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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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
Feb 22, 2020, 9:13 am
#3961
Join Date: May 2019
Programs: BA
Posts: 137
Just wanted to say thanks for the help and constructive criticism of my planned route to Seattle managed to change it which works much better and is 640 TP
Feb 22, 2020, 7:03 pm
#3962
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: DFW
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Titanium, HH Gold, AA Lifetime Gold, United Silver, BA Gold
Posts: 864
Feb 23, 2020, 5:32 am
#3963
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: DFW
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Titanium, HH Gold, AA Lifetime Gold, United Silver, BA Gold
Posts: 864
Does anyone know why I am not able to see images on my Mac? I tried using Safari as well as the Chrome browser and could not see the same.
I can see the images if I open this thread on my Phone (which is how I was finally able to see the routings posted above).
Is there some setup I need to do on my machine to be able to see images?
I can see the images if I open this thread on my Phone (which is how I was finally able to see the routings posted above).
Is there some setup I need to do on my machine to be able to see images?
Feb 23, 2020, 6:42 am
#3964
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Programs: TK Elite Plus,BAEC GGL,ITA Executive, AFKL Gold,QR Gold,HH Diamond,Bonvoy Gold,ALL Gold
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I load these images on Safari and could easily see them without any extension.
Feb 23, 2020, 12:43 pm
#3965
Join Date: Oct 2018
Programs: BA GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 302
Just a quick thank you to everybody on this thread and over the years. Finally did my first TP run. I had work meetings over in OTP a week or so apart so seemed like perfect time to do a TP run. I did OTP-LHR-MAD-JFK-LAX-HNL and return HNL-LAX-JFK-LHR-OTP. That was the plan I ended up skipping the last LHR-OTP due to weather chaos in Heathrow but still 960 TP with a re-route back to EDI. As well as the TP I got to experience a whole bunch of business class products I hadn't used before - AA transcon, the Iberia A340 (both LHR-MAD and to JFK) and the AA 777. I only had 5 nights in HNL but a mini-holiday and a TP run all at once. I booked some really stupid connection times that didn't make this easy - lessons learned for next time though.
I should now be gold by Saturday with other flights I've got booked this week. Next question is whether it's worth a run for GGL at end of the year as I'll be tantalisingly close. I'll worry about that one once I recover!
Thanks everyone for the insightful posts
I should now be gold by Saturday with other flights I've got booked this week. Next question is whether it's worth a run for GGL at end of the year as I'll be tantalisingly close. I'll worry about that one once I recover!
Thanks everyone for the insightful posts
Feb 23, 2020, 3:16 pm
#3966
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 96
Looking for some help - planning a long weekend in Chicago in September (flexible on what weekend) and want to do a TP run around it - I need 600TPs to make silver again for <£2k. Annoyingly ORD breaks the domestic US leg so I can't get a 140TP internal flight on the way back. UK departure points can be MAN, BHX or LHR. Best I can do is this for 540TP, when I add another stop it pushes me out of the fare code (I think?), any ideas from the hive mind? Haven't played with flight times etc just trying to work out what routing would work.
Thanks in advance!!!
Thanks in advance!!!
Feb 23, 2020, 3:32 pm
#3967
Join Date: Aug 2018
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 57
Start in MAD BCN OSLO CPH CDG and drop the return
Feb 23, 2020, 3:43 pm
#3968
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Programs: Nah.
Posts: 13,967
Looking for some help - planning a long weekend in Chicago in September (flexible on what weekend) and want to do a TP run around it - I need 600TPs to make silver again for <£2k. Annoyingly ORD breaks the domestic US leg so I can't get a 140TP internal flight on the way back. UK departure points can be MAN, BHX or LHR. Best I can do is this for 540TP, when I add another stop it pushes me out of the fare code (I think?), any ideas from the hive mind? Haven't played with flight times etc just trying to work out what routing would work
Thanks in advance!!!
Thanks in advance!!!
Feb 23, 2020, 4:16 pm
#3969
Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: UK. West Sussex
Programs: BAEC. Gold
Posts: 786
I'd do LHR-JFK-SFO and return for 1500 GBP and 560 TP. Then you can buy separate tickets to SFO-ORD-SFO, for about 200GBP in Y (not enough TP's) but 600GBP in J. The biz fare would get you the TP's (640) but a big over budget, so you could book J SFO-ORD one way with a connection, e.g. SFO-DFW-ORD and still get the 640 TP and then Y back or use avios for one way.
Slightly cheaper and an extra 40 tp each way
(plus positioning flight)
Feb 24, 2020, 4:51 pm
#3971
Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: UK. West Sussex
Programs: BAEC. Gold
Posts: 786
There's no right or wrong routing, just giving the OP other options to maximise TPs and bring the cost per TP down
INV LHR JFK SFO and return on the dates shown on the above matrix and same flight from Heathrow gets 80 more TPs and is £108 cheaper.
INV LHR JFK SFO and return on the dates shown on the above matrix and same flight from Heathrow gets 80 more TPs and is £108 cheaper.
Feb 24, 2020, 7:43 pm
#3972
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: BAEC Gold (1w Emerald), United Platinum (*G), Marriott Plat Elite
Posts: 361
Just a quick thank you to everybody on this thread and over the years. Finally did my first TP run. I had work meetings over in OTP a week or so apart so seemed like perfect time to do a TP run. I did OTP-LHR-MAD-JFK-LAX-HNL and return HNL-LAX-JFK-LHR-OTP. That was the plan I ended up skipping the last LHR-OTP due to weather chaos in Heathrow but still 960 TP with a re-route back to EDI. As well as the TP I got to experience a whole bunch of business class products I hadn't used before - AA transcon, the Iberia A340 (both LHR-MAD and to JFK) and the AA 777. I only had 5 nights in HNL but a mini-holiday and a TP run all at once. I booked some really stupid connection times that didn't make this easy - lessons learned for next time though.
I should now be gold by Saturday with other flights I've got booked this week. Next question is whether it's worth a run for GGL at end of the year as I'll be tantalisingly close. I'll worry about that one once I recover!
Thanks everyone for the insightful posts
I should now be gold by Saturday with other flights I've got booked this week. Next question is whether it's worth a run for GGL at end of the year as I'll be tantalisingly close. I'll worry about that one once I recover!
Thanks everyone for the insightful posts
Feb 24, 2020, 11:33 pm
#3973
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 171
I'd do LHR-JFK-SFO and return for 1500 GBP and 560 TP. Then you can buy separate tickets to SFO-ORD-SFO, for about 200GBP in Y (not enough TP's) but 600GBP in J. The biz fare would get you the TP's (640) but a big over budget, so you could book J SFO-ORD one way with a connection, e.g. SFO-DFW-ORD and still get the 640 TP and then Y back or use avios for one way.
When I price this on the BA website it comes to £2,956.96. What am I doing wrong?
Feb 24, 2020, 11:36 pm
#3974
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Feb 24, 2020, 11:49 pm
#3975
Join Date: Sep 2007
Programs: AA, BA, Accor, Honors Diamond, IHG Diamond Elite and lots more....
Posts: 2,976
Time to start researching this again.....
Currently Gold, but with the grand total of zero tier points last year, we will both slip back...
We'll notice the difference in May when we fly to HEL on a paid trip and have to slum it in the business lounge 😂 😂
Anyway I will read with interest and thank those who share in advance.
Just one question. A post above mentions booking in I - is there a guide to these letters. I always just use economy, business, first etc., but it seems others quote booking classes. There may be a good reason for this, but for the uneducated like me it is a bit confusing. Any guidance or pointers would be appreciated.
We only fly for leisure, so achieving Gold when we are of pension age isn't bad.....
Currently Gold, but with the grand total of zero tier points last year, we will both slip back...
We'll notice the difference in May when we fly to HEL on a paid trip and have to slum it in the business lounge 😂 😂
Anyway I will read with interest and thank those who share in advance.
Just one question. A post above mentions booking in I - is there a guide to these letters. I always just use economy, business, first etc., but it seems others quote booking classes. There may be a good reason for this, but for the uneducated like me it is a bit confusing. Any guidance or pointers would be appreciated.
We only fly for leisure, so achieving Gold when we are of pension age isn't bad.....