Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
British Airways Club is the frequent-flyer program for British Airways. It uses a reward currency called ‘Avios’. This article looks at what an Avios point is worth.
If you are new to collecting Avios, we suggest you start with the basics with our Beginner’s Guide to Collecting Avios.
You can learn more about British Airways Club on the British Airways website here.
If you’re ‘not the sort of person who books package holidays’, you may have given BA Holidays a wide berth. That would be a mistake. BA Holidays has three unique .....
If you’re ‘not the sort of person who books package holidays’, you may have given BA .....
30 Sep 201830 September 2018 • 136 comments
As we haven’t looked at this for a couple of years, I thought it was worth updating my list of all Avios airlines, ie airlines which let you redeem Avios points for their flights. You .....
As we haven’t looked at this for a couple of years, I thought it was worth updating my list of all Avios .....
30 Sep 201830 September 2018 • 57 comments
Over on Reddit, a user who claims to be a British Airways employee has posted pictures of new British Airways Executive Club membership cards. See below, and click to enlarge. I have cropped the image .....
Over on Reddit, a user who claims to be a British Airways employee has posted pictures of new British Airways .....
29 Sep 201829 September 2018
British Airways has launched a new ‘double Avios’ offer for the Autumn. This could prove lucrative but, as often with these offers, has the potential to backfire due to intriguing small .....
British Airways has launched a new ‘double Avios’ offer for the Autumn. This could prove lucrative .....
27 Sep 201827 September 2018 • 82 comments
British Airways has announced that Ozwald Boateng will design a new range of staff uniforms. The launch will form part of BA’s 100th birthday celebrations next year. Boateng joins a long list .....
British Airways has announced that Ozwald Boateng will design a new range of staff uniforms. The launch will .....
27 Sep 201827 September 2018 • 39 comments
British Airways announced an additional London City route yesterday, taking advantage of the new Embraer 190 aircraft coming into service this year. Flights from London City to Munich will launch on .....
British Airways announced an additional London City route yesterday, taking advantage of the new Embraer 190 .....
26 Sep 201826 September 2018
The British Airways Wine Explorer club, run by Laithwaite’s, has a good deal at the moment. I thought we’d give it another plug today as it finishes this week. A 12-bottle wine case, .....
The British Airways Wine Explorer club, run by Laithwaite’s, has a good deal at the moment. I thought .....
26 Sep 201826 September 2018 • 17 comments
British Airways put out a press release on Tuesday confirming what we wrote about on Monday – that flights to Osaka are about to be launched. As of 8.45am on Tuesday flights were not bookable. .....
British Airways put out a press release on Tuesday confirming what we wrote about on Monday – that .....
25 Sep 201825 September 2018 • 42 comments
According to reports in the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei (which is a credible source, it now owns the Financial Times), British Airways is about to announce a 4x weekly service to Osaka. This .....
According to reports in the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei (which is a credible source, it now owns the .....
24 Sep 201824 September 2018 • 84 comments
This is my review of the British Airways Galleries First lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 3. This is part of our series of reviews of airport lounges across the UK. You see all of the reviews here. .....
This is my review of the British Airways Galleries First lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 3. This is part of .....
24 Sep 201824 September 2018 • 82 comments
Not many people are aware that British Airways operates a ‘best price guarantee‘. The airline has recently made a change to how it pays you out if you make a claim so I thought .....
Not many people are aware that British Airways operates a ‘best price guarantee‘. The .....
23 Sep 201823 September 2018 • 58 comments
Fuel surcharges are returning to one-way Avios redemptions from Hong Kong. Since February 2016, airlines have not been able to add fuel surcharges on flights departing from Hong Kong when the journey .....
Fuel surcharges are returning to one-way Avios redemptions from Hong Kong. Since February 2016, airlines have .....
23 Sep 201823 September 2018
I was updating my old article on which airlines you can spend Avios with (it will appear soon) when I spotted something new. Iberia now has an Avios redemption partnership with Interjet, the third .....
I was updating my old article on which airlines you can spend Avios with (it will appear soon) when I spotted .....
21 Sep 201821 September 2018
If you were wondering how the general public approach their miles and points – and where the programmes are making real money – take a look at this email I received earlier in the week. .....
If you were wondering how the general public approach their miles and points – and where the programmes .....
20 Sep 201820 September 2018
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