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Hello all,
Just a bit of a sanity check please to make sure I’ve not done anything daft and to get your opinion if it’s an ok use of avios?
So I used a gold priority award on flights where there was no avios availability for the dates I want to travel to Germany. The BA cheapest cost of the flights are something like £500 but Lufty £395 for very similar timed direct flights which I would be reluctantly prepared to pay if I had to use cash.
Unfortunately as HfP Team have reported before, BA have trashed the benefit meaning I have to use 2x max avios option for flights meaning it came to a total of 38k avios (booked as two one ways in case standard avios availability becomes available one way then can cancel one leg).
So I’ve got a value of 1.039p/avios, not great by any means but not terrible but save nearly £400, would you use cash or use avios here?
Depends how many Avios you have. If 38k restricts you bagging a long-haul F/J flight then a poor swap. But otherwise you can buy for 1p/p so not much in it. Of course with cash your get TP and Avios back.
Just booked a flight from ACE->LGW in 5 days @ 0.25p/p (flight almost full but strangely Avios seats open) so it’s possible Avios seats open up
Totally utterly definitively absolutely not daft.
Everyone has their own Avios valuation but nobody argues massively with a penny.
So you’re roughly at break even.
If you would prefer to fly BA over Lufthansa then I’d even put it down as a win.
I’d book it, if only because you’re getting flexibility to cancel and, as noted, Avios seats may well open up anyway.
Depends how many Avios you have. If 38k restricts you bagging a long-haul F/J flight then a poor swap. But otherwise you can buy for 1p/p so not much in it. Of course with cash your get TP and Avios back.
Currently as I’m just a solo traveller I’m somewhat avios rich, wouldn’t be considered avios rich if I was in a family of four say. Enough for a couple of J returns on QR to Aus for myself. Fortunately not chasing TPs this year and making the most of status.
If you would prefer to fly BA over Lufthansa then I’d even put it down as a win.
Only because I have BA status and no *Alliance status so I get to use the lounge etc. Otherwise if I were BA blue, I’d go for whoever was cheaper, not much between Lufty econ and BA econ?
I’d book it, if only because you’re getting flexibility to cancel and, as noted, Avios seats may well open up anyway.
Thanks, makes sense, will put the £400 towards the hotel costs as hotels are very punchy as well at this time I’m going
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