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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

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

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

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

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.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

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

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

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

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

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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  • Alexandra says:
    19 Oct19 October 21:44

    Is it valid on Qatar Airways flights booked via ba.com as well?

    • Frenzie says:
      20 Oct20 October 06:14

      Since you have never been able to part pay with Avios on non BA flights….no.

      • Andrew says:
        20 Oct20 October 06:33

        Not true. QR flights to Doha from LHR/LGW carry a BA flight code when booking on ba.com and so can be paid part-pay Avios. However…..they are excluded from this offer. As are AA flights with BA flight code to JFK.

    • Lady London says:
      20 Oct20 October 12:30

      To use your avios you have to be able to put your avios number on the booking. The flight you take has to be operated by British Airways. Not sure if all flights on the ticket have to be operated by British Airways, but for sure at least the first outward flight must be because that gives ownership of the ticket to British Airways.

  • tartan says:
    19 Oct19 October 23:24

    From a quick test it appears that the Avios deal only seems to work with Standard Economy fares (not basic) and those flying on BA metal (not code shares). This means that it doesn’t seem possible to get the £170 + 5,000 Avios for round trip London to New York that some of the other sites are talking about as this would require booking in basic economy and wouldn’t trigger the offer. The closest I could get was £228 for that trip when booking standard economy

    • A13 says:
      19 Oct19 October 23:37

      i can get basic fares to work.

      • tartan says:
        20 Oct20 October 00:21

        I had tried multiple combinations through the app and website and wasn’t able to get the deal to trigger on basic fairs, however carrying out the same search again just now it is allowing the deal to be applied. Might have been a glitch with the site that they sorted

  • Dan says:
    20 Oct20 October 08:05

    What’s counts as “long haul” when flying east towards Asia. For example Israel is beyond the reward flight saver zone. Is that long haul?

  • Craig says:
    20 Oct20 October 10:21

    OT – just managed to bag first class return flights to NY using the 241 voucher. Thanks to everyone here who has helped us!

    We’ll be flying as a couple and have never flown first before. Any suggestions on which seats to reserve?

    It’s a 747 both ways.

    Thanks!

    • Mark2 says:
      20 Oct20 October 11:10

      We always choose 2e/2f i.e. side by side seats but it is a matter of personal preference. Some people like a window seat, but the clouds all look the same to me.

    • Anna says:
      20 Oct20 October 17:29

      We’re doing the same next May. I’ve read that the middle seats can be cramped and not very private so gone for 2 A and K as we’ll both be reading and watching different things anyway and both like window seats. I recall you can see the ice floes of Canada out of the window, not just clouds!

      • Genghis says:
        20 Oct20 October 17:47

        We sit one behind the other usually. Doing A and K means you need to move right right to talk to each other.

        • Anna says:
          20 Oct20 October 18:25

          We can talk in the check in and security queues, in the lounge, and in the immigration queue at JFK, that’s plenty for one day ????.

    • Anna says:
      20 Oct20 October 17:33

      Also, does anyone know what time they serve breakfast in the Concorde lounge till? The breakfast offering at MAN is dull in the extreme but we’ll hopefully get to T5 by 9.45 am and I’ve got my heart set on Eggs Benedict with LGPS on my birthday!

      • Mark2 says:
        20 Oct20 October 17:39

        Last year I had Eggs Benedict with Pulled Pork which was good, but with Oregon Pinot Gris.
        Last week had Eggs Benedict with bison sausage in café above a dress shop in North Conway, New Hampshire, which was as good but very different surroundings and very wide choice on menu.

  • @mkcol says:
    20 Oct20 October 10:55

    Just priced up LHR-IAD 15 May for 14 nights
    BA £400pp before the discount
    VS £600pp

    So I can get 2 of us on BA for the same price VS are charging for one. I’ll earn 9280 Avios for the flights so it’ll only “cost” 720 Avios for the £200 discount.

    Now to convince the husband he can bear BA economy for the ~7 hours or so (of course he can having survived SYD round trip on the penultimate row…).

    • Anna says:
      20 Oct20 October 17:35

      Book the exit row seats for about £60 each and it’s a completely different experience! Much better value for money than PE IMO.

  • Peter Alderson says:
    20 Oct20 October 12:38

    When I log in to my Executive Club account it does not show a bonus on purchased Avios. I am doing something wrong?

    • Anna says:
      20 Oct20 October 17:36

      You have to go to the “purchasing avios” page and click on the drop down box, it should show all the prices and bonuses.

  • Kane says:
    20 Oct20 October 13:54

    OT: Has anybody had the bonus 1000 Avios credit from the exchanging £5.00 of Clubcard vouchers yet. Have received the base, just not the bonus. Just wondering as I converted from a different Clubcard account to the one I actually received the promo email from?

    I know it says it could take up to 28 days after promo ends(15/11), but just wondering if any had actually posted.

    Thanks

  • Warwick says:
    20 Oct20 October 16:24

    Is it possible to book with this discount (using my BAEC) and swap FF account to QF where I have status and credit all my flights?

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