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Acid Oct 16, 2015 6:35 pm

Booked for $440. I am enrolled in the corporate challenge giving 50K miles on completion. This will help me meet the challenge as I was bit short -

50K+25K+Flight miles +EXP bonus - sweet deal for the money spent!

jose2000 Oct 16, 2015 6:38 pm


Originally Posted by Acid (Post 25576108)
Booked for $440. I am enrolled in the corporate challenge giving 50K miles on completion. This will help me meet the challenge as I was bit short -

50K+25K+Flight miles +EXP bonus - sweet deal for the money spent!

It's a great deal. I'm missing out, but happy for others!

Hengilas Oct 16, 2015 6:39 pm


Originally Posted by Acid (Post 25576108)
Booked for $440. I am enrolled in the corporate challenge giving 50K miles on completion. This will help me meet the challenge as I was bit short -

50K+25K+Flight miles +EXP bonus - sweet deal for the money spent!

Booked what for $440? Some more details would be helpful.

cbrown5294 Oct 16, 2015 6:45 pm

Anybody have luck with multi city using AARP & 30k Avios? Can't seem to find that option

dh01 Oct 16, 2015 7:42 pm

Yes booked SFO LHR TPA for $891 and 30000 Avios, flights a bit harder to find. Look for availability of lower fare seats with round trips, and then book the multicity.

chancer Oct 16, 2015 7:51 pm


Originally Posted by jkenn (Post 25575976)
I have a ticket I bought yesterday on BA.com. Instead of paying all cash for it I'd like to pay partly with Avios. I'm within the twenty four window. Is it still possible to pay with cash + avios?

You can book a new fare paying cash plus avios at current prices and cancel the other ticket but you can't switch payment methods after booking. You can only apply avios now for an upgrade.

jmw Oct 16, 2015 8:01 pm

How do you get the 30k avios option to show up? I have almost none, but can transfer from UR.

jkenn Oct 16, 2015 8:02 pm


Originally Posted by chancer (Post 25576279)
You can book a new fare paying cash plus avios at current prices and cancel the other ticket but you can't switch payment methods after booking. You can only apply avios now for an upgrade.

Thanks for the info. ^

seanp7 Oct 16, 2015 8:04 pm

BA/oneworld US to Europe for ~$1.4k on Biz
 
Couldn't help myself and booked one more before the cutoff. A simple NYC-LHR for $837 rtn, (day flight BA0178, hooray!) Thank you OP!

chancer Oct 16, 2015 8:07 pm


Originally Posted by nk15 (Post 25575780)
This was because yesterday the total prices after the AARP discount were $900-1200 rt on many routes, so with the Avios 30k = $767 discount it went down to $250-450 final price.

There is also someone who claimed up thread that they booked $700+ roundtrips after the AARP, so had that person actually had and used 30k avios, they would have paid nothing for the ticket.

However, these prices are now long gone. In my experience, the really cheap prices were only available for a 3-hour window around noon yesterday.

Which routes were sub-1200? I checked from LAX and found $1200 to LHR and $1100 MAD/BCN post-aarp. I remember other destinations were higher even at the point yesterday when fares were the lowest.

stratofortress Oct 16, 2015 8:09 pm

Is anyone else seeing that Avios are now topping out at 7500 for a $75 discount? I've tried multiple browsers, and that's all I'm getting...

jmw Oct 16, 2015 8:12 pm


Originally Posted by stratofortress (Post 25576342)
Is anyone else seeing that Avios are now topping out at 7500 for a $75 discount? I've tried multiple browsers, and that's all I'm getting...

That is what I'm seeing too. Not going to bite if that's the case. But I have almost no avios. I don't want to xfer 30K in and find out it's max 7500 for $75.

MAH4546 Oct 16, 2015 8:13 pm


Originally Posted by benzemalyonnais (Post 25575841)
I don't understand why everyone is so quick to burn the 30k Avios on this deal. Doesn't seem like a good redemption value to me at all.

With the current Avios bonus, you get back about 38k Avios per ticket even before elite bonuses.

I personally trade in 60k Chase UR to Avios, and will be turning it into 106,000 AAdvantage miles. Great deal.

stratofortress Oct 16, 2015 8:16 pm


Originally Posted by jmw (Post 25576352)
That is what I'm seeing too. Not going to bite if that's the case. But I have almost no avios. I don't want to xfer 30K in and find out it's max 7500 for $75.

I've booked 4 RTs with the 30K Avios deal, and I just went back to snag a 5th, and it's just the 7500 for $75. Looks like someone at BA decided to change things up a bit...

pnosker Oct 16, 2015 8:36 pm


Originally Posted by stratofortress (Post 25576342)
Is anyone else seeing that Avios are now topping out at 7500 for a $75 discount? I've tried multiple browsers, and that's all I'm getting...

I just booked with $767.50 for 30,000.


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