Hi all,

I need 28,653 BA nTP by 31 March 2026 to hit Gold Guest List.


I’m looking for the cheapest possible way to do it. I’m based near London.

I’m open to:
- TP runs
- long-haul or short-haul
- BA / AA / IB / AY / EI or other useful oneworld options
- economy, premium economy, or business if the value works
- BA holiday if it works

My main goal is simple: best nTP return for the lowest spend.

What are the best current options?

I found the following in another post but not really sure if this is the best option:
LHR-HEL-SIN-HEL-LHR in business (all D booking class) for �3,115, 6,907 nTP

You need over 20,000 of those points to be on BA flights remember

Not what you want to hear but I really struggle to see how that could be worth it here. The money you'd need to spend just to get there could surely be better spent on buying better flights/meals/hotels etc on whatever trips you're likely to take next year.

Yes I agree but I wanted to see what real cost it would be to achieve it.

Considering you need 20.,653 TPs on BA specifically (meaning that your AY itinerary doesn't work except for up to 8,000 TPs), I suggest that the cheapest way to achieve your GGL is to buy a BA Holiday for �28.653 for you (slightly less if you can count on TP bonuses, so for instance, if you do it with BA flights in J made of 4 long haul flights that are BA coded but operated by QR, you can do it for only �27,053 instead which is great value for GGL).

Enjoy.

I assume it's a wind-up but it is extremely easy to do in a long weekend and I am afraid that the idea that there is nobody with the means or inclination to do this is naive:

I�m sorry, but that extra 31EUR would be a deal breaker for me�

For me its the missing breakfast

I think there is a McDonald�s on the Champs Elysee. Sausage McMuffin and sorted.

Means - yes
Inclination - yes

Sanity - no.

I just LOVE FT! The most incredible mix of excellent advice and totally bonkers ideas on the planet, all in one easy read.

The only thing that vaguely surprised me was that it needed 3 nights in Paris and couldn�t be done in 2, and that it couldn�t easily be done for a weekend in Dubai but I think it is just that the largest suites at the Burj al Arab and the Atlantis the Royal happen to be booked already that weekend�

I mentioned before and I wish I had a screenshot to show (but it wasn�t me obvs so I don�t), but I saw a 6 figure BAH TP allocation� for that person it was Blue to GGL in 1 trip and they found it all highly amusing.

There is just an outside chance that the whole thing is going to turn out to be pure genius for BA, although I highly doubt it. Seriously though OP if you are actually wanting to do this then I would recommend speaking to nufnuf77 as there is a small possibility he could help.

I have a similar head scratching exercise, needing 33000nTPs to requalify. A couple of years ago, leaving things very late was the worst thing you could do for economical TP earning, but now it's the best. How things change.

But on the other hand the cost would be a significant chunk of what it costs to fly to the South Pole, which seems a bit more interesting somehow. So probably I'll do that instead.

Assuming this is not a wind-up, what bit of "revenue based status" don't you understand . You have* to spend �28,653 to get 28,653 nTP

* - okay there are a few other ways to earn nTP, such as cabin bonuses, Amex spend bonus, although I think that has expired now. But this is a small amount in comparison. You will have to spend pretty close to �28k.

To give you a useful answer to the question, a BA Holidays trip in premium cabins maximises the amount paid, for nTPs given.

I mean the best way to earn that amount of nTP would be a RTW trip, I've managed to build an itinerary which earns 20k with 3 continents, but 28k should be possible if you do a 4 continent one, and starting in Oslo (cheapest place to start) that should cost around �5.5-6k incl taxes, plus some hotel costs and the positioning flight to OSL. Others on the oneworld forum have done the same too.

But that doesn't give you the 20k that you need to get on BA. It's unclear whether BA uses revenue based earning on RTW tickets ticketed by another OW airline (might have been figured out by now, I've not checked for a while tbh), but if not, and RTW tickets credit based on distance, BA flights would give 50% of miles flown, and so doing a LOT of the trip on BA would get you at least close.

Just looking quickly, if you did a RTW starting in OSL, and then go OSL-LHR-DXB-LHR-SCL all on BA, and then some more flights on other OW airlines though north america and asia to rack up the other 8000nTPs, but ending in SYD, and then going SYD-SIN-LHR-JNB-LHR-OSL all on BA, that is 36k miles on BA, which would be 18k nTPs, so gets you most of the 20k you need with a 6 continent RTW. There are probably BA codeshares in NA and Asia which you could add to rack up some more BA points too, and if you can find enough you may be able to drop a continent to reduce cost too. I believe that is a valid RTW itinerary but havent checked it fully, and this does rely on BA flights on a RTW crediting as distance based, which I'm also not sure of. But if BA flights on a RTW which is booked through a non-IAG airline credit based on distance, this would for sure be the cheapest way to do it.