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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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
Jan 29, 2019, 11:02 am
#601
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: LHR
Programs: BAEC GGL & CCR / QF LTG
Posts: 829
Alternatively, if one wants to get Gold and benefit from it the easiest way is to upgrade / optimise trips one would do anyway. A TP run comes at £2/TP normally but upgrading and optimising a trip you'd be taking anyway would be a differential of £1/TP. If one doesn't travel enough to be able to do that - the need for status naturally comes in question.
Jan 29, 2019, 1:04 pm
#602
Join Date: May 2014
Location: BRU
Programs: BA GGL, TK E (*G), ITA exec
Posts: 4,093
I think the absolute cheapest TP runs at the moment are AUH-CMB-CGK on MH. 560TP for ~£485 so about £0.87/TP.
You would still have to position to AUH and get your 4 flights + another 40TP for silver.
Alternatively, do it 3x for 1680TP, for £1455 for gold. Would still need positioning though.
You would still have to position to AUH and get your 4 flights + another 40TP for silver.
Alternatively, do it 3x for 1680TP, for £1455 for gold. Would still need positioning though.
I need to hurry up to decide on it...
Jan 29, 2019, 3:32 pm
#603
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 72
On a quick check, you could do a quick five stop in first on AA next Saturday for $537.25 giving you 200 tier points: BOS-PHL-CLT; CLT-RDU-DCA-BOS. 05:37 start, 19:07 finish.
Transcon options are pretty much all twice the price, at least.
Get your 14 days extension and other options open up, such as Saturday 9th Feb BOS-CLT-RDU; RDU-CLT-PHL-BOS or BOS-CLT-RDU; RDU-CLT-DCA-BOS for $475. First flight can leave BOS as late as 11:11 if you're not an early starter on a Saturday! Shortest run is 11 hours 17 minutes for the five flights.
Or next Saturday, even without the extension to your TP year, there's BOS-PHL-CLT-CHS; CHS-CLT-BOS for $467.70 ..... or an 11am start on the same itinerary but going out via DCA instead of PHL for the same price.
Transcon options are pretty much all twice the price, at least.
Get your 14 days extension and other options open up, such as Saturday 9th Feb BOS-CLT-RDU; RDU-CLT-PHL-BOS or BOS-CLT-RDU; RDU-CLT-DCA-BOS for $475. First flight can leave BOS as late as 11:11 if you're not an early starter on a Saturday! Shortest run is 11 hours 17 minutes for the five flights.
Or next Saturday, even without the extension to your TP year, there's BOS-PHL-CLT-CHS; CHS-CLT-BOS for $467.70 ..... or an 11am start on the same itinerary but going out via DCA instead of PHL for the same price.
Jan 30, 2019, 2:25 am
#604
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 9
Hi all,
Hope you're all well. I need 330 TP as cheaply as possible before 8 April to retain silver. I'm very flexible with dates and can travel from BHD, DUB or LHR.
Any suggestions welcome!
Hope you're all well. I need 330 TP as cheaply as possible before 8 April to retain silver. I'm very flexible with dates and can travel from BHD, DUB or LHR.
Any suggestions welcome!
Jan 30, 2019, 2:54 am
#605
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,991
That's a lot of TPs to get to retain Silver for a year. Why not try to get 600TPs between 9th April and 31st May, and secure Silver for two years?
Jan 30, 2019, 3:01 am
#606
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 9
That's a great idea! Thanks.
Do you have any route suggestions?
Do you have any route suggestions?
Jan 30, 2019, 3:03 am
#607
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold / OW Emerald
Posts: 753
LHR-HEL (one ET, one CE leg): 90 TP for £204
Total: 330TP for £580 (£1.75/TP)
Okay, you're going to Helsinki twice but this is the cheapest way. A connecting flight from Heathrow to Spain on Iberia would be 100TP but possibly more expensive. You can also pick any destination for 80TP in CE and once again for 10TP in ET. It's up to you, if you happen to have any preference as to where you go.
If you want to secure Silver for two years in one go, budget ~1250 GBP and keep your eyes peeled for ex-DUB fares to the east coast, I would think
Any destination you'd like or have to go to?
Jan 30, 2019, 3:14 am
#608
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 9
DUB-LHR-HEL: 240TP for £376
LHR-HEL (one ET, one CE leg): 90 TP for £204
Total: 330TP for £580 (£1.75/TP)
Okay, you're going to Helsinki twice but this is the cheapest way. A connecting flight from Heathrow to Spain on Iberia would be 100TP but possibly more expensive. You can also pick any destination for 80TP in CE and once again for 10TP in ET. It's up to you, if you happen to have any preference as to where you go.
If you want to secure Silver for two years in one go, budget ~1250 GBP and keep your eyes peeled for ex-DUB fares to the east coast, I would think Any destination you'd like or have to go to?
LHR-HEL (one ET, one CE leg): 90 TP for £204
Total: 330TP for £580 (£1.75/TP)
Okay, you're going to Helsinki twice but this is the cheapest way. A connecting flight from Heathrow to Spain on Iberia would be 100TP but possibly more expensive. You can also pick any destination for 80TP in CE and once again for 10TP in ET. It's up to you, if you happen to have any preference as to where you go.
If you want to secure Silver for two years in one go, budget ~1250 GBP and keep your eyes peeled for ex-DUB fares to the east coast, I would think
Any destination you'd like or have to go to?
Jan 30, 2019, 3:19 am
#609
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 58
Book the AUH/CGK trip with UL for approx £500 will net you 560 TP, and if you do your positioning to AUH in BA you should get 40 TP as a minimum. I had a quick look and cheapest I could find was with RJ for £329 giving you 50TP. So in total you could get 600 TP+ for about £830.
Jan 30, 2019, 4:26 am
#610
Join Date: Jan 2016
Programs: BAEC Silver, Avis Preferred, Hilton Gold
Posts: 521
Jan 30, 2019, 12:01 pm
#611
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 375
Tp £1.43
Just spotted this for 360 tp for £518 wide availability
https://www.google.com/flights?source=hsi#flt=TPE.CGK.2019-04-22.TPEKUL0MH367~KULCGK0MH727*CGK.TPE.2019-04-25.CGKKUL0MH726~KULTPE0MH366;c:GBP;e:1;a:ONEWORLD* ONEWORLD;sc:b;sd:1;t:f;sp:2.GBP.51715*2.GBP.51715
https://www.google.com/flights?source=hsi#flt=TPE.CGK.2019-04-22.TPEKUL0MH367~KULCGK0MH727*CGK.TPE.2019-04-25.CGKKUL0MH726~KULTPE0MH366;c:GBP;e:1;a:ONEWORLD* ONEWORLD;sc:b;sd:1;t:f;sp:2.GBP.51715*2.GBP.51715
Jan 30, 2019, 3:55 pm
#612
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Miami FL
Programs: BA GGL , HH Gold, UA Plat
Posts: 30
https://www.google.com/flights?authu...;sd:1;t:f;tt:m
Can anyone help me improve this? I am planning on staying in AMS for the layover and need to be stateside for the night of the 10th. If anyone has any suggestions for how to either bring down the cost or improve the number of tier points earned I would greatly appreciate it!
EDIT: I should add that I am not as concerned about maximizing TP's on the return portion as it will be my next qualifying year and my plans for August are still up in the air.
Can anyone help me improve this? I am planning on staying in AMS for the layover and need to be stateside for the night of the 10th. If anyone has any suggestions for how to either bring down the cost or improve the number of tier points earned I would greatly appreciate it!
EDIT: I should add that I am not as concerned about maximizing TP's on the return portion as it will be my next qualifying year and my plans for August are still up in the air.
Jan 30, 2019, 4:37 pm
#613
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 4
Hi All,
I need 160TP to achieve Silver by 8th May ex LON, ideally LHR.
Pretty open on dates and happy to grind it out without an overnight - Lowest cost is main driver.
Can anyone help please?
TIA
I need 160TP to achieve Silver by 8th May ex LON, ideally LHR.
Pretty open on dates and happy to grind it out without an overnight - Lowest cost is main driver.
Can anyone help please?
TIA
Jan 30, 2019, 8:51 pm
#615
Join Date: May 2011
Location: LON, OPO
Posts: 132
Just spotted this for 360 tp for £518 wide availability
https://www.google.com/flights?sourc...15*2.GBP.51715
https://www.google.com/flights?sourc...15*2.GBP.51715