Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points

British Airways: links to core HfP reviews and guides

Links on Head for Points may support the site by paying a commission.  See here for all partner links.

This is a complete directory of our British Airways reference articles.

As the largest airline in the UK British Airways gets a lot of our attention. Whilst we periodically update and re-publish many of these articles, we thought it would be useful to collate our key reference articles in one place.

Avios redemptions

The best use of Avios is for premium cabin flight redemptions on BA and its partner airlines. (This is hopefully not news to you if you are a regular HfP reader!)

If you are new to Avios and British Airways redemptions we highly recommend you read our ‘Avios Redemption University’ series which explains how to save on taxes and fees and get the best value for your Avios.

Club Suite

In 2019, British Airways introduced a new business class product called Club Suite, making it the first European airline to install a closing door on its seats.

British Airways hopes to roll out Club Suite to all of its long-haul fleet by 2024.

First Suite

In 2020, British Airways quietly introduced a new variant of its First Class seat featuring a closing door.

The seat is currently on just a handful of aircraft. BA has not announced its plans for a further rollout of the seat.

British Airways flight reviews

Over the years we have tested and reviewed virtually all of BA’s seats and classes. Here are some typical reviews:

You can also see reviews for the legacy First Class seat here and legacy Club World seat here.

British Airways aircraft seating guides

To help guide your seat selection decisions we’ve compiled seat guides for the majority of BA’s long haul fleet.

As a reminder, seat selection is free at booking for Executive Club Silver and Gold members and seven days prior to departure for Bronze members. If you do not have free seat selection privileges you can also pay to reserve a seat.

We will continue to add seat guides for BA’s remaining long haul fleet, although the huge number of Boeing 777 variants don’t make it easy …..

Your cancellation, downgrade & EU261 rights

The best-laid schemes don’t always go to plan. The following articles outline your options if you have been downgraded, delayed or your flight has been cancelled.

British Airways American Express cards

Selected British Airways lounge reviews

Category

British Airways and Avios

Comments (15)

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

  • James W says:
    24 Feb24 February 05:40

    Since we have a BA post, has anyone received definite guidance from BA on moving 50% Avois flights? The FT forum seems to describe a hit and miss attitude from BA, with some allowed to move to next year and some not. For context, my flights are 1st from MAN-HLR-JFK end of May on one booking reference and returning 3 weeks later SFO-LHR-MAN in 1st on another. Would it be best to ring You First or one of the other help lines?

  • BJ says:
    24 Feb24 February 06:30

    I missed the colon in the title and thought this article was something entirely different 🙂

  • TimM says:
    24 Feb24 February 07:20

    Since when have BA been the largest UK airline? It is not even the largest London airline.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/304108/number-of-passengers-on-united-kingdom-airlines/

    • Dubious says:
      24 Feb24 February 11:04

      Ever since they measured airline size based on management’s contempt for their customers?

      • Journeying John says:
        25 Feb25 February 18:08

        Not sure that they recognise “customers”, just “units of revenue” to be fleeced at every opportunity and given their appalling; IT infrastructure, profiteering fare levels, anti-consumer policies and failure to deliver the service they advertise, calling them an airline may be going a bit far…

  • marcw says:
    24 Feb24 February 07:25

    BA is not the largest airline in the UK.

  • RYAN says:
    24 Feb24 February 08:57

    Easyjet is the largest airline in the UK ….. by a mile.

    • Dubious says:
      24 Feb24 February 11:06

      That website says ‘ EasyJet is the largest airline *company*’. As pointed out in the other article this is the UK’s largest pension scheme with an airline on the side.

  • Stuart Evans says:
    24 Feb24 February 09:30

    What’s the best way to understand which flights have the new Club Suite in 2021, given how much things have changed since the Aug 2020 piece mentioned above?

  • Rivo says:
    25 Feb25 February 07:53

    Sort of related, but are BA reward flights fully released in 2022? Looking last night there is tons of availability before xmas for Carribean but then Jan/Feb it drops off a cliff.

    Am I just too slow?

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

New to Head for Points?

Welcome!  We’re the UK’s most-read source of business travel, Avios, frequent flyer and hotel loyalty news. Let us improve how you travel. Got any questions? Ask them in our forums.

Latest Forum Posts

Get 40,000 bonus points (worth 40,000 Avios) and £300 dining credit with The Platinum Card

Check reward flight availability instantly for free!

See a whole year of reward seat availability on one page at SeatSpy.com

Get £10 when you spend £150 on your free Currensea card

Booking a luxury hotel?

Our luxury hotel booking service offers you GUARANTEED extra benefits over booking direct. Works with Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, The Ritz Carlton, St Regis and more. We've booked £1.7 million of rooms to date. Click for details.

SME? EARN POINTS WORTH 10,500 AVIOS WITH CAPITAL ON TAP

Get 20,000 bonus points, four airport lounge passes and your first year free with American Express Gold

The UK's biggest frequent flyer website uses cookies, which you can block via your browser settings. Continuing implies your consent to this policy. Our privacy policy is here.

Got it!