Originally Posted by
ediYank
Whats the point of using AVIOS, really ?
the point is to use them to travel in premium cabins like CW and First including upgrading using Avios (UUA).
Using them for Economy can be good value at times (and at other time extremely bad value, far worse than the example you mention...) but generally you will get fat better value using them as per my above suggestion.
Read the
sticky, plenty of info there...
May I assume you're new to this forum and BA Gold in general?