Reply To: How many Avios = “Avios rich”?

[BJ]

Interesting reading in this thread. For me the notion/concept has always been quite simple. I considered myself avios-rich when my earn/burn ratio results in a net balance that equates to a balance that covers my projected travel plans for the subsequent 24 months.

Interestingly (at least to me) I was always able to sustain this with relative ease until very recently. Despite some superb earning opportunities in last 24 months I have been unable to take advantage of them for eligibility reasons, or unwilling to do so because the time was not right. The needle on burning for me has also shifted because I am no longer able to redeem on BA to BKK with an amex voucher which was the core element to my long term strategy. The combined effects of these has been to reduce my avios balance to cover projected travel plans for only about 12 months so I feel decidedly avios-poor with only 130k avios at the moment. This has left me feeling a bit disillusioned, contemplating how pro-active I want to be in earning miles and points going forward, and considering whether a better approach would now be to move to a more passive earning strategy combined with booking best acceptable value cash fares on a trip by trip basis. To put this in context, my long term avios balance at any time was typically 300-500k and my largest ever balance (due to cancellations during covid times) was 1 3M.