320 TP's needed for gold
 

Hi,


I need 320 tier points by the 8th of December to reach gold with BA, can anybody suggest not too expensive ideas for TP run(s) to achieve?


Thanks in advance.

Istanbul return is £180 in J right now. A couple of those back to back will get you what you need at little cost.

*edit, sorry. not had my coffee yet. £180 each way!

You will need to be specific in what you are asking. Where are you based, and are you willing to position in order to achieve a lower fare/better TP to cash ratio?

Are there any trips you are about to book, that could be altered to become more TP efficient?

Welcome to FT flbrit73

Have a look at the TP thread, some recent handy tips especially #3650 if it works for you

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...hread-183.html

Ah yes you are right, sorry it was my first post :)


I am about 45 minutes from LHR and 1.5 hrs from LGW but am willing to travel to maximize the TP's


I have 2 trips to France planned in the coming weeks but am travelling with my family (plus baby) for those and so can't really change them.

If you get any POUG offers before departure you could upgrade these, however you will probably be better to split you and (I presume) your other half's fares into different booking refernces. That way you can upgrade (hopefully) one person's flights each way (if the offer appears), and one of you can look afte rthe baby in flight while the other drinks champagne at the front!

If you get all four sectors upgraded, thats (I guess) 4x30 TP = 120TP. however it might be cheaper to do a TP run - check your price per TP. Anything udner £2 seems a pretty good deal (but then you may want to take the ease of upgrading an existing flight into account).

Good luck!

Post 3650 in the TP thread was LCT to KEF (rekjavik) which at the time of posting was £292. It's now £332 and can be done as a B2B in a day. For example:


https://www.google.co.uk/flights/#se...2229;sc=b;a=BA


You need to do 2, which means I think you'll have to do one mid week

MAN-LCA via LHR in J class will get the tier points you need in one trip. Just do some search to get the best deal you can.

Some good suggestions there flbrit73 and let me welcome you to Flyertalk and the BA Board. There are a fair number of members with an extensive knowledge of very good TP runs (^) and what's available.

I hope you find something and if you can we all like to hear the end results from queries.

Isn't this (40+80)*2 = 240TPs only, wheras the OP needs 320TPs.

Yes. I think it is a common mistake that because the LCA route is over 2000 miles some assume it earns 140 TPs in J per flight. It doesn't, and as you noted it only earns 80 TPs each way in J.

Thanks for the correction. As KARFA said I was under the impression that LHR-LCA in J earns 140 tier points as the distance exceed 2k miles :o

LHR-HEL-LHR can be day-tripped for a tad under £400 on most days in November in Club; 160TP return.
LHR-HEL-OSL-HEL-LHR can be had for a tad under £500 on weekends in November in Club/Business with an overnight stop in Helsinki, 240TP return.
LHR-MAN-LHR can be done back to back, or with an hour and a half for lunch and watching the view in the MAN lounge, on weekend days for £270-ish in CE, 80TP.
LGW-AMS-LGW can be done back to back.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess: DUB-LHR-LAX-HNL return for £1500 :)

GOT-AGP can get you 360TP if you are short on time. GOT is easy to B2B too and the lowest avios zone to get to.

I would personally do it over 2 weekends with an avios redemption back from AGP and get 2 long weekends away but I know people are happy to spend a weekend on a plane....

https://goo.gl/flights/WnVf

There are many variants that are worth exploring. If you plan on booking anything with BA codes do make sure you sign up to the double avios thing. It might only gift you a small amount but it's better than nothing.

MInd sharing the dates for this? Cant find any for such an awesome price

Well first of all, thank you to all the members that posted replies and all the helpful information, it was really much appreciated.

I took all the suggestions and tried many permutations of them to try and get the cheapest with minimal disruption and easiest logistics.

After a few more hours of checking how I could connect and get all the points in one weekend, I ended up deciding to spread it across 2 weekends instead and booked the below:

LHR > HEL 18/11/2017; HEL > LHR 19/11/2017 for £396

LHR > KEF 02/12/2017; KEF > LCY 03/12/2017 for £330.10 (not ideal placement for the return but £100 cheaper than in & out of LHR)

So all the 320 TP's for £726, I'll take that :)

Once again, thanks for the help and thanks for the welcome to the forum.

It was mid-December but I'm afraid I can't find that price now. It's more like £2000 now, but for that you can add in JFK so DUB-LHR-JFK-LAX-HNL return for 920TP, departing around 23 Nov, 20 Dec or 28 Dec.