Originally Posted by
FoodRanger
The BA holiday thing is interesting but I'd have to do 2 runs so that would be 10 days minimum right? I think I could do LHR-OTP with a car for £670 return in CW, that would be slightly less than the £1500 for 3x CW return but then I'm stuck for 5 days each time.
Yes, the 5 day minimum is the catch here. Of course you can nest flights, so you don't have to stay at your destination for the 5 days. Unfortunately double TP is only ex-UK so any nested flight would not qualify.
Essentially you book something like LHR-OTP as a BA holiday to take advantage of the double points, either don't collect the car or collect it and park it immediately, and then nest an OTP-LHR inside it. That would net 480TP and *might* be a bit cheaper, but you'd need to price it up.
If you can start and finish at a UK regional airport, then SOF,OTP, KEF etc net 240TP normally and a holiday would make that 480. You'd just need a cheap flight, which could be a nested economy flight back to LHR to avoid 5 days at your destination.
It would also carry a certain amount of risk, since the tickets are separate contracts. With the operational state of BA at the moment, the risk might be unpalatable.