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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 26, 2019, 8:12 am
#556
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC GGL/GFl, HH Diamond, BW Diamond, Virgin Voyages Deep Blue Extra, Blue Peter Badge Holder
Posts: 3,937
First post on here after being an avid follower for some time. I'm 165 tier points short of Gold status with only two weeks left in my collection year. I was wondering if anyone had any data points on whether (1) BA would be willing to extend my collection year to allow me more time to fly for the remaining points, (2) they would give me some of the points so I had less flying to do--I was offered this first time going for Silver but didn't use it, or (3) both. The best bet I've found is flying a US domestic F flight on AA that would get me 80 points, but then I'm still 85 points down. Unfortunately I don't have enough time to fly transcon and get 140 in one leg, and flying a shorter trip with a connection, while perfect, is often more than double the price of flying direct. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
although they have previously allowed some individuals to renew at less than the required number of TPs, mainly following high profile PR incidents, such as the ICT failure, this is far from routine.
If you provide specifics of where you are based, we can help find you a good TP run to get 165 TP if required, only you can decide whether this is worth it to gain gold for you future travel. Please also confirm that you have 4 BA sectors (BA metal or BA/IB ticketed).
Jan 26, 2019, 9:57 am
#557
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 72
may the discretion of BA, they will usually extend your collection year by a maximum and final 14 days, they are less likely to offer this to gain previously ingrained status.
although they have previously allowed some individuals to renew at less than the required number of TPs, mainly following high profile PR incidents, such as the ICT failure, this is far from routine.
If you provide specifics of where you are based, we can help find you a good TP run to get 165 TP if required, only you can decide whether this is worth it to gain gold for you future travel. Please also confirm that you have 4 BA sectors (BA metal or BA/IB ticketed).
Jan 26, 2019, 11:24 am
#558
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: London, England
Programs: BA:Gold; IHG: Platinum;
Posts: 69
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.
Last edited by chrislondon2; Jan 26, 2019 at 11:57 am
Jan 26, 2019, 1:07 pm
#559
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold / OW Emerald
Posts: 753
Thanks everyone for knocking some sense into me, after looking wider, my best find is 1212 GBP for an open jaw AMS-YUL-BCN.
How I got this... Well let's just say I just enjoy typing in random stuff in ITA and Google Flights too much. Hope this is useful to anyone, otherwise there's good fares to YUL from spain, but that's more in the ~1300 range.
I really ought to look into some ways to do this programatically. Here's what I sent over for Propeller to book for me, with lie-flat seats for a very important nap between LHR and HEL. I think the flight number AY 1337 is a sign
Stats: 27598 Avios, 680TP, 1281.35 GBP, 1.88 per TP
How I got this... Well let's just say I just enjoy typing in random stuff in ITA and Google Flights too much. Hope this is useful to anyone, otherwise there's good fares to YUL from spain, but that's more in the ~1300 range.
I really ought to look into some ways to do this programatically. Here's what I sent over for Propeller to book for me, with lie-flat seats for a very important nap between LHR and HEL. I think the flight number AY 1337 is a sign
Stats: 27598 Avios, 680TP, 1281.35 GBP, 1.88 per TP
Last edited by thebigben; Jan 26, 2019 at 2:04 pm
Jan 26, 2019, 4:23 pm
#561
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BER
Programs: BA GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,843
Jan 26, 2019, 4:43 pm
#562
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Programs: BA GGL, NH SFC, IHG Diamond, Radisson VIP, HH Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 835
I am sorry if I have missed something. aa.com worked in the past and showed many TP-making routes to HNL and/or Central America, but the website now always shows errors. Can we not find such routes on aa.com any more?
Jan 26, 2019, 4:56 pm
#563
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BER
Programs: BA GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,843
which leads to:
https://bookaa.amadeus.com/plnext/AA...deeplink#/FARE
there you go.
Jan 26, 2019, 5:33 pm
#564
Join Date: May 2011
Location: LON, OPO
Posts: 132
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Jan 27, 2019, 8:00 am
#565
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 94
Google flights bring up the price at £505 but when you click through to UL’s website the price changes to AED2,325.
Jan 27, 2019, 9:57 am
#566
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: ORD
Programs: BA, AA, SQ, UA, AC, WS, MR TIT
Posts: 8,659
Yes I have flown them before...however when I search the route on Sri Lankan website it’s bringing up the price at AED2,325.00 (£485approx) so I think it’s available to everyone (just highlighted to previous flyers).
Google flights bring up the price at £505 but when you click through to UL’s website the price changes to AED2,325.
Right now the price has gone up as many posters mentioned and you can't find such low price anymore.
Jan 27, 2019, 3:13 pm
#567
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Great Britain
Programs: Air: QR Silver. BA Silver Emirates, Hotels: CC Gold, IHG Spire AMB, Hilton Diamond.
Posts: 1,487
I just did in April. The fare seems to still be there at that price, 2,325 AED (from AUH) and I didn't go via any email link, just direct search on the UL website.
Was hoping I could add a stopover of a week in CMB in one of the directions but it seems to double the fare :-(
Was hoping I could add a stopover of a week in CMB in one of the directions but it seems to double the fare :-(
Last edited by Sisyphus1carus; Jan 27, 2019 at 5:34 pm
Jan 27, 2019, 5:18 pm
#568
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC | qantas | IHG | Hilton Honors | Priority Pass | Nandos
Posts: 868
Yes I have flown them before...however when I search the route on Sri Lankan website it’s bringing up the price at AED2,325.00 (£485approx) so I think it’s available to everyone (just highlighted to previous flyers).
Google flights bring up the price at £505 but when you click through to UL’s website the price changes to AED2,325.
Jan 28, 2019, 12:48 am
#569
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: LHR
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 484
Am doing an OTP-PHX in March (Brexit wend!) but my question is do I get lounge access at PHX travelling AA domestic first (PHX-BOS) and BAEC Silver ?? Cheers
Jan 28, 2019, 12:49 am
#570
Join Date: Sep 2018
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 136
https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/clubs/admirals-club-access.jsp
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