February 3, 2015 by million mile secrets million mile secrets. As of may 30, 2019, british airways has slightly increased the amount of avios required for partner flights such as aa operated flights. But how do you use avios to book aer lingus flights. For example, i often use british airways avios to book direct american airlines flights in the u. Chase ultimate rewards, american express membership rewards, and marriott points. Updated on january 21, 2020 by jackie sillsdellegrazie 90 comments this post contains affiliate links which earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. The first thing you need to know is that redeeming avios on vueling isnt a straightup avios redemption. Booking partner award flights using british airways avios. You must, except as mentioned below, actually travel on the sector to qualify for avios. Booking an avios reward flight for another person is as easy as booking one for yourself.
This is part 1 of our 15article series which will cover all the secret tricks you need to know to successfully redeem avios points for flights on ba. Pay for the flights using your avios you just need to pay the taxes fees and charges with cash. How to use avios to book vueling flights visit the vueling website and select your flights. Go to the website, select the option to book with avios and you will be able to book an american airlines flight using avios on the british airways website. A brilliant guide to british airways upgrades using avios or. You do it exactly the same way that you would when booking avios redemption flights on british airways. Reward flights flights that you book using avios are called reward flights. Apr 23, 2019 how to use avios to book vueling flights. You are essentially part paying with avios, except, unlike when you do this on the british airways website there is one key difference. Using avios points on aer lingus british airways avios. American airlines and british airways are both part of the oneworld alliance, which means they have access to each others award flight availability and you can book flights with each others miles or points.
Since ba is part of the oneworld alliance, you can use avios to book award tickets on airlines like american airlines, iberia, and qatar airways. This usually means extra avios availability being released. To be able to use your companion voucher, youll need to find two reward seats together on the same flights. So, you pay half of the avios required per two people. If you do not have british airways avios, you can transfer from. Part 11 the best domestic awards using british airways avios points. How to book american airlines flights with avios baldthoughts. Redeeming your avios for flights should be simple, but that is not always the case.
Flying ba metal inout of london heathrow will rack up huge taxes, fees and fuel surcharges. We completely relate with the frustration of readers who have a considerable number of avios points and struggle to be able to redeem any form of british airways reward flight. Keep reading to find out other great uses of british airways avios points for flights in the us. Having the option to use british airways avios points to book american airlines flights is handy for a couple of reasons. The ultimate guide to using bas avios for japanese. Iberia maintains agreements with other airline companies for selling seats on certain. Not only do they offer one of the cheapest fights to europe 12,500 miles, but they also dont tack on the astronomical fuel surcharges that ba does.
Use your british airways avios to book short flights within the u. Collect on hotel stays around the world when you book with our hotel partners. If you need a last minute ticket to hong kong or anywhere cathay flies, you wont be able to use your points online or see seats available. You can pay for your flights with a combination of avios and cash, whether you book through iberia. Be aware of route and aircraft changes all airlines including ba, constantly change destinations, aircraft types and frequencies. The good news is, you dont have to fly on british airways aircraft with your avios. Jun 14, 2018 british airways is one of my favorite frequent flyer programs due to the distancebased award chart and ability to book shorthaul award tickets on the cheap. There are quite a few scenarios when it makes sense to book an aa award flight using british airways avios, even after the londonbased carriers. For more information, check out our detailed guide to using points and miles to fly to ireland. Aer lingus is, by far, one of the best airlines to book with british airways avios. Reward flight finder allows you to search once and see a year of availability.
Ba is part of a global airline alliance called oneworld, and this allows you to redeem avios for flights with all of the member airlines. American airlines recently reduced the miles required for flights under 500 flights miles to 7,500 miles each way, so you could book this same flight on american for 15,000 american miles round trip in economy. Booking flights using british airways avios once the avios are in your account, its time to book your flight. Add aadvantage number to british airways avios booking 2019. You can sometimes book flights for fewer points compared to booking with american airlines miles. How to book american airlines flights with british airways. This is the final segment of our beginners guide to mastering british airways avios series, where well take a look at the last piece of the travel rewards puzzle actually booking your flights. While certainly not as good as they used to be, british airways avios remain a very good value especially with transfer bonuses in many cases for direct flights, especially when booked at the last minute. How to book award flights using british airways avios the. Like most airlines, the number of avios points required to book ba reward flights is based upon the distance of the flight flown. Here is our guide to maximizing award travel with ba. A beginners guide to using british airways avios the.
Use british airways avios for flights on alaska airlines. British airways offers more service to the united states than any other european carrier, and its. Whenever the topic of british airways avios comes up, theres a pretty consistent chorus of cries about how avios are worthless. Sep 29, 2016 as a followup to our article on how to book american airlines flights with british airways avios miles using british airways avios miles for sweet spot redemptions, heres a stepbystep tutorial on how to book alaska airlines flights with british airways avios. Its best to compare, because in some cases the taxes and fees are lower when you book with british airways avios points. Aug 07, 2019 the ultimate guide to japan airlines domestic flights booked using british airways executive club avios air travel february 22, 2018 august 7, 2019 by keishi nukina a couple of times in the past, especially in connection with groupon spain and venteprivee france promotions, i wrote about how using british airways avios miles for japanese. On the next page, youll see a section that asks you for either your vueling club or aerclub details. How to book alaska airlines flights with british airways. However, you should never book an award flight on aer lingus using aer lingus aerclub. Indeed, if youre looking for award flights from the us to europe on british airways, avios are often close to worthless due to high carrier surcharges on awards and low paid flight prices. Book american airline flights with british airways avios. There are quite a few scenarios when it makes sense to book an aa award flight using british airways avios, even after the londonbased carriers partner award chart changes that took effect may 30, 2019. Once you have located award availability on your desired flights, you will have to call the british airways executive club and redeem your avios over the phone. Apr 12, 2020 assuming your avios are sitting in a ba executive club account or iberia plus account, you will then need to transfer the avios into aer club using the combine my avios function, which can be.
Booking a flight with british airways avios can be complicated and fees can be high, but executive club members who dont mind doing some digging can find a great deal. How to book award flights using british airways avios the points guy. You can book to any worldwide destination, where theres availability, with british airways and our oneworld partners. This combined payment option is valid on flights operated by iberia, iberia express, air nostrum and vueling british airways only available via call centres. Guide to booking flights with british airways avios points.
Jan 30, 2018 british airways offers incredible rates using points on certain cathay pacific flights. You can use british airways avios to book these routes on alaska airlines. Similarly, you can upgrade a ba flight booked with american, but you can only do so using the points currency of the airline you booked with. Read and agree to the terms on the next page, clicking continue again to progress.
You pay avios plus a cash amount to cover the taxes, fees and carrier charges. You can even use your avios for hotel nights, car hires and leisure options, and when you shop at the more than 90 partners you. How to use british airways avios to book award flights. Spending avios on flights get the flights you want. Book your reward flight using your avios, plus taxes, fees and charges payable in cash feel like adding a seat, bag or priority boarding to your reward flight booking. Unlike most frequent flyer programs, british airways has a distance based award chart.
Basically, if you booked british airways flights via american airlines, you must use american aadvantage miles to upgrade. Mar 03, 2019 the best tool for upgrading british airways flights is rewardflightfinder. You cant transfer ba avios to aa, but on the ba website theres a spending avios section which allows you to use avios to pay for hotels, car rentals, and also as a partial payment along with cash to book flights with ba. You can only collect avios once per flight, regardless of the number of seats purchased. Theres dozens of examples of times that it makes sense to book american airlines award flights with british airways avios. A brilliant guide to british airways upgrades using avios. I could give a thousand more examples of how to use your avios points effectively, but ill let you discover those on your own. Jun 27, 2019 in todays example, this means using the british airways loyalty currency called avios to book domestic american airlines flights. Cathay and british airways have blocked these seats from being seen online, for departures within a week. If you are looking to fly from the united states to ireland, using avios to fly aer lingus is your best bet. Enjoy your avios and use them to get a discount when you book your tickets. Booking aer lingus with british airways avios travel. You can collect avios on the class of travel you booked and paid for that appears on your ticket, not the class of travel actually flown.
As you will notice there is a further variable which affects the number of avios required to book a british airways reward flight booking during either peak or offpeak dates. Select your preferred option from the search results and then click continue at the bottom. British airways reward flights using avios to book ba. British airways is testing a new avios redemption option. Avios is fantastic for flights within north america you can use avios points on any american airlines flight, europe british airways and iberia airlines, and plenty of other regions as well. If you subscribe to this blog, you will find out pretty quickly. Level is the new brand of iag group, created so you can experience the world easily and affordably. Before today, customers who did not have access to free seat selection could choose to pay to select their seats, but now, these customers will also have the option to pay using avios points for part or all of the seat selection. This free website allows you to see all dates where seats using avios are available in your desired cabin.
I have tried to book aa flights with those to a number of cities on a number of dates and been unsuccessful. Now, everyone knows using british airways ba avios to redeem premium cabin award space on actual ba flights is a terrible idea and should be avoided at all costs. Here are some tips to help you get the flights you want. With the possibility of obtaining significantly reduced taxes, the lure of using avios points on aer lingus is a popular redemption option for many british airways executive club members. Go to, log in to the british airways executive club section and then go to the avios booking page. Sign up for a british airways executive club account. You can also spend your avios on reward flights on, on hotels, car hire, experiences and business class upgrades to and from the us and canada.
February 5, 2014 by brad 31 comments richmond savers has partnered with cardratings for our coverage of credit card products. British airways executive club trying to book qantas with ba avios hi i am trying to fly from adelaide, australia to alice springs, australia, and then from either alice springs or uluru, australia to sydney, australia. Jan 21, 2020 a beginners guide to using british airways avios. Signing up for credit cards through partner links earns us a commission. Nov 26, 2019 and by using iberia avios which can be transferred 1. A beginners guide to using british airways avios the globetrotting. Login to your executive club account, click executive club, then spending avios and then book a rewards flight. As a rule of thumb, if americans website shows the flights with milesaaver availability, british airways avios can book the flight. Flight upgrades with avios executive club british airways. From british airways homepage, click register now at the top right or click this link, enter your information then click join now at the bottom. The process is identical to booking a ba flight with points.
If youre just making plans use our book and upgrade form to search for specific flights and dates to see if you can upgrade as you book. Though it looks very similar to the reward flight finder, the book flights with avios tool works a bit differently. How to book american airlines flights with british airways avios points. Or, if youre checking reward availability, you can follow along for this post and see how to use the book with avios.
Most of the time when american airlines has milesaaver availability you can book the same award flight on using avios. Using british airways avios points for amazing reward values. May 10, 2018 whenever the topic of british airways avios comes up, theres a pretty consistent chorus of cries about how avios are worthless. A couple of times in the past, especially in connection with groupon spain and venteprivee france promotions, i wrote about how using british airways avios miles for japanese domestic flights operated by jal is one of my favorite uses of miles as i believe in many cases using avios for japanese domestic flights can provide great value, and there is a lot to understand before reserving. But they would also count as a partner airline, and subject to the same partner rules. All flights have a minimum number of guaranteed seats for purchase with avios. You can book to any worldwide destination, where theres availability, with british airways and our. In general, its best to book flights using avios points as far out as you know your travel plans. If you are using a ba amex 241 voucher, you should buy the outbound flights at d355 and then as soon as the inbound flight is available, telephone british airways for them to add the flight to the booking. Mar 04, 2020 aer lingus book with avios a stepbystep guide. Or use them on iberia flights to upgrade from flexible economy fares y, b or h to business class. Booking aer lingus with british airways avios travel miles 101. Lets walk through the process of booking flights using british airways avios. You can take reward flights with british airways, iberia and our oneworld and other partner airlines, wherever theres availability.
Book flights directly with any of our airline partners and use your avios to discount the cost of your flight. And is it worth redeeming avios for hotels, wine, car hire or experiences. The distances are split into a total of 9 zones as summarised below. The british airways executive club program can be incredibly valuable. Once the avios are in your account, its time to book your flight. Just because you can book a seat with cash through a travel agent or the ba website doesnt mean you can use your voucher. British airways also has a shopping portal where you can earn avios for the items youre planning to buy anyways. You wont need any personal data about the person travelling except for their full name, as stated on their passport. Redeeming british airways avios on alaska airlines one mile. However, whether intentionally planned or not, there is no ability for executive club members to book an avios aer lingus redemption flight directly through the ba. How to book partner award flights with british airways avios. You log in to british airways executive club at, search and select whatever avios seats are available and proceed to book. Now british airways is testing out a new redemption option on its new york london route. Flights that you book using avios are called reward flights.
That is true on ba flights to europe and the irony is that you never want to use ba avios on actual british airways flights or american airlines flights to europe where they also pass along fuel surcharges. Plus, british airways doesnt charge a closein booking fee. Spending avios pay with avios to get money off the cost of any aer lingus flight when you book through. Using iberia avios as an alternative to british airways one. May 29, 2018 booking aer lingus flights using avios. Use our book and upgrade form to search for availability and make your booking. Simply contact us on your local aer lingus reservations number where the team will be happy to help you. British airways only offer a small number of seats on each flight for avios redemptions. Fortunately, this change wasnt enough to change the fact that british airways is a great way to book american airlines and other oneworld partner flights. How to book aer lingus flights with british airways avios.
If youre new to british airways avios, the mileage currency of the british airways executive club frequent flyer program, you may be looking for tips on how to maximize your miles for free flights, or even how to search and book avios award flights. Apr 06, 2020 links on head for points may pay us an affiliate commission. Importantly, taxes, fees and carrier charges still apply, and only the avios themselves are 2for1. Ba customers can now pay for seat selection using avios. How to book vueling flights using avios tricks of the trade. Best ways to use a ba companion voucher the points guy uk. Using avios points on aer lingus british airways avios aer. Oct 27, 2016 american airlines and british airways are both part of the oneworld alliance, which means they have access to each others award flight availability and you can book flights with each others miles or points. The ultimate guide to using bas avios for japanese domestic. However, avios flights can be cancelled up to 24 hours prior, albeit for a.
Its possible ba may introduce this feature in future they have been experimenting a lot with part payment options over the past couple of years. If the flight isnt showing on, the callcenter agents should be able to book the flight manually. Jan 02, 2019 the good news is that you are not restricted to spending avios points on british airways. That means the further you fly in miles, the more miles it is. How to book award flights using british airways avios. If you booked american flights via british airways, you must use avios to upgrade. Oct 03, 2014 alaska would charge 25,000 mileage plan miles for a roundtrip saver award ticket between any domestic city pair, while british airways would only charge 15,000 avios. Mar 03, 2020 one of the most common questions we receive at thrifty points relates to finding available ba reward flights using the british airways website. You can also set free alerts, which will email you when and if a seat opens up. Did you know you can use british airways avios points to book with more than 20 partner airlines. Finding award space on alaska airlines british airways is able to book both economy and first class awards on alaska airlines flights. You can find availability using avios for all the airlines mentioned above at british airways. I have earned about 160,000 avios several years ago through a ba cc. Book flights directly with any of our airline partners and use your avios to discount the.
If you have an existing booking log in to manage my booking, select your flight and choose upgrade this flight with avios to see if your flight can be upgraded. Seats on other airlines will appear directly below the search results for british airways own flights, so be sure to scroll down the page. Instead, book aer lingus flights with british airways avios. Richmond savers and cardratings may receive a commission from card issuers. While the number of avios needed to book a flight can often be reasonable, the cash copay that british airways charges can make bookings highly uneconomicalespecially in economy class.
Call british airways book the flight when you want to redeem your avios, and dont forget to ask the british airways representative to waive the phone booking fee. Turn your everyday spending into exciting travel rewards collect avios on flights, hotels, car hire and online shopping. You can book flights with iberia for yourself or for whoever you want in exchange for your avios. At the most basic level, the voucher allows 2for1 travel on british airways reward flights. Best value with flat tax rates on eligible bookings. Its not an upgrade voucher but rather a buy one, get one free type ticket. Tricks to find available flights using british airways avios.
In this instance, i wanted to use some avios that were sitting in my wifes ba account. You pay with your avios plus a cash amount for taxes, fees and carrier charges. Use british airways avios for flights on alaska airlines step 1. The exceptions to european fuel surcharges are using avios to book on aer lingus or air berlin. British airways customers can now use avios to pay for seat selection on flights although it may not be the best way to spend your points. British airways reward flights using avios to book ba flights. Domestic hops with a flight distance of 1,150 miles or less cost only 9,000 avios each way compared to as much as 12,500 american miles for the same flight. Jun, 2019 booking partner awards with british airways avios. Trying to book qantas with ba avios flyertalk forums.
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