Originally Posted by ianwall

I'm only seeing the negative here:
* LHR to UK Domestic, was 750 Airmiles + £0, now (equiv) 900 Airmiles + £27
* LHR to New York, was 5000 Airmiles + 0, now (equiv) 4000 Airmiles + £300.73
* LHR to SYD, was 1000 Airmiles + 0, now (equiv) 1000 Airmiles + £491.03
(taxes and charges taken from BA.com)

Airmiles's unique selling point was the ability to make economy redemptions and not be hit by excessive YQ or other "taxes and charges". On BA Miles, these were often higher than a full ticket.

What really grates is that they've done nothing to soften the impact of adding taxes / charges to all redemptions on the existing balances of miles. I valued 1 Airmile as £1 "worth" of travel, meaning a UK Domestic redemption cost £75 "worth" of Airmiles. Exactly the same ticket now costs £117 "worth" of points and fees.

If the total cost of redeeming is now 56% higher, why aren't we getting 15 Avios for each Airmile rather than 10x? Then at least we'd be roughly even on our existing balances (mine saved for over 4 years).

Grrrrrrrr