Feb 6, 2021, 5:40 am
Last edit by: Prospero
This thread is the continuation of the discussion hosted in the BA Tier Point Runs | 2019-20 edition thread.
Useful tips and technical pointers
El_Duderito's explanation on fare routings and the maximum permitted distance you are allowed to travel (based on the distance between the origin and destination airports)
Helpful maps
The following series of maps show a 2,000 mile radius around each oneworld hub, useful for strategic planning purposes. Hopefully these will help your imagination to run free. Click on the images to reveal the accompanying maps.
EMEA
Asia Pacific
North America
Previous editions
BA Tier Point Runs | 2019-20 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2018 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2017 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2016 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2015 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2014 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | original edition
Useful tips and technical pointers
El_Duderito's explanation on fare routings and the maximum permitted distance you are allowed to travel (based on the distance between the origin and destination airports)
Helpful maps
The following series of maps show a 2,000 mile radius around each oneworld hub, useful for strategic planning purposes. Hopefully these will help your imagination to run free. Click on the images to reveal the accompanying maps.
EMEA
Asia Pacific
North America
Previous editions
BA Tier Point Runs | 2019-20 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2018 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2017 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2016 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2015 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2014 edition
BA Tier Point Runs | original edition
BA Tier Point Runs | 2021 edition
Mar 28, 2022, 6:35 am
#2536
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Programs: BA GGL - maybe only briefly!
Posts: 1,378
If you make gold by 8 Jun 22, you will have it for the rest of the current year (which is until 31 July 22) and the following year - so up 31 Jul 23.
Mar 28, 2022, 1:05 pm
#2537
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 1,197
Last minute I know, but I've had one hell of a year so far, so no time for fun things like holiday planning. 
Anyone seen any good options for the 2 x TP holiday runs? Don't really care too much about location, just a good 7 day option to trigger the bonus. I ask as I just got the email about the sale ending tonight.
Edit Marrakesh maybe?
Anyone seen any good options for the 2 x TP holiday runs? Don't really care too much about location, just a good 7 day option to trigger the bonus. I ask as I just got the email about the sale ending tonight.
Edit Marrakesh maybe?
Last edited by RG1X; Mar 28, 2022 at 2:06 pm
Mar 28, 2022, 4:33 pm
#2538
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 1,197
Seems I can do £1.57 per tier point. That seems relatively good? (given five nights in a hotel)
Mar 28, 2022, 4:43 pm
#2539
Join Date: May 2012
Location: JFK, MAN
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Diamond, Amex Plat
Posts: 425
Any suggestions for £1/TP that would indirectly benefit LAX-LHR / LHR-LAX routing? Happy to do multiple stops both within the US and Europe.
Mar 29, 2022, 11:25 am
#2540
Join Date: Sep 2018
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 3
Is anyone seeing anything good ex-EU to US or Asia for a run before August? Summer seems to have congested in the last couple of weeks and I fear I'll be spending a lot of time in Helsinki at this rate
Mar 29, 2022, 11:31 am
#2541
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Programs: BA Gold, Mucci
Posts: 2,068
Dublin to San Francisco (either direct DUB-LHR-SFO or indirect DUB-LHR-JFK-SFO) is supposed to be on sale until 31 March for travel through 31 December. You should try that and see if anything is available, but maybe not this side of summer, but worth a try.
Mar 29, 2022, 11:38 am
#2542
Join Date: Jan 2022
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 1,471
So I'm doing the old SOF-SFO run via LHR-HEL-JFK in September. A few weeks ago, the LHR-HEL disappeared and never came back. Ignored it for a while and finally got round to calling AA (had booked online with AA as BA couldn't get it to book on the phone) to see what was wrong. Initially she said the flight was cancelled and tried to book me straight from LHR to SFO on BA, but as it's a point run, I asked her to try and get my initial routing to work. The flight (AY metal) was still running, but I guess the AA codeshare somehow disappeared. In the end, she got me on the same flight, now with a Finnair flight number. So I'm back to my initial routing.
Just wondering if I could have made life easier on myself and just accepted the LHR-SFO direct and then claimed ORC to match my initial booking. Any experience or views? Given that it's so far out, good chance there will be other AA flight changes and thought maybe I can take advantage of this if I get offered a more direct routing.
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
Just wondering if I could have made life easier on myself and just accepted the LHR-SFO direct and then claimed ORC to match my initial booking. Any experience or views? Given that it's so far out, good chance there will be other AA flight changes and thought maybe I can take advantage of this if I get offered a more direct routing.
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
Mar 29, 2022, 11:49 am
#2543
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL / GfL
Posts: 3,265
So I'm doing the old SOF-SFO run via LHR-HEL-JFK in September. A few weeks ago, the LHR-HEL disappeared and never came back. Ignored it for a while and finally got round to calling AA (had booked online with AA as BA couldn't get it to book on the phone) to see what was wrong. Initially she said the flight was cancelled and tried to book me straight from LHR to SFO on BA, but as it's a point run, I asked her to try and get my initial routing to work. The flight (AY metal) was still running, but I guess the AA codeshare somehow disappeared. In the end, she got me on the same flight, now with a Finnair flight number. So I'm back to my initial routing.
Just wondering if I could have made life easier on myself and just accepted the LHR-SFO direct and then claimed ORC to match my initial booking. Any experience or views? Given that it's so far out, good chance there will be other AA flight changes and thought maybe I can take advantage of this if I get offered a more direct routing.
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
Just wondering if I could have made life easier on myself and just accepted the LHR-SFO direct and then claimed ORC to match my initial booking. Any experience or views? Given that it's so far out, good chance there will be other AA flight changes and thought maybe I can take advantage of this if I get offered a more direct routing.
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
Pilot37
Mar 29, 2022, 11:50 am
#2544
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: UK
Programs: BA GfL & GGL, FB Platinum, MB Titanium, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,403
So I'm doing the old SOF-SFO run via LHR-HEL-JFK in September. A few weeks ago, the LHR-HEL disappeared and never came back. Ignored it for a while and finally got round to calling AA (had booked online with AA as BA couldn't get it to book on the phone) to see what was wrong. Initially she said the flight was cancelled and tried to book me straight from LHR to SFO on BA, but as it's a point run, I asked her to try and get my initial routing to work. The flight (AY metal) was still running, but I guess the AA codeshare somehow disappeared. In the end, she got me on the same flight, now with a Finnair flight number. So I'm back to my initial routing.
Just wondering if I could have made life easier on myself and just accepted the LHR-SFO direct and then claimed ORC to match my initial booking. Any experience or views? Given that it's so far out, good chance there will be other AA flight changes and thought maybe I can take advantage of this if I get offered a more direct routing.
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
Just wondering if I could have made life easier on myself and just accepted the LHR-SFO direct and then claimed ORC to match my initial booking. Any experience or views? Given that it's so far out, good chance there will be other AA flight changes and thought maybe I can take advantage of this if I get offered a more direct routing.
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
On a TP run earlier in the year I was put onto a direct LHR-SFO flight due to the storms at the time and was able to claim ORC as a result.
Mar 29, 2022, 12:31 pm
#2545
Join Date: Jan 2022
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 1,471
Lucky you didn't accept the direct routing and try and claim ORC - because it would have been denied! ORC is for changes very close to the actual flight, usually same day or a day or 2 before when a flight is cancelled and it is easier at that stage to take a more direct routing. Accepting something this far in advance (in your case September) would not qualify as an involuntary reroute and on those ground ORC would be denied. Easiest way to look at ORC is for flights within the next 48hrs, beyond that timeline it gets harder to argue.
Pilot37
Pilot37
Mar 30, 2022, 3:00 am
#2546
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: T' North West
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 655
Have the circa £1100 SOF - West coast USA fares been pulled? Cant find anything lower than around £1800 now
Mar 30, 2022, 3:21 am
#2547
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL / GfL
Posts: 3,265
Pilot37
Mar 30, 2022, 3:34 am
#2548
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: GLA
Programs: Chevalier de la Gallentrie - Knight of the Platinum Hair Brush, BA Gold, Hilton Gold
Posts: 1,389
Mar 30, 2022, 3:46 am
#2549
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: T' North West
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 655
Mar 30, 2022, 4:35 am
#2550
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,992
A number of fares appear to have disappeared - or, at least, risen significantly - in the last few days. On Sunday I booked a DUB-MSY (New Orleans) trip and paid £1,195; today the same routing on the same dates is £1,619.
The usual advice is not to hesitate when you find a fare you like.
The usual advice is not to hesitate when you find a fare you like.