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I’ve got a couple of Barclaycard upgrade vouchers to use, and am trying to book Edinburgh to Athens via Heathrow return for 2 people. So far, I’ve just done this as a dummy search for economy seats to get an idea of the Avios needed so haven’t yet attempted to apply the vouchers. It’s 55,000 avios off-peak return for LHR-ATH, adding in EDI-LHR increases it to 92,000. As a comparison, I searched flights to Washington, and the Avios stayed the same when adding EDI-LHR. Is there a way to add regional flights to medium haul seats without the extra Avios charge? Will each voucher cover the domestic connecting flights, or do you need a voucher per leg?
It’s only long haul that a regional leg is included.
As above, you have to pay for domestic connections on short-haul routes, and the requirement to use full avios and minimum cash makes the Barclays voucher a poor option. What you could do instead is to use the voucher on the LHR-ATH sectors and book EDI-LHR separately (I did exactly this last year). You can then choose whether you do the domestic connection in economy or Club Europe, and which ratio of cash/avios you want to use on that leg.
Bear in mind, of course, that the connection won’t then be protected in the event of a delay, so this works best if you fly the domestic leg the day before and/or only take hand baggage.
Interestingly, did you get EDI-LHR-IAD to price up in Club Europe/Club World? There’s an issue with the Barclays voucher which means that normally you have to call to add the domestic leg.
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