If you try to buy 9 seats then you probably will be in J or C...try it it should say 900 EP...

Good point, even a single seat on a date+time when the ticket price is high will generate 100 Elite Points, regardless of it being the basic tariff.

I'm still lost in the woods as to where I should go with crediting my OW flights. My recent journey that I credited to AY would have given me DOUBLE the amount of Avios had I credited it to IB+ instead, not to mention gaining Plata status right then and there (distance-based vs spend-based).

My real (though probably unrealistic) target is the lifetime tier but there's a high chance I'm kidding myself by thinking I can achieve it on OW. It seems that AY and BA are beyond my reach, which leaves IB and QF. Living in Spain IB seems like a safer option, but 125,000 Elite Points seems like a huge mountain to climb. QF, on the other hand, has lifetime tiers for OW Ruby and Sapphire and not just Emerald, so it seems like a safer option...

Does IB+ sometimes have any offers to speed up Elite Points accrual? Such as flight promos that gain more EP or the ability to convert some Avios into EP?

There's double EP promo going on now for us already elites,...you can "convert" avios to EP by buying a flight with cash+avios you still get the full EP...

Subscribe to the other thread to see what's announced on the 12th..

Interesting, so you can basically earn EP by flying on redemption flights by using the cash+avios option? That certainly helps. :)

Is there any way to gain additional EP (other than flying), such as special credit cards or promos where you can convert avios into EP perhaps (Finnair offers this)?

No. It's not redemption flights.

It's booking paid flights and using Avios to reduce the cash cost (at what is normally a poor value per Avios)

Yeah, the value per Avios point is pretty low. Not a good use of Avios unless one has millions for whatever reason (e.g. tons of converted Amex MR from business spending)

Book W (cash) and avios upgrade to J/U...not exactly directly converting avios to EP but huge $/avios value....

So ..... can I be confident that Iberia Express MAD LPA in business classic will carry one of those five fare class designators - most probably I ?

With spectacular bad timing last year, i rationalised my sprawling empire of Oneworld accounts (BA, IB and QR) to concentrate on BAEC. I'm now dusting off my QR Privilege Club credentials, and hope the LPA trip will credit to that account.

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I'm a BA Silver and looking to gradually work my way up to IB Oro. To share a data point on an IB Express flight that I took in biz, this got recorded as a business flight in IB+

So 211 fare + 175 cabin bonus EPs; and 211*5*1.25 avios; what' the 25% avios bonus for?

Is there any way to tell a booking fare class (in business) before finalising a booking and getting an email (that hopefully states the fare basis!)?

I'm currently trying to book a business class flight but there are three options available and the booking fare basis is nowhere to be seen. Are there any other sites that you can book an IB flight with but happen to show this info before completing the ticket purchase?