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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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
Mar 30, 2020, 12:39 pm
#4351
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: East Anglia, England
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,056
Just booked this plus positioning flights for a total of £1,390 (£1.20/TP) which I am pretty happy with. Not too many days needed away from work, only 48hrs required in HNL (been there before and couldn’t get OGG to work for my dates) and flat beds on both transcontinental flights, so only LAX-HNL-LAX flights are on recliners.
Pilot37
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Mar 30, 2020, 1:26 pm
#4352
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL / GfL
Posts: 3,247
Mar 30, 2020, 1:28 pm
#4353
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL / GfL
Posts: 3,247
Pilot37
Mar 30, 2020, 1:33 pm
#4354
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: TPA/ABZ
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold. GGL/CCR.
Posts: 13,243
Mar 30, 2020, 1:36 pm
#4355
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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
Posts: 14,185
Flagship Business seats are marketed as Domestic First.
Mar 30, 2020, 2:32 pm
#4357
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: UK
Programs: BA Silver (temp demotion), *A Silver, HH Gold, IHG Diamond
Posts: 489
Just booked this plus positioning flights for a total of £1,390 (£1.20/TP) which I am pretty happy with. Not too many days needed away from work, only 48hrs required in HNL (been there before and couldn’t get OGG to work for my dates) and flat beds on both transcontinental flights, so only LAX-HNL-LAX flights are on recliners.
Pilot37
Pilot37
With recliners from PHL-LAX on the way out (evening flight so no big deal) but the OGG-LAX on the way back is overnight 😞
Planning on using the morning LAX JFK leg as sleep catch up
920 TPs for £1332.
Mar 30, 2020, 2:48 pm
#4358
Join Date: Mar 2020
Programs: British Airways GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond & Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,609
Nice one. I bagged a GOT-OGG TP holiday in Feb 2021. So doing a bit to keep AA alive. Route is GOT LHR PHL LAX OGG | OGG LAX JFK LHR GOT.
With recliners from PHL-LAX on the way out (evening flight so no big deal) but the OGG-LAX on the way back is overnight 😞
Planning on using the morning LAX JFK leg as sleep catch up
920 TPs for £1332.
With recliners from PHL-LAX on the way out (evening flight so no big deal) but the OGG-LAX on the way back is overnight 😞
Planning on using the morning LAX JFK leg as sleep catch up
920 TPs for £1332.
was this a random route or one you wanted to take?
thanks
Mar 30, 2020, 4:29 pm
#4359
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL / GfL
Posts: 3,247
Nice one. I bagged a GOT-OGG TP holiday in Feb 2021. So doing a bit to keep AA alive. Route is GOT LHR PHL LAX OGG | OGG LAX JFK LHR GOT.
With recliners from PHL-LAX on the way out (evening flight so no big deal) but the OGG-LAX on the way back is overnight 😞
Planning on using the morning LAX JFK leg as sleep catch up
920 TPs for £1332.
With recliners from PHL-LAX on the way out (evening flight so no big deal) but the OGG-LAX on the way back is overnight 😞
Planning on using the morning LAX JFK leg as sleep catch up
920 TPs for £1332.
Like you, doing my bit for BA / AA coffers and after having to cancel so many trips over these next few months, I need to know I have something booked!
Pilot37
Mar 30, 2020, 4:46 pm
#4360
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: UK
Programs: BA Silver (temp demotion), *A Silver, HH Gold, IHG Diamond
Posts: 489
Routing was a combo of Google flights, Matrix and finally a long search through AA.com as Book with matrix wasn’t proving effective.
The routing added zero time to our end to end but was constructed to get the UK EEE WWW Hawaii legs >2000 miles.
avoiding SEA and AS flights meant LAX or PHX as WWW and EEE was, in practice PHL, NYC, BOS or CLT.
A lot of time playing was well worth it.
Mar 30, 2020, 6:01 pm
#4361
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: BAEC Gold (1w Emerald), United Platinum (*G), Marriott Plat Elite
Posts: 351
Do you have example booking? ITA Matrix is not returning anything - searching any date in Feb '21 staying 2-7 nights with routing codes for airports + alliance oneworld
Mar 31, 2020, 2:38 am
#4363
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Mar 31, 2020, 2:46 am
#4364
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,989
I was able to book GOT to HNL this morning, travelling in February next year, for £1,300. I didn't want to make a taxing itinerary even more taxing by including HEL, so I ended up with 920 TPs - still a decent result, at £1.41 per TP.
BookWithMatrix didn't work for me - no matter what itinerary I selected in ITA Matrix, I got an error in aa.com. So I ended up just going to American Airlines' UK site and booking the itinerary there. Multi-city didn't work ("You can't book connecting flights as individual flight segments."), so I entered it as a simple return journey and scrolled through the results until I found one that gave me an east coast gateway and a west coast connection. Overall, it took me about 90 minutes, which was frustrating.
On the outward TATL, 64K was already taken.
But I'm expecting numerous schedule and aircraft changes to this itinerary between now and February.
BookWithMatrix didn't work for me - no matter what itinerary I selected in ITA Matrix, I got an error in aa.com. So I ended up just going to American Airlines' UK site and booking the itinerary there. Multi-city didn't work ("You can't book connecting flights as individual flight segments."), so I entered it as a simple return journey and scrolled through the results until I found one that gave me an east coast gateway and a west coast connection. Overall, it took me about 90 minutes, which was frustrating.
On the outward TATL, 64K was already taken.
But I'm expecting numerous schedule and aircraft changes to this itinerary between now and February.
Mar 31, 2020, 2:50 am
#4365
Join Date: Aug 2014
Programs: BA Executive Club and OnBusiness
Posts: 718
Haven't tried booking it this morning but Matrix still finds the fare:
