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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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, 2019, 2:03 am
#1261
Join Date: Sep 2016
Programs: BA
Posts: 57
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 30, 2019, 2:09 am
#1262
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 532
Anyone want to suggest UK/EU to Wellington for a short conference that's on 7-9 June 19. I'm GGL and sat on some unused GUFs but with only a smidge over 1K TPs so far this year (8 months to go) and not a huge amount of travel booked it would be worth maxing out the TPs on this trip if possible to try to retain.
I've seen QR for 2.4K ex CPH but it's hardly a run as it's only 560TPs though at least I'd stay Gold.
I've seen QR for 2.4K ex CPH but it's hardly a run as it's only 560TPs though at least I'd stay Gold.
Mar 30, 2019, 2:19 am
#1263
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 375
Auh-cgk
Hi
can anyone here please point me in the direction for the Auh-cgk thread?
maybe a link?
Thanks
can anyone here please point me in the direction for the Auh-cgk thread?
maybe a link?
Thanks
Mar 30, 2019, 2:21 am
#1264
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2014
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 12,262
Mar 30, 2019, 6:55 am
#1265
Join Date: Jun 2008
Programs: Various memberships
Posts: 532
Appreciate that this is of limited use but there appear to be some Sundays in Jan / Feb / Mar 2020 when you can go LCY to KEF on BA for £301 for 160TP's (£1.88 per point). This is same day return / back to back (checked the thread to make sure it was doable!).
Jan 12,19,26
Feb 2,9
Mar 1
Hopefully of use to someone!
Jan 12,19,26
Feb 2,9
Mar 1
Hopefully of use to someone!
Mar 30, 2019, 7:43 am
#1266
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: AA EXP/LTP, BA GGL/CCR/GfL, HH D/LTD, SPG/MR Plat/LTP
Posts: 10,076
Appreciate that this is of limited use but there appear to be some Sundays in Jan / Feb / Mar 2020 when you can go LCY to KEF on BA for £301 for 160TP's (£1.88 per point). This is same day return / back to back (checked the thread to make sure it was doable!).
Jan 12,19,26 Feb 2,9 Mar 1.
Hopefully of use to someone!
Jan 12,19,26 Feb 2,9 Mar 1.
Hopefully of use to someone!
However, when trying a B2B on Jan 19, after selecting flights, met by this pop-up message:
Sorry, we don't have Business Class on our London City Airport to Keflavik (Reykjavik) flights. We do have Business Class on Heathrow (London) to Keflavik (Reykjavik), though. Would you like to see these flights instead?
Last edited by onobond; Mar 30, 2019 at 7:48 am Reason: formatting
Mar 30, 2019, 8:39 am
#1267
Join Date: Jun 2017
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 3
just had two meetings confirmed for early May and was wondering about TP collection....
I will need to travel from London to Shenzen to arrive 1st of May for 48 hours and then travel on towards Miami to arrive on the 9th May returning to London after the 18th may
Is this best as a RTW or out and back via LHR -
currently Gold but need the points to retain status this year..
Ian
I will need to travel from London to Shenzen to arrive 1st of May for 48 hours and then travel on towards Miami to arrive on the 9th May returning to London after the 18th may
Is this best as a RTW or out and back via LHR -
currently Gold but need the points to retain status this year..
Ian
Mar 30, 2019, 8:59 am
#1268
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Programs: BAEC Gold Guest List, Hilton Honours Diamond, Accor Gold
Posts: 2,303
Mar 30, 2019, 10:54 am
#1269
Join Date: Apr 2014
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 397
Anyone want to suggest UK/EU to Wellington for a short conference that's on 7-9 June 19. I'm GGL and sat on some unused GUFs but with only a smidge over 1K TPs so far this year (8 months to go) and not a huge amount of travel booked it would be worth maxing out the TPs on this trip if possible to try to retain.
I've seen QR for 2.4K ex CPH but it's hardly a run as it's only 560TPs though at least I'd stay Gold.
I've seen QR for 2.4K ex CPH but it's hardly a run as it's only 560TPs though at least I'd stay Gold.
Mar 31, 2019, 9:02 am
#1270
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,621
Been looking for a reasonable run that doesn't take up much or any holiday, and found this:
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...22*2.GBP.62722
This should be showing a fare of £628 for 360 TP - arranged so it's basically one evening B2B to/from Jersey on the Thursday which I can do easily after work, then the latest flight to LUX on Friday (so take the afternoon off), and then open jaws back to LHR over the weekend via LUX.
Better still, the equivalent fare prices up at travelup for £600, so there should be around £60 price promise cash back. My claim is just in, if you want to wait and see (or just book the OTA fare and save £30)
I've just booked it between 5th and 8th of Dec, it seems to run from early November until at least the close of the year, you can find it by looking for LUX->OTP at around £440 over a weekend, then construct the other legs around that. Probably also works from other start points, INV for example. You can do this with a return to MAN wrapped round the LUX bits rather than JER for about £700 but it needs more holiday because of the way the timings work out. Similarly you can replace OTP with KEF and probably some other 80TP destinations. Adding a return to Jersey on my dates didn't make any sense, the fare shot up by quite a lot.
Book using the BA multicity tool (to get the price promise, it must be on BA.com), and book legs for JER->LGW; LHR->LUX, LUX->OTP, OTP->LUX, LUX->LHR
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...22*2.GBP.62722
This should be showing a fare of £628 for 360 TP - arranged so it's basically one evening B2B to/from Jersey on the Thursday which I can do easily after work, then the latest flight to LUX on Friday (so take the afternoon off), and then open jaws back to LHR over the weekend via LUX.
Better still, the equivalent fare prices up at travelup for £600, so there should be around £60 price promise cash back. My claim is just in, if you want to wait and see (or just book the OTA fare and save £30)
I've just booked it between 5th and 8th of Dec, it seems to run from early November until at least the close of the year, you can find it by looking for LUX->OTP at around £440 over a weekend, then construct the other legs around that. Probably also works from other start points, INV for example. You can do this with a return to MAN wrapped round the LUX bits rather than JER for about £700 but it needs more holiday because of the way the timings work out. Similarly you can replace OTP with KEF and probably some other 80TP destinations. Adding a return to Jersey on my dates didn't make any sense, the fare shot up by quite a lot.
Book using the BA multicity tool (to get the price promise, it must be on BA.com), and book legs for JER->LGW; LHR->LUX, LUX->OTP, OTP->LUX, LUX->LHR
Mar 31, 2019, 12:37 pm
#1271
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 59
I’m planning on being in SFO for a few days in April, nearest airport is BRU. Dates ideally depart 18th PM, land back 22nd/23rd. Any ideas?
Mar 31, 2019, 1:00 pm
#1272
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: AA EXP/LTP, BA GGL/CCR/GfL, HH D/LTD, SPG/MR Plat/LTP
Posts: 10,076
Mar 31, 2019, 1:04 pm
#1273
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 59
Brussels/Paris/Amsterdam > LHR > SFO, just thinking if there’s anything else!
Mar 31, 2019, 4:56 pm
#1274
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Accor Live Limitless Gold, Hilton Honours Gold, Avis Preferred Plus
Posts: 1,807
Whilst not necessarily the best to get to SFO from BRU (or indeed an easy way to do it from most places), you can do:
ALG-LON-NYC-SFO
(can also transit in CHI or DFW)
for about £1318 on many dates (not all have the stop in NYC/CHI/DFW). This will give 720TPs if I am right, so £1.84/TP which isn't bad. The difficult thing is getting to ALG.
Note that as the ALG-LON and LON-ALG flights are to LGW, you will either have to fly on the LGW fleet or head over to LHR, this may however be beneficial for a dropped leg on the way home to avoid the trek back to ALG.
Fare is: RNNC50S2
ALG-LON-NYC-SFO
(can also transit in CHI or DFW)
for about £1318 on many dates (not all have the stop in NYC/CHI/DFW). This will give 720TPs if I am right, so £1.84/TP which isn't bad. The difficult thing is getting to ALG.
Note that as the ALG-LON and LON-ALG flights are to LGW, you will either have to fly on the LGW fleet or head over to LHR, this may however be beneficial for a dropped leg on the way home to avoid the trek back to ALG.
Fare is: RNNC50S2
Apr 1, 2019, 4:29 am
#1275
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: AA EXP/LTP, BA GGL/CCR/GfL, HH D/LTD, SPG/MR Plat/LTP
Posts: 10,076
Whilst not necessarily the best to get to SFO from BRU (or indeed an easy way to do it from most places), you can do:
ALG-LON-NYC-SFO
(can also transit in CHI or DFW)
for about £1318 on many dates (not all have the stop in NYC/CHI/DFW). This will give 720TPs if I am right, so £1.84/TP which isn't bad. The difficult thing is getting to ALG.
Note that as the ALG-LON and LON-ALG flights are to LGW, you will either have to fly on the LGW fleet or head over to LHR, this may however be beneficial for a dropped leg on the way home to avoid the trek back to ALG.
Fare is: RNNC50S2
ALG-LON-NYC-SFO
(can also transit in CHI or DFW)
for about £1318 on many dates (not all have the stop in NYC/CHI/DFW). This will give 720TPs if I am right, so £1.84/TP which isn't bad. The difficult thing is getting to ALG.
Note that as the ALG-LON and LON-ALG flights are to LGW, you will either have to fly on the LGW fleet or head over to LHR, this may however be beneficial for a dropped leg on the way home to avoid the trek back to ALG.
Fare is: RNNC50S2
The above route seems to be the best price/route, since dates to travel is so close, and just over the Easter weekend. If you had the possibilty to go 3 weeks later, you could shave ~£200, earn the same TP's but travel in more comfort and earn considerably more Avios.
Tempting? Scroll through this thread , which surprisingly is a fare ALG-JFK, with no min stay in NYC, but with the possibility of routing via LAX both ways, with stopovers possible literally everywhere en route. Of course you need to hop over to SFO from LAX. Driving north on Highway 1 is beautiful most time of the year, but extra much in May. A shortish hop with AA will, of course also do the trick.
Positioning to ALG isn't really that complicated. Air Algerie (AH) depart Brussels CRL 09.10, arrives ALG 10.55, which, if being prepared, is doable for a BA flight to LGW 1h 20min later. The disadvantage is waiting for the return to CRL 5h. A short hop to PAR for the 'French Connection', either ORY or CDG, to ALG with AH or AF.
Some tips to facilitate ALG positioning and transfer can be found here . AH is an underestimated source for this kind of positioning