Is this the best round-the-world routing using Avios?

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• JamesWag says:

  11 Mar11 March 10:59

  The best ????? Seriously ?!

  This is far from the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• lee moss says:

  11 Mar11 March 11:16

  I cant see how you can get Airbelin for 20000 miles i searched lots of dates on BA.COM and just got iberia and british airways , can someone explain how i find these deals , and what dates are available for Airberlin to new york for 20,000 miles plus £60 tax ?

  • Lambs says:

    11 Mar11 March 11:52

    Hi
    I would like to know this as well?

  • Brian says:

    11 Mar11 March 11:55

    You need to go through ba.com, as you’ve done – but you can’t check availability for airberlin for longer periods, so you have to click on every single day to see if and when there are flights available. AB tend to release 2 business and 2 economy for each flight, I believe, so they are usually snapped up quickly. More might be made available as the date approaches, however.

  • xcalx says:

    11 Mar11 March 15:09

    Search on BA a couple of random dates,

    TXL-JFK June 22 and 23 2016 economy and business

    TXL-JFK July 26 and 28 economy and Business July 27 business only

• lee moss says:

  11 Mar11 March 11:41

  are there any cheaper ways to get to asia tax wise with avios with any partner airlines any ideas would be great , open to bangkok singapore hong kong etc.. mayalsia

  • Sandgrounder says:

    11 Mar11 March 12:19

    Cathay is the most sensible, fantastic network and low charges. Book the long haul ex-AMS or similar if flying premium cabins and are looking to minimise cash cost. If you are up for and adventure you could mix in a trip to Siberia on S7, FRA/PRG-OVB will let you skip Moscow if you can get a seat, some Asian connections are seasonal though. YKS, IKT, VVO and a few others offer connections to China, Japan, Korea, Thailand. It is more for fun than cost as visa fees will wipe out cash element savings.

  • Clive says:

    11 Mar11 March 12:48

    Lee depends what you are looking for. I paid 49500 + £325 for a BA reward to BKK in Y. he only reason I did this was it gave me the flexibility to cancel. If I was booking flights without having this restriction and wanted Y then I would book an RFS to Oslo and pick up the Qatar flight which is pricing at £375.

    • John says:

      11 Mar11 March 13:14

      3 segments in Y (especially QR Y) is difficult…

      Not sure if CX ex-OSL sales will return. Then you could do day trip to/1 night in OSL, then back to London and sleep at home then go for the long haul the next day.

      To avoid APD you can also redeem on BA starting in a European city, but have a stopover at home for less than 24 hours, if you needed to be in that city anyway.

      • Mikeact says:

        11 Mar11 March 21:05

        Do I recall that to avoid APD you could ,potentially, start in Inverness or somewhere else in the Scottish Islands? !

        • xcalx says:

          12 Mar12 March 07:32

          Raffles did an article on UK APD

          https://headforpoints.com/2015/02/10/flybe-avios-air-passenger-duty/

• lee moss says:

  11 Mar11 March 13:30

  thanks for replies is very confusing this reward system

• lee moss says:

  11 Mar11 March 13:30

  do you book cathay flights with avios at ba.com?

  • Alan says:

    11 Mar11 March 15:08

    Yep 🙂

• lee moss says:

  11 Mar11 March 13:32

  Im looking for JAN 2017 im flexible with the date looking to go about 4th jan for 4 weeks
  best ive found is london to bangkok 39000 miles and £320 fees with BA

  • pauldb says:

    11 Mar11 March 15:09

    Unless you have loads of avios and put a very low value on them, the fact that BA will charge you off peak rates for your dates is quite a swing factor here. Any other partner would cost around 20k more which delfects any cash saving.
    However if you book as 2 oneways and return from HKG you can avoid surcharges. Out to BKK or HKG is 19500 + £205 but the return from HKG is 19500 + £10!
    You could save some APD by starting in JER or INV but for £50 I’d avoid the hassle.

  • xcalx says:

    11 Mar11 March 15:51

    Yes I agree with pauldb if looking at BKK BA is the best option. If your avios rich AMS-HKG is 30000 avios and only £18 tax direct with CX then take BA back to LHR for 19500 and £10 as pauldp said. HKG_BKK is 7500 and under £15 taxes.

• Nick says:

  11 Mar11 March 16:33

  OT: I booked DUS-BOS-DUS with AirBerlin in Economy. Does anyone know, if I can use Avios for an upgrade to Business, as long as it available? Or is that only possible with their own bonus scheme top bonus?

  thanks,
  Nick

  • Scott says:

    11 Mar11 March 17:23

    I’m pretty certain you won’t be able to upgrade an AB flight using Avios. I looked at this for an AA flight last year and couldn’t do it.

    • Nick says:

      12 Mar12 March 09:48

      ok, thanks Scott

• harry says:

  11 Mar11 March 20:13

  I actually did a 6 month RTW trip when I was 36. It was November when I started & all I wanted was to get out scuba diving in Australia, in those days not too many Avios for me (though little did I know I could have had free flights instead of stashing 100K MR points in Virgin, internet was poor back then). So I bought a decent deal with Trailfinders, about under £1K for flexible RTW ticket. All eco of course. Hopped over to Great Barrier Reef via USA and dived for 3 months. Then Indonesia & Thailand, got my future wife to join me for various bits. Back to Europe. Thought I might as well marry her lol

  That’s all, folks! 6 months of scuba diving in tropical waters in the European autumn/ winter.

  • BrianDT says:

    11 Mar11 March 21:16

    OT I met my wife at Charlton football ground, I was supporting QPR and she was selling raffle tickets for Charlton, in exchange for her phone number I bought a few. I didn’t win the raffle, but we’ve been married 46 years this August. ,

    • harry says:

      11 Mar11 March 21:20

      Nice one, I sure like to hear about true love 🙂 shame about Charlton lol

      Congratulations on your upcoming 50th, that’s rare as hen’s teeth.

      Of course, the food we ate out there (tropical places) doesn’t exactly compare to eel & chips lol

  • Axel Heyst says:

    11 Mar11 March 21:24

    genuinly nice story Harry.

    How many Avios points did you get the wife for? And how would you value that redemption?

    • harry says:

      11 Mar11 March 21:47

      So far I have paid 3 kids and all the concomitant expenses 🙂

      • Genghis says:

        12 Mar12 March 15:10

        Your vocabulary is impressive, Harry!

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