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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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
Mar 26, 2019, 2:04 pm
#1202
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: NCL
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 484
Can anyone shed some light on the accuracy of the ba.com lowest price finder tool?
https://www.britishairways.com/trave...on=AFR&cabin=J
For some reason if you search for HYD, J, 14 Nights it's saying £579 in May, when every other month is £2k plus? If I click through to book it, there is nothing even close to £579, so rather odd.
https://www.britishairways.com/trave...on=AFR&cabin=J
For some reason if you search for HYD, J, 14 Nights it's saying £579 in May, when every other month is £2k plus? If I click through to book it, there is nothing even close to £579, so rather odd.
Mar 26, 2019, 2:08 pm
#1203
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 192
Has anyone back to backed in AUH on sri lankan so CMB-AUH-CMB?
Mar 26, 2019, 2:42 pm
#1204
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,581
Can anyone shed some light on the accuracy of the ba.com lowest price finder tool?
https://www.britishairways.com/trave...on=AFR&cabin=J
For some reason if you search for HYD, J, 14 Nights it's saying £579 in May, when every other month is £2k plus? If I click through to book it, there is nothing even close to £579, so rather odd.
https://www.britishairways.com/trave...on=AFR&cabin=J
For some reason if you search for HYD, J, 14 Nights it's saying £579 in May, when every other month is £2k plus? If I click through to book it, there is nothing even close to £579, so rather odd.
Mar 26, 2019, 2:51 pm
#1205
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: NCL
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 484
it does say it’s for J. I found some more of these oddballs - 9 night flights from LGW to BGI showing up in the tool as around £750 in September. Dates either side show normal J prices. Can’t actually book any of them though. I understand the low price finder uses cached data for performance, but I’m curious to know if at some point in the last 24 hours this fare existed, or it it just a bug in the low fare tool?
Mar 26, 2019, 3:02 pm
#1206
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,581
I think it's just a web foible. I saw that for some J fares domestically last year on the website.
On the other hand, the app works very well. I looked at Hyd and it's showing the same price across the board.
On the other hand, the app works very well. I looked at Hyd and it's showing the same price across the board.
Mar 26, 2019, 5:33 pm
#1207
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 1,197
My call to AA didn't go particularly smoothly. lol
Still, 20 minutes later and we seem to have sorted it. Just waiting for updated tickets now. Thanks all for assisting this noob!
Edit - Seems to have come through OK. Will get the boss to proof read it tomorrow to be sure though!
Still, 20 minutes later and we seem to have sorted it. Just waiting for updated tickets now. Thanks all for assisting this noob!
Edit - Seems to have come through OK. Will get the boss to proof read it tomorrow to be sure though!
Last edited by RG1X; Mar 26, 2019 at 6:06 pm
Mar 26, 2019, 6:10 pm
#1208
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 931
Having a look for next year and have managed to find
INV-LHR-JFK-SFO in J for £1261.35, out 15 January and back on 22 January. This comes to 640tp and c33k avios (am OWS).
I'm not a true to runner as I like to combine with a holiday as well.
This comes up with all BA Flight numbers too. Does anyone have any experience of booking with flight network at all tried searching but couldn't find anything.
I may hang fire and see if I can get something close to this price post 8 September 2020 as I would get the longest benefit this way.
INV-LHR-JFK-SFO in J for £1261.35, out 15 January and back on 22 January. This comes to 640tp and c33k avios (am OWS).
I'm not a true to runner as I like to combine with a holiday as well.
This comes up with all BA Flight numbers too. Does anyone have any experience of booking with flight network at all tried searching but couldn't find anything.
I may hang fire and see if I can get something close to this price post 8 September 2020 as I would get the longest benefit this way.
Last edited by Cw novice; Mar 26, 2019 at 6:12 pm Reason: Further info
Mar 26, 2019, 11:05 pm
#1209
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: near Heathrow
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL (OWE), SA LifePlat (*G), BD Gold to the end, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,908
My call to AA didn't go particularly smoothly. lol
Still, 20 minutes later and we seem to have sorted it. Just waiting for updated tickets now. Thanks all for assisting this noob!
Edit - Seems to have come through OK. Will get the boss to proof read it tomorrow to be sure though!
Still, 20 minutes later and we seem to have sorted it. Just waiting for updated tickets now. Thanks all for assisting this noob!
Edit - Seems to have come through OK. Will get the boss to proof read it tomorrow to be sure though!
Mar 27, 2019, 3:07 am
#1211
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,581
Having a look for next year and have managed to find
INV-LHR-JFK-SFO in J for £1261.35, out 15 January and back on 22 January. This comes to 640tp and c33k avios (am OWS).
I'm not a true to runner as I like to combine with a holiday as well.
This comes up with all BA Flight numbers too. Does anyone have any experience of booking with flight network at all tried searching but couldn't find anything.
I may hang fire and see if I can get something close to this price post 8 September 2020 as I would get the longest benefit this way.
INV-LHR-JFK-SFO in J for £1261.35, out 15 January and back on 22 January. This comes to 640tp and c33k avios (am OWS).
I'm not a true to runner as I like to combine with a holiday as well.
This comes up with all BA Flight numbers too. Does anyone have any experience of booking with flight network at all tried searching but couldn't find anything.
I may hang fire and see if I can get something close to this price post 8 September 2020 as I would get the longest benefit this way.
Mar 27, 2019, 3:28 am
#1212
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 931
Flight Network have a habit of calling you after booking and telling you the airline have told them the price has gone up £200, you need to be ready for that with a list of fare rules etc. They also screwed up one of my bookings which would have been disastrous had I not noticed (to be fair they fixed it very fast when I told them). Personally I would jump through numerous hoops to avoid using. One of which would be Propeller travel, the fee is worth the money.
Mar 27, 2019, 3:32 am
#1213
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 323
Booked yesterday:
BA1467 to London Thu 30 Jan 2020 07:05 - Business 40
BA0185 to New York Thu 30 Jan 2020 10:50 - Business 140 (upgraded to F with Avios over the phone, so possibly 210....)
BA4310 to Los Angeles Fri 31 Jan 2020 06:00 - Business 140
BA6550 to San Francisco Fri 31 Jan 2020 15:30 - Business 40
BA4388 to New York Sat 01 Feb 2020 11:15 - Business 140
BA4752 to Toronto Sun 02 Feb 2020 17:20 - Economy 20
BA0092 to London Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:20 - Business (A350) 140
660TP for £1237.88, ~£1.88/TP
Bookable using BA multi-city. First time I have ever had success using it...
BA1467 to London Thu 30 Jan 2020 07:05 - Business 40
BA0185 to New York Thu 30 Jan 2020 10:50 - Business 140 (upgraded to F with Avios over the phone, so possibly 210....)
BA4310 to Los Angeles Fri 31 Jan 2020 06:00 - Business 140
BA6550 to San Francisco Fri 31 Jan 2020 15:30 - Business 40
BA4388 to New York Sat 01 Feb 2020 11:15 - Business 140
BA4752 to Toronto Sun 02 Feb 2020 17:20 - Economy 20
BA0092 to London Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:20 - Business (A350) 140
660TP for £1237.88, ~£1.88/TP
Bookable using BA multi-city. First time I have ever had success using it...
Mar 27, 2019, 5:32 am
#1214
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: South East England
Programs: BAEC: Bronze, HHonors: Silver, Virgin Flying Club: Red, Miles & More
Posts: 334
Has anyone any experience doing a BA LHR-DXB-LHR, either as a b2b, or an overnight stay in DXB using the transit hotel? I'm quite keen to do this once the A350 starts operating the DXB route, and the tier points would be nice as well! Because of the fare rules, I was planning to make 2 bookings:
Sometime in October
Ticket 1: LHR-DXB
Ticket 2: DXB-LHR
Then a month or so later:
Ticket 2: LHR-DXB
Ticket 1: DXB-LHR
Not exactly an amazing value TP run I'm sure, but it's partly to try out the new a/c, and also home commitments mean I can't make a short break of it. This would also be my first TP run. From what I read DXB is easy for this sort of thing, but wondering if there are any things to watch out for to avoid a disaster with getting back on the return flight?
Sometime in October
Ticket 1: LHR-DXB
Ticket 2: DXB-LHR
Then a month or so later:
Ticket 2: LHR-DXB
Ticket 1: DXB-LHR
Not exactly an amazing value TP run I'm sure, but it's partly to try out the new a/c, and also home commitments mean I can't make a short break of it. This would also be my first TP run. From what I read DXB is easy for this sort of thing, but wondering if there are any things to watch out for to avoid a disaster with getting back on the return flight?
Mar 27, 2019, 6:07 am
#1215
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 1,197
I went for a straight shot SFO -> JFK in the end. My original flight was 07:50 and this one is 11:30 so I get a few more hours in bed as a bonus. Plus I get to try their long haul business seats twice.
