Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
British Airways Executive Club is the frequent-flyer program for British Airways. It uses a reward currency called ‘Avios’. This article looks at what an Avios point is worth.
If you are new to collecting Avios, we suggest you start with the basics with our Beginner’s Guide to Collecting Avios.
In our Beginner’s Guide to Spending Avios, we look at how you can maximise the value you get from your Avios and how to avoid high taxes and charges on flights.
You can learn more about British Airways Executive Club on the British Airways website here.
If you need to buy Avios to top up your account, the special BA site you need is here.
In January and March we ran two market research surveys on Head for Points, dressed up as competitions. As I didn’t think of the original idea, I am free to say that the concept was very .....
In January and March we ran two market research surveys on Head for Points, dressed up as competitions. As I .....
3 May 20183 May 2018 • 130 comments
Wine retailer Laithwaites, the UK’s largest mail-order wine retailer (it runs The Sunday Times Wine Club as well as pretty much every other branded mail-order operation), has been a BAEC partner .....
Wine retailer Laithwaites, the UK’s largest mail-order wine retailer (it runs The Sunday Times Wine Club .....
2 May 20182 May 2018 • 13 comments
News in brief: 100 Clubcard points with HP ink If you didn’t see this on Shopper Points yesterday, Tesco Direct is offering 100 bonus Clubcard points on HP printer inks. This converts into 240 .....
News in brief: 100 Clubcard points with HP ink If you didn’t see this on Shopper Points yesterday, Tesco .....
1 May 20181 May 2018 • 18 comments
Virgin Atlantic sent me a press release last week to promote winning the TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award for ‘Best European Premium Economy Product 2018’. For this and two other .....
Virgin Atlantic sent me a press release last week to promote winning the TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award .....
30 Apr 201830 April 2018 • 122 comments
British Airways is running a special promotion on all BA Holidays packages until Tuesday 1st May. You will receive: Flight + hotel packages:£100 off a £2500 booking£50 off a £1250 booking Flight + .....
British Airways is running a special promotion on all BA Holidays packages until Tuesday 1st May. You will .....
28 Apr 201828 April 2018 • Leave a comment
Alex Cruz, the Chairman and CEO of British Airways, gave a speech at a UK Israel Business event yesterday morning. I went along and I know a few other readers were there too. The main speech itself .....
Alex Cruz, the Chairman and CEO of British Airways, gave a speech at a UK Israel Business event yesterday .....
26 Apr 201826 April 2018 • 46 comments
British Airways has launched new services to Santiago (pictured below) and Washington for the Winter. From 28th October, a fifth weekly Santiago, Chile flight will be launched. This will operate on .....
British Airways has launched new services to Santiago (pictured below) and Washington for the Winter. From .....
26 Apr 201826 April 2018 • Leave a comment
You know the yellow ‘Priority’ tags that British Airways puts on your suitcases when you travel in First Class, Club World or Club Europe? They don’t do anything. Nothing. .....
You know the yellow ‘Priority’ tags that British Airways puts on your suitcases when you travel in .....
25 Apr 201825 April 2018 • 107 comments
British Airways has launched a generous ‘buy Avios’ bonus promotion. Until 8th May you get 50% bonus Avios when you buy points. As well as being the highest bonus we have seen for quite a .....
British Airways has launched a generous ‘buy Avios’ bonus promotion. Until 8th May you get 50% .....
25 Apr 201825 April 2018 • Leave a comment
It is almost two years since I last ran a version of this article. I thought it was worth updating it and giving it another outing because it makes a few interesting points which you might never .....
It is almost two years since I last ran a version of this article. I thought it was worth updating it and .....
23 Apr 201823 April 2018 • 176 comments
As I mentioned earlier in the week, the first brand new Airbus A320neo short haul aircraft is now in service with British Airways. This is the aircraft with the super-thin seats in the rear half as .....
As I mentioned earlier in the week, the first brand new Airbus A320neo short haul aircraft is now in service .....
21 Apr 201821 April 2018 • 87 comments
British Airways has launched a decent deal, valid in all travel classes. The best value is clearly for Economy flights which, I admit, knocks out a large percentage of our readership. There are .....
British Airways has launched a decent deal, valid in all travel classes. The best value is clearly for .....
20 Apr 201820 April 2018 • 42 comments
British Airways has launched a bigger and better version of the ‘Kids Fly Free’ offer which it has run in the past. This is a genuinely good deal with no catches or small print. Free .....
British Airways has launched a bigger and better version of the ‘Kids Fly Free’ offer which it .....
19 Apr 201819 April 2018 • 22 comments
This week saw the first British Airways flight of the A320neo aircraft, freshly delivered from Airbus. This is the ‘no frills’ aircraft with no centre tables in Club Europe, no video .....
This week saw the first British Airways flight of the A320neo aircraft, freshly delivered from Airbus. This is .....
18 Apr 201818 April 2018 • Leave a comment
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