Read Ian’s tier-point run diary …. 1,390 British Airways tier points for Brussels to Hawaii

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• paul says:

  2 Aug2 August 17:15

  Can’t compete on the Tier point run stakes but the family holiday starts on Wednesday and we are off to Hawaii. route is LUX LHR DFW HNL KOA / LIH LAX LHR BRU. I get the 777-300 on AA for Transatlantic sectors but to complete the 4 sectors on BA I chose the BA code share on the way back. Its a 767 with slidey seats for the 8 hrs from DFW to HNL. The fare does not permit a stopover but I have bagged 23hrs 59 mins in Dallas and 22 hours in LAX. It means getting my silver card again through to April 2016 whilst being comfortable and enjoying the service on AA brilliant flights across the pond.

  • Halo says:

    8 Aug8 August 07:52

    I hope your holiday goes well – BBC News is reporting that Hawaii is due to be hit by a hurricane (typhoon?). 🙁

• Clive says:

  2 Aug2 August 17:24

  We wanted to go back to Forida this year and economy was around £1K. We were lucky enough to pick up the following :

  DUB – LCY – JFK – MIA – MCO – JFK – LCY – DUB

  In J and F for £1050. Great result

  • Alan says:

    2 Aug2 August 17:42

    Definitely – great price and as you say particularly good to be only a tiny bit more than Y!

• Ads says:

  2 Aug2 August 23:43

  Just wondering if on the return leg JFK-LCY-AMSif he got off at London city and didn’t carry on to AMS would he forfeit the tier points and miles for the entire trip or just the LCY-AMS leg? Just wondering if it’s necessary to fly to AMS and then take a repositioning flight back

  • Col A-B says:

    3 Aug3 August 01:38

    Yes you would forfiet it. If you don’t travel then you don’t get.

• Rich says:

  3 Aug3 August 07:19

  How do you go about looking these once you’ve found the flights? Do you add the segments individually or try and search AMS-HNL?

  • Hugh says:

    3 Aug3 August 09:10

    I would suggest that you go over to flyertalk, have a look under Airlines and Mileage programs, then click on British Airways Exec Club. In there is a thread called BA Tier Point Runs – 2014 Master Thread.

    All the info is there – if you post a question, then the experts will be able to answer them for you – they’re really friendly. You may be able to get a BA employee to book the run for you, you give them the run details, and then you ring up BA to pay for it

• johnjane says:

  3 Aug3 August 22:33

  What is the best way to view the Avios and TPs applicable.

  Can it be done without going through a simulated booking ?

  • Alan says:

    3 Aug3 August 22:39

    Yep, try http://www.owenrudge.net/utils/bacalc/ 🙂

  • Hugh says:

    3 Aug3 August 23:12

    There is a calculator on the BA website – Google “BA tier point calculator” is the top link

• Andy says:

  4 Aug4 August 13:05

  How many tier points do you need to get a Silver BA card? Any good runs to make this as cheap as possible?

  • Rob says:

    4 Aug4 August 14:00

    600.

    Cheapest way is to fly to the US in economy and then do a tier point run of the sort described in the Flyertalk BA tier point runs thread.

    Slightly easier is a business class flight to New York booked ex-EU and connecting to the City Airport flights (since City flights are treated as First for tier points). That would get you 40 + 210 + 210 + 40 = 500 which is most of the way. Start in Helsinki or Budapest and the short-hauls are 60 tier points so you are on 540 in total. An economy connecting flight to pick it up would get you part of the rest.

    Or, more boringly, book some Club Europe flights ex Jersey via Gatwick. These are cheap and you get 160 a pop, although you’d still need to do 4 iterations – JER – Gatwick – wherever – Gatwick – Jersey at 40 per leg.

    • Andy says:

      4 Aug4 August 22:54

      Awesome, thanks Raffles 🙂

• Mac Clellend says:

  5 Aug5 August 07:26

  Just a quick query on this… Can we (in the UK) apply for a AAdvantage Platinum Challenge and do a 10,000 EQP on British Airways. As per the AAdvantage rules it is possible to earn EQP on British Airways flights and with a return flight LON-SIN in full-fare economy it would cover the miles.

  I understand there is a cost for the challenge (£140) but it would be a lot less expensive that a long flight run. Also, Platinum only gives you BA silver but with the 100% bonus miles, pick-your-seat and the business class lounge access that is what a lot of us need.

  Am I missing something here?

• Douglas Read says:

  5 Aug5 August 07:54

  Hi All,

  Am really new to all this and have to say struggle a bit to understand how this is done, terms like nesting and how to work this out just confuse me!

  Does anyone know of a blog where this is explained in simple terms maybe with some illustration in crayon for those who are new to this.

  If not could someone explain to this idiot how for example the LON – JER – AMS Tier point run works and how I would book it.

  Thanks!

  • Rob says:

    5 Aug5 August 08:22

    For better or worse, you won’t find things explained more clearly anywhere outside HFP! I do try to avoid acronyms.

    ‘Nesting’ is booking another ticket which sits inside an existing booking. If you book Gatwick to Jersey on Monday, returning on Wednesday, and then on Tuesday fly a separate ticket booked Jersey-Gatwick-Amsterdam-Gatwick-Jersey, the 2nd ticket is ‘nesting’ inside the dates of the first one.

    Very rarely, airlines get a bit snotty about this. You wouldn’t have any problems though.

    Jersey to Gatwick to Amsterdam to Gatwick to Jersey in Club Europe would be 160 tier points. This is 25% of the way to a Silver card.

    One other thing about Jersey is that you can do an immediate ‘back to back’ as long as you have only hand baggage and have printed your boarding pass at home. You can get off the plane from Gatwick and immediately get back on again to start your nested trip.

    Note that this is not necessarily the most effective (£ per point) way of earning BA tier points to get status quickly but it is convenient – very short flights and 40 tier points in Club Europe per leg.

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