Posted 18 hours ago
Avios boost points £0.0092/avios backdating by 1 year
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Worthwhile to take a look if this applies to your account! The big change/today's deal: Today they seem to have unofficially opened it up to the past 12 months. I picked up 55K avios for about half the cost of buying them at the regular price for non boost purchase.
Avios boost usually allows you to buy avios points at £0.0092/avios for points balances earned within the last 30 days (e.g. Points earned through a BA avios Amex) up to 3x the points earned in that period. It's half as expensive as buying avios and cheaper than subscribing to avios. It seems to have opened up to the past 12 months earned avios
vs the normal £0.01295/avios when you subscribe yearly to 20K avios - paid monthly (1,666/month deposited into your account)
Or the normal purchase prices buying avios ranging from £0.021/avios and not improving much, even when accounting for their semi annual 40% bonus points promo that recently ended. Even with that promo the price was 143% the boost price.
Regular price of purchasing avios
5K £105 (47.62avios/£) £0.021/avios
10K £195 (51.28avios/£)
15K £279 (53.76avios/£)
20K £369 (54.20avios/£)
25K £459 (54.47avios/£)
30K £545 (55.05avios/£) £0.018/avios
Could buy 28K for £369 on expired 40% bonus promo (£0.01317/avios +43% cost more than boost)
When combined with 10,000 bonus points from signing up for a BA Amex (£0 annual fee, no referral links please), and yearly companion voucher with £10K/year card spend, this deal ensures that your next trip is closer than you think ;).
FYI No, I don't work for BA, avios, etc. I just like deals.
BONUS TIPS FOR MORE FREE AVIOS
You can exchange nectar points to avios at a rate of 400nectar:250avios. I usually get 100avios+about 800nectar points on a £100 Sainsbury's shop with buying bonus nectar items and a 3x nectar voucher that always seems to be available to me, so about 600avios/shop after conversion. If you sign up for "avios for thoughts" you can get points for completing surveys and also boost those points at a rate of 0.0092/avios. I usually do a few a week while watching something.
WHY GO THROUGH THE TROUBLE
I recently booked a 2 person return flight LHR-Tokyo Haneda direct for £560+companion voucher+50K avios (most of which I received from credit card spend and nectar points). Very affordable in my opinion at just £280/pp out of pocket! The regular BA price for the direct flight with luggage included was £4,200 (fairly typical for 2 direct tickets return from hearthrow to Tokyo, with stopover flights being a bit cheaper). My voucher + 50K avios gave £3,640off & a nearly 87% discount. It's basically opened up the world of travel for my family. If your partner or friend also gets a BA Amex, you'll get 2 companion vouchers each year.
Worthwhile to take a look if this applies to your account! The big change/today's deal: Today they seem to have unofficially opened it up to the past 12 months. I picked up 55K avios for about half the cost of buying them at the regular price for non boost purchase.
Avios boost usually allows you to buy avios points at £0.0092/avios for points balances earned within the last 30 days (e.g. Points earned through a BA avios Amex) up to 3x the points earned in that period. It's half as expensive as buying avios and cheaper than subscribing to avios. It seems to have opened up to the past 12 months earned avios
vs the normal £0.01295/avios when you subscribe yearly to 20K avios - paid monthly (1,666/month deposited into your account)
Or the normal purchase prices buying avios ranging from £0.021/avios and not improving much, even when accounting for their semi annual 40% bonus points promo that recently ended. Even with that promo the price was 143% the boost price.
Regular price of purchasing avios
5K £105 (47.62avios/£) £0.021/avios
10K £195 (51.28avios/£)
15K £279 (53.76avios/£)
20K £369 (54.20avios/£)
25K £459 (54.47avios/£)
30K £545 (55.05avios/£) £0.018/avios
Could buy 28K for £369 on expired 40% bonus promo (£0.01317/avios +43% cost more than boost)
When combined with 10,000 bonus points from signing up for a BA Amex (£0 annual fee, no referral links please), and yearly companion voucher with £10K/year card spend, this deal ensures that your next trip is closer than you think ;).
FYI No, I don't work for BA, avios, etc. I just like deals.
BONUS TIPS FOR MORE FREE AVIOS
You can exchange nectar points to avios at a rate of 400nectar:250avios. I usually get 100avios+about 800nectar points on a £100 Sainsbury's shop with buying bonus nectar items and a 3x nectar voucher that always seems to be available to me, so about 600avios/shop after conversion. If you sign up for "avios for thoughts" you can get points for completing surveys and also boost those points at a rate of 0.0092/avios. I usually do a few a week while watching something.
WHY GO THROUGH THE TROUBLE
I recently booked a 2 person return flight LHR-Tokyo Haneda direct for £560+companion voucher+50K avios (most of which I received from credit card spend and nectar points). Very affordable in my opinion at just £280/pp out of pocket! The regular BA price for the direct flight with luggage included was £4,200 (fairly typical for 2 direct tickets return from hearthrow to Tokyo, with stopover flights being a bit cheaper). My voucher + 50K avios gave £3,640off & a nearly 87% discount. It's basically opened up the world of travel for my family. If your partner or friend also gets a BA Amex, you'll get 2 companion vouchers each year.
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sorted byBut having said that, I took out the card in the last 12mths and got a 70k bonus, so currently my 3x boost gives me 310k avios for under £3000.....
I wonder if it'll stick around for future years! too good a deal compared to buying or subscribing
IMHO better to get in before the door closes (if it does!)
The only problem I have is that BA quality seems to continue to go down - going to fly end of this month with my 2for1 so we will see