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Hi
We all know UK to Europe flights are covered by RFS capping the taxes. I have seen anecdotal evidence that RFS i.e. capped taxes are also showing up on longer haul flights. So far Ive found New York and Dubai.
I can’t seem to find a comprehensive list of all the long haul RFS routes available. Does anyone have a list they can provide here? Or Maybe one for the HFP Team to possibly build a list and make a permanent article on the website listing the long haul RFS destinations?
Cape Town and Johannesburg certainly do 35k plus 75 pounds economy – normally would not touch this but at Christmas it is a good deal
RFS?
RFS = Reward Flight Saver
Avios redemptions where the tax and fees are capped to a fixed rate.
RFS?
Reward Flight Saver – https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/executive-club/spending-avios/reward-flights
Reward Flight Saver offers customers great value flights with a low, flat fee to cover taxes, fees and carrier charges and a fixed Avios amount. To be eligible for Reward Flight Saver, you need to have collected at least one Avios in the past 12 months.
Doh! Must have my ‘slow’ head on today. Yes, am familiar with those, although not having booked one for years I didn’t realise there were long haul routes which qualify.
As an aside (and not trying to hijack the thread) there are a lot of abbreviations etc used on here, which can be daunting to relative new users. I think I’ve sussed most but sometimes they do pass me by. A wiki/glossary would be quite a useful thing to some of us.
Definite RFS long haul routes – JFK/BOS/ORD (25/30k avios plus £50). MIA (30/35k avios (I think but would need to check again) plus £75.
Especially useful on single inbound bookings as you don’t get gouged for surcharges like with normal avios bookings.
I also found that I wasn’t charged any avios or cash for adding a MAN connection in CE, though this may be a glitch which could be corrected at any time. This means we can go in the LHR lounge between flights even without status (though I should be Silver by December with the current re-qualification reduction), and have a slightly more pleasant experience on the LHR-MAN leg.Oh yes – you can’t currently use a 241 when booking these RFS routes AFAIK. However, you can add your return leg separately and BA will refund the 50% avios.
Have bagged LHR-MLE with RFS at £75 one-way (£150 return). You really can’t beat that – cheapest WT price for winter was over £800 if you book early enough (averages around £1100 now), and for a family of three, the saving is immense.
That is a good deal – how many avios was it?
130k with a 2-4-1.
130k with a 2-4-1.
Did you book that online? When these first became possible they wouldn’t work with the 241, you got charged as per the old-style pricing.
So how many avios each per leg (got home in the early hours and brain not functioning yet!)I did – it was with a new-style 2-4-1. Smooth process, despite the fact that it gave an erroneous quote of £300 for three people at the first stage of the booking. Went up to £450 at the checkout stage. Full avios value would have been 195k for my dates in mid-January.
At some point WTP class opened up and called to upgrade, but was given a ludicrous quote in pounds for the extra taxes. Weirdly enough, they only wanted 5k avios more… Anyway, didn’t accept.
That would be right – don’t forget you pay a lot more avios on RFS bookings on long haul routes. So economy would be, say 30k per sector off-peak with RFS, but only 16,250 under the old system and PE will be double that at 32,500. So PE would only need 5k more avios for 3 of you using a 241 but the surcharges are the standard BA ones and therefore much higher than the RFS fee.
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