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If you are opted in to British Airways Executive Club marketing emails, you may have received an interesting offer today.

If you book a BA short haul Gatwick flight for cash by 23:59 on Monday, you can ‘part pay with Avios’ and receive 2p per Avios in value.

Full details are on ba.com here.

Part pay with Avios offer

The offer is fairly flexible, and is valid on economy (Euro Traveller) and business (Club Europe) flights from London Gatwick.

That said, the terms and conditions for the offer suggest it is only “valid on selected travel dates between 20 October 2022 – 30 April 2023.” We assume this means school holidays, although it seems to work for February Half Term so perhaps not?

You need to have at least 250 Avios in your account to be eligible.

Can you pay for your entire flight with Avios?

No.

Unlike Virgin Atlantic, which lets you ‘part pay with points’ up to the entire value of your booking, British Airways only lets you pay the base fare, excluding all taxes and charges.

There are further limits as part of this deal.

For return flights, the only discounts available are (per person)

  • £10 off for 500 Avios
  • £18 off for 900 Avios
  • £32 off for 1,600 Avios
  • £56 off for 2,800 Avios
  • £80 off for 4,000 Avios
  • £100 off for 5,000 Avios

For one-way flights, these numbers are halved:

  • £5 off for 250 Avios
  • £9 off for 450 Avios
  • £16 off for 800 Avios
  • £28 off for 1,400 Avios
  • £40 off for 2,000 Avios
  • £50 off for 2,500 Avios

Each option gives you 2p per Avios, which is exceptionally generous. If you are making a BA booking from Gatwick this weekend, you’d be crazy not to take advantage of this offer up to the maximum number of Avios allowed.

How to get 2p per Avios on British Airways flights

In order to make use of the offer, you need to book a ‘standard’ cash ticket, flying from Gatwick. Once you’ve selected your flight and class, you’ll be presented with various options to use Avios to save on the cash element of the ticket:

All you need to do is select the option you want to use. As you are getting a flat 2p per Avios with all the options, there is no benefit to choose one over the other – just how much you want to save (and how many Avios you have to spend!)

Conclusion

If you had been planning to book any British Airways Gatwick flights, this offer is a great opportunity to redeem some Avios for a discount at an exceptionally good rate.

The offer ends at 23:59 on Monday evening, so you only have a few days to make the most of it.

You can find full details on this page of ba.com.

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:

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

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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.

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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.

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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 (44)

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  • Save East Coast Rewards says:
    20 Oct20 October 13:11

    Any idea if it works the other way? In other words somewhere-LGW-somewhere rather than LGW-somewhere-LGW.

    If you don’t know I’ll update this thread once I’ve given it a try later today

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:
      20 Oct20 October 13:17

      To answer my own question, the answer is no, these rates aren’t showing when I tried CTA-LGW-CTA

      • ChrisBCN says:
        21 Oct21 October 08:18

        You could try booking both legs as one ways – you should get the offer on LGW-somewhere

  • lumma says:
    20 Oct20 October 13:16

    Is there an easy way of finish out where they fly to from Gatwick? Most of the routes under “airlines and destinations” on the Gatwick Wikipedia page are coming up as Heathrow departures for me

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:
      20 Oct20 October 13:19

      I copied this from a FlyerTalk wiki, it might be out of date but will give you an idea, note that the start dates are for this year so you can ignore them.

      Amsterdam – from 29th March
      Antalya – from 2nd April
      Athens – from 4th May
      Bari – from 3rd April
      Berlin – from 7th May
      Bordeaux – from 16th May
      Cagliari – from 24th May
      Catania – from 31st March
      Dalaman – from 23rd April
      Dubrovnik – from 4th April
      Faro – from 30th March
      Gran Canaria – from 2nd April
      Heraklion – from 24th April
      Ibiza – from 3rd May
      Kos – from 24th April
      Lanzarote – from 30th March
      Larnaca – from 29th March
      Madrid – from 16th May
      Malaga – from 7th April
      Malta – from 14th April
      Marrakesh – from 31st March
      Menorca – from 16th May
      Nice – from 31st March
      Milan (MXP) – from 4th May
      Palma – from 7th May
      Paphos – from 29th March
      Rhodes – from 28th April
      Santorini – from 15th April
      Seville – from 15th April
      Tenerife – from 29th March
      Thessaloniki – from 14th April
      Turin – from 4th April
      Venice – from 26th April
      Verona – from 16th April

      • Dr Tom says:
        20 Oct20 October 13:47

        Thanks, are any of these 160 TP routes? Just working out if it’s worth trying to hit the 300 TP requalification for Silver before the end of the year.

        • lumma says:
          20 Oct20 October 14:49

          Greece, Turkey and Malta. Not sure if every Greek airport is tho

        • Jack says:
          20 Oct20 October 15:09

          Catania, Greece, Turkey,Malta and Greece all earn 80tps each way as they are longer routes so come under short haul plus

        • secretsquirrel says:
          20 Oct20 October 15:43

          Was about to say that this looks good for a TP run!

        • Craig says:
          20 Oct20 October 16:16

          300 TP requal for Silver, do you mean that’s what you need?

          Otherwise, the reduced TP requal (until end of year) for Silver is 450, not 300.

          • Dr Tom says:
            21 Oct21 October 07:07

            Thanks everyone. There was an offer for 300 TP renewals if your year end date fell at a certain point in the year, also avoid until the end of 2022. I hope that’s still valid for me, but I’m suspect Rob hasn’t mentioned it as it adds yet more confusion.

            Shall price up some of the routes over the weekend.

          • Rob says:
            21 Oct21 October 07:10

            300 was for year ends of 8 July / 8 Aug / 8 Sep IIRC.

          • Dr Tom says:
            21 Oct21 October 07:09

            No idea how I thought “valid” and typed “avoid”! Perhaps my brain trying to tell me something?

      • BajanNation says:
        20 Oct20 October 14:33

        Just be careful, as some of these destinations also fly from LHR too.

      • George K says:
        20 Oct20 October 21:36

        Do be careful – some of these routes are either on their way out, or not coming back for winter. Athens from Gatwick, for example, ends on the 30th of October and doesn’t look like it’s back at the moment

  • freckles says:
    20 Oct20 October 14:19

    Dr Tom – see other news article today about Avios points, this gives link to which routes are 160 point returns

  • Willmo says:
    20 Oct20 October 14:53

    Looks like there may be a minimum fare price needed for the larger Avios amounts.

    I’m looking to buy a £61 ticket, and it will only give me the options up to £28 for 1,400 Avios, not the £50 for 2.5k.

    • Rob says:
      20 Oct20 October 15:20

      That’s because you can’t use Avios to pay taxes and charges, which are clearly going to be more tha £11 (the APD alone is higher than that).

  • Random says:
    20 Oct20 October 15:48

    Has anyone found a flight with the 100£ for 5000 points off yet? and to where + what days? I can’t find it at all. Ive been checking between these dates 20 October 2022 – 30 April 2023.

    • Rob says:
      20 Oct20 October 17:56

      Seems an odd question – I mean …. if your flight is so cheap that it doesn’t cost £100 + taxes, meaning you can’t use the full £100 discount, surely that’s a good thing?!

      Or are you saying that there are flights costing £100 + taxes but where it isn’t offering the £100 discount?

    • Vincent Teo says:
      21 Oct21 October 08:59

      I’m going skiing 21st Jan for 7 nights. Shows £100 off for 5000 points in Business. Bargain!

  • sayling says:
    20 Oct20 October 17:06

    Buggeration – booked three nights in Verona (with hotel, thus a BA holiday, so probably wouldn’t properly qualify anyway) in December, just to get wifey over the line for Gold.

    Ah well

  • Ya says:
    20 Oct20 October 18:43

    I was looking LGW > LYS during Christmas time and had the option to use £100 for 5000 points.
    Also something to note is the first flight has to be from LGW but the return flight does not have to.

  • Concerto says:
    20 Oct20 October 18:59

    No Geneva or Zurich?

    • Roger* says:
      21 Oct21 October 10:06

      Sadly no. ZRH has been my regular route for decades, on DA, BA, Go and Aer Lingus as well as quasi-scheduled charters. BA no longer offer this route, only easyJet.

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