Avios Points - Best bang for buck?
Discussion
I need to spend some of mine really. Got a whisker under 327,000 at the moment, collected over many years. They started as BMI miles, got boosted with an Amex account, then all got transferred over to Avios when BMI went under, and are still being topped up with periodic work flights and general Amex spending every month.
I use them for when flights are stupid prices.
School holidays or sports events. It's nice knowing I paid £25 to sit up front when the person beside me probably paid £750+
I did it for 3 rounds of the rugby world cup last year and same with the Olympics this year. J on my flight has been sold out for over 6 months now.
I did the long haul upgrade with points before, You still have to pay £300+ in tax to upgrade. If they have seats available it's about £600 to upgrade at the airport.
I'd rather pay for J upfront now to claim the tier points.
School holidays or sports events. It's nice knowing I paid £25 to sit up front when the person beside me probably paid £750+
I did it for 3 rounds of the rugby world cup last year and same with the Olympics this year. J on my flight has been sold out for over 6 months now.
I did the long haul upgrade with points before, You still have to pay £300+ in tax to upgrade. If they have seats available it's about £600 to upgrade at the airport.
I'd rather pay for J upfront now to claim the tier points.
pacenotes said:
I use them for when flights are stupid prices.
Agree last 2 times I’ve used them is when I’ve needed a flight the next day. This can be ruinously expensive but if you can find Avios availability, which you often can for next day, its works out good value.I have around 1.2million. In the past I’ve used them for return tickets on Concorde to New York; 1st class returns to the Caribbean (when the equivalent flights were costing £7k each); upgrades business to 1st; business flights over Christmas from the Gulf & to the Caribbean when retail flights were bonkers prices.
use them well & they are great.
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