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.
The Concorde Room lounges at Heathrow and New York JFK have reopened fully for the first time since March 2020. For the past year, anyone travelling in First or with a Concorde Room Card had to visit .....
The Concorde Room lounges at Heathrow and New York JFK have reopened fully for the first time since March .....
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Today, 20 years into their partnership, British Airways and American Express have revealed their new-look British Airways American Express Credit Cards which come with a host of improvements. The .....
Today, 20 years into their partnership, British Airways and American Express have revealed their new-look .....
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Today, 20 years into their partnership, British Airways and American Express have revealed their new-look British Airways American Express Credit Cards which come with a host of changes. The changes .....
Today, 20 years into their partnership, British Airways and American Express have revealed their new-look .....
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On Thursday we broke the story that British Airways was planning to launch a new low cost subsidiary at London Gatwick Airport. The new carrier would replace the existing British Airways short-haul .....
On Thursday we broke the story that British Airways was planning to launch a new low cost subsidiary at London .....
29 Aug 202129 August 2021 • 86 comments
Over the Summer, British Airways has been running a very interesting promotion for anyone who is chasing British Airways Executive Club status. Very simply, if you booked a BA Holidays package, your .....
Over the Summer, British Airways has been running a very interesting promotion for anyone who is chasing .....
28 Aug 202128 August 2021 • 172 comments
Back in June 2020, British Airways announced that it was cutting the tier points required to earn or renew British Airways status. This was hardly surprising given the reduction in flying. Tier point .....
Back in June 2020, British Airways announced that it was cutting the tier points required to earn or renew .....
28 Aug 202128 August 2021 • 53 comments
British Airways has emailed all staff to propose a new operating subsidiary to run short haul flights at London Gatwick. For the past 18 months British Airways has been operating a skeleton service .....
British Airways has emailed all staff to propose a new operating subsidiary to run short haul flights at .....
26 Aug 202126 August 2021 • 164 comments
If you need a sign that things are slowly getting back to normal at British Airways, here is one: the airline is happy to send out press releases promoting service improvements that you never knew you .....
If you need a sign that things are slowly getting back to normal at British Airways, here is one: the airline .....
24 Aug 202124 August 2021 • 40 comments
We now have confirmation that HSBC has launched a 25% bonus on conversions of HSBC Premier credit card points to Avios. We covered this story over the weekend after readers reported seeing a .....
We now have confirmation that HSBC has launched a 25% bonus on conversions of HSBC Premier credit card points .....
24 Aug 202124 August 2021 • 32 comments
A couple of weeks ago we covered BA’s decision to run, for cargo purposes, Boeing 787 long-haul aircraft on European routes. The story was picked up elsewhere including by The Independent. The .....
A couple of weeks ago we covered BA’s decision to run, for cargo purposes, Boeing 787 long-haul aircraft .....
23 Aug 202123 August 2021 • 30 comments
Having status is good, but maximising the amount of time you will have that status is even better. This isn’t as simple as it seems with British Airways because your membership year is fixed on .....
Having status is good, but maximising the amount of time you will have that status is even better. This .....
22 Aug 202122 August 2021 • 67 comments
If you are opted in to British Airways Executive Club marketing emails, you will have received a very interesting offer in your inbox yesterday. If you book a BA flight for cash by midnight on Monday, .....
If you are opted in to British Airways Executive Club marketing emails, you will have received a very .....
21 Aug 202121 August 2021 • 497 comments
HSBC has launched a secret 25% bonus on conversions of HSBC Premier credit card points to Avios. I say ‘secret’ because no announcement has been made. HSBC has form on this front, .....
HSBC has launched a secret 25% bonus on conversions of HSBC Premier credit card points to Avios. I say .....
21 Aug 202121 August 2021 • 71 comments
Back in May, British Airways announced that it was going to launch a 3-month trial of ‘queueless check-in’, which would allow you to pre-book a check-in slot before you arrived at the .....
Back in May, British Airways announced that it was going to launch a 3-month trial of ‘queueless .....
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