Your guide to spending Avios | 2021 edition
Sep 1, 21, 4:59 pm
#181
Join Date: Sep 2021
Posts: 2
Thanks but I'm still unclear on this. I've followed all the travel blogs and used wandr.me website. The Avios calculations are clearly wrong. The award chart says it should be 4,000 Avios points which is not even an options if I choose "more pricing options". The options I see are below. So are all of the travel blogs (The Points Guy, etc) wrong?How many Avios do you want to use for your flight?
9250 Avios + $ 43.70
8500 Avios + $ 53.70
7250 Avios + $ 58.70
4750 Avios + $ 73.70
3700 Avios + $ 93.70
2950 Avios + $ 113.70
9250 Avios + $ 43.70
8500 Avios + $ 53.70
7250 Avios + $ 58.70
4750 Avios + $ 73.70
3700 Avios + $ 93.70
2950 Avios + $ 113.70
Sep 1, 21, 5:50 pm
#182
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Juneau, Alaska.
Programs: AS 75K;BA Silver;AA G;HH Dia;HY Glob
Posts: 15,441
Thanks but I'm still unclear on this. I've followed all the travel blogs and used wandr.me website. The Avios calculations are clearly wrong. The award chart says it should be 4,000 Avios points which is not even an options if I choose "more pricing options". The options I see are below. So are all of the travel blogs (The Points Guy, etc) wrong?How many Avios do you want to use for your flight?
9250 Avios + $ 43.70
8500 Avios + $ 53.70
7250 Avios + $ 58.70
4750 Avios + $ 73.70
3700 Avios + $ 93.70
2950 Avios + $ 113.70
9250 Avios + $ 43.70
8500 Avios + $ 53.70
7250 Avios + $ 58.70
4750 Avios + $ 73.70
3700 Avios + $ 93.70
2950 Avios + $ 113.70
Sep 2, 21, 6:38 pm
#184
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci, BA
Posts: 10,016
I am planning to book return flights from Glasgow to New York, connecting in Heathrow, for myself and my partner next September and will be using Avios and a companion voucher. I'm keen to choose Off-Peak to use fewer points however as we will have a connecting flight the return flights will be both Peak and Off-Peak dates. For example if we leave New York on a Friday evening, which is an Off Peak day, and then fly from Heathrow to Glasgow on the Saturday, which is Peak day, will the NYC-GLA part of the booking be considered Peak or Off -Peak?
JFK-LHR would be charged as off-peak, and LHR-GLA would be charged as peak.
Now, LHR-GLA wouldn't actually be charged anything at all, as a domestic connection to a longhaul flight, but notionally the principle applies.
Sep 3, 21, 2:54 am
#185
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Montreux CH
Programs: FB Platinum, M&M FTL, BA Blue
Posts: 11,366
That's right, you don't get RFS pricing if you haven't earned something on your account in the last 12 months. I am one of those. But am I right in thinking that pricing for partners (such as S7) doesn't change, whether or not you have earned some Avios in the last year?
Sep 3, 21, 3:58 pm
#186
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: YVR
Programs: SE 100K
Posts: 896
Hey everyone.
Hoping someone may be able to help me out with what is likely just an easy question that I wasn't able to find the answer to.
For Avios bookings made on BA's website for PARTNER airlines (ie. Qatar), what is the policy for cancellation / changes?
Is this the correct breakdown of costs? - https://www.britishairways.com/en-ca...d-service-fees
If so I just wanted to clarify do the taxes / fees get refunded as well as the Avios?
And is there a minimum time window to make changes / cancel prior to departure?
Hoping someone may be able to help me out with what is likely just an easy question that I wasn't able to find the answer to.
For Avios bookings made on BA's website for PARTNER airlines (ie. Qatar), what is the policy for cancellation / changes?
Is this the correct breakdown of costs? - https://www.britishairways.com/en-ca...d-service-fees
If so I just wanted to clarify do the taxes / fees get refunded as well as the Avios?
And is there a minimum time window to make changes / cancel prior to departure?
Last edited by CanadianMike; Sep 3, 21 at 4:04 pm
Sep 3, 21, 4:12 pm
#187
Ambassador, British Airways; FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 41,777
Same rules as per BA reward flights. As long as you request cancellation more than 24 hours before the flight you will be refunded everything minus the cancellation fee of 35 per person which is deducted from the taxes/fees/charges you paid.
Sep 3, 21, 4:14 pm
#188
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Juneau, Alaska.
Programs: AS 75K;BA Silver;AA G;HH Dia;HY Glob
Posts: 15,441
Hey everyone.
Hoping someone may be able to help me out with what is likely just an easy question that I wasn't able to find the answer to.
For Avios bookings made on BA's website for PARTNER airlines (ie. Qatar), what is the policy for cancellation / changes?
Is this the correct breakdown of costs? - https://www.britishairways.com/en-ca...d-service-fees
If so I just wanted to clarify do the taxes / fees get refunded as well as the Avios?
And is there a minimum time window to make changes / cancel prior to departure?
Hoping someone may be able to help me out with what is likely just an easy question that I wasn't able to find the answer to.
For Avios bookings made on BA's website for PARTNER airlines (ie. Qatar), what is the policy for cancellation / changes?
Is this the correct breakdown of costs? - https://www.britishairways.com/en-ca...d-service-fees
If so I just wanted to clarify do the taxes / fees get refunded as well as the Avios?
And is there a minimum time window to make changes / cancel prior to departure?
Sep 3, 21, 5:04 pm
#189
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: YVR
Programs: SE 100K
Posts: 896
Thanks for the quick / helpful replies.
Sep 3, 21, 5:17 pm
#190
Ambassador, British Airways; FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 41,777
You are entitled to a full refund with no fees deducted. You are also entitled to be rebooked, but that would be subject to what QR allow.
Sep 3, 21, 8:59 pm
#191
Join Date: Jul 2021
Programs: AP AS BA
Posts: 340
And I suppose this also applies to Multi Carrier Awards?
Sep 9, 21, 4:39 am
#193
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: ORD
Programs: BA, AA, SQ, UA, AC, WS, MR TIT
Posts: 8,570
I am trying to cancel an avios booking with less than 24 hours purchase time elapsed.
To my surprise the MMB took to a page of Evoucher refund for the YYQ and taxes charged instead of the regular cash refund!
Is that a new policy of BA not refunding passenger the money collected or there is something wrong with my account?
To my surprise the MMB took to a page of Evoucher refund for the YYQ and taxes charged instead of the regular cash refund!
Is that a new policy of BA not refunding passenger the money collected or there is something wrong with my account?
Sep 9, 21, 4:40 am
#194
Ambassador, British Airways; FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 41,777
I am trying to cancel an avios booking with less than 24 hours purchase elapsed.
To my surprise the MMB took to a page of Evoucher refund for the YYQ and taxes charged instead of the regular cash refund!
Is that a new policy of BA not refunding passneger the money collected or there is something wrong with my account?
To my surprise the MMB took to a page of Evoucher refund for the YYQ and taxes charged instead of the regular cash refund!
Is that a new policy of BA not refunding passneger the money collected or there is something wrong with my account?
I think there was a period which started in 2019 and running up to covid when you could cancel online within the cooling off period and you got a full refund. Prior to that it was call only.
Sep 14, 21, 5:53 am
#195
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Programs: BAEC Gold Guest List, Hilton Honours Diamond, Accor Gold
Posts: 2,303
Can anyone refer me to the part of the guide which details how to share avios as a gold member, to another gold member please? Do they have to be both in a household account? Looking to transfer the maximum 27,000 points per annum. Thank you.
