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.
As we exclusively announced a couple of weeks ago, British Airways will be running A380 aircraft between London Heathrow and Frankfurt / Madrid in November. This is being done to allow cabin crew to .....
As we exclusively announced a couple of weeks ago, British Airways will be running A380 aircraft between .....
14 Oct 202114 October 2021 • 53 comments
How can you use up a small Avios balance from a friend or family member who doesn’t want them? There may be people in your family who have a British Airways Executive Club account with a small .....
How can you use up a small Avios balance from a friend or family member who doesn’t want them? There may .....
13 Oct 202113 October 2021 • 15 comments
For almost two years now, SeatSpy has been a convenient way of finding reward seat availability on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. It is by far the easiest way of seeing Avios and Virgin Points .....
For almost two years now, SeatSpy has been a convenient way of finding reward seat availability on British .....
12 Oct 202112 October 2021 • 64 comments
We’ve run a few articles over the last couple of weeks showing routes where British Airways has surprisingly decent – by usual standards – Avios availability over Christmas. This is .....
We’ve run a few articles over the last couple of weeks showing routes where British Airways has .....
11 Oct 202111 October 2021 • 11 comments
Wine delivery company Laithwaites is an Avios redemption partner. With Christmas on the horizon and your flying potentially still symied until next year, you may be tempted by the idea of .....
Wine delivery company Laithwaites is an Avios redemption partner. With Christmas on the horizon and your .....
9 Oct 20219 October 2021 • 28 comments
We ran an article yesterday highlighting the unbelievable Avios reward space available in Club World to Dubai over Christmas and New Year. This was due to an extra British Airways service being added. .....
We ran an article yesterday highlighting the unbelievable Avios reward space available in Club World to Dubai .....
7 Oct 20217 October 2021 • 22 comments
BALPA, the British Airways pilot union, has just released the result of its ballot into whether the pilot body should support the new BA low cost carrier at London Gatwick. Despite the proposal being .....
BALPA, the British Airways pilot union, has just released the result of its ballot into whether the pilot body .....
7 Oct 20217 October 2021 • 30 comments
The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) announced this morning that it is dropping its attempts to force British Airways and Ryanair to refund passengers who could not take their flights due to .....
The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) announced this morning that it is dropping its attempts to force .....
7 Oct 20217 October 2021 • 68 comments
British Airways has announced an extra Dubai service this morning. It starts on 8th December and appears to run until 9th January. Because this service has just been added to the booking system, Avios .....
British Airways has announced an extra Dubai service this morning. It starts on 8th December and appears to .....
6 Oct 20216 October 2021 • 94 comments
One of the ‘things you didn’t know you didn’t know’ about frequent flyer miles is that it is possible to earn British Airways Avios and BA Executive Club tier .....
One of the ‘things you didn’t know you didn’t know’ about frequent flyer miles .....
6 Oct 20216 October 2021 • 11 comments
If you need a sign that airline traffic is returning to normal – or at least that the airlines hope that it is returning to normal – here it is. According to internal scheduling documents .....
If you need a sign that airline traffic is returning to normal – or at least that the airlines hope that .....
4 Oct 20214 October 2021 • 136 comments
The ‘will they, won’t they’ saga over the future of British Airways short-haul flights at Gatwick Airport has taken another twist. We had assumed that withdrawal from Gatwick was now .....
The ‘will they, won’t they’ saga over the future of British Airways short-haul flights at .....
3 Oct 20213 October 2021 • 50 comments
Qatar Airways was, yet again, the big winner at the 2021 Skytrax airline awards. For better or worse, the Skytrax awards are seen as the benchmark in the industry. Whilst the Skytrax airline star .....
Qatar Airways was, yet again, the big winner at the 2021 Skytrax airline awards. For better or worse, the .....
1 Oct 20211 October 2021 • 24 comments
British Airways has started the process of moving Gatwick short-haul flights for Summer 2022 to Heathrow. This follows the decision to close the short-haul operation at London Gatwick following the .....
British Airways has started the process of moving Gatwick short-haul flights for Summer 2022 to Heathrow. This .....
1 Oct 20211 October 2021 • 58 comments
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