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Old Feb 21, 2017 | 9:02 am
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nux
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Originally Posted by T8191
I did this recently, with the 2 of us going JER-UK-DUB in CE.

BA wanted £627, which I thought was a bit expensive for what it actually offers these days. So I used 73,000 Avios to knock £400 off the cost. I make that £0.55/Avios, which isn't great. But OTOH we have a large Avios pile, and that saving just about covers the cost of 2 week's SUV rental in the US next month.
You could have instead used the avios for car hire or a hotel, which is 0.58p/avios, which should really be the minimum redemption level.
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