Originally Posted by
Volvic
I was doing something like that but I noticed an exception
Starting point:
I need a one way ticket from Madrid to Europe zone 2 (?).
What I found out:
Required BAEC avios: 7500.
Required IB+ avios: 7500.
Required money on top of BAEC avios : 17,50 €.
Required money on top of IB+ : 29,28 €.
It looks like you have not earnt* an Avios point in your IB+ account in the last 12 months?
If so, your IB+ account does not qualify for 'Reward Flight Savers' which replace the taxes and charges with a fixed surcharge.
*earnt = flight, hotel, Amex transfer, buy Avios in your IB+ account.
Transfers from BAEC to IB+ do not count as earning (for qualifying you for 'Reward Flight Saver pricing, etc).
End point:
I just burned my BA avios but I'm not very familiar how to collect IB+ avios.
Credit: Flights, hotel stays/points, amex points, etc to your IB+.
Or transfer them from your BAEC account.
However, as I mentioned above, you need some earning directly into IB+ to make it active, and also ensure you qualify for Reward Flight Saver prices etc.
So either transfer some Amex, or hotel points (Etc), or look in another thread for details on the Alice supermarket offer. For registering (and signing up to emails for a month or so) they will credit your IB+ account with 125 Avios within a month or so. (Then you unsubscribe). This is enough to make your account active, the rest you want to spend at IB+ could be transfered from BAEC, etc.
On that same rout, on a cheap eco flight, IB operated, on an accrual point of view you get 500 IB+ avios or 700+ BAEC avios.
Do you have BAEC status?
What was the route?