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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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
Nov 20, 2019, 5:54 am
#3211
Join Date: Jul 2015
Programs: BA Gold, Starwood Platinum
Posts: 148
Sorry forgot to say, I'm based in London so looking to fly anywhere out of Europe...
Nov 20, 2019, 5:58 am
#3212
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2014
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 12,270
For a holiday, try BUD-XXX for most of North America whereby you can have a holiday with a decent TP haul from £1,200. Needs to be a minimum of a week so definitely a holiday
Nov 20, 2019, 6:01 am
#3213
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 89
It’s not too bad price-wise in December but if you can wait until January to book and typically March to travel there may be another £200 off £600 spend offer on AmEx Travel (requires you to have AmEx Plat).
Nov 20, 2019, 7:44 am
#3214
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold (woohoo)
Posts: 189
Re the OTP fare - don't neglect to look at a MAD/BCN shuffle - when I looked earlier this year you couldn't get to HEL in time for their US flights forcing a night stop there which would eat up the benefit of the extra 40 TPs vs going via MAD.
Nov 20, 2019, 8:49 am
#3215
Join Date: Oct 2019
Programs: BAEC Silver, Volare Executive / Skyteam Elite+
Posts: 672
Any ideas on a low cost hop to grab 105 points in the next 6 weeks or so? Off on a couple of (low point/back of plane) city breaks with the mrs in new year and would be good (if not life changing) if I can hit gold before then so I can take her to the 'better' lounge before the flights out.
Collection year runs to July so no desperation and should hit it organically anyway, would just be nice to let the wife have some benefit if there's a cheap/easy way to do it.
Collection year runs to July so no desperation and should hit it organically anyway, would just be nice to let the wife have some benefit if there's a cheap/easy way to do it.
Nov 20, 2019, 9:48 am
#3216
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: 7,341
Any ideas on a low cost hop to grab 105 points in the next 6 weeks or so? Off on a couple of (low point/back of plane) city breaks with the mrs in new year and would be good (if not life changing) if I can hit gold before then so I can take her to the 'better' lounge before the flights out.
Collection year runs to July so no desperation and should hit it organically anyway, would just be nice to let the wife have some benefit if there's a cheap/easy way to do it.
Collection year runs to July so no desperation and should hit it organically anyway, would just be nice to let the wife have some benefit if there's a cheap/easy way to do it.
Nov 20, 2019, 10:04 am
#3218
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,283
Re any of the transatlantic fares from BUD/AMS , if you have the final leg to Oslo, it shaves another £100-£150 off it.
Nov 20, 2019, 11:12 am
#3219
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: Tenerife
Programs: BA Gold, BA AMEX PP, Amex Platinum
Posts: 434
https://www.skyscanner.net/transport...547-1912142010
Play around with Stockholm / Oslo / Gothenburg on dates / places you want and cross reference here for Qsuite routes / flights.
https://www.qatarairways.com/en-gb/onboard/qsuite.html
Last edited by The Geek; Nov 20, 2019 at 11:18 am
Nov 20, 2019, 2:53 pm
#3220
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 136
Greetings all,
Anyone on a good London / UK based TP run? Usually I like to attain Silver and I’m about 500 short come March 2020. Failing that, the “better half’s” silver status is good till July 2020.
And apologies if my posts seems lazy but what ‘sorcery’ are you experts using to find such amazing deals? I’m by no means an expert with ITA matrix but would love to better than a beginner but would hate to be climbing a greasy pole if there’s better tools and resources out there to find cracking deals.
Thanks for your assistance
Anyone on a good London / UK based TP run? Usually I like to attain Silver and I’m about 500 short come March 2020. Failing that, the “better half’s” silver status is good till July 2020.
And apologies if my posts seems lazy but what ‘sorcery’ are you experts using to find such amazing deals? I’m by no means an expert with ITA matrix but would love to better than a beginner but would hate to be climbing a greasy pole if there’s better tools and resources out there to find cracking deals.
Thanks for your assistance
Nov 20, 2019, 2:54 pm
#3221
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Accor Live Limitless Gold, Hilton Honours Gold, Avis Preferred Plus
Posts: 1,807
Greetings all,
Anyone on a good London / UK based TP run? Usually I like to attain Silver and I’m about 500 short come March 2020. Failing that, the “better half’s” silver status is good till July 2020.
And apologies if my posts seems lazy but what ‘sorcery’ are you experts using to find such amazing deals? I’m by no means an expert with ITA matrix but would love to better than a beginner but would hate to be climbing a greasy pole if there’s better tools and resources out there to find cracking deals.
Thanks for your assistance
Anyone on a good London / UK based TP run? Usually I like to attain Silver and I’m about 500 short come March 2020. Failing that, the “better half’s” silver status is good till July 2020.
And apologies if my posts seems lazy but what ‘sorcery’ are you experts using to find such amazing deals? I’m by no means an expert with ITA matrix but would love to better than a beginner but would hate to be climbing a greasy pole if there’s better tools and resources out there to find cracking deals.
Thanks for your assistance
Nov 20, 2019, 3:00 pm
#3222
Join Date: May 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 120
Then you definitely shouldn't be looking to do any sort of run until between March and July - you'll get "household" silver until 2022.
Nov 20, 2019, 3:32 pm
#3223
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 136
Hmmm.... I definitely have the wool pulled over my eyes regarding the collection periods / card expiries! I really have not thought about nor do I know much about this therefore time for some more research but my two important dates are below
Tier Point collection year ends 08 Mar 2020
Card expiry date 30 Apr 2020
I have done the CGK run before via DXB which was great and I’ve had a quick look so may do that again. Cheers
Card expiry date 30 Apr 2020
I have done the CGK run before via DXB which was great and I’ve had a quick look so may do that again. Cheers
Nov 20, 2019, 3:33 pm
#3224
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 136
Thanks! As per my last quoted post, I really have not taken these important dates into consideration but shall research. Cheers
Nov 21, 2019, 4:02 am
#3225
Ambassador, British Airways; FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 42,997
https://www.turningleftforless.com/o...-up-to-30-off/
There also seem to be some reasonable exDUB fares to the US noted here
https://www.turningleftforless.com/o...ba-amex-offer/