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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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 Please add important information to it or correct outdated information by clicking the "Edit" button below.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
Jul 10, 2019, 5:26 am
#2131
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Finland
Programs: BA gold, OWE
Posts: 373
Some creative routings from MXP maybe? MXP-HEL-LHR-JFK-MIA (40+80+140+40)*2 for 1600€ or MXP-HEL-DUB-ORD-JFK-MIA (40+80+140+40+40)*2 for 1750€
Jul 10, 2019, 6:05 am
#2132
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: London
Programs: BAEC GOLD
Posts: 53
thxs ill lok at that one
Jul 10, 2019, 6:28 am
#2133
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Programs: OWEmerald; STARGold; BonvoyPlat; IHGPlat/Amb; HiltonGold; A|ClubPat; AirMilesPlat
Posts: 38,186
TP Runs from Canada (YYZ)
TP runs for we North American members are hard to come by as AA's premium cabin fares have increased over the past couple of years and domestic F is now booking as an I-class subset of business. And such sweetheart deals like the <£1,000 SJU-MIA-LAX-KOA rtn in an actual F fare category are long gone. Not to mention for we Canadians, there are few if any low fare, premium opportunities on the continent (and positioning to Inverness is a bit of a pain to get back home in BA F for <£1500 including a return to the UK).
Option 1
However, for anyone in the Toronto YYZ ares, I've come across a C$960/U$730/£590 business class fare between YYZ and PTY that can be done with an overnight turnaround if spending a few days in Panama City, Panama is not to your liking. Variations of routings offered on the AA.com site range from four to six segments and if you can manage early morning, pre-7a flights, can be done without an interim US airport hotel overnight on the return. Though most routings via PHL or LGA will include one economy segment from/to YYZ, DFW and CLT routings can yield up to six 40 TP business class flights totalling 240 TPs. This works out to £2.45/TP. Fare appears to be available through most of the fall (September to mid-December) and likely reappears throughout 2020 outside peak periods for sun destinations.
I've booked a next day turnaround for later September: YYZ-DFW-MIA-PTY (DFW-MIA on a 772 in flatbed J) and PTY-MIA-PHL-YYZ (MIA-PHL on a 763 in flatbed J). My PHL-YYZ is in full-Y so drops that segment down to just 20 TPs.
The fare rises about £150/C$245/U$190 with Friday, Saturday or Sunday flights.
Option 2
Even better: From time to time AA will have crazy fares ex-YYZ in PE to GRU or GIG. I will be flying one of these in early September that I booked at C$750/U$570/£460. The routing is YYZ-MIA-GIG-MIA-CLT-YYZ. The Canada-US segments book into full Y so yield 20 TPs each (20x3=60) and the MIA-GIG-MIA flights yield 90 TPs each. Total TPs: 240 or £1.90/TP.
Option 1
However, for anyone in the Toronto YYZ ares, I've come across a C$960/U$730/£590 business class fare between YYZ and PTY that can be done with an overnight turnaround if spending a few days in Panama City, Panama is not to your liking. Variations of routings offered on the AA.com site range from four to six segments and if you can manage early morning, pre-7a flights, can be done without an interim US airport hotel overnight on the return. Though most routings via PHL or LGA will include one economy segment from/to YYZ, DFW and CLT routings can yield up to six 40 TP business class flights totalling 240 TPs. This works out to £2.45/TP. Fare appears to be available through most of the fall (September to mid-December) and likely reappears throughout 2020 outside peak periods for sun destinations.
I've booked a next day turnaround for later September: YYZ-DFW-MIA-PTY (DFW-MIA on a 772 in flatbed J) and PTY-MIA-PHL-YYZ (MIA-PHL on a 763 in flatbed J). My PHL-YYZ is in full-Y so drops that segment down to just 20 TPs.
The fare rises about £150/C$245/U$190 with Friday, Saturday or Sunday flights.
Option 2
Even better: From time to time AA will have crazy fares ex-YYZ in PE to GRU or GIG. I will be flying one of these in early September that I booked at C$750/U$570/£460. The routing is YYZ-MIA-GIG-MIA-CLT-YYZ. The Canada-US segments book into full Y so yield 20 TPs each (20x3=60) and the MIA-GIG-MIA flights yield 90 TPs each. Total TPs: 240 or £1.90/TP.
Last edited by Shareholder; Jul 15, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Jul 10, 2019, 9:12 am
#2134
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Germany
Programs: Currently without any status :(
Posts: 1,555
Would also add that it’s often very cheap to add in a LHR-MAN leg for extra 40 TP and take the AA transatlantic MAN-PHL. Looking at the summer schedule the connection to the A330 PHL-LAX works well on the outbound. The transatlantic seems to be on a 767 in summer which I have no experience with. I booked something in February (on an INV-LAS fare from memory) which has a 787 on the transatlantic connecting to the A330 on the transcon flight. I would take either of these hard products over the current BA Club World. Unfortunately schedule changes have already seen my return PHL-MAN-LHR routing replaced with PHL-LHR direct
Because there is an AA flight txl-phl I would be willing to take, but not in economy. If I could book one of the good fares, I might create enough tp for a flight like
for example inv-lhr-txl-phl-lax-las or hel-txl-phl-... should be possible in theory, but matrix only returns 'no flights'. I assume it is in the routing rules, but I would not know really where to look.
Fare rules for British Airways (BA) IQX5C7M4 INV to PHX only say
Category 4: Flight restrictionsCategory 4: Flight restrictions
IF THE FARE COMPONENT INCLUDES TRAVEL BETWEEN UNITED
KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES
THEN THAT TRAVEL MUST NOT BE ON
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING
BA FLIGHTS 2034 THROUGH 2167
BA FLIGHTS 202 THROUGH 203
BA FLIGHTS 212 THROUGH 215
BA FLIGHTS 238 THROUGH 239.
AND
IF THE FARE COMPONENT INCLUDES TRAVEL WITHIN UNITED
KINGDOM
THEN THAT TRAVEL MUST BE ON
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING
ANY BA FLIGHT.
AND
THE FARE COMPONENT MUST INCLUDE TRAVEL BETWEEN LON AND
NORTH AMERICA ON
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING
ANY BA FLIGHT
ON NONSTOP/DIRECT FLIGHTS.
AND
THE FARE COMPONENT MUST NOT INCLUDE TRAVEL BETWEEN
CONTIGUOUS U.S.A./CANADA AND HAWAII/ALASKA.
IF THE FARE COMPONENT INCLUDES TRAVEL BETWEEN UNITED
KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES
THEN THAT TRAVEL MUST NOT BE ON
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING
BA FLIGHTS 2034 THROUGH 2167
BA FLIGHTS 202 THROUGH 203
BA FLIGHTS 212 THROUGH 215
BA FLIGHTS 238 THROUGH 239.
AND
IF THE FARE COMPONENT INCLUDES TRAVEL WITHIN UNITED
KINGDOM
THEN THAT TRAVEL MUST BE ON
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING
ANY BA FLIGHT.
AND
THE FARE COMPONENT MUST INCLUDE TRAVEL BETWEEN LON AND
NORTH AMERICA ON
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING
ANY BA FLIGHT
ON NONSTOP/DIRECT FLIGHTS.
AND
THE FARE COMPONENT MUST NOT INCLUDE TRAVEL BETWEEN
CONTIGUOUS U.S.A./CANADA AND HAWAII/ALASKA.
Category 9: Transfer restrictions
2 TRANSFERS PERMITTED IN EACH DIRECTION FREE
2 FREE ON AA/AB/AY/BA/IB ONLY IN EUROPE IN EACH
DIRECTION
FARE BREAK AND EMBEDDED SURFACE SECTORS NOT PERMITTED ON
THE FARE COMPONENT.
AND - 2 TRANSFERS PERMITTED IN EACH DIRECTION FREE
1 FREE BETWEEN AA/BA/IB AND AS IN LAX/PDX/SEA IN
EACH DIRECTION
1 FREE BETWEEN AA/BA/IB AND WS IN CANADA IN EACH
DIRECTION
1 FREE BETWEEN AA/BA/IB AND HA IN HAWAII IN EACH
DIRECTION
2 FREE ON AA/BA/IB ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES/
CANADA IN EACH DIRECTION
FARE BREAK SURFACE SECTORS NOT PERMITTED AND
EMBEDDED SURFACE SECTORS PERMITTED ON THE FARE
COMPONENT.
2 TRANSFERS PERMITTED IN EACH DIRECTION FREE
2 FREE ON AA/AB/AY/BA/IB ONLY IN EUROPE IN EACH
DIRECTION
FARE BREAK AND EMBEDDED SURFACE SECTORS NOT PERMITTED ON
THE FARE COMPONENT.
AND - 2 TRANSFERS PERMITTED IN EACH DIRECTION FREE
1 FREE BETWEEN AA/BA/IB AND AS IN LAX/PDX/SEA IN
EACH DIRECTION
1 FREE BETWEEN AA/BA/IB AND WS IN CANADA IN EACH
DIRECTION
1 FREE BETWEEN AA/BA/IB AND HA IN HAWAII IN EACH
DIRECTION
2 FREE ON AA/BA/IB ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES/
CANADA IN EACH DIRECTION
FARE BREAK SURFACE SECTORS NOT PERMITTED AND
EMBEDDED SURFACE SECTORS PERMITTED ON THE FARE
COMPONENT.
Last edited by nixande; Jul 10, 2019 at 9:21 am
Jul 10, 2019, 1:40 pm
#2136
Join Date: Oct 2018
Programs: BAEC Gold, Hilton Diamond, Avis PC
Posts: 261
How is September generally for cheap but long haul TP runs?
Jul 10, 2019, 2:32 pm
#2137
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: LHR
Programs: BAEC GGL & CCR / QF LTG
Posts: 829
So it seems. I wasn't aware that QF are selling EK tickets via SIN/PER and DXB.
Happy to have been corrected, although it still seems to me to be less of a "TP run" just for the TPs and a lot more like a TP maximising way of getting to Australia. Perhaps just semantics...
Happy to have been corrected, although it still seems to me to be less of a "TP run" just for the TPs and a lot more like a TP maximising way of getting to Australia. Perhaps just semantics...
Jul 11, 2019, 3:32 am
#2138
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: LHR/BHD
Programs: BAEC (Blue, usually)
Posts: 40
Has anyone managed to use the current rendition of the INCEU60 fare to build a reasonable TP fare?
I'm looking to go to TPE for the first week of October and would like to go in Business class. I currently have something like AMS-LHR-HKG-TPE for £1.9k (see image attached). It's another £50 off if I go from FRA but I plan to do a B2B using Avios and it generally doesn't seem to be recommended to do as such from there. I've tried a couple of things to add stops on the EU/Asia side of things but seem to be failing terribly — wondering if someone's Matrix-fu (or other tool of choice) would be stronger than mine? I don't have a particular target amount of TP as this will be after my reset but curious if I can improve it over the 440 I'd get. I can leave as early as the Thursday before and could also arrive earlier than that Wednesday back in the UK.
An alternative would be to do ARN-DOH-SIN with QR at £1355 for 560TP (again using Avios for LHR-ARN and vice versa) and then use a LLC to do the SIN-TPE return though the timing is fairly rough from SIN onwards in terms of just having a ton of time in between. Would appreciate any thoughts.
I'm looking to go to TPE for the first week of October and would like to go in Business class. I currently have something like AMS-LHR-HKG-TPE for £1.9k (see image attached). It's another £50 off if I go from FRA but I plan to do a B2B using Avios and it generally doesn't seem to be recommended to do as such from there. I've tried a couple of things to add stops on the EU/Asia side of things but seem to be failing terribly — wondering if someone's Matrix-fu (or other tool of choice) would be stronger than mine? I don't have a particular target amount of TP as this will be after my reset but curious if I can improve it over the 440 I'd get. I can leave as early as the Thursday before and could also arrive earlier than that Wednesday back in the UK.
An alternative would be to do ARN-DOH-SIN with QR at £1355 for 560TP (again using Avios for LHR-ARN and vice versa) and then use a LLC to do the SIN-TPE return though the timing is fairly rough from SIN onwards in terms of just having a ton of time in between. Would appreciate any thoughts.
Jul 11, 2019, 4:25 am
#2139
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold / OW Emerald
Posts: 753
Has anyone managed to use the current rendition of the INCEU60 fare to build a reasonable TP fare?
I'm looking to go to TPE for the first week of October and would like to go in Business class. I currently have something like AMS-LHR-HKG-TPE for £1.9k (see image attached). It's another £50 off if I go from FRA but I plan to do a B2B using Avios and it generally doesn't seem to be recommended to do as such from there. I've tried a couple of things to add stops on the EU/Asia side of things but seem to be failing terribly — wondering if someone's Matrix-fu (or other tool of choice) would be stronger than mine? I don't have a particular target amount of TP as this will be after my reset but curious if I can improve it over the 440 I'd get. I can leave as early as the Thursday before and could also arrive earlier than that Wednesday back in the UK.
An alternative would be to do ARN-DOH-SIN with QR at £1355 for 560TP (again using Avios for LHR-ARN and vice versa) and then use a LLC to do the SIN-TPE return though the timing is fairly rough from SIN onwards in terms of just having a ton of time in between. Would appreciate any thoughts.
I'm looking to go to TPE for the first week of October and would like to go in Business class. I currently have something like AMS-LHR-HKG-TPE for £1.9k (see image attached). It's another £50 off if I go from FRA but I plan to do a B2B using Avios and it generally doesn't seem to be recommended to do as such from there. I've tried a couple of things to add stops on the EU/Asia side of things but seem to be failing terribly — wondering if someone's Matrix-fu (or other tool of choice) would be stronger than mine? I don't have a particular target amount of TP as this will be after my reset but curious if I can improve it over the 440 I'd get. I can leave as early as the Thursday before and could also arrive earlier than that Wednesday back in the UK.
An alternative would be to do ARN-DOH-SIN with QR at £1355 for 560TP (again using Avios for LHR-ARN and vice versa) and then use a LLC to do the SIN-TPE return though the timing is fairly rough from SIN onwards in terms of just having a ton of time in between. Would appreciate any thoughts.
Jul 11, 2019, 3:59 pm
#2140
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 371
205 TP needed
Hi all!
so based in london and year ends 8th oct I need another 205tp I've looked hi & low but cannot find anything decent the best I've found so far is LHR-TLL via HEL for £607, and with a 45 min connection time and just over the £3 ratio it's not worth it, as it will only get me 200tp, ideally I would like to get the full amount in 1 trip
also prefer ro do it over a weekend
positioning is not a problem for me either (as long as it makes sense)
any advice please?
TIA
so based in london and year ends 8th oct I need another 205tp I've looked hi & low but cannot find anything decent the best I've found so far is LHR-TLL via HEL for £607, and with a 45 min connection time and just over the £3 ratio it's not worth it, as it will only get me 200tp, ideally I would like to get the full amount in 1 trip
also prefer ro do it over a weekend
positioning is not a problem for me either (as long as it makes sense)
any advice please?
TIA
Jul 11, 2019, 6:12 pm
#2141
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,764
Your message actually leads me to an idea - how would I best find out if I can route one of the good fares through txl?
Because there is an AA flight txl-phl I would be willing to take, but not in economy. If I could book one of the good fares, I might create enough tp for a flight like
for example inv-lhr-txl-phl-lax-las or hel-txl-phl-... should be possible in theory, but matrix only returns 'no flights'. I assume it is in the routing rules, but I would not know really where to look.
Because there is an AA flight txl-phl I would be willing to take, but not in economy. If I could book one of the good fares, I might create enough tp for a flight like
for example inv-lhr-txl-phl-lax-las or hel-txl-phl-... should be possible in theory, but matrix only returns 'no flights'. I assume it is in the routing rules, but I would not know really where to look.
Jul 11, 2019, 10:57 pm
#2142
Moderator: Hyatt Gold Passport & Star Alliance
Join Date: May 1998
Location: London, UK
Programs: UA-1K 3MM/HY- LT Globalist/BA-GGL/GfL
Posts: 12,085
Jul 11, 2019, 11:05 pm
#2143
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: BCN
Programs: BA GGL, IB, LH, IHG Gold
Posts: 582
Has anyone managed to use the current rendition of the INCEU60 fare to build a reasonable TP fare?
I'm looking to go to TPE for the first week of October and would like to go in Business class. I currently have something like AMS-LHR-HKG-TPE for £1.9k (see image attached). It's another £50 off if I go from FRA but I plan to do a B2B using Avios and it generally doesn't seem to be recommended to do as such from there. I've tried a couple of things to add stops on the EU/Asia side of things but seem to be failing terribly — wondering if someone's Matrix-fu (or other tool of choice) would be stronger than mine? I don't have a particular target amount of TP as this will be after my reset but curious if I can improve it over the 440 I'd get. I can leave as early as the Thursday before and could also arrive earlier than that Wednesday back in the UK.
An alternative would be to do ARN-DOH-SIN with QR at £1355 for 560TP (again using Avios for LHR-ARN and vice versa) and then use a LLC to do the SIN-TPE return though the timing is fairly rough from SIN onwards in terms of just having a ton of time in between. Would appreciate any thoughts.
I'm looking to go to TPE for the first week of October and would like to go in Business class. I currently have something like AMS-LHR-HKG-TPE for £1.9k (see image attached). It's another £50 off if I go from FRA but I plan to do a B2B using Avios and it generally doesn't seem to be recommended to do as such from there. I've tried a couple of things to add stops on the EU/Asia side of things but seem to be failing terribly — wondering if someone's Matrix-fu (or other tool of choice) would be stronger than mine? I don't have a particular target amount of TP as this will be after my reset but curious if I can improve it over the 440 I'd get. I can leave as early as the Thursday before and could also arrive earlier than that Wednesday back in the UK.
An alternative would be to do ARN-DOH-SIN with QR at £1355 for 560TP (again using Avios for LHR-ARN and vice versa) and then use a LLC to do the SIN-TPE return though the timing is fairly rough from SIN onwards in terms of just having a ton of time in between. Would appreciate any thoughts.
Alas, the timings of the SOF-DOH make a night stop in SOF almost inevitable on the outbound.
Furthermore, MH often runs very good deals to TPE, which would earn another 360 TPs from SIN,BKK etc.
Jul 12, 2019, 4:19 am
#2144
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 21
Also consider SOF-DOH-SIN at 1186 GBP plus a cash fight LHR-SOF for 292 GBP and a grand total of 720 TPs.
Alas, the timings of the SOF-DOH make a night stop in SOF almost inevitable on the outbound.
Furthermore, MH often runs very good deals to TPE, which would earn another 360 TPs from SIN,BKK etc.
On the way back the DOH-SOF flight would arrive at 11.25 and BA's SOF-LHR would leave at 14.10. Is that enough time to pick up luggage & check-in again? Or is the safe choice to pick the 19.40 evening flight in case of delays/lost luggage. Any feedback from SOF visitors highly appreciated.
Jul 12, 2019, 4:28 am
#2145
Ambassador, British Airways; FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
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Has anyone managed to use the current rendition of the INCEU60 fare to build a reasonable TP fare?
I'm looking to go to TPE for the first week of October and would like to go in Business class. I currently have something like AMS-LHR-HKG-TPE for £1.9k (see image attached). It's another £50 off if I go from FRA but I plan to do a B2B using Avios and it generally doesn't seem to be recommended to do as such from there. I've tried a couple of things to add stops on the EU/Asia side of things but seem to be failing terribly — wondering if someone's Matrix-fu (or other tool of choice) would be stronger than mine? I don't have a particular target amount of TP as this will be after my reset but curious if I can improve it over the 440 I'd get. I can leave as early as the Thursday before and could also arrive earlier than that Wednesday back in the UK.
I'm looking to go to TPE for the first week of October and would like to go in Business class. I currently have something like AMS-LHR-HKG-TPE for £1.9k (see image attached). It's another £50 off if I go from FRA but I plan to do a B2B using Avios and it generally doesn't seem to be recommended to do as such from there. I've tried a couple of things to add stops on the EU/Asia side of things but seem to be failing terribly — wondering if someone's Matrix-fu (or other tool of choice) would be stronger than mine? I don't have a particular target amount of TP as this will be after my reset but curious if I can improve it over the 440 I'd get. I can leave as early as the Thursday before and could also arrive earlier than that Wednesday back in the UK.
MAP CONSTRUCTED LEFT TO RIGHT AND RIGHT TO LEFT
1. AMS-LON-BJS-BR/CI-TPE
2. AMS-LON-HKG-AE/CI-TPE
3. AMS-LON-HKG-BA/CX/KA-TPE
4. AMS-LON-HKG-BR-TPE
5. AMS-LON-HKG-CX/KA-CTU-CI-TPE
6. AMS-LON-HKG-HX-TPE
7. AMS-LON-SHA-BR/CI-TPE
1. AMS-LON-BJS-BR/CI-TPE
2. AMS-LON-HKG-AE/CI-TPE
3. AMS-LON-HKG-BA/CX/KA-TPE
4. AMS-LON-HKG-BR-TPE
5. AMS-LON-HKG-CX/KA-CTU-CI-TPE
6. AMS-LON-HKG-HX-TPE
7. AMS-LON-SHA-BR/CI-TPE