Part pay with Avios offer - this weekend only [to midnight Mon 23 Aug '21]
 

Snip from an email just received... effectively giving 2p/Avio value, although only up to a max £100 per flight:

Book before midnight Monday 23 August 2021 to take advantage of various savings options on one-way and return flights in any cabin. These range from exchanging 250 Avios for £5 off per person on a one-way or return flight, up to a maximum of 5,000 Avios to save £100 on a return flight. So, whether you’ve been collecting for a while, or only just started, there's a saving here for you.

Many thanks indeed! Just cancelled and rebooked a flight for Oct where I've now saved £200 for 10,000 rather than :

This is pretty good value. Sadly I don't think I'm in a position to book anything at the moment!

Just booked PE to Vancouver for two and upgraded to Club for 60,000 Avios which I thought was decent value.

Remember you can book somewhere super cheap that you suspect may be cancelled... reduce it by £100 per person, then shunt onwards to the future when it would have been more expensive :idea:

True.

How would it work in case of the flights being cancelled? Would they refund the cash and Avios parts or just the equivalent cash price?

I think I can answer my own question.

Alternatively, if you are Avios & time rich, and have a £550+ ticket you need to book in the near future, then make 4x short haul economy bookings where the fare is £100 + Taxes. { EG Spain £37.33 taxes + £100 }

Voucher them all in a couple of days, and use the vouchers for the more expensive ticket. ;) { This assumes eVouchers which seem to always come on single person / first cancellation bookings these days. }

Has anyone else received this only for it to vanish??
 

Just had a email come through on to my Apple watch from BA saying "Your Avios could be upto 4x only for this weekend" blah, blah, blah. When I went to look on Mac, phone etc there was no email, just like it had been sent out and then virtually immediately recalled.......

Anyone else seen this fleeting, withdrawn offer???

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Just received in my inbox but not yet vanished ...

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...2595763f67.jpg

More details in this thread ...

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...-aug-21-a.html

I think in that case you'd just get the avios back in the FTV? And they'd be worth what they're worth at the point of booking the new ticket.

What he was hinting at is make a speculative booking in the cheap times in the hope it gets cancelled, that you can then shift to anytime you want. { EG family in school holiday times. }

Worse case scenario if the flight isn't cancelled is you can voucher the booking & the full value can be used against another flight.

Annoyingly it doesn't seem to apply to BACitiflyer ex-LCY. :td:

Obviously many of us are thinking the same thing - buy something now at a nice discount using Avios, then convert it into a FTV. (Cancellation being irrelevant IMO, and potentially even a complicating factor)

I seem to recall reading somewhere that you definitely get a FTV for the full fare paid (not just the cash element), but I can't track down where I saw it...