BOOK NOW: BA launches four new ‘Avios only’ flights for August 2025

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• sayling says:

  6 Dec6 December 11:48

  I had a pop up notification for these from the Avios app about 10 o’clock this morning.

  Perhaps this is where the IT investment is going, what with the search and award seat availability notifications functionality recently – and very quietly – released

  • sayling says:

    6 Dec6 December 11:49

    At 10:43, actually

    • Joe says:

      6 Dec6 December 11:54

      yeah I was very impressed. Rob still gets the credit tho as he encouraged me to download the app. I’m on the Corfu ones as a potential second summer (didn’t see Split) as already off to Orlando (old virgin redemption!) at start of the summer…

• MadeUpName says:

  6 Dec6 December 12:03

  Thanks Rob. Interesting pricing mixes – the lowest avios most cash looks best value for Split in economy

  • Rob says:

    6 Dec6 December 12:16

    Just saw that myself.

  • Mark says:

    6 Dec6 December 19:07

    That’s the case for many, if not all short haul flights. We usually do lowest Avios, highest cash and it saves more Avios for the long haul trips.

• Guernsey Globetrotter says:

  6 Dec6 December 13:03

  On the lounge access point when returning, we did this year’s Avios only trip to Corfu in CE. BA passengers were turned away from the Goldair lounge, much to the annoyance of some passengers who complained (loudly!). We got in using Priority Pass via Amex and it was a decent place to spend an hour or so.

• The Savage Squirrel says:

  6 Dec6 December 13:07

  In a classic case of your brain seeing what it wants to see rather than what’s there, for a moment I read this headline as Avios Only Flights to Australia. That was an exciting 3 seconds 😀

• Richie says:

  6 Dec6 December 13:19

  Arriving early to Split is very good if you want to get a ferry to you Hvar, Vis or other islands.

• NicktheGreek says:

  6 Dec6 December 17:14

  Finally gives me a half decent reason to use the ever accumulating Barclays vouchers.

  76.5k Avios and £75 in business for 3 return to Palma. Wouldn’t have considered it previously, but this seems a good deal.

  It’s this kind of initiative that’ll just continue to stoke my goodwill whilst Virgin does the opposite.

• Nico says:

  6 Dec6 December 22:22

  Friday/friday or sat/friday a little weird, BA kept prime slots for revenue flights

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    7 Dec7 December 02:30

    You aren’t restricted to just returning on the avios only flight.

    You can return on any flight with avios seats thus controlling how long your stay is.

    • Nico says:

      7 Dec7 December 04:08

      For sure, meant to say good option, but far from perfect timing wise, which is fair enough.

  • lcylocal says:

    7 Dec7 December 10:58

    Sat 27th/Sun 28th are the last weekend of the school holidays I think. I would guess existing flights reasonably heavily booked for this far out and few spare aircraft and slots available to add flights.

    Saturday to Friday over the bank holiday week is still a decent break and does give the weekend to get ready for work/school so I think will be popular with families.

• Londonsteve says:

  6 Dec6 December 22:23

  Kudos to BA for offering this to desirable destinations at busy times of year. I wonder what the cannibalisation rate of these flights is, i.e. how many of these Avios flyers would have paid good money to fly to the same destinations? Quite apart from that there’s the loss of cash revenue so this is a generous gesture and serves to provide the value add that makes BAEC so popular.

  • memesweeper says:

    7 Dec7 December 00:15

    These are flights that in all likelihood would have sold out, so undoubtably cannibalisation of cash fares. Well done BA/IAG Loyalty.

    I booked on the ski one last season and I would have paid real money otherwise (but not necessarily BA, and not necessarily to Geneva!)

    • Londonsteve says:

      7 Dec7 December 17:35

      Ski destinations during February half term are probably an even bigger financial sacrifice for the airline so double kudos to them for offering them. I’d imagine perhaps even the majority of people that booked Avios seats on these flights might have otherwise paid whatever BA was charging in cash. Compared to the overall cost of a ski holiday during that week, expensive flights are but a drop in an ocean of monumental expenditure, less so for a Greek beach holiday in August (which can also be very expensive, but not to the level of skiing during Feb half term).

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