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BA Holidays extends its ‘double tier points’ offer to June 2025

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If you had been worrying about how you are going to retain or earn British Airways Executive Club status next year, BA Holidays can help.

BA Holidays has extended its double tier points offer by six months, out to 30th June 2025.

If you book a ‘flight and hotel’ or ‘flight and car’ package for at least five nights, and travel by 30th June 2025 (was 31st December 2024), you will receive double BA tier points on your flights. Existing bookings count.

BA Holidays double tier points offer

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

You could get very close to a Silver card from scratch in one trip. For example, booking London to New York in Club World, you would get (140 + 140) x 2 = 560 tier points.

For clarity, ALL travellers on the booking receive double tier points.

How many tier points would you need for BA status?

Thresholds have now returned to their pre-covid levels:

  • Bronze status in BA Executive Club requires 300 tier points
  • Silver status in BA Executive Club requires 600 tier points
  • Gold status in BA Executive Club requires 1,500 tier points

Remember that – as well as hitting the tier points target – you need four BA or Iberia cash flights (codeshares with a BA or IB flight number count) in your membership year to get promoted to Silver, or two flights for Bronze.

BA Holidays double tier points offer

A few bits of small print to note ….

There are a few things to note about the double tier points offer:

  • your trip must depart from the UK
  • you (or, presumably, your BAEC account) must be UK resident
  • you must book flights which carry a British Airways flight number – codeshare flights with, say, Qatar Airways are acceptable but only if your booking shows a BAXXXX flight number
  • you cannot book Aer Lingus, China Southern or LATAM, with or without a BA flight number
  • whilst your booking must contain at least five nights of hotel or car rental, your overall stay can be longer
  • your car rental or hotel stay must be between your flight dates – your five nights can’t include an airport hotel on the day before you fly
  • you will not receive your double tier points if BA Holidays find out that you did not stay at your booked hotel or pick up your rental car
  • “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” – apparently this is not true, but I flag it for you regardless
  • you don’t need to be booking for a couple or family – the offer also applies to solo travellers
BA Holidays double tier points offer

The other BA Holidays benefits are still in place

As well as the double tier points offer, BA Holidays is running various other offers which will all stack together:

  • 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
  • you only need to pay a deposit now with the balance not due until a few weeks before departure

The only real downside is that BA Holidays flights do not earn On Business points in the SME loyalty scheme, assuming that the On Business website ever comes back.

Conclusion

I think it is worth having a serious think about how you can use this BA Holidays offer to put yourself well on the way to Executive Club status next year.

You can learn more about the double tier points offer on the BA Holidays website here.

Remember that there is a sale currently running so if you had been delaying booking a New Year break because of the end of double tier points, you may want to take another look.

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Comments (72)

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  • Gordon says:
    6 Mar6 March 05:15

    Haha, I was wondering if this was going to happen, as were a lot of readers! This will help me as I was committed to holidays through this year already, so could not take advantage of the current promotion before the December end date, this will help me in Q1 and Q2 2025 for sure, as it gives a longer scope to make bookings. Thanks Rob.

    • Steve says:
      6 Mar6 March 06:13

      Yes, it will help you, and many others I suspect, although not the ongoing lounge capacity but this is presumably something BA have factored in.

      TBH, there have been so many extensions to this offer now, I wonder if it may become the norm….

      • Blair Waldorf Salad says:
        6 Mar6 March 06:40

        Much like the IC Ambassador ‘trick’, we should all remember this is an extension of a promo offer. Not the norm. I still expect 15 pages of comments on the article the day it does end.

      • TGLoyalty says:
        6 Mar6 March 07:30

        Take Andrew J’s example where it doesn’t even matter they have status.

        It’s not the odd holiday makers you need to worry about. It’s the regular flyers that have status anyway crowding the lounges.

      • Gordon says:
        6 Mar6 March 08:30

        I was going to mention in my comment that there will be a lot of grumpy posters on here today, re lounges being crowded. But thought better of it!

        • Stu_N says:
          6 Mar6 March 09:58

          I’m cautiously optimistic that end of covid status rollovers has helped the crowding situation. I’ve been through T5 on 10 occasions since late Nov at various times of day and week and First lounge has been fine, much quieter than similar period in 2022-2023.

          I expect the extra Golds via double TPs is to some degree offset by loss of a lot of business-only Golds as long haul work travel is still significantly down on pre-2020 levels.

  • Andrew J says:
    6 Mar6 March 06:00

    Glad to see this offer continuing – presumably indefinitely, with these regular extensions. It’s very easy to achieve Gold – I’ve been doing a holiday in First and a holiday in Club each year, which gives you 1400, and with this year’s BAPP tier points offer to top it up to 1500, no need to even worry about further revenue flights.

    • Blair Waldorf Salad says:
      6 Mar6 March 06:43

      But that makes me wonder – Do you have much need for gold though? If flying F or J, benefits given anyway. And presumably your nonrev flights are in F and J too?

      Are you getting value from the status elsewhere in OW? Genuinely interested to know, not being a smartar5e

      • Andrew J says:
        6 Mar6 March 06:50

        But following that logic, that’s the same as Rob’s worked example above, to obtain silver? And the whole point of this article? If you’re in the market for a business class holiday, maybe you’re not likely to fly economy anyway and so no need for silver status?

        For me, the use of the First Wing and Galleries First when flying short haul is enough to make to want to retain Gold.

      • Tracey says:
        6 Mar6 March 08:13

        The sweet spot for me is travelling short haul in economy, status giving lounge access. Not much point having a bus class seat on the plane in short haul, but lounge access means a more pleasant start to the trip and I can eat in the lounge rather than in flight.

        • Blair Waldorf Salad says:
          6 Mar6 March 08:47

          I used to say the same Tracey till an air rage incident on BA MAN-LHR which simply would not have happened in the front cabin. It really spooked me.

        • NigelHamilton says:
          6 Mar6 March 18:01

          So this is my view, but instead of aiming for silver I got an amex plat instead, which also gives Eurostar access, dining credit etc. So although I could aim for Silver, I’m not currently seeing a benefit of doing so, other than better seat selection than with bronze

          • TGLoyalty says:
            6 Mar6 March 21:06

            The PP lounges at T5 are dire though

            BHX clubrooms is great though.

  • Steve says:
    6 Mar6 March 06:20

    Potentially silly question but the double tier points using the BAPP. Is that in addition to the 3x Avios you usually get on normal BA spend?

    • Rob says:
      6 Mar6 March 07:26

      Yes

    • PB884 says:
      6 Mar6 March 09:26

      “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”

      Steve – do you mean double *tier points* using the BAPP or double *Avios*? I think the reference to double Avios in the above article quote is the 3x BA earn rather than the usual 1.5x earn.

      Using the BAPP doesn’t alter the TP received from this promo – and you don’t get double the Avios earnt from flying by paying with the BAPP, just double the BAPP regular earn rate of 1.5x.

      • Rob says:
        6 Mar6 March 09:42

        You get:

        3 Avios per £1 paying with BAPP Amex (the usual rate for BA spending, ie double the base rate)
        1 Avios per £1 from BA Holidays
        Standard Avios from your flights (based on the old distance charts, not £ spent)
        Double tier points (for 5+ nights)

        • Andrew J says:
          6 Mar6 March 10:57

          And if you’ve not spent the £25k max requirement for the BAPP tier points offer then the spend on this holiday contributes to this too. If you’ve got a holiday on deposit and you’re a bit shy of the spend target by mid-May, an early payment towards the holiday balance would help.

        • Deek says:
          6 Mar6 March 10:59

          Until 7 March it’s 3 Avios per £1 from BA Holidays if you pay with a BAPP right? i.e. you can stack them and get 6 avios per £1 just from using the BAPP for a BAH booking + standard flight avios

  • Ben says:
    6 Mar6 March 06:20

    Helps with the membership year realignment too. Maybe that’s why it’s only running until June, at this point, so by then everyone is into their new collecting year.

  • Robert says:
    6 Mar6 March 06:30

    Is there a way to stack this offer with a 2-4-1 voucher?

    • Andrew J says:
      6 Mar6 March 06:38

      No

      • Robert says:
        6 Mar6 March 06:47

        Any suggestions from those who use this offer on good deals or good locations for 5 nights, I’m not finding it easy to achieve gold for less than £5k (appreciate that’s half usual cost) looking for inspiration thanks!

        • Andrew J says:
          6 Mar6 March 06:53

          Seems quite reasonable to me for a couple of holidays and Gold. Maybe look at the European sweet spots of 160 tier point routes like Tenerife or Helsinki, if long haul is pricing you out of budget.

        • Erico1875 says:
          6 Mar6 March 07:09

          They had Occidental Fuengirola (AGP) for around 750pp in November in the sale last week.
          Based on Trivago prices that made the CE flights around 325 each

        • DanATC says:
          6 Mar6 March 07:12

          A few of the “mid-haul” destinations earn 320TP in J on this deal and can be found for ~£600 – £700 with 5 nights in a 4* hotel – Canary Islands, Malta, Sicily, Greece, etc. Five of these trips could get you gold for ~£3,000.

          • Robert says:
            6 Mar6 March 07:34

            Thanks for all these tips, will check them out, the 160 TP routes sound like a good idea.

          • Erico1875 says:
            6 Mar6 March 08:01

            Except those prices will be based on 2 sharing a room

          • Trevor says:
            6 Mar6 March 10:55

            The 5 nights minimum trip length is the tricky bit for multiple holidays if you are working- and you need someone else to join you each trip which doubles the cost and the complexity of getting away.

    • NorthernLass says:
      6 Mar6 March 16:38

      You don’t need anyone to join you, you can book for one person. Booking car hire can often work out cheaper than a hotel – use points to book the hotel instead. If someone wants to join you and doesn’t need TPs, book them a flight with avios and they just share your car and/or accommodation.

  • Conrad says:
    6 Mar6 March 07:33

    – Do the bonus TPs apply to both / all travellers on a booking?
    – do you receive double for all flights in multi-leg journey (assuming all BAxxxx) as well as say EDI-LHR before a hop to JFK for example?

    • Rob says:
      6 Mar6 March 08:44

      Yes (in the article, on a line of its own, in bold type, with ‘all’ capitalised) and yes.

      • Stu_N says:
        6 Mar6 March 10:39

        Yes – the 80TP CE destinations yield 480TPs (40+80+80+40 = 240 x 2) if starting in Edinburgh or another domestic airport.

  • TomB says:
    6 Mar6 March 07:57

    I am yet to actually find a BA holidays deal that doesn’t work out considerably more expensive than booking the hotel through a different platform and flights separately. Maybe I’ve been unlucky or maybe the economics only work with lower budget hotels.

    • Blair Waldorf Salad says:
      6 Mar6 March 08:48

      I thought I was the only one! I feel I’m missing something others are doing to generate the deals

      • NigelHamilton says:
        6 Mar6 March 18:07

        Usually the answer is no, but I once couldn’t beat a client’s BA holidays price on a £10k Maldives getaway. Only once though! I do find for my own family holidays the flight and car option works well through BA holidays(so you still get double tier points), then book the hotel separate for the big savings.

    • Michael C says:
      6 Mar6 March 09:20

      I found an upcoming NYC to be just over, due to the ridiculous hotel prices there, but have gone for it for the tier points.

    • allycat says:
      6 Mar6 March 09:25

      I am doing MAN-DOH-KUL-DOH-MAN on QR with BA coded flights plus 5 nights at The Westin KL next week. BA Holidays cost £3100 inc hotel v QR flight only cost £3200. 1120 TP. Works for me. YMMV.

    • Mikel says:
      6 Mar6 March 09:30

      5 nights biz to London at a Hilton in April is cheaper than booking the flights and 5 nights separately. Budapest is next on my list and the pricing is decent when you factor in the tier points etc. I’m flexible on timing tho. Some dates are expensive compared to others.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
      6 Mar6 March 09:37

      It does depend on destination, time of year and hotel,

      Last year in the sale a week in NYC in January was way cheaper than booking them separately.

      This week a trip to Berlin in November priced as a Holiday was about £70 more than separate bookings. And yesterday the Hotel announced a sale so it’s now an even cheaper trip as I did a cancel and rebook.

      And some people like the security of booking as a Holiday and the ability to just pay a deposit and will pay extra overall for that.

    • James says:
      6 Mar6 March 10:50

      This is interesting because I’ve had quite a few occasions now to the US where it’s worked out quite a bit cheaper when I’ve added together getting the components separately.

  • Mikel says:
    6 Mar6 March 09:27

    That’s great news, for me anyway. No biz travel, leisure only. Been enjoying the benefits for the past year with silver status.

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