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British Airways and Avios

British Airways 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.

If you are interested in earning Avios from credit cards, you should read this article comparing all the Avios-earning credit cards.

You can learn more about British Airways Club on the British Airways website here.

What are the best credit card deals for April 2018?

It is time for our regular round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel credit card sign-up deals. Finally, after a few relatively dull months, we have had some .....

It is time for our regular round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel .....

by Rob Burgess71 comments

Get 12,000 Avios with a new sign-up bonus on the Tesco Premium Credit Card

Tesco Bank has launched its biggest ever sign-up bonus for the Tesco Premium Credit Card. You can check out the details here.  As usual I need to tell you that the representative APR is 56.5% .....

Tesco Bank has launched its biggest ever sign-up bonus for the Tesco Premium Credit Card. You can check out .....

by Rob Burgess73 comments

IAG confirms it will open talks with Norwegian to buy the airline

IAG, the parent of British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, made a statement to the Stock Exchange on Thursday to confirm rumours that it intends to open negotiations with Norwegian Air Shuttle to buy .....

IAG, the parent of British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, made a statement to the Stock Exchange on Thursday .....

by Rob Burgess98 comments

Why you shouldn’t appeal your British Airways compensation

A friend of mine recently flew British Airways First Class.  After a litany of issues, including BA only loading one fish plate for a cabin of nine people and only loading one bottle of a particular .....

A friend of mine recently flew British Airways First Class.  After a litany of issues, including BA only .....

by Rob Burgess157 comments

British Airways to resume flights to Oakland in April 2019

We recently covered the suspension of flights by British Airways to Oakland in California from 20th October. According to Airlineroute, Oakland is showing again in the GDS booking systems from 1st .....

We recently covered the suspension of flights by British Airways to Oakland in California from 20th October. .....

by Rob Burgess

Will there be an Avios platform announcement this week?

We may get an announcement this week about the long-delayed restructuring of the avios.com platform. There are a lot of moving parts, but what is rumoured is that avios.com will close as a standalone .....

We may get an announcement this week about the long-delayed restructuring of the avios.com platform. There are .....

by Rob Burgess140 comments

News: have breakfast with Alex Cruz, goodbye Diners Club

British Airways Chairman and CEO, Alex Cruz, is speaking at a breakfast organised by one of our readers for the trade group UK Israel Business. It takes place at 8am on Wednesday 25th April in the .....

British Airways Chairman and CEO, Alex Cruz, is speaking at a breakfast organised by one of our readers for .....

by Rob Burgess50 comments

New Economist subscription promotions launched by British Airways and Accor

You can’t move these days without seeing a generous mileage offer for subscribing to The Economist. As you can see at this link, you can earn 13,200 Avios if you take out a 1-year digital and .....

You can’t move these days without seeing a generous mileage offer for subscribing to The Economist. As .....

by Rob Burgess

British Airways suspends Oakland flights for the winter timetable

The new British Airways service from Gatwick to Oakland on the US West Coast, which has reportedly been running with loads as low as 50 passengers, is to be cancelled for Winter 2018/9.  The last .....

The new British Airways service from Gatwick to Oakland on the US West Coast, which has reportedly been .....

by Rob Burgess73 comments

Where has all British Airways First Class Avios flight availability gone?

For the last few days, ba.com has been showing virtually no Avios availability in First Class for 2019.  I sat on the story because I thought it may be an IT glitch, but it does now seem that .....

For the last few days, ba.com has been showing virtually no Avios availability in First Class for 2019.  .....

by Rob Burgess231 comments

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