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Fly to Hawaii, business class, earning Avios and 640 tier points for £970 return

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Some very, very low business class fares to Hawaii – and indeed the United States West Coast – have appeared today from Paris.

This is a very quick article so you will have to do a bit of digging yourself if you want to take advantage (I am on holiday, in theory), but here is an example from Paris to Honolulu for January 2022.

Here is an example from ba.com, where you can book this deal even if it doesn’t have a British Airways flight anywhere:

This is €1,131, so £970. Can’t say fairer than that ….

In terms of tier points, it would earn:

  • CDG-LHR – 40 tier points
  • LHR-LAX – 140 tier points
  • HNL-LAX – 140 tier points
  • LAX-SEA – 140 tier points
  • SEA-LHR – 140 tier points
  • LHR-CDG – 40 tier points

That’s a total of 640 tier points for £970, plus a holiday in Hawaii.

The ‘dream deal’ would be finding a way to book it as Paris – London – New York – West Coast – Hawaii. This would earn 920 tier points because you would have three business class flights of 2,000+ miles in each direction.

Take a look at this Flyertalk thread for more details. It implies that it is worth checking Amsterdam and Madrid as well as starting points.

Check carefully that ALL flights book into Business Class.

Have a play around and see what you can find ….

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Comments (63)

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  • Froggee says:
    3 Jun3 June 18:42

    Do you have to swim from LAX to HNL?

  • C says:
    3 Jun3 June 19:07

    Isn’t €1131 around £972? Still a good deal though

  • ChrisC says:
    3 Jun3 June 19:08

    A note that not all TPAC flights have lie flat seats so watch out for that of lie flat is important for you

  • YC says:
    3 Jun3 June 19:15

    Can’t get BAH to do this with car rental for 1 day. Is this normal for ex-UK departure?

  • david says:
    3 Jun3 June 19:17

    If I “accidentally” stop short in LHR on return, would I still receive all tier points?

    • ChrisC says:
      3 Jun3 June 19:36

      You get them only for the flights you actually take

      But you should alao price it to end in LHR.

      • SammyJ says:
        3 Jun3 June 20:54

        So if you ditched the last sector LHR-CDG do you reckon you’d still get them for the rest of the flights?

        • Rob says:
          3 Jun3 June 21:57

          Yes – but you’d need to be on hand baggage to stop your bags getting checked to Paris.

          • Talay says:
            3 Jun3 June 22:31

            Hmm, not sure I agree.

            For instance, checking in at BKK for a route BKK-AUH-LHR-OSL I simply told the staff to route bags to LHR only and then checked that the baggage tags indeed were only to LHR.

            When I got to LHR, there the bags were.

          • Magic Mike says:
            3 Jun3 June 23:00

            You might get away with it but BA know the “drop the last leg” trick very well so if you get any agent who has worked there more than about 10 minutes they are unlikely to let you do it. HBO, or, have your ex Lon flight go from a different airport.

          • ChrisC says:
            4 Jun4 June 04:44

            Tally – but BKK- AUH can’t be on BA metal though so other airlines staff many indeed short check.

            But BA and AA staff have strict instructions not to short check.

            The way to book this and get your bags back is to do the last LHR- CDG leg the day after land at LHR.

            And something to bear in mind and if you route like as suggested by the screen shot that if there are irrops the airlines duty is to get you to Paris not London if there isn’t the day gap between the two flights.

  • JRich says:
    3 Jun3 June 19:24

    Yesssssss! Used a bunch of vouchers and was able to route the return via New York for an extra 140 Tps. Thanks Rob!

  • Paul says:
    3 Jun3 June 20:59

    Even come March I still think…..

  • r* says:
    3 Jun3 June 21:04

    Grr, why couldnt there have been return flights availability the first week of may!

    • Louise K says:
      3 Jun3 June 21:24

      I dithered now there is only Y on the HNL / LAX sector.

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