600 BA Miles for £2.50 in Tesco Clubcard Vouchers = FREE FLIGHTS

cougar_3

iainkirk wrote:

Also, £100 might get you a Sleasyjet return to Spain, whereas the same flight on BA might be £200. Depends what you're comparing. I have just paid £700 for a holiday which is £1450 with Thomsons, but then I wouldn't dream of paying £1450 or booking a package that's not been severely reduced anyway!!!

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/lowfarescntry/public/en_gb?depCntry=GB&arrGroup=spain

wolvoman

truscott_uk wrote:

But if 20,000 BA Miles gets me a return flight to Spain that would usually cost £100, then aren't 600 BA Miles worth £3?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

That is correct, and that is without including additional charges for using BA Miles.

I've done a quick calculation and found that if you wanted to fly to say, Cape Town in business class, the cheapest ticket would be about £2,500. In BA Miles this costs 100,000 miles so the 600 miles is then worth about £15 which is not 4x value but 6x !!!

withabix

truscott_uk wrote:

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/lowfarescntry/public/en_gb?depCntry=GB&arrGroup=spain

Those prices are all 'FROM' and are all south east airports. I fly with BA every two weeks and have NEVER yet found flights that suit me at anywhere near the lowest price.

A quick check on a destination which says 'from £99' reveals a typical ACTUAL return fare of £344...a bit more than £99 then.

TimC

iainkirk wrote:

12000 BA Miles gets you a BA Domestic/Most Europe return flight = £50 Tesco vouchers.
20000 BA Miles gets you a BA Balearics return flight = £83 Tesco vouchers.
50000 BA Miles gets you a BA USA return flight = £208 Tesco vouchers.
100000 BA Miles gets you a BA AUSTRALIA return flight = £416 Tesco vouchers.

Each to their own, for me Iain is pointing out something that is excellent value for independent travellers, particularly for longhaul in premium cabins.

Using his figures, for me the 100,000 BA Miles for a Business Class return to Vancouver in August 2006 + £134 taxes etc. costing £416 in clubcard vouchers is excellent value - that would give me a semi-flexible ticket that has a value of between £2,891 (non-flexible) to £4,554 (fully-flexible). That gives those £416 clubcard vouchers a value of for arguments sake £3,500 (8x). It is ironic iainkirk picked Vancouver as that is where we've booked to.

If you couple that with a BA Amex 2-4-1 voucher, those same clubcard points turn into two tickets plus two lots of taxes/surcharges. So £7,000 worth of tickets ~ 16x.

Flyzoom is £630 each for their 'economy plus' fares next August (when we're travelling), I've done a mixed booking as I didn't have enough BA miles, nor an Amex voucher yet (but will have next time!). Two free tickets, 1 direct upgraded with 25,000 miles for my eldest daughter, and mine which gets me a day trip to Warsaw to start my trip two months earlier to save £400 for 30,000 miles! All of this is less cost than 4 returns with Zoom/Canadian Affairs (counting the miles as zero value as they were all from business travel) - and 10 hours in club will be a better start/end to the holiday than down the back - I'm now Amex-ing/Tesco-ing to restore the balance! So £2k for £14k worth of travel (not forgetting my day out in Warsaw!), and without taking into account the 30k of BA miles that the two upgraded tickets earn.

I guess I could have had 4 free flights in economy for 200,000 miles + £450 taxes/surcharges, but instead of the journey being something to get through it becomes part of the holiday .

cougar_3

Thanks for clearing that up, everyone. I might go and change them sometime.

jezf

is it possible to buy tesco clubcard points with cash, and not by traditional methods of spending in store?

FF99

jezf wrote:

is it possible to buy tesco clubcard points with cash, and not by traditional methods of spending in store?

If only ...........

almond

Just moved tesco points to ba air miles and wondered can I transfer my air mile points?
to ba?

TimC

almond wrote:

Just moved tesco points to ba air miles and wondered can I transfer my air mile points?
to ba?

If only ...........

No - some loyalty points can be laundered through hotel schemes to get them into your airline scheme of choice, but not Airmiles. When BA originally dropped Airmiles they converted at rates of 1 airmile:10 BA miles or 1:14 (14 was a bonus offer for a limited time), as far as I know neither have been repeated.

littlereddevil

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