Welcome to Flyertalk r00ty, and welcome to the BA forum. It's good to see new people join us here, and I hope that you will find this place interesting and useful. Please continue to contribute, this board only works thanks to people like you posting here.

That £129 is high by historic standards as you indicated, and it will be interesting to see whether the 80 TP locations go much higher than that. Equally if you have to travel to these places at the marginal TP earning rate it's quite good value.