85 points needed for Silver

Have you tried to get a cheap train between London and the north recently! Also domestic flights are more expensive than international ones atm, as services have been slashed so deeply. That said, you might find something on BA low fare finder and do LON-MAN-NCL or LON-MAN-EDI return in a combination which would get the closest number of TPs to what you require. This might not even involve an overnight stay, which would save on hotel costs and things like transport to/from the airport.

Remember the 160TP is for a return trip to somewhere like Malta, Tenerife or Cyprus so if you want you could do Club outbound and economy back. That would achieve what you are looking to do.

Froggee wrote:

I was hoping that LHR-EDI in J connecting in Jersey for 80 would be your answer with a cheap flight back from Edinburgh but there aren’t any cheap flights! You can actually do LHR-EDI in J for £281 on the 24th but then it’s £300 in economy flying back the next day…

BA website does not seem to show me any connecting flights in searches – So I cannot get it to ticket me LHR-MAN-NCL/EDI or via Jersey – where can you search/ticket these routings?

The EDI-JER route is Saturday only and ends on the 24th September!

If you search for LHR-EDI or EDI-LHR on the 24th you will see it at the bottom as a connecting journey. If there was a cheap EDI-LHR flight it would be a winner but no luck on that.

The 5 tier points is the killer.

You could aLeo do e.g. SOU-LCY on Sunday 11th of December which is coming in at £300 in business for 80 tier points. Southampton is easily trainable from London and it connects in Edinburgh so you aren’t going to get stuck in some funny country where they don’t speak the language. Well maybe a wee bit och aye the noo.

It’s a hilarious routing to cover 72 miles. BA should be chastised for selling it.

But at £300 you’d probably be as well off doing a return to Inverness in November.

It might be feasible that you could have some crafty LoganAir add on to your fare to get the extra tier points but it’s tricky.

I’m the other way around – I have 500 TPs, thanks to BA, but only 2 flights. I’m doing MAN-LHR return in ET in a couple of weeks that I can do in one day (apologies to the green lobby here but I’m fairly sure those flights are going with or without me, as is the airport train!). I assume when I get off at T5 I just hang around the gates until it’s time to go back? It’s showing as 20 TPs so I don’t know what fare class I got. Also worth it for Silver till July ’24!

NorthernLass wrote:

I’m the other way around – I have 500 TPs, thanks to BA, but only 2 flights. I’m doing MAN-LHR return in ET in a couple of weeks that I can do in one day (apologies to the green lobby here but I’m fairly sure those flights are going with or without me, as is the airport train!). I assume when I get off at T5 I just hang around the gates until it’s time to go back? It’s showing as 20 TPs so I don’t know what fare class I got. Also worth it for Silver till July ’24!

“flights are going with or without me”

A proper boomer argument there, Karen.

polly wrote:

Bordeaux 200 pp from LGW return in CE, with 80 off using avios, approximately, is one we are doing to top ours up.. also doing the SOF holiday DPs. Worth it for silver til end Sept 24.

Bordeaux is a nice top-up run, Pol!

Intrigued by the Sofia run, think I’m being outvoted for Tenerife at the mo’…

NorthernLass wrote:

Have you tried to get a cheap train between London and the north recently!

I have. I got one from Euston to Manchester Airport very recently for £38… seemed cheap to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

A quick look at “splitmyfare” website on a random date (11th Oct) shows you can get from Euston (dep: 7:46am) to Manchester Airport for £19.11

I also wouldn’t be so dismissive as saying there are no cheap flights from the regions – you’ve just got to find them and they’ll either work, or won’t work for you in my experience 🙂