Avios Balance Booster – new way to buy Avios at BA.com

[sunny110]

Anyone having difficultly buying them?
I just tried with my avios plus barclaycard and its not working.

[kevinchoi]

I boosted mine yesterday (with Amex BAPP) and it went through ok. Points and bonus showed up immediately.

[DaveB]

No problem on Monday, again with BAPP.

[executiveclubber]

205,000 Avios for £1700. Very very tempting but for some reason I can’t quite find it in myself to buy…

[zapato1060]

executiveclubber wrote:

205,000 Avios for £1700. Very very tempting but for some reason I can’t quite find it in myself to buy…

Yeah up to the individual. You either have enough and dont need or dont think you can get over 1p for their 0.84p purchase.

[Britbronco]

Kicking myself for not boosting when the 10% bonus was on. Now it’s more marginal. Not sure whether to transfer all my MR points, or keep them in reserve for flexibility in case of other needs, and pay for the boost instead.

[Saltrams]

I’m notoriously number illiterate but isn’t BA’s pricing table disingenuous? Surely £0.0092 is less than one penny? I thought I learnt that £0 is no pounds and £0.90 is 90 pence and £0.09 is nine pence so £0.009 is no pounds and just under one penny? 🤔

[RK228]

Saltrams wrote:

I’m notoriously number illiterate but isn’t BA’s pricing table disingenuous? Surely £0.0092 is less than one penny? I thought I learnt that £0 is no pounds and £0.90 is 90 pence and £0.09 is nine pence so £0.009 is no pounds and just under one penny? 🤔

Well, it’s both £0.0092 and 0.92p. It’s the same thing.

As flights are priced in GBP and I use pounds in my own calculations to assess/determine value of redemptions/subscription bonuses/etc., the £0.0092 would be most relevant to me as it’s easier to understand and it more readily enables comparison.

Not much in aviation will be priced in pennies.

[aq.1988]

Not sure if this has been posted before (apologies if had), but I had a look at avios boost out of curiosity, as I had earned a good chunk of avios last month, and what was interesting was that the avios I received back from a cancellation (and then re-booking for another date), also counted as earned, so it was boost-able.

Could be useful for someone looking for a way to top-up their avios if they hadn’t earned much in the last month. My cancellation was an RFS flight in Europe, and was only charged £1pp (despite paying the £50pp option), which I recently added as a DP on the relevant thread.

[SteveCroydon]

The boost pages clearly state that it’s for transactions posted in the past 30 days. I’ve been checking my boost page and transactions are still being offered for boosting at least 6+ weeks after posting.
Another excellent piece of BA IT!

[WA81741]

Hi,

I’m contemplating boosting 25,000 Avios x 2 (50,000) for £470 and was wondering if this seems good value at £0.0092?

Many thanks

[Gavin454]

WA81741 wrote:

Hi,

I’m contemplating boosting 25,000 Avios x 2 (50,000) for £470 and was wondering if this seems good value at £0.0092?

Many thanks

Only you can answer this, because it depends what you want to spend those Avios on (and whether it normally costs more than £470)

[WA81741]

Thanks. I guess I was asking if the points to £’s ratio is decent.

[Gavin454]

WA81741 wrote:

Thanks. I guess I was asking if the points to £’s ratio is decent.

0.92p per point is not bad, I’ve personally paid between 0.8p and 1.1p per point at various times from various places. But I only do it if I know that I’m going to get a good amount more value than that from buying the points.

[Froggee]

Yes – it’s pretty good value.

I only redeem Avios for 1p or better and tend to be able to get that most times.

But £470 for 50,000 is 0.94p which is slightly worse value than the 0.92p you would get for 3x boost.

But @Gavin454 makes a valid point. Would you be able to get value from them?

[Whatsthepoint]

If you’re redeeming the Avios for long haul business class you should get at least 1p per Avios value, in my experience, even comparing against the lowest possible CW fare. However, Avios redemptions are more flexible so if you compare them to flexible CW fares then it’s even better. If you’re using a 241, then even better. Example LHR to MCO off-peak 125000 Avios, at .94p per Avios it’s £1175 + £950 charges = £2125. Cheapest CW fare I’ve seen recently is £2700ish. Save 20%. With a 241 it’s a 40% saving, taking into account the CC fee for BAPP.