British Airways ‘buy on board’ tea and coffee prices have gone up

British Airways has put through some inflation-busting price increases for its ‘buy on board’ tea and coffee.

The new menu is online here.  The January 2017 menu is in this HfP article here.

Tea and coffee have gone up from £2.30 to £2.45, an increase of 6.5% in 18 months.

Avios pricing has jumped up even more.  Tea or coffee is now 350 Avios, up 17% from the old price of 300 Avios.  The value you get per Avios will fall from 0.77p to 0.7p.

To be fair, other pricing generally remains unchanged.  It looks as if the plan to roll out free tea and coffee to British Airways Executive Club status members, which was trialled on a handful of flights earlier in the year, has been dropped.

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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:

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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