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.
Virgin Atlantic has decided to take the fight to British Airways for your 2021 bookings by offering a status match to Executive Club members. You can find full details, and apply, on this page of the .....
Virgin Atlantic has decided to take the fight to British Airways for your 2021 bookings by offering a status .....
11 Jan 202111 January 2021 • 118 comments
As we covered here, British Airways snuck out an announcement to the Stock Exchange on New Years Eve to say that it had secured a £2.0 billion five year loan. This is a soft loan which carries a UK .....
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Good news: British Airways is making genuine improvements to its short haul catering. It turns out that the news that British Airways would be dropping Marks & Spencer products is part of a larger .....
Good news: British Airways is making genuine improvements to its short haul catering. It turns out that the .....
8 Jan 20218 January 2021 • 142 comments
British Airways Holidays is now offering additional sale savings of up to a further £100 off. However, these discounts are only available between now and 12th January. The offer works like this. Book .....
British Airways Holidays is now offering additional sale savings of up to a further £100 off. However, these .....
8 Jan 20218 January 2021 • 14 comments
I am back in the UK after 17 nights in the Middle East over Christmas and New Year. We stayed in seven different rooms in five different hotels (long story ….) but luckily for you I am not .....
I am back in the UK after 17 nights in the Middle East over Christmas and New Year. We stayed in seven .....
7 Jan 20217 January 2021 • 97 comments
You will probably have seen in the national media that Qatar has reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to end the three year blockade of Doha. I will .....
You will probably have seen in the national media that Qatar has reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia, .....
6 Jan 20216 January 2021 • 47 comments
I am often asked for my thoughts on how to value an Avios point. In our articles we use 1p as a ball-park figure, and it is the value I use myself, but the real world is more complicated. For the .....
I am often asked for my thoughts on how to value an Avios point. In our articles we use 1p as a ball-park .....
5 Jan 20215 January 2021 • 60 comments
As we exclusively broke back in October, British Airways / Avios and Tesco Clubcard have decided to part ways. The option to convert your Tesco Clubcard points into Avios is ending very soon. (Nothing .....
As we exclusively broke back in October, British Airways / Avios and Tesco Clubcard have decided to part ways. .....
4 Jan 20214 January 2021 • 133 comments
British Airways snuck out an announcement to the Stock Exchange on New Years Eve. This is normally when companies bury bad news, knowing that the financial press will have forgotten about it when .....
British Airways snuck out an announcement to the Stock Exchange on New Years Eve. This is normally when .....
1 Jan 20211 January 2021 • 42 comments
Even if you live in a Tier 4 area, you will find that Home Bargains is still open selling those core daily essentials. And, let’s be frank, nothing is more essential than a heavily reduced .....
Even if you live in a Tier 4 area, you will find that Home Bargains is still open selling those core daily .....
30 Dec 202030 December 2020 • 28 comments
In October we headed down to Domes of Elounda in Crete for a week. This hotel has been covered on HfP – most recently in this ‘My Favourite Hotel’ review – and I don’t .....
In October we headed down to Domes of Elounda in Crete for a week. This hotel has been covered on HfP – .....
29 Dec 202029 December 2020 • 17 comments
There is a lot more – a heck of a lot more – to the Avios frequent flyer scheme than most people think. If you are a new reader who came to HfP today as part of your Summer 2021 holiday .....
There is a lot more – a heck of a lot more – to the Avios frequent flyer scheme than most people .....
26 Dec 202026 December 2020 • 16 comments
Sale news in brief: Virgin Atlantic adds some extra sale discounts We covered the current Virgin Atlantic sale in this article two weeks ago. A couple of extra deals have been added: Save an extra .....
Sale news in brief: Virgin Atlantic adds some extra sale discounts We covered the current Virgin Atlantic sale .....
26 Dec 202026 December 2020 • 27 comments
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