Buy 2,000 Avios for under £17 via Groupon Spain

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2. Craig says:

   29 December 2018 at 12:44

   OT: I would appreciate thoughts on a few BA options I have?

   I fly into JNB using the recent sale pricing, this will earn me 280TP, I already have 10 and have an Economy flight to CPT earning 5. This leaves me 5 short of Bronze with 3 months until TP collection year expiry.

   1. I could upgrade the economy flight for around £400 (£200pp) which would give me enough TP for Bronze and access to the Slow lounge in JNB. We have a 5-hour layover but with an Amex Plat would have lounge access anyway.

   2. I could cancel an Avios booking from PLZ-JNB and book in economy, this would effectively cost around £200 (£100pp) after forfeiting the fare and paying for the economy flight but would recoup 15500 Avios.

   3. Hope to be able to book a return BA economy flight over the next few months.

   My gut feeling is option 2 but have I missed anything obvious?

   Thanks.

   • Genghis says:

     29 December 2018 at 12:49

     Seems a very expensive way of getting 5 TPs, especially for just bronze. In your shoes I wouldn’t bother / go for option 3 if you really want to (cheap day return to LUX?)

     • TGLoyalty says:

       29 December 2018 at 13:47

       I don’t know if it’s 15,500 Avios then personally I’d py the c£200 cash and earn the 5 tp for hitting bronze. It’s a useful status if you travel ba alot.

       Any reason why you cant keep one and only pay cash for the other? If you always book with your partner you both get the bronze benefits. Only really worth both hitting status if it was silver/gold and you needed lounge access for 4

       • Craig says:

         29 December 2018 at 14:19

         Not sure Mrs S would be too happy if I’m in business and she’s in economy?

         Genghis, thanks, I know Bronze isn’t worth much but it seems a shame to be so close and not go for it?
   • Sunguy says:

     29 December 2018 at 15:35

     5tp is the lowest number you can earn on any tp earning flight.

     Have a look around for the cheapest one-way deals you can find – either in Europe or domestic. Remember about partner airlines too…. you could probably get something for next to nothing…

     For example – Return to Glasgow on BA from Gatwick on 8th Jan – £92 – this should get you 10tp and 250avios:

     London (LGW) to Glasgow (GLA) — Tue, Jan 8
     British Airways 2956
     Dep: 7:20 am
     Arr: 8:50 am
     Airbus A319
     Economy (O)

     Glasgow (GLA) to London (LGW) — Tue, Jan 8
     British Airways 2959
     Dep: 1:40 pm
     Arr: 3:05 pm
     Airbus A319
     Economy (O)

     • Shoestring says:

       29 December 2018 at 15:40

       Amsterdam return for £40-50 at times

       • TGLoyalty says:

         29 December 2018 at 19:18

         But there’s the 15500 Avios too.

         They are worth c£150. So it’s effectively costing £25 each to make them revenue flights rather than redemptions.

         I know what I would be doing here.
     • Sunguy says:

       29 December 2018 at 15:41

       Or of course even cheaper – a whole host of days to many destinations at £47 one way and an RFS back (or vice versa) – would be £64.50…..

       • Shoestring says:

         29 December 2018 at 15:51

         the points have a value…
   • bsuije says:

     30 December 2018 at 19:04

     If all else fails, ring BA close to your year expiry and ask them nicely if they will gift you the 5 TPs. I remember from a couple of years ago that they were willing to gift me 20 TPs as a Silver (or extend my year by 2 weeks, so that I could earn the TPs I was missing). Perhaps someone who has done this recently might confirm whether BA still entertain such requests?

     • Alan says:

       30 December 2018 at 20:32

       They offer 2 weeks extensions pretty routinely I believe. Not sure they’re quite as keen on gifting TP though, haven’t heard as many successes on that front.
4. Delbert says:

   29 December 2018 at 14:37

   Totally missed the dead Qatar Airways Milan to Bangkok business class deal, though convincing the good lady wife to route LHR-MXP-DIA-BKK would never happen (and I couldn’t blame her). Coupled with the Amex offer, tier points and Avios was certainly an attractive offer.

   Anyway, it was a far easier proposition to convince my wife to go for the Swiss / Lufthansa deal which we are doing in April, LHR-ZRH-BKK return for a bargain £2.5k all in. After a bit of research we settled on booking seats 1D and 1F both ways on the ZRH-BKK section and first time we’ve ever flown indirect to LOS but saved at least £1.1k over direct flights.

   And thanks to Rob for running that article back in August otherwise I would have been none the wiser.

   • Tom H says:

     29 December 2018 at 17:13

     Is that in F delbert? I ve convinced the wife to fly LHR-AMS—LHR-BKK-LHR- dropping the last leg for 1.25k eachin CW which I didn’t think was too bad

     • Delbert says:

       29 December 2018 at 17:55

       Apologies as should have clarified it’s in business, Tom H. Notwithstanding, first class isn’t available.