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.
If all goes to plan, we will be flying to Hong Kong next week for a whistle-stop tour of Asia over Easter. Whilst there will, at some point, be a slug of flight and hotel reviews published, I .....
If all goes to plan, we will be flying to Hong Kong next week for a whistle-stop tour of Asia over Easter. .....
29 Mar 201729 March 2017 • 146 comments
News in brief: New British Airways services announced British Airways announced a number of new services yesterday for the Winter timetable. As usual, what is important here is that the two guaranteed .....
News in brief: New British Airways services announced British Airways announced a number of new services .....
29 Mar 201729 March 2017 • 51 comments
Two days ago we wrote about the new British Airways lounge at Boston Logan Airport. Reader Angel flew out of Boston yesterday and kindly sent us a few photographs and some text, and reader .....
Two days ago we wrote about the new British Airways lounge at Boston Logan Airport. Reader Angel .....
28 Mar 201728 March 2017 • 42 comments
I wrote on Saturday about the introduction of the new ‘improved’ British Airways Club Europe food service. This began yesterday. In reality it is a mixed bag: almost all routes now have .....
I wrote on Saturday about the introduction of the new ‘improved’ British Airways Club Europe food .....
27 Mar 201727 March 2017 • 112 comments
News in brief: Last day for 2,400 Avios with £60 of LEGO Friends Today (Monday) is the last day for the latest Tesco Direct / LEGO promotion. If you still haven’t filled up every birthday .....
News in brief: Last day for 2,400 Avios with £60 of LEGO Friends Today (Monday) is the last day for the .....
27 Mar 201727 March 2017 • 27 comments
You may not know this, but British Airways Executive Club has a range of ‘Experiences’ redemptions. Available in most major cities in the world, you can redeem your Avios points .....
You may not know this, but British Airways Executive Club has a range of ‘Experiences’ .....
27 Mar 201727 March 2017 • 8 comments
You can’t say we’re not on top of things here. It’s only 10am and we already have some photographs of the new Club Europe breakfast. Remember that the new ‘improved’ .....
You can’t say we’re not on top of things here. It’s only 10am and we already have some .....
26 Mar 201726 March 2017 • 23 comments
I hesitated before running this article, because similar ‘buy Avios via a third party website’ deals in Spain via Groupon have proved a bit messy. Not for everyone, but for a .....
I hesitated before running this article, because similar ‘buy Avios via a third party website’ .....
26 Mar 201726 March 2017 • 80 comments
News in brief: New British Airways lounge at Boston now open The new British Airways lounge at Boston Logan opened earlier this week. It was constructed as part of the expansion of Terminal E to .....
News in brief: New British Airways lounge at Boston now open The new British Airways lounge at Boston Logan .....
26 Mar 201726 March 2017 • 18 comments
The much heralded improvements to British Airways Club Europe catering begin tomorrow, Sunday. That said, it certainly isn’t improvements all round – some popular routes are having their .....
The much heralded improvements to British Airways Club Europe catering begin tomorrow, Sunday. That said, it .....
25 Mar 201725 March 2017 • 101 comments
News in brief: Good ‘Avios for LEGO Friends’ deal returns Tesco Direct is repeating their LEGO Friends promotion. If you still haven’t filled up every bithday wish list for the .....
News in brief: Good ‘Avios for LEGO Friends’ deal returns Tesco Direct is repeating their LEGO .....
24 Mar 201724 March 2017 • 25 comments
News in brief: £9.98 one-way Avis car rentals to London Regular readers will remember our article last year on Europcar offering £1 one-way car rentals to London. Europcar uses this to cheaply .....
News in brief: £9.98 one-way Avis car rentals to London Regular readers will remember our article last year .....
23 Mar 201723 March 2017 • 63 comments
VERY long-term readers of Head for Points may remember that, three years ago, I promoted my great idea for improving British Airways Executive Club for elite members – reforming the Gold .....
VERY long-term readers of Head for Points may remember that, three years ago, I promoted my great idea for .....
23 Mar 201723 March 2017 • 126 comments
As I have mentioned a few times before on Head for Points, the oneworld airline alliance changed its rules on baggage handling late last year. They told member airlines that they no longer had to .....
As I have mentioned a few times before on Head for Points, the oneworld airline alliance changed its rules on .....
22 Mar 201722 March 2017 • 134 comments
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