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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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
Feb 1, 2019, 7:36 am
#632
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,844
Advice - connecting in MIA
I'd appreciate some advice from the collective wisdom of FTers.
I will be partaking in the Babybusmadness meetup in August, but actually want to get to LAS for the following few days. I arrive in MIA at 14:49 on Saturday 3rd August. Obviously the connection to LAS will be on an entirely separate ticket, and I will be travelling HBO (probably a very small suitcase and a small backpack, both fine on BA).
There are two evening flights MIA-LAS on that day: 17:40 arr 19:46, and 21:35 arr 23:43. Is there any way at all to book these, and 'link' them as connections (so that if a storm delays my arrival into MIA, AA will protect that connection and ensure I don't lose the LAS flight)? I realise this might simply not be do-able and it's a case of deciding if I'm comfortable risking the loss of the connection.
The alternative would be to overnight in MIA and take the flight the next morning, but I'd prefer to get there on the Saturday night if possible.
Thanks
I will be partaking in the Babybus
There are two evening flights MIA-LAS on that day: 17:40 arr 19:46, and 21:35 arr 23:43. Is there any way at all to book these, and 'link' them as connections (so that if a storm delays my arrival into MIA, AA will protect that connection and ensure I don't lose the LAS flight)? I realise this might simply not be do-able and it's a case of deciding if I'm comfortable risking the loss of the connection.
The alternative would be to overnight in MIA and take the flight the next morning, but I'd prefer to get there on the Saturday night if possible.
Thanks
Feb 1, 2019, 7:40 am
#633
Suspended
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 123
I'm thinking of doing one or two LUX-LHR-MAN-INV round-trips in C in the Spring. I currently find decent availability for ~EUR 340 (~GBP 300) before OTA optimizations. Is the pricing I'm seeing more-or-less standard or am I looking at part of the current sale?
Feb 1, 2019, 7:48 am
#634
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
Programs: BA Silver, TK E+, AA PP, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LT Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 13,041
Is there any way at all to book these, and 'link' them as connections (so that if a storm delays my arrival into MIA, AA will protect that connection and ensure I don't lose the LAS flight)? I realise this might simply not be do-able and it's a case of deciding if I'm comfortable risking the loss of the connection.
Feb 1, 2019, 7:52 am
#635
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold / OW Emerald
Posts: 753
However, AA protects connections from oneworld flights on a separate ticket under certain conditions. Of course the best is to have good travel insurance, and to let AA know proactively if you incur any delays.
Feb 1, 2019, 8:06 am
#637
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 5 miles from EMA
Programs: BD, BAEC Pleb, VS Pleb, Accor Pleb, HHonors Gold, Big White Season Pass
Posts: 5,904
Feb 1, 2019, 8:10 am
#638
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,289
Feb 1, 2019, 8:56 am
#639
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,328
I'd appreciate some advice from the collective wisdom of FTers.
I will be partaking in the Babybusmadness meetup in August, but actually want to get to LAS for the following few days. I arrive in MIA at 14:49 on Saturday 3rd August. Obviously the connection to LAS will be on an entirely separate ticket, and I will be travelling HBO (probably a very small suitcase and a small backpack, both fine on BA).
There are two evening flights MIA-LAS on that day: 17:40 arr 19:46, and 21:35 arr 23:43. Is there any way at all to book these, and 'link' them as connections (so that if a storm delays my arrival into MIA, AA will protect that connection and ensure I don't lose the LAS flight)? I realise this might simply not be do-able and it's a case of deciding if I'm comfortable risking the loss of the connection.
The alternative would be to overnight in MIA and take the flight the next morning, but I'd prefer to get there on the Saturday night if possible.
Thanks
I will be partaking in the Babybus
There are two evening flights MIA-LAS on that day: 17:40 arr 19:46, and 21:35 arr 23:43. Is there any way at all to book these, and 'link' them as connections (so that if a storm delays my arrival into MIA, AA will protect that connection and ensure I don't lose the LAS flight)? I realise this might simply not be do-able and it's a case of deciding if I'm comfortable risking the loss of the connection.
The alternative would be to overnight in MIA and take the flight the next morning, but I'd prefer to get there on the Saturday night if possible.
Thanks
I'd book the 17:40.
Feb 1, 2019, 10:51 am
#641
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: SPG-Plat, Hilton-Diamond, Club Carlson-Silver, Cathay-Diamond, Virgin-Gold
Posts: 2,183
That pretty much seems to be how it went, any cards under a Platinum got spend £600 get £ 200 off, then Gold and some random (Nectar) cards got the spend £ 200 get £ 50 off and Centuriun (any any supplemental cards, Cent & Plat) got the spend £1000 get £ 400 off which is a fantastic deal providing you pick the right flights as Amex Travel can be more expensive and most annoyingly don't acknowledged a place called Jakarta exists!
Feb 1, 2019, 10:58 am
#642
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,709
That pretty much seems to be how it went, any cards under a Platinum got spend £600 get £ 200 off, then Gold and some random (Nectar) cards got the spend £ 200 get £ 50 off and Centuriun (any any supplemental cards, Cent & Plat) got the spend £1000 get £ 400 off which is a fantastic deal providing you pick the right flights as Amex Travel can be more expensive and most annoyingly don't acknowledged a place called Jakarta exists!
Feb 1, 2019, 12:40 pm
#643
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC | qantas | IHG | Hilton Honors | Priority Pass | Nandos
Posts: 868
Feb 1, 2019, 4:44 pm
#644
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold / Hilton Diamond / IHG Diamond Ambassador / Marriot Bonvoy Gold
Posts: 2,533
That pretty much seems to be how it went, any cards under a Platinum got spend £600 get £ 200 off, then Gold and some random (Nectar) cards got the spend £ 200 get £ 50 off and Centuriun (any any supplemental cards, Cent & Plat) got the spend £1000 get £ 400 off which is a fantastic deal providing you pick the right flights as Amex Travel can be more expensive and most annoyingly don't acknowledged a place called Jakarta exists!
for me its Lombok that doesn’t exist. Infuriatingly it does on all the EU,US and OZ Amex sites with some reasonable prices. The offer however is only available on .co.uk and they have said there are no plans to change things any time soon. They have refused any extension so iam going to formalise a complaint particularly as all the EU sites do have Lombok.
Feb 2, 2019, 12:49 am
#645
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: SPG-Plat, Hilton-Diamond, Club Carlson-Silver, Cathay-Diamond, Virgin-Gold
Posts: 2,183
for me its Lombok that doesn’t exist. Infuriatingly it does on all the EU,US and OZ Amex sites with some reasonable prices. The offer however is only available on .co.uk and they have said there are no plans to change things any time soon. They have refused any extension so iam going to formalise a complaint particularly as all the EU sites do have Lombok.