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I am pretty au fait with points, but this one is really stumping me.
Cash price for four people flying to New York next April in Economy is £1,900. If I wanted to use my Avios to pay cash for economy but upgrade using points to Premium, the overall cost is 160,000 Avios and almost £4,000 in cash!
I can’t understand how upgrading the cabin using as much as 160,000 Avios costs double the cash element, an additional £2,000, in cash!?
I have been using points, upgrades and all sorts for nearly 10 years now, but this one has stumped me.
My guess is the cheap cash price is in a non upgradable fare bucket so it is helping you out by booking a more expensive economy fare.
As per BA:
“Most cash bookings can be upgraded with Avios either at the time of booking or later on, depending on availability. Only the lowest economy (World Traveller) fares (Q, O and G) cannot be upgraded with Avios at any time.”
I looked at upgrading an economy avios flight to PE with a Barclays voucher,
and the cash element was indeed more than the cash price of a flight.Don’t further the APD goes up a large amount when you go from economy to any other cabin long haul. About £520 of the increase is purely down to this.
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