BA Holidays extends its ‘double tier points’ offer to December 2023

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• Becca says:

  27 Dec27 December 17:39

  Thanks for all the helpful info! I’m new to chasing BA status and only discovered the offer after recently booking flights and adding a car just before making payment (I.e. not added later). Does anyone know if this will qualify despite not starting out as a “Holiday” booking?

  • Rob says:

    27 Dec27 December 21:41

    No, it won’t.

    • Yona says:

      27 Dec27 December 22:32

      I don’t know why Rob says it won’t.

      If you were looking for a flight and then selected a car or hotel the booking becomes a Package.

      I just tried by looking for a random flight and then selecting a car when offered that or hotel. The next screen confirms I will get double tier points.

      I think you have 24hrs from the time of booking a flight to add a car or hotel and that will convert it into a package holiday.

      • Rob says:

        27 Dec27 December 23:38

        Is it booked via BA Holidays? No. Is it legally a package? Yes, but so what?

        If you’re within 24 hours then cancel the flight and rebook via the BA Hols site for certainty.

        • yonasl says:

          28 Dec28 December 10:55

          If you go to BA and search for a flight you are given the option to add a car or hotel on the same page where you have the final flight price.
          If you select a car for instance you get to add it to the flight and it becomes a “package”. On the page before payment it clearly says you will get the double tier points so the reservation seems to be passed to BA Holidays as it becomes a package.

        • VALittleRed says:

          4 Jan4 January 21:43

          Yes but point 2 of the terms and conditions: “2. For the avoidance of doubt this offer does not apply to any British Airways flight only bookings made without a hotel or car or where the hotel or car is added to a booking in a separate transaction.”
          Therefore as the car or hotel is paid for in the same transaction of the flight surely it should then qualify? Often different routing options show doing initially via BA holidays vs Flight + Hotel, or flight then adding hotel in same booking?

• Oliver says:

  27 Dec27 December 21:37

  Has anyone else noticed that when browsing the BA Holiday Finder web page, looking for a 7 night holiday in the summer in Europe, with Economy flights selected, you have lots of options. Change the Cabin to Business/Club, and you are left with just Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey… Why do destinations like Cyprus, Malta, Iceland, etc disappear? Is BA restricting some of these further (160 TP) destinations to avoid us all picking up some east Tier Points?

  • Richie says:

    27 Dec27 December 22:21

    BTW Greece and Turkey are 160 TP rtn in CE. There are fewer flights to Malta and Paphos.

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    27 Dec27 December 22:43

    I never use the holiday finder to book. I always use the flight + hotel search on the main BA landing page and not has any seeming restricted options as to flights or hotels.

  • SH says:

    28 Dec28 December 04:34

    I have previously noticed when you switch to business flights sometimes the holiday finder will also change the minimum star rating to 4, which could be wiping out the hotels they have available at those destinations.

• Nikos says:

  31 Dec31 December 04:12

  Do you know if both the flight and the car/hotel element need to be for 5 nights and over the same period of time? I ask because, for example, I can book a return flight to the US (from London) for 3 days and just add a car in Greece for 5 (completely different) days and it gives me a package deal. Would that count?

• Linda says:

  3 Jan3 January 14:41

  Hi –
  Does the trip need to complete by 31 Dec 2023? Thinking of booking BA holiday for Dec 23 to Jan 24, would this still qualify for double TP? or would only the first leg or no leg qualify?
  thanks

  • VALittleRed says:

    8 Jan8 January 20:05

    I Suspect only the first leg would qualify however the promotion may be extended into 24 but no guarantee of course

• Adam says:

  8 Jan8 January 10:25

  If I add a car rental component but don’t actually pick up the car will i still get the tier points ?

  • VALittleRed says:

    8 Jan8 January 20:05

    You may or may not, don’t count on it though

    • Rob says:

      8 Jan8 January 20:48

      No-one has had trouble doing this over the 22 months that the offer has been running so far.

• Emma says:

  11 Jan11 January 16:06

  Rob, do you have anything in writing from BA stating that the overall stay can be longer than 5 nights and that as long as you stay in a BA Hotel (booked at the same time) for 5 nights you still qualify? LobbyLounge.com states it must be for the duration in their piece. BA told me on the phone it must be for the duration and I’ve written to BA but just keep getting a boilerplate response referring back to the web info, which could be taken either way. They seem to be avoiding answering the question. It seems they don’t want to speak to mere paying mortals but you may have more luck getting a solid answer.

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 19:12

    Isn’t it clear?

    a) The booking must be for a British Airways Holidays Flights + Hotel or Flights + Car or Flights + Hotel + Car package booking originating in the UK only.

    b) The booking must contain British Airways flights including codeshares and British Airways marketed and/or operated flights only. Flights not meeting these criteria within the booking won’t be awarded Tier Points. Flights offered as part of a British Airways Holidays package that are provided by other airline partners that do not have a BA flight number will not be eligible.

    c) The hotel/car element of the package must be for a minimum of five nights for travel before 31 December 2023.

    d) The participant must register their British Airways Executive Club number against their booking prior to travel.

    • Emma says:

      12 Jan12 January 11:50

      You’d think so but one BA agent told me this week that it must be for the duration of your booking from flight departure to flight return. Another told me it must be just 5 days regardless of the duration of time away. Every BA Rep I have spoken to has told me something different. One even said they didn’t know! Another replied to an email stating he can’t tell me in writing and the information is only available if you call. A dummy booking staying for just 5 nights (on the phone with BA Holidays) with a duration of time away of 17 days also did not award Double Tier Points that the agent could see.

      • Rob says:

        12 Jan12 January 13:30

        Doesn’t matter. The rules are the rules and the rules are published. This promo has been running for almost 2 years now so any issues like this would have become clear a long time ago.

        • Emma says:

          12 Jan12 January 14:22

          I believe the rules have changed recently, it used to be the duration and now it’s 5 nights, the same as it used to be a minimum of two people and that has changed. Maybe that is the reason why BA staff are so confused, it’s just concerning that they are refusing to confirm the specifics; if the rules are so obvious why can’t they do that?

• Do_you_care says:

  16 Jan16 January 21:52

  Odd question but do I actually need to collect and use the car? For an extra £60 for my trip to JNB, i get the car hire but don’t need or want the car as I am taking an internal flight to DUR. Would non-collection of the car hire still qualify for double tier points?

  • Rob says:

    16 Jan16 January 22:06

    Seems not based on what others have done.

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