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Get 2p per Avios point when you book flights via ‘Part Pay With Avios’ until Monday

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British Airways has launched a very generous tweak to its ‘Part Pay With Avios’ proposition, for just four days.

Until Monday 22nd October, Executive Club Members can save £100 on a World Traveller flight for just 5,000 Avios.

This works out at an attractive 2p per Avios.

Full details are on this special page of ba.com.

Usually 14,500 Avios gives you £90 saving, which is just 0.62p per Avios. This is why we rarely recommend using ‘Part Pay With Avios’ for large discounts, although it is a better deal at lower levels.

Until 22nd October you will get £100 off a return flight with 5,000 Avios. This offer is valid on long haul return bookings departing from the UK for up to nine people on one booking – so a family of four would save £400 in total when using 20,000 Avios. The maximum discount per person is £100.

The snag is that the offer is only valid for long-haul Economy (World Traveller) bookings. It would have been good to see 2p per Avios for a large discount on a Club World or World Traveller Plus ticket, but if you are happy with World Traveller then this is a decent deal.

You must book by Monday 22nd October for travel between 19th October 2018 and 9th October 2019.  Basically you can book as far out as the BA booking system will let you with no restrictions.

No registration is required. The offer will automatically show on ba.com when you reach the payment page as long as you are logged in.

The special offer page for the deal is here.

PS. British Airways is also offering a 50% bonus when you buy Avios this weekend.  The bonus applies to even the smallest purchase of 1,000 Avios.  If you don’t have 5,000 Avios in your account and need to book a World Traveller flight, you will make a small saving by purchasing some Avios first. You will be paying close to 1p per Avios and getting 2p each for them. The page to buy Avios is here.

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

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

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

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

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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

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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.

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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

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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 (83)

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  • marcw says:
    19 Oct19 October 16:33

    I guess the taxes and fees charged on CW and First redemptions are subsidising this offer!

  • Anna says:
    19 Oct19 October 17:06

    The 50% offer only applies if you’re buying avios for yourself, not if you are gifting them to someone.

  • Pam says:
    19 Oct19 October 17:07

    Could you book world traveller on this deal, then upgrade to club, paying the extra?

    • AndyR says:
      19 Oct19 October 17:22

      No you can’t upgrade from WT to Club. Only possible from WT+.

      • raspy says:
        19 Oct19 October 18:24

        I disagree. I upgraded from WT to Club about 3 weeks ago at JFK checkin.

        • Jamie Dornan says:
          19 Oct19 October 19:00

          Well, that is about filling empty seats at check in which is neither guaranteed nor available in advance, surely?

        • Matt says:
          19 Oct19 October 21:53

          You upgraded at check-in from WT to Club using avios?! Or did you upgrade with cash?

        • Julian says:
          20 Oct20 October 08:53

          Did they let you upgrade to Club at check-in with Avios or only with cash???

      • Julian says:
        20 Oct20 October 08:49

        You couldn’t upgrade to Club with this offer using Avios but you surely could book a World Traveller seat and then upgrade to World Traveller Plus on at least some World Traveller ticket classes (I seem to remember not all World Traveller fare classes can be upgraded to World Traveller plus though?).

        • Travelling Inspector says:
          20 Oct20 October 11:16

          This offer is booking into Q fare band, lowest of the low, from which the possibility of an upgrade with Avios is vanishingly small.

  • John says:
    19 Oct19 October 17:48

    OT but related to the interesting post on KLM earlier the week.

    Somebody’s CV ruined:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6294739/Tow-driver-destroys-27-million-jumbo-jet-engine-parks-plane-Amsterdam-Airport.html

    • Alex W says:
      20 Oct20 October 12:38

      Not great for the driver, but probably unfair to blame him/her 100%, they should have supervisors and marshallers etc to avoid this kind of accident.

  • Peter K says:
    19 Oct19 October 18:51

    That’s at the airport though and is thus only if available. Most want to be sure in advance that they can get the upgrade.

  • Shoestring says:
    19 Oct19 October 18:53

    Yep but on the BAEC page you could buy up to 300,000 Avios @ 1.07p each, no hassle whatsoever compared to this Spanish Groupon nonsense! 🙂

    • Cuchlainn says:
      20 Oct20 October 05:33

      Or 300,000 @ 1.054p each using your BAPP Amex ( not even considering your 26,000 Avios for £3K spend bonus….etc ).

      • Cuchlainn says:
        20 Oct20 October 05:35

        PS that includes your 4, 823 Avios spend on BAPP for £3,215 punt..

      • MD says:
        20 Oct20 October 11:30

        Wouldn’t purchasing avios count as direct spend with BA, so 3 avios per £ on BAPP? I’m looking at the selected avios and price, and still on the official BA website.

      • MD says:
        20 Oct20 October 12:50

        Ah, shame. Never actually bought any before. TIL. Thanks.

  • Katy storie says:
    19 Oct19 October 20:44

    Is there a special webpage for this offer as it is showing as the usual values for part pay with avios when I tried to make a booking to Las Vegas?

    • Shoestring says:
      19 Oct19 October 20:48

      https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/executive-club/offers/gift-box?DM1_Channel=AFF&DM1_Campaign=UKI_GB_EN_PHG_ALWAYSON&DM1_Site=PHG&utm_source=PHG&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=UKI_GB_EN_PHG_ALWAYSON

      • Nick says:
        20 Oct20 October 04:31

        Harry here’s a tip for you… in a URL, anything after (and including) the ‘?’ is purely for tracking purposes and doesn’t affect the direction of the link. So in the interests of both space and masking any personal identifiers in it you can safely delete when pasting.

        • Alex W says:
          20 Oct20 October 12:40

          Good tip, thanks.

        • Peter K says:
          20 Oct20 October 12:55

          Thanks for that Nick, will keep in mind.

        • David says:
          20 Oct20 October 15:42

          That’s not always true actually.

          What you are doing is passing additional data.

          This can include data values that have been included just to pass on information to track the source of the traffic, but data passed can also be essential in determining the content returned, e.g:

          /hotels?location=LHR
          /hotels?location=FRA

          Or
          /searchRooms?rate=promo123
          /booking?coupon=xyz
          Etc

          Of course they can also be mixed:
          /something?traficSource=x123&rate=promoX&campaign=A etc

          Finally I’d point out that even though a link such as: site/level1/level2/page3.htm?value=4
          looks superficially like a directory structure, with a file in it, you are ultimately just sending “level1/level3/page3.html?value=4” to the site.

          A server could just as easily accept that as:
          level1/level2/page3/value4
          And return exactly the same content regardless of what you put in as value4 or etc.
          Or at the other extreme it could all be encoded after a ?.

          It is all just a request, how the servers are built to process the entire thing can be very different.

        • Shoestring says:
          20 Oct20 October 16:25

          Thx for tip

    • CV3V says:
      19 Oct19 October 20:57

      If you are going to Vegas and have a hotel status, then Wyndham Rewards will status match, then Caesars Total Rewards will match your Wyndham status. As an example, Marriott Gold matches to Total Rewards Diamond (via Wyndham), which gets the resort fees waived, $100 dinner credit, and 2 free show tickets per month.

      • Matt says:
        19 Oct19 October 21:56

        Grata tip thanks!

      • Rob MC says:
        19 Oct19 October 21:57

        Be aware that 31st January 2019 it will resort back to the original status so only good if you have a trip before. The Wyndham Diamond is only a 90 day challenge

      • Joeb says:
        19 Oct19 October 22:04

        Interesting.

        The Celebration Dinner2($100) credit says: 2Restrictions apply. Please see Total Rewards Center for complete details.terms

        And I cant see anything about 2 free show tickets per month.

        Have you used these status benefits?

        • CV3V says:
          19 Oct19 October 23:00

          For my travel dates 31 Jan works.

          The show tickets I did not know about until I found it after a google search, they do seem to keep it quiet, but still a perk.

          The celebration dinner voucher can only be used at certain restaurants, but it’s a big list.

          Waiving the resort fees is enough of a perk.

          There are a few online articles that detail the status matches and 2018 perks.

      • Katy says:
        19 Oct19 October 23:05

        Thank you!

      • CV3V says:
        19 Oct19 October 23:07

        But if all that doesn’t work then the ‘Vegas $20 sandwich’ is worth a try, look it up online, there are 1 or 2 good YouTube vids too. It’s all about the tips in Vegas!

        • andrew young says:
          21 Oct21 October 23:31

          $20 tip will get you nothing these days except a strip view room. You will have to show a $50 “upgrade voucher” as I like to call it

    • tartan says:
      19 Oct19 October 22:31

      The Avios offer will only appear if you are booking a standard Economy Ticket, not a basic economy one

      • A13 says:
        19 Oct19 October 23:36

        not true

        • tartan says:
          20 Oct20 October 07:21

          I stand corrected on this although Icouldnt personally get the offer to trigger on basic fares or code shares last night. When I tried the same search earlier this morning it did trigger however

  • Lee says:
    19 Oct19 October 21:14

    The Spanish Groupon 2000 Avios offer has run out (unfortunately as it was 19 Euros so about 0.84p per Avios)

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