Jan 1, 2018, 5:20 am
Last edit by: OWBA
Welcome to the thread. This is a continuation of the highly popular 2017 Tier Point thread. We keep track of other prices, as well as useful reference information for those planning tier point runs.
Please read the first few posts in this thread first as it contains lots of information which may answer your question.
This is a community-maintained wiki post. Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.
Current Promotions of Interest
Sale Fares
Advanced Promotion Fares
See here in post #9 for a 2018 archive of exEU sale fare, and see this post in the 2017 thread for last years’ archive of exEU sale fares.
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This thread lists attractive tier point (TP) runs under £3 per TP grouped within different (departure) geographies
Please note that current availability is not guaranteed and all prices include taxes. Please use the following convention when adding tier point runs to this wiki post:
Date fare checked Price per Tier Point Total Price Total Tier Points Route Booking Classes Booking Channel Credit Notes (if applicable) Airlines
Please remember to:
Please see the links at the bottom of the wiki for archives of runs from previous years.
From Europe
From North, Central and South America
23Sep £1.48/TP £650 (US$853) 440 TPs JFK-CLT/BOS-LAX-LAS and return all I class aa.com
6Sep £1.50/TP US$457 240TPs RIC-CLT-DCA-BOS, BOS-LGA/PHL-CLT-RIC all I class aa.com
Jan/Feb wide open £1.94/TP £700(US$883) 360 TPs SEA-CLT-MCO-PHX-SEA all I class aa.com
From Middle East, Asia and Australasia
18Jan £1.58/TP £883 560 CMB-xHKG-CGK return I cathaypacific.com ermen CX
28Feb £1.44/TP £575 400 MCT-DOH-BKK-DOH-MCT A/R/R/A travel.americanexpress.co.uk QR
21Feb £1.53/TP £860 560 HKG-CMB-MEL return I Expedia.com.hk Firemin UL
16Mar £1.22/TP £687 560 CGK-CMB-DXB return I srilankan.com Firemin UL
01Apr £0.87/TP £314 360 PEN-KUL-KTM return Malaysian.com cgtechuk MH
01Apr £1.19/TP £335 280 KUL-PER return Malaysian.com cgtechuk MH
01Apr £1.28/TP £335 360 PEN-KUL-PER return Malaysian.com cgtechuk MH
05Apr £2.00/TP £320 160 CAN-HKG-TPE return CathayPacific.com littlevoices CX/KA (flexible fare, bookable up to 24 hours in advance, allows stopovers, book with CX directly)
From Africa
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Need a year-end TP run (ex-LON) to make / retain status?
Some tips for searching for the year-end TP run for newcomers, the below is indicative only, but hopefully provides a bit of guidance for relatively straightforward runs ex-LON. Some information on how to use ITA matrix is in post #4 of this thread (or just click here) along with these ideas, might come in handy. Feel free to share results, problems or general questions in the thread as these may not always work and there might be better deals out there...
For overnight trips remember to check BA and Iberia for their flights and hotel option as well, can get hotel for almost no extra cost at times
Need 80 TPs or fewer
Club Europe return somewhere close by is best - DUB, AMS and JER usually cheapest along with UK domestic returns. Additionally you may find that trips in to mainland Europe require a one night stay whereas the cheapest domestic CE returns do not have any minimum stay so can be booked as a same day return. If doing a back to back AMS and JER can be easier than DUB for an immediate turnaround - more information can be found in the back to back thread listed in the forum dashboard. The BA.com low fare finder can be very useful.
If you need as few as 45 TPs you might consider booking economy flights and hoping for a proactive online upgrade offer - but they're not guaranteed to materialise (so not one if you have no more time left in your TP collection year). Alternatively, booking a return to one of the 40 tier point destinations with one way in CE and the return in ET (or vice versa if cheaper). UK domestic route, Bilbao, Jersey and Amsterdam seem the most cost effective for this.
Need 85-120 TPs
Iberia flights via MAD to regional Spanish airports will get you 120 TPs as the domestic Spanish flights are 20 TPs in business. Under £300 including hotel can be available. Check BIO, GRX, VLC, BCN, SVQ etc. Example here
Need 125-160 TPs
Take a look at the shorthaul plus routes earning 80 TPs each way in business listed in the first post of this thread, MLA, IST, HEL and RAK are usually available. If time sensitive take a look at BA flight and hotel option to HEL, where you can usually get the last BA flight out on a Saturday, airport hotel and first return Sunday for well under £500.
Alternative options include positioning to JER and flying JER-LGW-XXX (AMS usually works well and avoids switching airports).
Need more than 160 TPs
You'll most likely be heading north then - OSL or VNO via HEL will get you 240 TPs, as will JER-LGW/LHR-HEL e.g. LHR-HEL-OSL for £520.
DUB-LHR-HEL return (or return to LHR) is currently a very efficient way of hitting 200-240 TPs
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Historic information
2017 Archive
2016 Archive
2015 Archive (6 months Jul to Dec)
2015 Archive (6 months Jan to Jun)
2014 Archive
Please read the first few posts in this thread first as it contains lots of information which may answer your question.
This is a community-maintained wiki post. Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.
Current Promotions of Interest
Sale Fares
- from JER to PDX IKN8T1S6 reported in this post, e.g. PDX £1,082, needs to be booked by 8 May, see linked post for details
Advanced Promotion Fares
- from OTP to PHX ILN8C8S4 reported here, e.g. PHX - £1,296, see linked post for details
- from AMS to BKK INCEU60 reported here, e.g. BKK - £1,340, see linked post for details
See here in post #9 for a 2018 archive of exEU sale fare, and see this post in the 2017 thread for last years’ archive of exEU sale fares.
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This thread lists attractive tier point (TP) runs under £3 per TP grouped within different (departure) geographies
Please note that current availability is not guaranteed and all prices include taxes. Please use the following convention when adding tier point runs to this wiki post:
Date fare checked Price per Tier Point Total Price Total Tier Points Route Booking Classes Booking Channel Credit Notes (if applicable) Airlines
Please remember to:
- Convert currencies to GBP, rounding to the nearest pound.
- Post full routes and full booking classes.
- Note any restrictions on booking in the Notes section.
- List in order of price per tier point within the relevant departure area.
Please see the links at the bottom of the wiki for archives of runs from previous years.
From Europe
Code:
3Feb 200TPs DUB-LHR-HEL/HEL-LHR all I class ba.com
23Sep £1.48/TP £650 (US$853) 440 TPs JFK-CLT/BOS-LAX-LAS and return all I class aa.com
6Sep £1.50/TP US$457 240TPs RIC-CLT-DCA-BOS, BOS-LGA/PHL-CLT-RIC all I class aa.com
Jan/Feb wide open £1.94/TP £700(US$883) 360 TPs SEA-CLT-MCO-PHX-SEA all I class aa.com
From Middle East, Asia and Australasia
18Jan £1.58/TP £883 560 CMB-xHKG-CGK return I cathaypacific.com ermen CX
28Feb £1.44/TP £575 400 MCT-DOH-BKK-DOH-MCT A/R/R/A travel.americanexpress.co.uk QR
21Feb £1.53/TP £860 560 HKG-CMB-MEL return I Expedia.com.hk Firemin UL
16Mar £1.22/TP £687 560 CGK-CMB-DXB return I srilankan.com Firemin UL
01Apr £0.87/TP £314 360 PEN-KUL-KTM return Malaysian.com cgtechuk MH
01Apr £1.19/TP £335 280 KUL-PER return Malaysian.com cgtechuk MH
01Apr £1.28/TP £335 360 PEN-KUL-PER return Malaysian.com cgtechuk MH
05Apr £2.00/TP £320 160 CAN-HKG-TPE return CathayPacific.com littlevoices CX/KA (flexible fare, bookable up to 24 hours in advance, allows stopovers, book with CX directly)
From Africa
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Need a year-end TP run (ex-LON) to make / retain status?
Some tips for searching for the year-end TP run for newcomers, the below is indicative only, but hopefully provides a bit of guidance for relatively straightforward runs ex-LON. Some information on how to use ITA matrix is in post #4 of this thread (or just click here) along with these ideas, might come in handy. Feel free to share results, problems or general questions in the thread as these may not always work and there might be better deals out there...
For overnight trips remember to check BA and Iberia for their flights and hotel option as well, can get hotel for almost no extra cost at times
Need 80 TPs or fewer
Club Europe return somewhere close by is best - DUB, AMS and JER usually cheapest along with UK domestic returns. Additionally you may find that trips in to mainland Europe require a one night stay whereas the cheapest domestic CE returns do not have any minimum stay so can be booked as a same day return. If doing a back to back AMS and JER can be easier than DUB for an immediate turnaround - more information can be found in the back to back thread listed in the forum dashboard. The BA.com low fare finder can be very useful.
If you need as few as 45 TPs you might consider booking economy flights and hoping for a proactive online upgrade offer - but they're not guaranteed to materialise (so not one if you have no more time left in your TP collection year). Alternatively, booking a return to one of the 40 tier point destinations with one way in CE and the return in ET (or vice versa if cheaper). UK domestic route, Bilbao, Jersey and Amsterdam seem the most cost effective for this.
Need 85-120 TPs
Iberia flights via MAD to regional Spanish airports will get you 120 TPs as the domestic Spanish flights are 20 TPs in business. Under £300 including hotel can be available. Check BIO, GRX, VLC, BCN, SVQ etc. Example here
Need 125-160 TPs
Take a look at the shorthaul plus routes earning 80 TPs each way in business listed in the first post of this thread, MLA, IST, HEL and RAK are usually available. If time sensitive take a look at BA flight and hotel option to HEL, where you can usually get the last BA flight out on a Saturday, airport hotel and first return Sunday for well under £500.
Alternative options include positioning to JER and flying JER-LGW-XXX (AMS usually works well and avoids switching airports).
Need more than 160 TPs
You'll most likely be heading north then - OSL or VNO via HEL will get you 240 TPs, as will JER-LGW/LHR-HEL e.g. LHR-HEL-OSL for £520.
DUB-LHR-HEL return (or return to LHR) is currently a very efficient way of hitting 200-240 TPs
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Historic information
2017 Archive
2016 Archive
2015 Archive (6 months Jul to Dec)
2015 Archive (6 months Jan to Jun)
2014 Archive
BA Tier Point Runs | 2018 master thread
Apr 10, 2018, 5:21 am
#1877
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That is a fantastic idea, I believe that AA have 2 schedule changes a year so this could work out pretty well actually, Anyone know when they usually are as I am still to book my OTP to PHX run
(Cant make the do unfortunately)
Apr 10, 2018, 6:08 am
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Apr 10, 2018, 6:23 am
#1880
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This would be the ultimate lol, I remember being offered $1000 for the return LAX to LHR once and I missed it by seconds as someone else jumped at it lol it would literally pay for most of the run haha, Also in that case it was ironic as the replacement flight left before ours as it went tech
Apr 10, 2018, 6:25 am
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Thanks for the help folks. My error was trying to add LAX 
August is no good for me due to getting new equipment installed at work. November would work better. I’ll have play around.
Thanks for that up, @madfish. You're right - I just put a LAX leg in (as well as the HEL legs) and it came in at over £7,000!
@happeemonkee I just put some dates in to ITA Matrix at the end of August for OTP-LHR-HEL-LHR-JFK-PHX-JFK-LHR-HEL-LHR-OTP and found a £1,512 fare.
@happeemonkee I just put some dates in to ITA Matrix at the end of August for OTP-LHR-HEL-LHR-JFK-PHX-JFK-LHR-HEL-LHR-OTP and found a £1,512 fare.
August is no good for me due to getting new equipment installed at work. November would work better. I’ll have play around.
Apr 10, 2018, 6:25 am
#1882
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Apr 10, 2018, 6:39 am
#1883
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Originally Posted by adamgilbride 
- PHX - JFK flight was oversold and they were offering $1,000 AA voucher if you came off and went via LA - worth doing if you have flex in your itinerary, which I didn’t unfortunately!)
I've offered myself up a a few times for later or re-routed flights where I had plenty of leeway, but the ticketing issues seem to mean they will always take anyone else with a simpler itin first. And for $1,000 in this case I expect they had a rush of volunteers.
Apr 10, 2018, 7:00 am
#1884
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Originally Posted by adamgilbride
- PHX - JFK flight was oversold and they were offering $1,000 AA voucher if you came off and went via LA - worth doing if you have flex in your itinerary, which I didn’t unfortunately!)
I've offered myself up a a few times for later or re-routed flights where I had plenty of leeway, but the ticketing issues seem to mean they will always take anyone else with a simpler itin first. And for $1,000 in this case I expect they had a rush of volunteers.
Apr 10, 2018, 4:30 pm
#1885
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When I did the LAX - PTY last time round they IRROPS'd me 2 legs before the end due to bad weather, The solution was to put me on the direct transcon in Full F meaning I got full F tp's and Avios, And The ORC for the ones that I didn't take, Funnily enough I shut my gub about those
For those still struggling to get them to price up correctly, HEL is usually where the extensive layovers come from and you can usually get the LHR-HEL-LHR in at the start as long as you sacrifice the transcon for JFK to PHX as you are out of transfers. So keep the heid
Apr 10, 2018, 4:47 pm
#1886
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HKK Run through SIN
"Welcome to FT"
You can do that on ITA Matrix by using multi-city, as you correctly pointed out. But the fare rules do mean that you will be paying an extra EUR 100 per stopover.
If you do route through Singapore, then one of your flights would probably be LHR-SIN or v.v., in which case, it would yield 160TP instead of the 140TP for LHR-HKG.
The HKG-BKK and BKK-SIN flights each only give 40TP.
So for a AMS-LHR-HKG-BKK-SIN-LHR-AMS itinerary, as quoted, it should be 40 + 140 + 40 + 40 + 160 + 40 = 460TP.
You can do that on ITA Matrix by using multi-city, as you correctly pointed out. But the fare rules do mean that you will be paying an extra EUR 100 per stopover.
If you do route through Singapore, then one of your flights would probably be LHR-SIN or v.v., in which case, it would yield 160TP instead of the 140TP for LHR-HKG.
The HKG-BKK and BKK-SIN flights each only give 40TP.
So for a AMS-LHR-HKG-BKK-SIN-LHR-AMS itinerary, as quoted, it should be 40 + 140 + 40 + 40 + 160 + 40 = 460TP.
Yes, perfect. Thank you for that tip! Buying those tickets tomorrow. Will try to route through SIN and see if that works. Is there any good online travel agent that I could use for this? I guess skyscanner etc. won't work. Will the Chase Travel Website work? I have a chase card. This is the first time I do this, so should I just walk up to a bigger travel agent in town? Am in Prague at the moment. Maybe somebody knows a good place here? I like to support small business owners and small shops (travel agents at this point). Thank you for any suggestions! Can't wait for that trip!
Apr 11, 2018, 12:38 am
#1887
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Yes, perfect. Thank you for that tip! Buying those tickets tomorrow. Will try to route through SIN and see if that works. Is there any good online travel agent that I could use for this? I guess skyscanner etc. won't work. Will the Chase Travel Website work? I have a chase card. This is the first time I do this, so should I just walk up to a bigger travel agent in town? Am in Prague at the moment. Maybe somebody knows a good place here? I like to support small business owners and small shops (travel agents at this point). Thank you for any suggestions! Can't wait for that trip!
Apr 11, 2018, 1:44 am
#1888
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Looking for help on a tier run starting Feb 5th 2019 starting from Edinburgh and visiting 2 or 3 or 4 lol city's in America staying 1 or 2 nights max in each city , I have 7 days max for this trip and looking for a cheap price for max good tier points
can anyone take a look for me as I'm still learning
thanks Andy
can anyone take a look for me as I'm still learning
thanks Andy
Apr 11, 2018, 1:48 am
#1889
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I have tried myself but only getting 60 tps for £1500 surely there are better option ?
Apr 11, 2018, 2:06 am
#1890
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you could use a TA, but to honest unless I need to use one in order to apply a GUF I think it’s far more preferable to book direct with the airline. You shouldn’t have a problem booking this directly with BA over the phone, just tell them what flights you want and what cabin/selling class. I have found that it usually much easier to deal with the airline for most issues with an existing booking, and in particular if schedule changes occur at a later date which require some rebooking.
I'll need a positioning flight from NAS to AMS before the October 10th departure and a return to NAS after the trip. But that for a later post...
Looking forward to my first TP run. With the positioning flight I could maybe get 800 TP...
Thank you for your help!