Jan 4, 2019, 9:09 am
Last edit by: jfkeze
Welcome to the thread. This is a continuation of the highly popular 2018 Tier Point thread (found here). 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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.
A new guideline thread for TP meetups has been created on 31 March 2020. If you would like other members to join your TP, or if you want to organize a TP run with other members. Please visit there. From the first few posts over there you could see the active ( confirmed ) TP meetings and the links to their relevant discussion threads, connect with other members and learn the details about the run. Click here to access that thread.
Current Promotions of Interest
Sale Fares
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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.
A new guideline thread for TP meetups has been created on 31 March 2020. If you would like other members to join your TP, or if you want to organize a TP run with other members. Please visit there. From the first few posts over there you could see the active ( confirmed ) TP meetings and the links to their relevant discussion threads, connect with other members and learn the details about the run. Click here to access that thread.
Current Promotions of Interest
Sale Fares
See here in post 9 for a 2019 archive of exEU sale fare, and see this post in the 2018 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
15 Oct £0.96/TP £154 160 TPs LHR-SOF (2021 dates)
24 Feb £1.90/TP £152 80TP MAD-FRA Z/Z LA (available Feb-Mar 2019, immediate turnarounds possible)
10 Aug £2.06/TP £329 160TP LHR-MAD-RAK RAK-MAD-LHR I/I/I/I IB (available August, Sat night stay) BA.com, note hotels on offer until 26 March
3 Jul £2.99/TP £2,758.45 920TP DUB-LHR-JFK-LAX-HNL-LAX-JFK-LHR-DUB J/I/I/I/I/I/I/J Fare basis INX4C3S4 and INN4C1S4. Booked on AA via ITA Matrix Powertools script
18 Dec £1.90/TP £1370 720TP DUB-LHR-JFK-LAX-LAS-LAX-JFK-LHR-DUB All I class Flights 25 December to 31 March 2020, transatlantic Mon to Thur. Offer to 18 Dec. ITA details booked by TA Propeller
27 Apr £2.29/TP £640TP BEG-DOH-KUL-PEN-KUL-DOH-BEG I / I / I / I / I / I Fare IJR2R1RE Bookable on QR.com
From North, Central and South America
10Jan £1.52/TP £668 440tp JFK-BOS/CLT-LAX-LAS-LAX-BOS/CLT-JFK I / I / I / I / I / I HPN-HRL AA (find with ITA; probably have to book via a TA)
12Apr £0.90/TP £215 240tp DCA-ORD-CLT-RDU-CLT-ORD-DCA I/I/I/I/I/I/I AA Found with ITA, booked on the AA site with BookWithMatrix
23Apr £ 0.76/TP £ 182 240TP DCA-PHL-CLT-RDU-CLT-ORD-DCA I / I / I / I / I / I AA Found with ITA Matrix, Book on AA.com via BookWithMatrix or PowerTools
24Apr £ 1.04/TP £ 459 440TP YVR-LAX-CLT-ATL-CLT-LAX-YVR I / I / I / I / I / I AA Found with ITA Matrix, Book on AA.com via BookWithMatrix or PowerTools
23May £ 0.70/TP £ 169 240TP EWR-ORD-CLT-RDU-CLT-DFW-EWR I / I / I / I / I / I AA Found with ITA Matrix, Book on AA.com via BookWithMatrix or PowerTools
24Jun £ 0.52/TP £ 128 240TP LAX-DFW-PHX-SJC-PHX-DFW-LAX I / I / I / I / I / I AA Found with ITA Matrix, Book on AA.com via BookWithMatrix or PowerTools
From Middle East, Asia and Australasia
04/01 £0.95/TP £479 560tp AUH-CMB-CGK-CMB-AUH I / I / I / I cgtechuk UL
1FEB £1.49/TP £1,673 1,120tp PER-SYD-SIN-TYO-BKK Return (All book in I Class) timcjp BA (Ticket sold by BA, flights are on QF, BA & JL and lie flat seats available for all sectors)
23/04 £2.07/TP £2,112 1020TP CAI-LHR-JFK-LAX-HNL-DFW-ORD-LHR-CAI I/R here (All flights must be BA numbered)
From Africa
04/01 £1.80/TP £721 400tp CPT-JNB-GRU-JNB-DUR-CPT I / Z / Z / I / I ubiest LA
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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 (here), 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 BA flight out on a Saturday, airport hotel and return on 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
2018 Archive
2017 Archive
2016 Archive
2015 Archive (6 months Jul to Dec)
2015 Archive (6 months Jan to Jun)
2014 Archive
BA Tier Point Runs | 2019-20 edition
May 28, 2019, 4:24 am
#1816
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,848
For that kind of money, as long as you're time-rich, I'd prefer to do a series of Short Haul+ weekends earning 2x80 TP around Europe - HEL, LPA, OTP, ATH, SOF, IST from Heathrow, for example. Four of these from London would get 640TP. Alternatively, start elsewhere and route via LHR, two trips would get you to 480TP, and then top up with a single LHR SH+ trip.
May 28, 2019, 5:37 am
#1817
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: London
Programs: BA CCR/GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,483
May 28, 2019, 10:31 am
#1819
Join Date: Nov 2016
Programs: United, BA
Posts: 2
Hi everyone, this is my FIRST post and my first foray into the tier point run world. I know it is ridiculously last min, but I need 435 points by 8 June - have 11 days. Time not an issue, money less, so, just want to know what I should best be looking for..... 3 lots of 160 returns, or a couple of 280s, or a random route of london to several european cities, hopping around from one to another over a few days? Happy to post whatever I do to share - just I'm a complete virgin to this but just want to keep my BA gold that I've collected from working abroad a lot this year! Thanks for any tips! And I'm based in London!
May 28, 2019, 10:37 am
#1820
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: AA EXP/LTP, BA GGL/CCR/GfL, HH D/LTD, SPG/MR Plat/LTP
Posts: 10,076
Hi everyone, this is my FIRST post and my first foray into the tier point run world. I know it is ridiculously last min, but I need 435 points by 8 June - have 11 days. Time not an issue, money less, so, just want to know what I should best be looking for..... 3 lots of 160 returns, or a couple of 280s, or a random route of london to several european cities, hopping around from one to another over a few days? Happy to post whatever I do to share - just I'm a complete virgin to this but just want to keep my BA gold that I've collected from working abroad a lot this year! Thanks for any tips! And I'm based in London!
Just two posts above yours, there's some good advice on where to make this kind of request. Good luck!
Edit: Welcome to the BA forum! There will be more greetings from one of the BAFT Ambassadors.
Edit: Welcome to the BA forum! There will be more greetings from one of the BAFT Ambassadors.
This sounds like an excellent request for the new "Find me a good British Airways fare - ticket clinic"
Last edited by onobond; May 28, 2019 at 10:46 am
May 28, 2019, 10:37 am
#1821
Join Date: Oct 2013
Programs: GGL/CCR
Posts: 1,899
Hi everyone, this is my FIRST post and my first foray into the tier point run world. I know it is ridiculously last min, but I need 435 points by 8 June - have 11 days. Time not an issue, money less, so, just want to know what I should best be looking for..... 3 lots of 160 returns, or a couple of 280s, or a random route of london to several european cities, hopping around from one to another over a few days? Happy to post whatever I do to share - just I'm a complete virgin to this but just want to keep my BA gold that I've collected from working abroad a lot this year! Thanks for any tips! And I'm based in London!
May 28, 2019, 11:11 am
#1822
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 169
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May 28, 2019, 11:38 am
#1823
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,610
Hi everyone, this is my FIRST post and my first foray into the tier point run world. I know it is ridiculously last min, but I need 435 points by 8 June - have 11 days. Time not an issue, money less, so, just want to know what I should best be looking for..... 3 lots of 160 returns, or a couple of 280s, or a random route of london to several european cities, hopping around from one to another over a few days? Happy to post whatever I do to share - just I'm a complete virgin to this but just want to keep my BA gold that I've collected from working abroad a lot this year! Thanks for any tips! And I'm based in London!
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...52*2.GBP.32952
around one of these
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...54*2.GBP.68054
And you're easily done for just over a grand. There's probably a price promise on the positioning too. There are some tricks you can pull on the positioning by going ex JER and flying in PE, but let's discuss that in the other thread...
May 28, 2019, 11:50 am
#1824
Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 10,155
Welcome to the forum Clairetravelbug and I see you are being pointed in the right direction already as well as suggestions.
I hope you and am sure you'll find them all helpful. Fares with 11 days to go will no doubt be higher than normal than say a few months before flying but anyhow I am digressing there but those who are in the know re the cheapest fares and to maximise TP's and how to do it are always very helpful.
Let us know if you can what you decided to book as it's always a data point even if it's a singular one
I hope you and am sure you'll find them all helpful. Fares with 11 days to go will no doubt be higher than normal than say a few months before flying but anyhow I am digressing there but those who are in the know re the cheapest fares and to maximise TP's and how to do it are always very helpful.
Let us know if you can what you decided to book as it's always a data point even if it's a singular one
May 29, 2019, 7:28 am
#1825
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver, Marriott Platinum, Hilton Gold
Posts: 302
Hi TP Runners,
Im trying to find a decent TP run for a work trip I am looking to go on, I need to be in MSP for 12th November and the conference ends on the 14th Nov so likely to fly back to the UK on the 15th Nov.
Anyone know of any TP runs bookable for this run? I am LHR based.
Thanks
Im trying to find a decent TP run for a work trip I am looking to go on, I need to be in MSP for 12th November and the conference ends on the 14th Nov so likely to fly back to the UK on the 15th Nov.
Anyone know of any TP runs bookable for this run? I am LHR based.
Thanks
May 29, 2019, 7:43 am
#1826
Join Date: Jul 2011
Programs: OneWorld Emerald (BA GGL), *A Silver (Miles & Less), Skyteam Pleb (KLM FlyingBlue), Mucci Platinum
Posts: 907
Only KUL-BOM and KUL-DEL are 2000+ miles. KUL-MAA (and BLR/HYD for that matter) are sub-2000 miles.
There are occasionally some great TPE-KUL-DEL/BOM tickets for 560 TPs. You'll need to play around with the days though - it's only some days that have a late connecting flight to India. On the way back it's not a problem as the India-KUL redeyes connect onto the morning KUL-TPE flight.
There are occasionally some great TPE-KUL-DEL/BOM tickets for 560 TPs. You'll need to play around with the days though - it's only some days that have a late connecting flight to India. On the way back it's not a problem as the India-KUL redeyes connect onto the morning KUL-TPE flight.
May 29, 2019, 7:48 am
#1827
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 7,464
Hi TP Runners,
Im trying to find a decent TP run for a work trip I am looking to go on, I need to be in MSP for 12th November and the conference ends on the 14th Nov so likely to fly back to the UK on the 15th Nov.
Anyone know of any TP runs bookable for this run? I am LHR based.
Thanks
Im trying to find a decent TP run for a work trip I am looking to go on, I need to be in MSP for 12th November and the conference ends on the 14th Nov so likely to fly back to the UK on the 15th Nov.
Anyone know of any TP runs bookable for this run? I am LHR based.
Thanks
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May 29, 2019, 7:53 am
#1828
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,330
Hi everyone, this is my FIRST post and my first foray into the tier point run world. I know it is ridiculously last min, but I need 435 points by 8 June - have 11 days. Time not an issue, money less, so, just want to know what I should best be looking for..... 3 lots of 160 returns, or a couple of 280s, or a random route of london to several european cities, hopping around from one to another over a few days? Happy to post whatever I do to share - just I'm a complete virgin to this but just want to keep my BA gold that I've collected from working abroad a lot this year! Thanks for any tips! And I'm based in London!
May 30, 2019, 12:53 am
#1829
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: BG
Programs: BAEC Silver, TK Elite, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 827
Hoping to do another OTP-PHX run next year April and although the fare is available on Star alliance, I cant find it being matched by BA...Am I just too early or has this great deal come to an end?
May 30, 2019, 1:19 am
#1830
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 41
Hi folks, I need 270 TP's by 9th July to hit Gold. Anyone in a similar sized boat, if so it'll be great to see where you're running? If all else fails I may take the LHR-MAD-RAK RAK-MAD-LHR twice.
Cheers!
Cheers!