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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 18, 2019, 1:56 am
#406
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Lincoln, UK
Programs: BAEC Gold, IHG Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond, Starbucks Gold
Posts: 1,266
Positioning LHR - CAI - LHR in J was £900.
Le Meridien at Cairo airport was £150 per night.
Crowne Plaza at LAX on the outbound was £80
Hilton in Waikiki was £120
So all in just under £4,500.
Not exactly the spirit of TP running cheaply, but it served my purpose of worry free gold flying for two years.
Jan 18, 2019, 2:46 am
#407
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 58
I assume that this starts with a positioning flight to Cairo? If so I priced it up in ITA yesterday and the cheapest I could find was about £4k not including positioning flight. So am assuming when this was booked it was taking advantage of whatever sales were on at time.
Jan 18, 2019, 2:53 am
#408
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Lincoln, UK
Programs: BAEC Gold, IHG Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond, Starbucks Gold
Posts: 1,266
I assume that this starts with a positioning flight to Cairo? If so I priced it up in ITA yesterday and the cheapest I could find was about £4k not including positioning flight. So am assuming when this was booked it was taking advantage of whatever sales were on at time.
I would love to know if these fare codes are searchable to find out if there are any other F fare offers out there.
Jan 18, 2019, 3:26 am
#409
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,293
Jan 18, 2019, 11:37 am
#410
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BER
Programs: BA GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,843
sounds like an interesting fare:
outbound: Sep 24, Inbound: Oct 1. Fare ILX8T1S6
800 TP for SXB MAD LHR JFK PHX LAX - LAX PHX JFK LCY (Babybus) MAD SXB
FROM FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
26OCT 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
TO FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
03NOV 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
Last edited by Nephoi; Jan 18, 2019 at 11:53 am Reason: precision
Jan 18, 2019, 12:45 pm
#411
Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Somewhere in the Air
Programs: BA GGL, *A Silver, OW Emerald, HH Diamond, Karahi Express
Posts: 554
SXB-MAD by Iberia
sounds like an interesting fare:
outbound: Sep 24, Inbound: Oct 1. Fare ILX8T1S6
800 TP for SXB MAD LHR JFK PHX LAX - LAX PHX JFK LCY (Babybus) MAD SXB
FROM FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
26OCT 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
TO FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
03NOV 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
sounds like an interesting fare:
outbound: Sep 24, Inbound: Oct 1. Fare ILX8T1S6
800 TP for SXB MAD LHR JFK PHX LAX - LAX PHX JFK LCY (Babybus) MAD SXB
FROM FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
26OCT 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
TO FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
03NOV 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
Jan 18, 2019, 12:57 pm
#412
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Switzerland
Programs: BA Exec GGL CCR, Turkish M&S Elite, HHonors Diamond, SPG Gold, Avis First Plus
Posts: 72
GVA - SJC 720tps Chf 2k
Since deals out of Geneva are pretty rare I thought the following was not bad for a tier point run.
GVA - MAD - JFK - LAX - SJC
SJC - PHX - JFK - MAD - GVA
720TPs
Available for next weekend.
GVA - MAD - JFK - LAX - SJC
SJC - PHX - JFK - MAD - GVA
720TPs
Available for next weekend.
Jan 18, 2019, 1:03 pm
#413
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BER
Programs: BA GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,843
Jan 18, 2019, 2:14 pm
#414
Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Somewhere in the Air
Programs: BA GGL, *A Silver, OW Emerald, HH Diamond, Karahi Express
Posts: 554
Jan 18, 2019, 2:26 pm
#415
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BER
Programs: BA GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,843
Jan 18, 2019, 2:39 pm
#416
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,293
SXB-MAD by Iberia
sounds like an interesting fare:
outbound: Sep 24, Inbound: Oct 1. Fare ILX8T1S6
800 TP for SXB MAD LHR JFK PHX LAX - LAX PHX JFK LCY (Babybus) MAD SXB
FROM FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
26OCT 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
TO FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
03NOV 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
sounds like an interesting fare:
outbound: Sep 24, Inbound: Oct 1. Fare ILX8T1S6
800 TP for SXB MAD LHR JFK PHX LAX - LAX PHX JFK LCY (Babybus) MAD SXB
FROM FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
26OCT 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
TO FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
03NOV 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
AF used to have one from LCY, that was perfect. But not anymore...
Jan 19, 2019, 2:52 am
#418
Ambassador, British Airways; FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 42,967
Yes. Just to emphasise for others, an I class exEU fare booked in to the business cabin on the three cabin A321 transcons on the JFK-SFO/LAX and LAX-BOS routes. The cabin is in a 2+2 config and the seats go flat.
Jan 19, 2019, 3:34 am
#419
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: AMS
Programs: BAEC Silver, Flying Blue Gold, TK M&S Nobody
Posts: 2,480
sounds like an interesting fare:
outbound: Sep 24, Inbound: Oct 1. Fare ILX8T1S6
800 TP for SXB MAD LHR JFK PHX LAX - LAX PHX JFK LCY (Babybus) MAD SXB
FROM FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
26OCT 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
TO FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
03NOV 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
outbound: Sep 24, Inbound: Oct 1. Fare ILX8T1S6
800 TP for SXB MAD LHR JFK PHX LAX - LAX PHX JFK LCY (Babybus) MAD SXB
FROM FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
26OCT 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
TO FRANCE -
PERMITTED 30MAR 19 THROUGH 13JUN 19 OR 09SEP 19 THROUGH
03NOV 19 FOR EACH TRANSATLANTIC SECTOR.
Jan 19, 2019, 3:36 am
#420
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BER
Programs: BA GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,843
Yeah. Gone. I was also too late