Grab a flight with Avios - more availability on BA

richardw

Over the past few weeks BA have launched a good number of new flights for summer 17. https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/flights-and-holidays/flights/new-routes

These are operated by BA Cityflyer using E170 and E190 aircraft in 2-2 configuration.

When new flights are launched there's a fairly good amount of avois ability, if you have any unspent Tesco Clubcard vouchers you could transfer them to Avois.com or your BA Exec Club account.

The flights are from

London City airport https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/flights-and-holidays/flights/flights-from-london-city-airport
London Stansted
Birmingham http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2017-228/8244?ref=News
Bristol http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2017-228/8244?ref=News
Manchester http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2017-228/8195?ref=News
Edinburgh http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2017-228/8269?ref=News
Dublin http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2017-228/8269?ref=News

There may be some availability at peak periods, i.e. May half term, first weekend of the school holidays in July, August bank holiday

budgetflyer

EDI to PMI. I think they have only 2 Euro traveller RFS per flight. 20K Avios Peak, 17K off peak. June is off peak, July is Peak.
June cash prices are around £180 which you can discount by £90 with 14K avios.
However Ryanair will get you there for around £90 anyway

bagand96

Found it most amusing seeing a lot of talk online about BA's "return" to the regions and how well they'll do bringing their "premium" brand to the sunshine routes. You know, the discerning travellers may want to pay a slight premium, the Embraer is a great aircraft etc...

Then you see the some of the flight times (out of Birmingham in particular), arriving in the Med at 0200 in the morning. An excellent premium product.

A handy hint though, some people may well find it useful for an Avios redemption trip.