Saturday, 17 August 2013

Buy Avios and Get Up To 30% Extra

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Buy a minimum of 2,000 Avios before 19 September 2013 and boost your purchase by up to 30%. It is a sliding stage; the more you buy the higher the bonus. Here are the full details:



  • Purchase 2,000 – 9,000 Avios for a 5% Avios bonus

  • Purchase 10,000 – 17,000 Avios for a 10% Avios bonus

  • Purchase 18,000 – 23,000 Avios for a 20% Avios bonus

  • Purchase 24,000 Avios for a 30% Avios bonus


You are allowed to purchase up to a maximum 24,000 Avios each year.


You can purchase your Avios through either British Airways Executive Club or Avios.com


If you purchase the full annual allowance of 24,000 Avios you will receive 7,200 bonus Avios for a grand total of 31,200 Avios at a cost of £399 (1 Avios = 1.28 pence).


30,000 Avios plus £50 will get you a Club Europe return to the lovely Croatian city of Dubrovnik. Using the British Airways low fare finder, the cheapest Club Europe return to Dubrovnik is £291.


 





 


If you purchase 9,000 Avios you will receive 450 bonus Avios, which is even enough to book a British Airways return economy class flight to Paris or Rome (plus £35, at a cost of £159 (1 Avios = 1.68 pence)


Using the British Airways low fare finder, an economy return to Paris can be bought for £119 and Rome for £80 (without checked baggage).




 

Therefore, you can see from my examples that you need to have a specific redemption in mind to consider purchasing Avios.


To my mind,  it is only worth buying Avios if you need a small amount to top off your balance to reach a redemption you are saving towards and you don’t have enough time to earn them in an alternative way, or if you want to upgrade an existing eligible ticket you have already purchased and don’t have enough Avios to do so.







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