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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 6, 2019, 5:22 pm
#91
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Programs: BAEC Gold Guest List, Hilton Honours Diamond, Accor Gold
Posts: 2,303
Searching for the right thread here.... If you book a multi-trip exEU can you UUA online for BA from CW to F? I just booked one and there IS availability but it told me I had to call a BA office, and it couldn't be done online....?
Jan 6, 2019, 10:08 pm
#92
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: DFW or GOT or...
Programs: BA Silver, Marriott GFL
Posts: 819
Correct, call BA (asap!) 
Jan 7, 2019, 1:32 am
#93
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Between UK & US
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 184
Hi All,
Sorry I started a Post on the 2018 thread, and didn't respond in time so it's not closed.
Still looking for deals for around 700 - 1000 TP's.
One question I had is when people route from say OTP to PHX via X, Y and Z - how do you 'know ' to do it.
Are these ITA options through people doing millions of searches - or is there somewhere (aside from this enormous thread) to keep an eye on for routings?
Thanks!
Sorry I started a Post on the 2018 thread, and didn't respond in time so it's not closed.
Still looking for deals for around 700 - 1000 TP's.
One question I had is when people route from say OTP to PHX via X, Y and Z - how do you 'know ' to do it.
Are these ITA options through people doing millions of searches - or is there somewhere (aside from this enormous thread) to keep an eye on for routings?
Thanks!
Jan 7, 2019, 1:45 am
#94
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold / OW Emerald
Posts: 753
Hi All,
Sorry I started a Post on the 2018 thread, and didn't respond in time so it's not closed.
Still looking for deals for around 700 - 1000 TP's.
One question I had is when people route from say OTP to PHX via X, Y and Z - how do you 'know ' to do it.
Are these ITA options through people doing millions of searches - or is there somewhere (aside from this enormous thread) to keep an eye on for routings?
Thanks!
Sorry I started a Post on the 2018 thread, and didn't respond in time so it's not closed.
Still looking for deals for around 700 - 1000 TP's.
One question I had is when people route from say OTP to PHX via X, Y and Z - how do you 'know ' to do it.
Are these ITA options through people doing millions of searches - or is there somewhere (aside from this enormous thread) to keep an eye on for routings?
Thanks!
- Free transfers (usually 2 in Europe, 2 in North America)
- Maximum mileage (i.e. you can't just go from Europe to the west coast and back to the east coast on a cheap fare)
With that in mind, you can check out which cheap fares exist (for example, GOT-MIA, OTP-PHX, etc...) and route them better, for the modest price of a few airport fees, which aren't usually too expensive.
Let's say, for our first example we want to use the ARN-MIA fare. We know a TATL fare is 140TP, US domestic first is 40TP, and some EU segments can go up to 80TP, so we'll try to do the following: ARN-X-LHR (that's our two transfers in Europe), and then LHR-X-X-MIA (that's our two transfers in NA). The best way to get 80TP and not go too far is to add a LHR-HEL segment, so we get ARN-HEL-LHR to start (only works if Finnair has a ARN-HEL service, which they do!)
Then, for the other part we just fiddle with ITA and input X in the connections to help us. This is where we choose our favorite plane so if we want to take the 747 to Philadelphia we'll search ARN-HEL-LHR-PHL-X-MIA and ITA will tell us which cities it finds (I think in this case CLT). And here you go, bang, a 680TP return with ARN-HEL-LHR-PHL-CLT-MIA.
Now for the west coast it's a bit different, as you'll always want to do LHR-JFK-(LAX/SFO) because only JFK-LAX and JFK-SFO will give you 140TPs (and a flat bed!) so, we start the same way, but this time we're more constrained so we know we want to do search the following in ITA: OTP-HEL-LHR-JFK-(LAX/SFO)-PHX. And ITA will tell us whether going through SFO or LAX is possible, and in that case it is (at least for one of those two).
Now this can get a bit trickier if you're optimising flights to Asia but in that case you're either looking to route via SIN (which is 160TP), or use QR which is usually going to yield 4x140TP. And of course you can always read the ticket conditions on ITA.
Last edited by thebigben; Jan 7, 2019 at 3:29 am
Jan 7, 2019, 3:51 am
#95
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: LHR
Programs: BA Gold, Accor Silver
Posts: 159
Inv-las 880tp 1231gbp
Any suggestions to improve this?
Jan 7, 2019, 4:36 am
#96
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 266
With reservations made on AA.com including flights operated by other carriers i.e. BA/AY, is there a 24-hour cancellation policy?
I can't make sense of "including American Airlines flights operated by codeshare partners".
Does that only apply if it's marketed by AA with an AA code:
I can't make sense of "including American Airlines flights operated by codeshare partners".
Does that only apply if it's marketed by AA with an AA code:
24 hour refund
When you buy a ticket 2 or more days prior to departure via aa.com or by phone with American Airlines Reservations for American Airlines flights (including American Airlines flights operated by codeshare partners), you have up to 24 hours from the time of ticket purchase to receive a full refund for your ticket.
To cancel your trip, log in to aa.com or contact Reservations and refunds will be automatically processed.
Award tickets can only be cancelled by calling Reservations. In case of a refund, mileage will be reinstated and tax and expedited fee (if paid) will be refunded.
For all ticket types, reservations service charges will not be refunded.
After 24 hours have elapsed, normal refund policies apply to the ticket. If you elect to make changes to the itinerary after the 24 hour time period, a change fee may apply and the ticket price may also change depending on the fare purchased.
For additional information, in the U.S., please contact American Airlines or American Eagle at 800-433-7300. If assistance is needed in Spanish, you may dial 800-633-3711. If you have a hearing or speech impairment, you may contact American Airlines or American Eagle at 800-543-1586. International reservations are handled through local offices, and those numbers can be found in local telephone directories.
When you buy a ticket 2 or more days prior to departure via aa.com or by phone with American Airlines Reservations for American Airlines flights (including American Airlines flights operated by codeshare partners), you have up to 24 hours from the time of ticket purchase to receive a full refund for your ticket.
To cancel your trip, log in to aa.com or contact Reservations and refunds will be automatically processed.
Award tickets can only be cancelled by calling Reservations. In case of a refund, mileage will be reinstated and tax and expedited fee (if paid) will be refunded.
For all ticket types, reservations service charges will not be refunded.
After 24 hours have elapsed, normal refund policies apply to the ticket. If you elect to make changes to the itinerary after the 24 hour time period, a change fee may apply and the ticket price may also change depending on the fare purchased.
For additional information, in the U.S., please contact American Airlines or American Eagle at 800-433-7300. If assistance is needed in Spanish, you may dial 800-633-3711. If you have a hearing or speech impairment, you may contact American Airlines or American Eagle at 800-543-1586. International reservations are handled through local offices, and those numbers can be found in local telephone directories.
Jan 7, 2019, 4:52 am
#97
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Glasgow, UK
Programs: Seigneur des Tarifs Utils First Class Mucci with Honours :) - BA GGL / CCR
Posts: 1,551
Jan 7, 2019, 5:02 am
#98
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: LHR
Programs: BA Gold, Accor Silver
Posts: 159
Jan 7, 2019, 5:34 am
#99
Join Date: Oct 2013
Programs: GGL/CCR
Posts: 1,899
Dont forget if you book the HEL shuffle far enough out, chances of a time change are high - allowing you then to insert the Transcon for a nice 1040TP run 
Jan 7, 2019, 5:42 am
#100
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Jan 7, 2019, 5:50 am
#102
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I'm struggling to find any I class availability on AA metal on pretty much any date I try for JFK-LHR, am I missing something?
Picking a random date far out:
Picking a random date far out:
Jan 7, 2019, 6:04 am
#103
Join Date: May 2017
Programs: Virgin / BA
Posts: 11
Love the Helsinki / Vegas run above and very handy - will check that option now.
I'm in need of help from the experts on here! I'm currently gold but will not achieve the status again by the end of my earning year - March 8th - looking for circa 1200 points as I desperately need the status in 2019.
London based and happy to do a run over 5/6/7 days to get the bulk and happy to throw in a few short trips too - can travel anywhere and pretty flexible with dates. As I'm sure everyone says - I'd like to do it as quick and cheap as possible!!
HELP! (thanks in advance)
I'm in need of help from the experts on here! I'm currently gold but will not achieve the status again by the end of my earning year - March 8th - looking for circa 1200 points as I desperately need the status in 2019.
London based and happy to do a run over 5/6/7 days to get the bulk and happy to throw in a few short trips too - can travel anywhere and pretty flexible with dates. As I'm sure everyone says - I'd like to do it as quick and cheap as possible!!
HELP! (thanks in advance)
Jan 7, 2019, 6:25 am
#104
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: LHR
Programs: BA Gold, Accor Silver
Posts: 159
Love the Helsinki / Vegas run above and very handy - will check that option now.
I'm in need of help from the experts on here! I'm currently gold but will not achieve the status again by the end of my earning year - March 8th - looking for circa 1200 points as I desperately need the status in 2019.
London based and happy to do a run over 5/6/7 days to get the bulk and happy to throw in a few short trips too - can travel anywhere and pretty flexible with dates. As I'm sure everyone says - I'd like to do it as quick and cheap as possible!!
HELP! (thanks in advance)
I'm in need of help from the experts on here! I'm currently gold but will not achieve the status again by the end of my earning year - March 8th - looking for circa 1200 points as I desperately need the status in 2019.
London based and happy to do a run over 5/6/7 days to get the bulk and happy to throw in a few short trips too - can travel anywhere and pretty flexible with dates. As I'm sure everyone says - I'd like to do it as quick and cheap as possible!!
HELP! (thanks in advance)