Originally Posted by
dougzz
jameslon All you can do is keep trying, and hope a better opportunity comes. Your post sort of highlights the problem with this thread. At £4/TP that’s not really in the vicinity of a TP run. When you have fairly specific dates and destination you have to be quite lucky to make a genuine TP run of it, what you’re really doing is looking to best optimise TP return from a flight you need or want to take. If you can find DUB-LHR-JFK-LAX-YVR-LAX-JFK-LHR-DUB all in business that would yield 720TP at perhaps a much better £/TP rate than what you have there.
What you really want is the find me a fare thread
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...ares-only.html
Make sure you ask Matrix for Alliance Oneworld flights, not just for BA flights (and fares). Thursday departures next June show DUB-LHR-JFK-LAX-YVR-LAX-JFK-LHR-DUB available for £1694 – requires an overnight at LAX on the outbound, but a simpler return. It is an AA fare, mainly on AA flight numbers, but will earn you the same TPs and (I think) Avios.