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.
British Airways has launched another ‘buy Avios’ promotion, offering a bonus of up to 30% for purchases before 31st August. The link to buy is here. Frankly, this is not an impressive .....
British Airways has launched another ‘buy Avios’ promotion, offering a bonus of up to 30% for .....
12 Aug 201412 August 2014 • 17 comments
There is quite a bit of confusion surrounding how to convert Le Club Accorhotels (the Novotel, Ibis, Sofitel, Mercure etc programme) points into Avios. With the help of HfP reader Tony, I have got .....
There is quite a bit of confusion surrounding how to convert Le Club Accorhotels (the Novotel, Ibis, Sofitel, .....
6 Aug 20146 August 2014 • 66 comments
British Airways has announced a number of long-haul service cancellations for the Winter season, running from October 26th to March 29th 2015. These cuts are in response to weakening demand – .....
British Airways has announced a number of long-haul service cancellations for the Winter season, running from .....
6 Aug 20146 August 2014 • 5 comments
In Part 1 of Holiday Tips yesterday, I looked at ways to earn points when booking airport car parking. Today I want to recap the best ways to earn points when using your credit card abroad. (If some .....
In Part 1 of Holiday Tips yesterday, I looked at ways to earn points when booking airport car parking. Today I .....
3 Aug 20143 August 2014 • 34 comments
A couple of months ago I posted a link to Will’s online diary of his slightly crazy tier point run to reach British Airways Gold Guest List status in the quickest time possible. It was a .....
A couple of months ago I posted a link to Will’s online diary of his slightly crazy tier point run to .....
2 Aug 20142 August 2014 • 40 comments
Over the next couple of days I will be writing some pieces on the new Heathrow Terminal 2. I finally had the chance to try it out last week. My timing was rubbish. I was flying to Dublin on Aer .....
Over the next couple of days I will be writing some pieces on the new Heathrow Terminal 2. I finally had .....
31 Jul 201431 July 2014 • 15 comments
The ‘hand baggage only’ experiment is clearly working. This was initially trialled at Gatwick, offering a £10 discount each-way on non-flexible economy tickets to a handful of .....
The ‘hand baggage only’ experiment is clearly working. This was initially trialled at Gatwick, .....
26 Jul 201426 July 2014 • 24 comments
When British Airways launched the Bronze tier a couple of years ago, this was the Executive Club card that members received: However, on ba.com this image has now appeared: It does look a bit more .....
When British Airways launched the Bronze tier a couple of years ago, this was the Executive Club card that .....
24 Jul 201424 July 2014 • 12 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 .....
20 Jul 201420 July 2014 • 19 comments
As I wrote yesterday in my initial article in this series, I am not planning to write a traditional series of trip reports from my travels in recent days. I am going to focus on a few particular .....
As I wrote yesterday in my initial article in this series, I am not planning to write a traditional series of .....
16 Jul 201416 July 2014 • 21 comments
One of the perks of the Lloyds Avios Rewards credit cards (my full review of the card is here) is the upgrade voucher. On the £24 version of the card, you receive an upgrade voucher for spending .....
One of the perks of the Lloyds Avios Rewards credit cards (my full review of the card is here) is the upgrade .....
15 Jul 201415 July 2014 • 46 comments
This is your final reminder that July 13th is the last day to instigate a transfer of hotel loyalty points to British Airways Executive Club in order to receive a 25% Avios bonus. The promotion is not .....
This is your final reminder that July 13th is the last day to instigate a transfer of hotel loyalty points to .....
12 Jul 201412 July 2014 • 2 comments
Today I am running a guest article from Head for Points reader Sam on travelling with infants on British Airways. Whilst I also have two young kids, Sam has more than me – including twins! .....
Today I am running a guest article from Head for Points reader Sam on travelling with infants on British .....
11 Jul 201411 July 2014 • 57 comments
One of the lesser-known benefits of British Airways Executive Club Gold status is that you receive nearly-top-tier status with the Langham hotel chain. In this post I will explain more about how the .....
One of the lesser-known benefits of British Airways Executive Club Gold status is that you receive .....
9 Jul 20149 July 2014 • 8 comments
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