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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 28, 2019, 11:09 am
#1246
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Effectively grounded
Programs: BA GGL for a little while longer
Posts: 844
Definitely no mixing with departing pax so I would be wary...
Mar 28, 2019, 11:30 am
#1247
Join Date: Aug 2006
Programs: BAEC Gold/GGL, IHG Diamond AMB
Posts: 1,074
Looks like a very good TP run trip. My current problem is that I called Srilankan Airlines on their UK reservation number for the AUH-CMB-CGK-CMB-AUH routing and I was told a completely different price. They quoted circa £1500 for the round trip for business (indigo booking class) vs the £546 quoted by Google Flights / Matrix.
Just in the process of trying to price up the routing on their website to see the price.
Just in the process of trying to price up the routing on their website to see the price.
Mar 28, 2019, 12:59 pm
#1249
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC | qantas | IHG | Hilton Honors | Priority Pass | Nandos
Posts: 869
Have you tried the SriLankan website yet? I've done the trip twice and booked there both times. I got the GoogleFlights prices (give or take a few £) without any address trickery.
Mar 28, 2019, 2:06 pm
#1250
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: AA EXP/LTP, BA GGL/CCR/GfL, HH D/LTD, SPG/MR Plat/LTP
Posts: 10,076
As has been pointed out in many posts recently, this TP run has it's own thread as it's popular, and not to clutter the TP run thread
Mar 28, 2019, 2:15 pm
#1251
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 192
In that case I'm going to nest some AUH-CGK-AUH flights and push for the turnaround in CGK when on the flight. I've got a place I enjoy staying in AUH so I'll spend 24 hours there between flights. Need 2600 TP's to requalify for GGL so looking at 4 of these
Mar 28, 2019, 2:30 pm
#1252
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2014
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 12,262
Mar 29, 2019, 11:07 am
#1254
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,293
Mar 29, 2019, 12:00 pm
#1255
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 50
I have made a post in the specific AUH-CMB-CGK routing thread, but I thought I might be better here, as I'm looking for general feedback on my iternary as a TP run.
This will be my first TP run, so I wanted to check I'm not missing anything obvious. Any feedback or suggested tweaks are greatly appreciated.
Here are the details. First step is to book LHR-AUH on BA in WT+ and upgrade to Business using Avios;
Day 1 Depart LHR in the afternoon. Arrive AUH at 23:10 on Day 1. Check into an airport hotel
Day 2 Depart from AUH at 23:00 on route to CGK via CMB.
Day 3 Arrive at CGK at around 13:30. Check into local hotel.
Day 4 Depart CGK at around 14:30 and travel back to AUH via CMB. Arrive at AUH around 22:00. Check into hotel.
Day 5 Depart AUH again for the AUH-CMB-CGK-CMB-AUH routing.
Day 7 Arrive back in AUH again from CMB at 22:00. Go straight to check in for BA flight.
Day 8 Depart AUH at 0150 and arrive back at LHR in the morning.
Total cost will be around £1600 + hotel costs and expenses. Total TP earn will be (560 x 2) + (90 x 2) = 1300
The only two issue I can see with this routing is that it isn't very time efficient due to the number of late night departures. And there isn't a big leeway for catching the return BA flight back to LHR in the Srilankan plane is late inbound from CMB for any reason.
Am I missing anything obvious and does my proposed routing sound reasonable?
This will be my first TP run, so I wanted to check I'm not missing anything obvious. Any feedback or suggested tweaks are greatly appreciated.
Here are the details. First step is to book LHR-AUH on BA in WT+ and upgrade to Business using Avios;
Day 1 Depart LHR in the afternoon. Arrive AUH at 23:10 on Day 1. Check into an airport hotel
Day 2 Depart from AUH at 23:00 on route to CGK via CMB.
Day 3 Arrive at CGK at around 13:30. Check into local hotel.
Day 4 Depart CGK at around 14:30 and travel back to AUH via CMB. Arrive at AUH around 22:00. Check into hotel.
Day 5 Depart AUH again for the AUH-CMB-CGK-CMB-AUH routing.
Day 7 Arrive back in AUH again from CMB at 22:00. Go straight to check in for BA flight.
Day 8 Depart AUH at 0150 and arrive back at LHR in the morning.
Total cost will be around £1600 + hotel costs and expenses. Total TP earn will be (560 x 2) + (90 x 2) = 1300
The only two issue I can see with this routing is that it isn't very time efficient due to the number of late night departures. And there isn't a big leeway for catching the return BA flight back to LHR in the Srilankan plane is late inbound from CMB for any reason.
Am I missing anything obvious and does my proposed routing sound reasonable?
Mar 29, 2019, 2:53 pm
#1256
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Effectively grounded
Programs: BA GGL for a little while longer
Posts: 844
You can use a hotel at/near AUH but as the bus to the city (A1) is ridiculously cheap and fairly frequent, I prefer to stay near the Corniche for less 
Mar 29, 2019, 3:15 pm
#1257
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London
Programs: Hilton, IHG - BA, GA, LH, QR, SV, TK
Posts: 17,008
Mar 29, 2019, 3:28 pm
#1258
Join Date: Mar 2011
Programs: BA exec, HHonors Diamond
Posts: 556
I have made a post in the specific AUH-CMB-CGK routing thread, but I thought I might be better here, as I'm looking for general feedback on my iternary as a TP run.
This will be my first TP run, so I wanted to check I'm not missing anything obvious. Any feedback or suggested tweaks are greatly appreciated.
Here are the details. First step is to book LHR-AUH on BA in WT+ and upgrade to Business using Avios;
Day 1 Depart LHR in the afternoon. Arrive AUH at 23:10 on Day 1. Check into an airport hotel
Day 2 Depart from AUH at 23:00 on route to CGK via CMB.
Day 3 Arrive at CGK at around 13:30. Check into local hotel.
Day 4 Depart CGK at around 14:30 and travel back to AUH via CMB. Arrive at AUH around 22:00. Check into hotel.
Day 5 Depart AUH again for the AUH-CMB-CGK-CMB-AUH routing.
Day 7 Arrive back in AUH again from CMB at 22:00. Go straight to check in for BA flight.
Day 8 Depart AUH at 0150 and arrive back at LHR in the morning.
Total cost will be around £1600 + hotel costs and expenses. Total TP earn will be (560 x 2) + (90 x 2) = 1300
The only two issue I can see with this routing is that it isn't very time efficient due to the number of late night departures. And there isn't a big leeway for catching the return BA flight back to LHR in the Srilankan plane is late inbound from CMB for any reason.
Am I missing anything obvious and does my proposed routing sound reasonable?
This will be my first TP run, so I wanted to check I'm not missing anything obvious. Any feedback or suggested tweaks are greatly appreciated.
Here are the details. First step is to book LHR-AUH on BA in WT+ and upgrade to Business using Avios;
Day 1 Depart LHR in the afternoon. Arrive AUH at 23:10 on Day 1. Check into an airport hotel
Day 2 Depart from AUH at 23:00 on route to CGK via CMB.
Day 3 Arrive at CGK at around 13:30. Check into local hotel.
Day 4 Depart CGK at around 14:30 and travel back to AUH via CMB. Arrive at AUH around 22:00. Check into hotel.
Day 5 Depart AUH again for the AUH-CMB-CGK-CMB-AUH routing.
Day 7 Arrive back in AUH again from CMB at 22:00. Go straight to check in for BA flight.
Day 8 Depart AUH at 0150 and arrive back at LHR in the morning.
Total cost will be around £1600 + hotel costs and expenses. Total TP earn will be (560 x 2) + (90 x 2) = 1300
The only two issue I can see with this routing is that it isn't very time efficient due to the number of late night departures. And there isn't a big leeway for catching the return BA flight back to LHR in the Srilankan plane is late inbound from CMB for any reason.
Am I missing anything obvious and does my proposed routing sound reasonable?
If it was me I’d use the Premier Inn at AUH, book direct and get the included late check out (6pm). Mrs T and I stayed at the FM7 at CGK, good value, (short) transfers and nice folks.
Late flights - yep happens, not sure I’d go with that last UL/BA connection YMMV. We are both staying a night at respective DXB/AUH hotels before the BA flights back to LHR.
btw - immigration at CGK can make LHR look like a dream
Enjoy the trip, SriLankan are very nice and great food / service
pm me if you need more info
T
Last edited by Telecasterman; Mar 29, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Mar 30, 2019, 2:00 am
#1260
Join Date: Sep 2016
Programs: BA
Posts: 57
Monster run
I Will be scouring the thread in the coming weeks for a monster tier point run. For once have some time on my hands Due to redundancy so would love a 900 point plus (ideally 1200) run ex EU any time from end of April through May, June or at a stretch July. Don’t want to stop over anywhere. Just nail the points. I’m going to have a play with ITA later but my skills on it are limited so if anyone has done a similar search I’m al ears. Many thanks