Personally I see long haul redemptions as poor value these days. £2200 taxes for a family of 4 to fly to BKK in CW, when you can buy the same ticket ex-DUB/AMS/GOT, etc. for well under £1k per ticket just seems daft.
On a 4 ticket booking you'll save 600k-720k Avios by paying cash rather than points, you can fly pretty much any date you want rather than hoping for availability, and you'll earn Avios back as well. Even without the earned Avios, at a valuation of 0.5p each (what you generally get spending them on hotels) that's a £3k-£3.6k value; making the total cost for a redemption higher than paying cash for the tickets.
Of course there is still value to be had using Avios for flying; but more and more it's becoming limited to RFS flights.
Last edited by Wozza2404; Jan 15, 2017 at 3:07 am