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’ bonus promotion. Until 21st May you will receive 50% bonus Avios when you buy or gift points. This is as high a bonus as we see these days .....
British Airways has launched another ‘buy Avios’ bonus promotion. Until 21st May you will receive .....
3 May 20193 May 2019 • 145 comments
I wasn’t planning to do another American Express article this week, but something came up in the comments to the article on Monday (and comes up in my emails with worrying regularity) which made .....
I wasn’t planning to do another American Express article this week, but something came up in the .....
2 May 20192 May 2019 • 112 comments
British Airways has added lounge access at eight more European airports. Over the last year British Airways has been working hard to add lounge access for eligible customers at European airports where .....
British Airways has added lounge access at eight more European airports. Over the last year British Airways .....
2 May 20192 May 2019 • 78 comments
For the first time, you can now earn Avios from a small business Mastercard. This is a great way for a sole trader or SME to rack up a large number of Avios each year, especially as HMRC accepts these .....
For the first time, you can now earn Avios from a small business Mastercard. This is a great way for a sole .....
1 May 20191 May 2019 • Leave a comment
British Airways, as we covered yesterday, has announced increases in Avios pricing for flights on partner airlines. This is basically all airlines except BA, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling. Our main .....
British Airways, as we covered yesterday, has announced increases in Avios pricing for flights on partner .....
1 May 20191 May 2019 • 148 comments
The Hackett / Avios partnership, which originally launched with an exclusive American Express tie-in, is now open to all. You no longer need to be a British Airways American Express cardholder to .....
The Hackett / Avios partnership, which originally launched with an exclusive American Express tie-in, is now .....
1 May 20191 May 2019 • 33 comments
Yesterday I published an update on BA’s roll-out of ‘zero taxes’ Avios redemptions on short-haul. At present this has only been rolled out to Zone 3 routes which traditionally .....
Yesterday I published an update on BA’s roll-out of ‘zero taxes’ Avios redemptions on .....
30 Apr 201930 April 2019 • Leave a comment
A worryingly vague email has just been sent out by British Airways to anyone who has recently booked an Avios redemption on a partner airline. It says: “As you’ve previously used your Avios to .....
A worryingly vague email has just been sent out by British Airways to anyone who has recently booked an Avios .....
29 Apr 201929 April 2019 • 110 comments
Two weeks we exclusively revealed (click here to read) how British Airways is moving to ‘no taxes’ pricing on short haul redemptions. So far this has only been rolled out on longer .....
Two weeks we exclusively revealed (click here to read) how British Airways is moving to ‘no taxes’ .....
29 Apr 201929 April 2019 • 73 comments
This is our review of the lounge used by British Airways (the IGA lounge) at the new Istanbul Airport. Istanbul’s brand new airport opened earlier this month. We very rarely run reviews of .....
This is our review of the lounge used by British Airways (the IGA lounge) at the new Istanbul Airport. .....
28 Apr 201928 April 2019 • 57 comments
Avios and Flybe are ending their partnership on 30th April. Details are on the Flybe website here. You will still earn Avios on any Flybe flights taken by 30th April (you must complete BOTH legs, .....
Avios and Flybe are ending their partnership on 30th April. Details are on the Flybe website here. You will .....
28 Apr 201928 April 2019 • 61 comments
It was obviously never the case that British Airways only launched London Gatwick to Fort Lauderdale in Florida back in 2017 as a spoiler to annoy Norwegian. This means that it is a total coincidence .....
It was obviously never the case that British Airways only launched London Gatwick to Fort Lauderdale in .....
27 Apr 201927 April 2019 • 123 comments
There is good news for anyone heading to New York next week. The fully refurbished British Airways Galleries Club lounge is about to open. The lounge partly opened last week. British Airways told .....
There is good news for anyone heading to New York next week. The fully refurbished British Airways Galleries .....
26 Apr 201926 April 2019 • 168 comments
On Tuesday we covered British Airways launching an additional four weekly services to Mumbai. This is to pick up some of the slack following the collapse of Indian group Jet Airways. There was some .....
On Tuesday we covered British Airways launching an additional four weekly services to Mumbai. This is to .....
26 Apr 201926 April 2019 • Leave a comment
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