numbers) on http://www.saynoto0870.com/numbersearch.php

    • uk1 says:

      13 Jan13 January 17:02

      Snap! I also tried for a day in NCE for the fireworks on the last day of the Carnival on March 4th but the last flight leaves 2 hours before the display.

    • Olivula says:

      14 Jan14 January 00:05

      Just to make you all feel better I have 400k Avios but missus won’t go near a plane….too much CO2 🙁 green with envy

• Volker says:

  13 Jan13 January 15:51

  Just booked GLA-LHR-DUB return for a nice break for 2 in May. I haven’t travelled in Economy for years now, and as I am back to BAEC blue (no wonder, doing reward flights all the time…) we won’t have lounge access on this occasion. So I’m afraid refreshments between the flights will cost us more than the tickets… We will still drink a toast to Raffles – cheers!

  • squills says:

    13 Jan13 January 16:05

    Do you have time to get Amex Gold? ISTR you get a couple of Lounge passes pa. Others can confirm.

    There must be a couple of other wheezes.

    • Volker says:

      13 Jan13 January 17:37

      A regular at BA’s lounges, I am not aware of third-party lounges at T5. Are there any?

      • Rob says:

        13 Jan13 January 18:28

        No!

• Chris says:

  13 Jan13 January 17:09

  Areany of these available from LHR?

• Chris says:

  13 Jan13 January 17:12

  Actually meant LHR T5

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