As I often do, I was on the BA website this week pricing up a flight from London to Berlin. Once I'd chosen my flight, BA had already made a choice for me, that I'd want to pay 10,000 Avios plus £2.50, ticked and ready to go. I can't lie, £2.50 is a nice number. Berlin for less than a flat white. It's the figure you'll see in every "I flew to Europe for £2.50" reel and all of the BA marketing, and I completely get why, who doesn't want a flight for only £2.50? But there were

Uber is offering 1,000 bonus Avios to British Airways Club members who link their accounts and complete one Avios-earning Uber ride and one Uber Eats order of £25 or more in the UK. The bonus is on top of the Avios you earn on the ride and the order themselves. The catch is that not every ride or order counts, so I’ve pulled out everything you need to know. How do I get the 1,000 bonus Avios from Uber? Link your accounts. In the Uber app, go to Account (bottom right), then Se

Today's post has been kindly written by 'an anonymous chemistry teacher'. She and her husband managed to take their family of five in business class Sri Lanka using Avios and voucher. The trick, flying via Mumbai! We’ve been points enthusiasts for years, and for most of that time we had one goal that felt slightly out of reach: flying our family of five long haul in business class without paying cash fares, which would have cost us around £20,000. My husband and I had already

A reader got in touch with us after our Barclays Avios Rewards piece with a simple question. (If you missed it, here’s the quick version. Barclays Premier is Barclays' premium current account for higher earners. New customers who switch can get up to £600: £450 up front, then up to five payments of £30. Once you’re in, you can add Barclays Avios Rewards for £12 a month. That gets you 1,500 Avios every month, a 25,000 Avios joining bonus, and an anniversary reward each year of

When British Airways changed how you earned tier points last year, it went from a per-flight basis, to an amount based on how much you spent, promising that the new way would be "simplifying the way we reward your loyalty." Well, they've gone and muddied the waters again. Only a day after some good news, BA has updated its tier point requirements and bonuses for 2027/28. The amount of tier points needed for Silver goes up by 500 tier points and Gold by 1,000. The extra tier p

Let’s face it. One of the best perks on the British Airways American Express Premium Plus card was the 3 Avios per £1 rate for spend with British Airways. This was annoyingly scrapped earlier this month for a 1.25 Avios earn rate. We know how many of you were disappointed by this. But, in exciting news, and straight from BA Holidays themselves, we can tell you that from 24 November, members of the BA Club will be able to collect 6 Avios for every £1 spent on BA Holidays packa

British Airways has announced its newest Avios-Only flights, and this time they’re for next summer. You can fly Heathrow to Palma, Majorca, or Heathrow to Heraklion, Crete, in August 2027, right in the middle of the school holidays. If you haven’t come across these before, Avios-Only flights are dedicated BA services where every seat, in every cabin, can only be booked as a Reward Seat using Avios. They’re open to members of The British Airways Club. The most important thing

Qatar Airways is running a buy Avios sale with a bonus of up to 60%, and today is the last day. The offer closes at 23:59 Doha time, which is 9:59pm UK time tonight! Sorry we didn't get round to covering this one sooner... The offer Promotion period: 15 October to 19 October 2026 (23:59 Doha time, 9:59pm UK) Where to buy: Here! Eligibility: Privilege Club members who have "earned" at least 1 Avios since joining Minimum purchase: 5,000 Avios to get a bonus Avios purchased Bonu

Have you ever been searching through the BA website for Avios tickets and come across a fare that looks like this? If you haven't, then what this ticket is offering you is a flight from Heathrow to Doha, and then a flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo Haneda. See what's missing? A whole flight between Doha and Hong Kong! Now, we are a proponent of "springboarding", which is basically travelling as far as you can with points, before using cash to travel the rest of the way. So you m

"Why do you have an Amex? Not many places take those!" Heard that one before? As much as I would like to say it's not true, there is a kernel of truth to it. So if you're looking to collect as many Avios as possible, you'll probably already have a British Airways Amex, but you'll want a backup card that earns Avios too. In the UK that means Barclaycard, with your choice either of: Barclaycard Avios is free. It earns 1 Avios per £1, gives you 5,000 Avios when you spend £1,000