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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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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
#391
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Lincoln, UK
Programs: BAEC Gold, IHG Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond, Starbucks Gold
Posts: 1,267
LHR - CAI - LHR - JFK - LAX - HNL - LAX - MIA - JFK - LHR - CAI - LHR
All in F or if no F cabin, then in J.
1680 TP leaving Wednesday evening to CAI and arriving back from CAI the following Tuesday with 36 hours in HNL.
#392
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Anywhere
Posts: 6,576
Does UL still operate out of CGK T2 (where you can do the B2B by getting the crew to let you go upstairs) or has it moved to T3 - if so is B2B even possible now?
#393
Join Date: Jan 2019
Programs: british airways Gold
Posts: 7
Really need to start by looking at the Wiki - there are multiple trips on there and detailed is the route, restrictions, cost and number of TP's that would be earned.
If looking to speculatively see what other routes might work, it's far quicker and easier to start off with Google Flights and then use that information to construct something in ITA Matrix.
If looking to speculatively see what other routes might work, it's far quicker and easier to start off with Google Flights and then use that information to construct something in ITA Matrix.
#394
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: YVR,TPE,LHR
Programs: CX Diamond, BA Gold
Posts: 48
I did DXB-CMB-CGK a few days ago. UL still operates from terminal 2. I didn’t opt for the B2B though; stayed in CGK for a night.
#395
Join Date: Jul 2015
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 44
Hi all. Quick question on ORC.
I'm due to fly JFK-BOS-LAX-SEA on AA this Sun, and have just received an email from AA flagging potential weather disruption (Winter Storm Harper) and offering me to reroute. Having checked their website, it appears that BOS is the affected airport.
If I change route now, would I be entitled to ORC, or do I need to wait for the day itself for it to kick in? I'm hoping things will be OK (weather forecasts are actually not that bad), but wanting to look at the options now.
Thanks in advance!
I'm due to fly JFK-BOS-LAX-SEA on AA this Sun, and have just received an email from AA flagging potential weather disruption (Winter Storm Harper) and offering me to reroute. Having checked their website, it appears that BOS is the affected airport.
If I change route now, would I be entitled to ORC, or do I need to wait for the day itself for it to kick in? I'm hoping things will be OK (weather forecasts are actually not that bad), but wanting to look at the options now.
Thanks in advance!
#396
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA GGL, HHonors Diamond
Posts: 910
This is a Wiki thread - look at the top of the screen and there should be a 'Show Wiki' or similar type link.
Here's the direct link to it: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showwiki.php?t=1949126
Here's the direct link to it: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showwiki.php?t=1949126
#397
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold / OW Emerald
Posts: 753
Hi all. Quick question on ORC.
I'm due to fly JFK-BOS-LAX-SEA on AA this Sun, and have just received an email from AA flagging potential weather disruption (Winter Storm Harper) and offering me to reroute. Having checked their website, it appears that BOS is the affected airport.
If I change route now, would I be entitled to ORC, or do I need to wait for the day itself for it to kick in? I'm hoping things will be OK (weather forecasts are actually not that bad), but wanting to look at the options now.
Thanks in advance!
I'm due to fly JFK-BOS-LAX-SEA on AA this Sun, and have just received an email from AA flagging potential weather disruption (Winter Storm Harper) and offering me to reroute. Having checked their website, it appears that BOS is the affected airport.
If I change route now, would I be entitled to ORC, or do I need to wait for the day itself for it to kick in? I'm hoping things will be OK (weather forecasts are actually not that bad), but wanting to look at the options now.
Thanks in advance!
#400
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: BRS
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 4,996
Hi all. Quick question on ORC.
I'm due to fly JFK-BOS-LAX-SEA on AA this Sun, and have just received an email from AA flagging potential weather disruption (Winter Storm Harper) and offering me to reroute. Having checked their website, it appears that BOS is the affected airport.
If I change route now, would I be entitled to ORC, or do I need to wait for the day itself for it to kick in? I'm hoping things will be OK (weather forecasts are actually not that bad), but wanting to look at the options now.
Thanks in advance!
I'm due to fly JFK-BOS-LAX-SEA on AA this Sun, and have just received an email from AA flagging potential weather disruption (Winter Storm Harper) and offering me to reroute. Having checked their website, it appears that BOS is the affected airport.
If I change route now, would I be entitled to ORC, or do I need to wait for the day itself for it to kick in? I'm hoping things will be OK (weather forecasts are actually not that bad), but wanting to look at the options now.
Thanks in advance!
You could ask to be rerouted JFK-MIA/CLT/PHL-LAX/PHX-SEA to try and maintain those tier points.
#401
Join Date: Jul 2015
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 44
Thanks, guys. Definitely considering the JFK-CLT-PHX-SEA routing, partially for TP and partially because it looks like it'll skirt 'below' the worst of the storm.
Does anyone know, though, if I asked to be rerouted JFK-LAX-SEA now (rather than waiting for official notification of my BOS flights being disrupted), would I invalidate the ORC claim? And would I get J or F (I'm assuming J)?
PS Yes, the BOS-LAX route at 140TP is what prompted me to take this circuitous route. Previously I've only done JFK-CLT-SEA.
Does anyone know, though, if I asked to be rerouted JFK-LAX-SEA now (rather than waiting for official notification of my BOS flights being disrupted), would I invalidate the ORC claim? And would I get J or F (I'm assuming J)?
PS Yes, the BOS-LAX route at 140TP is what prompted me to take this circuitous route. Previously I've only done JFK-CLT-SEA.
#402
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Near Heathrow
Programs: BAEC GGL
Posts: 24
That will reduce your TP I think. CLT-PHX is less than 2,000 miles so only 40TPs So JFK-CLT-PHX-SEA will give you 40+40+40 =120 Rather than the 40+140+40 from your original route.
#403
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Home: East Mids UK - Work (Base): Accra, Ghana.
Programs: BAEC: Silver - Marriott: Titanium
Posts: 12,086
Do you remember roughly what you paid for all that? Not that I am imagining it would be within my budget...
#404
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Home: East Mids UK - Work (Base): Accra, Ghana.
Programs: BAEC: Silver - Marriott: Titanium
Posts: 12,086
I am just looking at something ex-Europe, near the UK, so DUB, CPH or AMS and the likes, over to the west coast and back if I go for Silver. If I want to go for Gold, I will look to do some AA flying when I am there... But undecided as of yet.
Any nod in the direction of any good deals floating around for west coast itineraries currently on the bubble would be great!
Any nod in the direction of any good deals floating around for west coast itineraries currently on the bubble would be great!
#405
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Singapore
Programs: OZ Diamond, BAEC Silver, Marriott Platinum, HH Gold
Posts: 515
Check from Strasbourg - there were recently good deals around EUR 1100 to East Coast and EUR 1400 to West Coast