angeloedades

Hello Fellow FT'ers of the BAEC Forum,

I am currently in the process of planning a birthday trip of mine in November 2nd from LHR to ORD and back (2 weeks later).

I wanted to book redemption and thankfully there are many many spaces available for the dates I wanted in CW for around 40,000 avios + £1,100.

Now, seeing as there is a Y / T sale with BA at the moment, I wanted to gather your thoughts and opinions on the best way to not use more than 40,000 miles and try and lessen the ££££ component.

I have the thought of buy a T class fare for £1166 and use miles to MFU to CW but not sure how many exact avios it will take. From literature in the BAEC website it will take 80,000 base avios x 0.5 for a round trip making it at 40,000 miles for an MFU.

Pretty much so far each method is very similar in terms of price and usage of avios but obviously the T fare is a sale fare and may definitely be more expensive at a later date which will make the redemption more appropriate.

Can anyone offer any advice or a method that they would approach to this one?

Let me know if the above is a convoluted mess and require clarification. ^

/AE

BA304

If you go the MFU route instead of a straight redemption you do earn avios at the same time which will offset some of the cost of upgrading.

angeloedades

Good Point BA304

I know this has been asked before but will it be avoid for T or J ?

/AE

BA304

You'll get the WT+ avios if you book in WT+ and MFU to CW.