Save up to £300 as BA Holidays launches new discounts

In response to the relaxation in pre-departure and arrivals testing rules, BA Holidays has rolled out some extra savings if you are now ready to jump in and book.

These offers are valid on bookings made until next Tuesday, 11th January.

The additional savings are on top of the existing sale prices.

Book with BA Holidays by next Tuesday and you will receive:

• £300 extra discount with a minimum spend of £10,000 per booking (Flight + Hotel only)
• £200 extra discount with a minimum spend of £5,000 per booking (Flight + Hotel only)
• £100 extra discount with a minimum spend of £2,500 per booking
• £50 extra discount with a minimum spend of £1,250 per booking
• £25 extra discount with a min spend of £650 per booking (Flight + Car only)

You can find out more on the BA Holidays home page here.

The current cancellation policy for new bookings is:

• for travel due to be completed by 31st August, you can cancel up to 28 days before departure for a refund in the form of a voucher

• cancellations within 28 days of departure, or for travel after 31st August, are subject to the standard cancellation policy

You can see details of the revised BA Holidays Covid cancellation policy on its home page here.

The other BA Holidays benefits are still in place

What is great about the BA Holidays sale deals is that they stack with various other offers:

Double tier points

If you book a ‘flight and hotel’ or ‘flight and car’ package for at least five nights, and travel by 31st October 2022, you will receive double BA tier points on your flights. Existing bookings count.

You can find out more on the BA Holidays website here.

There are problems with the posting of these bonus tier points and BA Holidays is now saying that you need to wait 60 days. The latest reader feedback is that a new email address – executiveclub@my.ba.com – is apparently your best bet for submitting a retroclaim. However, you shouldn’t let that put you off what is a very generous deal.

With the tier point threshold for British Airways Executive Club Silver status cut to 450 tier points for membership years ending in 2022, you could hit this in just one trip.

A BA Holidays package in Business Class to, say, Athens would earn you 320 tier points with this promotion. You would be just 130 tier points short of Silver.

A Business Class package to, say, New York or Dubai would get you 560 tier points under this offer. This is well over the threshold for Silver and half of the way to Gold, currently 1,125 tier points.

Free lounge access

If you book a 5+ night package for travel up to 31st March 2022, you will also receive lounge benefits at Heathrow.

• spend £1,500 per person on an Economy package and receive Galleries Club access in Terminal 5 plus fast track security and priority boarding

• spend £2,500 per person on a Business Class package and receive use of the First Wing and Galleries First access in Terminal 5

Other benefits

• booking a ‘Flight and Hotel’ or ‘Flight and Car’ package can be cheaper than booking a flight on its own, since British Airways will often use BA Holidays as a way of quietly selling seats without cutting its headline flight prices

• you earn an additional 1 Avios per £1 for every £1 you spend at BA Holidays

• if you have the British Airways Premium Plus American Express card, you get double Avios via American Express if you use it to pay for your holiday

• you only need to pay a deposit now – which can be as low as £60 per person – with the balance not due until seven weeks before departure (this is now back to the old rules – it had been reduced to three weeks)

You can find out more on the BA Holidays website here.

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