Originally Posted by
ringingup
I am not particularly Avios rich, nor is my other half. We're sitting on just over 100k Avios between the two of us. We have redeemed heavily in the last 12 months of more: 2 long-haul flights in CW to the state with companion vouchers and several CE flights, some with upgrade vouchers. We have a couple of upgrade vouchers left, we're probably going to end up with another companion voucher soon.
We're waiting on more than 225,000 Avios combined from Barclays and these days we tend to earn avios only from credit card spending and the Avios estore.
I am going to lose my Gold status in June. As much as I'd like to gain it again, it seems unlikely. I just don't get enough leave to justify enough TP earning long haul trips anymore.
I value Avios at more than 1p. I haven't done any calculations on the exact value of my redemptions, but I am pretty confident it's more than that.
With all this in mind, I am considering an Adventurer Avios subscription, which will get me 200,000 Avios over a year for 0.8945p per Avios. I kind of seeing as buying flight credits for flexible flights.
Would you do it?
Individual choice obviously but I think you are saying £1,800 for 200k avios over a year?
It is still the case that could buy you a return single CW flight ex-UK to a number of reasonable destinations for that price, and then would earn X avios and Y TPs. If you spent it with BA holidays it might be 2Y TPs, this year at least. You will be silver by way of soft landing so the avios earn on a return CW flight might be 15k avios?
The changes to the BA Premium Amex are very good because they will allow most people to get x2 CW returns to a reasonable destination probably every year. So it is good to have the avios to make use of. The roll-out of CWS and restriction of F seats has made F redemptions less likely.
On the other hand the money is clearly more flexible and can be used to buy anything. And the loss of status eventually complicates things with additional costs for seat selection etc.
Sorry, no clear advice from me- just an appreciation that it is very much an individual choice. I could see the sense for you.