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BA Gold? Book £1 Avios sale tickets for all of 2014

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My main article on the £1 ‘Reward Flight Saver’ deals in the Avios sale can be found here.  This article is only for BA Golds members.

If you are a British Airways Gold card holder, you will know that one of the benefits is that you can change redemption bookings for free, without paying the £25 fee.

This means that, because of the way BA calculates the taxes on reward tickets, until midday on Wednesday you can effectively book the £1 Reward Flight Saver fares for the next 355 days!

(Remember, you must be a BA Gold card holder to do this.)

It is very simple:

Step 1:  Book a reward flight on ba.com (it must be ba.com because a Gold does not get free changes on avios.com bookings) to one of the eight destinations available with £1 tax.  Your booking must be for a flight before May 31st to get the £1 tax offer.

Step 2:  Once booked, you can immediately go into ‘Manage My Booking’ and click ‘Change the date / time of my flight’.  You can change the flight to any point in the next 355 days.  No extra tax will be charged.

Here is one I made earlier.  Old flight:

Change Old

New flight:

Change New

As a reminder, the eight routes in the £1 Reward Flight Saver sale are:

Amsterdam

Barcelona

Dublin

Jersey

Lisbon

Madrid

Nice

Rome

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

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Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

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We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

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You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

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There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

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Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

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Comments (61)

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  • squills says:
    14 Jan14 January 18:20

    I did a Tesco convo yesterday and Avs appeared in the a/c in under 24 hours.

  • Callum says:
    14 Jan14 January 18:29

    That is the standard Tesco conversion rate.

  • CV says:
    14 Jan14 January 19:43

    As i sat on hold to BA i thought it worth mentioning that you can avoid their 0844 numbers by dialling 0191 490 7900. It will recognise the call as being from the UK and ask you to dial the 0844 number so either dial 141 first or withhold your mobile number via an option in the settings menu. Still on hold.

    • Trevor says:
      15 Jan15 January 09:02

      With some mobile networks (it works for me with 3) you can dial #31# before a number to selectively hide yours without going about changing any settings back and forth. If it works for you, just store numbers like this in your phone (if you dial them frequently enough to warrant saving) with the #31# prefix. I have a few I do this for.

  • Joe says:
    14 Jan14 January 22:51

    Trying to charge me £ 91.90 Taxes etc

    • Joe says:
      14 Jan14 January 23:02

      Just Realised I haven’t flown with BA in a while. But still works on Avios website

  • HPN-HRL says:
    15 Jan15 January 01:56

    Hi Raffles,

    Sorry for the (probably) silly question – I haven’t flown BA long enough to know this.

    Can I (BAEC Gold) book one of these RFS for a (non-Gold) friend with my points and make changes (keeping the cost at one pound) so she can fly in August?

    • Rob says:
      15 Jan15 January 08:06

      No, unfortunately not.

      Unless … you also book yourself on the same flight. You can then make the changes as there is a Gold in the booking. You would then ring BA and remove yourself from the booking and refund your ticket (no fee).

      The only snag would be if they still charged you the £15 telephone service fee as a Gold.

  • jo says:
    15 Jan15 January 11:25

    Trying to change my flight online; I receive the ‘please contact BA….’ error message.

    • Rob says:
      15 Jan15 January 11:43

      It normally works OK for point to point flights, if you’ve got a connection in there it does seem to cause issues as pazza2000 commented yesterday.

      No loss – if you can’t change it, as a Gold you can simply cancel it outright for free anyway.

      • Alan says:
        15 Jan15 January 11:57

        Worked OK for me yesterday for a flight with an overnight connection in London 🙂

        • pazza2000 says:
          15 Jan15 January 12:06

          I’ve made 6 reservations in total (mostly all tentative), all with domestic connections. I could move the same day connections online no problems, however the two bookings with overnight stopovers in London (outbound) could not be amended online. That being said, was easy enough to do so over the phone.

          Is there a Gold Line non 0800 tel#? I normally call the standard 141 (outside the UK#), however the wait times have been a little longer than I like recently.

    • jo says:
      15 Jan15 January 11:51

      sorry spoke too soon. tried again, changed for two bookings with many thanks.

  • Alan says:
    19 Jan19 January 11:04

    Just had a look at changing a booking made during this and there appears to be no cost to change 🙂 Obviously can’t change the routing but it seems to allow time/date changes…

    • pazza2000 says:
      19 Jan19 January 11:15

      Ah, don’t tell me this! I would have made a few more tentative reservations (to freely amend)

      • Alan says:
        19 Jan19 January 11:27

        Haha, sorry 😀 I made one provisional for an AMS weekend (using up a Hilton voucher), one for Nice in the Summer and made this one other AMS one with the thought of moving it to a suitable date for an ex-AMS TP run 🙂

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