New Avios weekly promo – save 50% on selected last-minute routes

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• Gavin says:

  8 Nov8 November 06:13

  I suppose this is BA’s compensation for the reduced rate of earning avios?

  Possibly of some use if I fancy a last minute weekend away. Hopefully some interesting destinations will pop up

• Geoggy says:

  8 Nov8 November 08:26

  Interesting! Can this be combined with the Lloyds Avios upgrade voucher?

  • Solo says:

    8 Nov8 November 08:44

    It can 🙂

• Alan says:

  8 Nov8 November 08:31

  Great so looks like Avios are learning from BA in only offering last minute deals from London! Shame if they offered them half-price from the regions it would bring us back to the pre-devaluation redemption rates too!

• Alan says:

  8 Nov8 November 08:33

  Agree, it’s a very good deal. Not so much during the Festival when their prices go sky high, but I guess folk are willing to pay it!

• Kathy says:

  8 Nov8 November 09:20

  Good for an impulsive weekend away, agree that New York is an unlikely last-minute destination though, given how pricey hotels tend to be. Unless they’re willing to do the ‘secret hotel’/Priceline thing Leisure travellers will likely end up paying the same cash price overall as booking a cash economy flight and getting a better advance purchase rate on their hotel.

  • Kipto says:

    8 Nov8 November 09:43

    Talking of Priceline, has anybody used them for stays in the USA ? prices look good but a bit apprehensive booking somewhere not knowing which hotel I would be staying in.

    • Kathy says:

      8 Nov8 November 11:45

      We did it a few years ago for a New York trip and ended up in the Holiday In Express Midtown-57th St. Ended up costing us £1584 for 2 rooms for 6 nights in May 2012. So about £130 a night per room.

      • Kathy says:

        8 Nov8 November 12:22

        They were double-double rooms, by the way. That trip was inspired by the impending change from ‘Airmiles’ to Avios – I had enough Airmiles for a return trip to New York in economy and I was determined to get a truly free (no taxes and fees) flight out of them! My friends ended up paying about £430 for their economy flights, IIRC, which I believe means I ended up getting the equivalent of 0.43 per avios! But with no fees to pay it made for a really cheap holiday – under £400! My next NYC trip will cost more than double that in cash for 4 nights and 35k avios but I will be in CW both ways (travelling alone this time, so it is partly due to not being able to share the hotel cost).

    • Nick says:

      8 Nov8 November 21:00

      Priceline was excellent to use 10 years ago as the USD exchange rate was better those days. I use to get Marriott Hotels in Bangkok and Sydney for next to nothing. But remember, any points or benefits from status isn’t gotten. With Hilton and IHG that is.

• Jac says:

  8 Nov8 November 09:56

  I was just going to book a ticket so this is a great find, raffles.
  only problem I have an avios account with zero points / activity but plenty of BA points (I m BA gold).
  I transferred some BA points over but I can t benefit from the RFS as i had no activity,
  Any suggestion how i can quickly earn 1 avios so I can save on the tax?

  Thanks

  • Polly says:

    8 Nov8 November 10:02

    Buy a local one stop train ticket on line, the cheapest possible! Then you earn a few avios! Easy!

    • Jac says:

      8 Nov8 November 10:18

      The website says avios would be credited latest 13 dec. are you confident they post immediately. I want to promo for this week so need the points in my account promptly

      • Jerry says:

        8 Nov8 November 10:31

        Could you transfer 2.50 tesco club card points to earn?

        • Jerry says:

          8 Nov8 November 10:32

          Or sign up for Reward for thoughts and do the first survey via avios?

        • Jac says:

          8 Nov8 November 10:41

          I transferred 2.5£ clubcard points. Any idea how long this takes to be credited?
          There are only 5 seats available so I Cant wait too long.
          The miles saved are lost on the 25£ extra tax i would have to pay if i cant benefit from the RFS.

        • JQ says:

          8 Nov8 November 13:58

          If you have transferred in the past, usually 1-2 working days

          If this is your first transfer (to avios.com, which is separate from BAEC), then there is a risk your details don’t match, in which case you will receive a new avios.com card in the post and have to use the live chat to merge accounts… that took me 3 weeks

      • Polly says:

        8 Nov8 November 10:43

        Sorry Jac, no avios points post immediately. Didn’t quite realise you needed them like now! Thought you meant a quick cheap way to keep your avios account live. As Raffles points out, it’s good to buy one item a year to keep activity live. Same for IB and BA and AA, I guess. We use train ticket or groupon purchases now and again on all these accounts to keep them valid.
        Maybe Jerrys suggestion. Can’t comment on when these avios would post? Jerry

        • Fenny says:

          8 Nov8 November 11:09

          Or play Avios Suitcase. I think those are the only avios I’ve had go in to that account for a while.

  • Rob says:

    8 Nov8 November 11:07

    Tesco transfer should credit overnight, but you need to hope the seats are still there.

    • Jac says:

      8 Nov8 November 11:27

      Thanks. I transferred tesco points and joined Reward for thoughts. Now hope the points post before the seats are gone.

    • harry says:

      8 Nov8 November 14:18

      This week some Tesco conversions were overnight, some others nearly 48 hrs.

  • harry says:

    8 Nov8 November 21:18

    Buying the smallest number of Avios allowed would be instant I think. Anybody think different or that it wouldn’t count?

    • Rob says:

      8 Nov8 November 22:08

      It should count but at £31 it is hardly a great deal to save 2,000 Avios!

  • Jac says:

    9 Nov9 November 11:45

    Fyi, the 600 points for joining Rewards for Thoughts posted today so I managed to secure the seats at the discounted avios together with the RFS tax.
    Jerry thanks for the tip !!!

    My tesco conversion points have still to show up (so looks like it could take 48 hours)

    • Meera says:

      9 Nov9 November 14:38

      Hi Jac did you manage to complete Rewards for Thoughts surveys from the UK? I have never been able to, always get a message to say my country isn’t supported.. Any insight on how you did it would be great! thanks

      • Andrew says:

        12 Nov12 November 19:38

        Meera, I am in the UK and use Rewards For Thoughts every day.

        You could try downloading Hola which should hide your location. Then try the surveys.

• Joe says:

  8 Nov8 November 10:08

  As far as I can tell, the discount only applies to economy fares

• AndyGWP says:

  8 Nov8 November 10:36

  I looked at this when they sent me the email.

  You hint at this with your Edinburgh example, but presumably us folks in the regions can just pay the typical Avios amount for ‘positioning’ to LHR (ie. from MAN), and then jump on this sale price for the rest of the trip (and it can be bundled into all one ticket?)

  I suppose it’s just the chance of being able to pick up a last minute connecting redemption flight from MAN (I’m unsure what the chances of that one are though?)

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