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Just experimenting with dummy booking to see what value i can get form my Avios/companion voucher.
Looking at SFO the price is 90,000 avios and £475 for club and 100k avios and £849.
If there any better way to use more avios and the same cash? I would like first for £475 and higher avios for example although This seemed to be the maximum combination available?
Just to check you are clicking on the ‘more price options’ tab when searching?
Presuming that you meant that the 100k avios and £849 pricing was for First, it was my understanding that Reward Flight Saver options (which represent the higher Avios, less cash options available in other cabins) don’t apply to First, so this might explain what you’re seeing.
Even though no RFS in F for now, you should still get various options.
The first option is going to be the least cash, as BA surcharges in F are very high.
However, the best value to be had is starting outside the U.K. If you have time to go to, e.g. DUB or MAD and back at the beginning of your trip, you can save £00’s
Yes the 100k £849 was for first no higher avios option. I guess £849 is the minimum surcharge on this route on first.
As has been said there is no RFS for First. You pay whatever taxes & fees are applied to a cash fare, plus the Avios required. No other options.
The different cash + avios permutations for Club (and lower cabins) are the RFS options.
Northernlass is right, you should have multiple options. Looking at sfo for one adult return, I have options of 185k avios + £849.29, through to 92.5 Avios + £2,124.29
Even though no RFS in F for now, you should still get various options.
The first option is going to be the least cash, as BA surcharges in F are very high.
However, the best value to be had is starting outside the U.K. If you have time to go to, e.g. DUB or MAD and back at the beginning of your trip, you can save £00’s
Hi NL, I’m new to all this but I’m expecting to earn my first companion voucher in the coming weeks. I hope to use it to visit Singapore next February. I live in Belfast but Dublin is also convenient for me. I didn’t think it would be possible to use a companion voucher on a trip starting from Dublin as the flight to London wouldn’t be on an actual BA plane. Have I got that wrong?
Welcome to all this!
You can certainly book from either (on BA, not sure if EI connecting flights would appear in the search results). Flights from Belfast are UK domestic routes and you would not be charged anything for these if part of a longer avios booking, e.g. BFS-LHR-SIN. From DUB, you would pay the usual RFS price on top of the price on the long-haul sector as it’s a departure from outside the UK.
You are likely to find more availability starting in the UK regions, which is a great advantage when trying to book a high-demand route like SIN. Make sure you read the articles and threads on here about getting the best out of the companion voucher. Be aware you may well have left it too late to get award seats to SIN in Feb – for this kind of route, ideally you need to be booking a lot further out. (Again, there is info on here about this).
For CW, there is no real benefit in starting from outside the UK. Where you will get a big saving (for now), is on F award seats, as BA imposes much lower charges on non-UK departures. So by starting in DUB (or Madrid, for example), you would only be paying £200-£250 pp in surcharges, as opposed to the kind of sums BA charges on UK departures. The drawback to doing this is that you need to make sure you get yourself to your departure city in plenty of time to catch the first flight.
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