Expires tomorrow. Fly in business to Australia for less than €2,500
We have repeatedly told how the technique of buying points for the purpose of immediately booking an award ticket is [...]
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We have repeatedly told how the technique of buy points with the purpose of immediately booking an award ticket is something that can bring significant savings. Today I want to give a practical example of how this strategy can give you a savings of more than 4 thousand euros to purchase a ticket to fly to Australia.
British Airways' offer.
Today we talk about promotion, which expires tomorrow (Sept. 14), of British Airways: gives away 50% of bonus points over points bought. As a result of this offer you will get the 50% of points more than you purchased.
Spending €2,257 normally earns 125 thousand Avios points, in which case the bonus gives an additional 62,500. Even if you do not have Avios on your Executive Club account today, by completing this transaction, you will end up with a total of 187,500 points.
Recall that now British Airways Avios points can also be used with Qatar, and vice versa, it will then be possible to immediately reinvest the points into an award ticket.
Flying in business to Australia with Qatar
The best way to reinvest your newly purchased points is to immediately search for award seats to fly to Australia from Italy or even from other destinations served by the Doha-based carrier.
A business class ticket from Italy to Sydney., capital of New South Wales, coast 90 thousand Avios points each way plus 155€ in taxes. On Qatar's website there is still quite a lot of seat availability both in early 2023 and in the summer period (which in Australia is winter, having opposite seasons to ours).
The same ticket, paid cash, can cost well over 6,000 euros. Here's Buy today, before this offer expires, the necessary points allows you to Save nearly 4,000 euros per ticket.
In conclusion
My advice is NOT to buy points except when there are promotions and rich bonuses. Even in this case, however, one must buy miles/points only if you intend to use them in the medium to short term and not to "hoard" them: it makes no sense and the risk of devaluation could turn into a waste of money. In this case, since BA is not very generous in bonus key it makes sense if you plan a trip in the short term. I, for example, just pulled off a killer award ticket just because of Avios points.
- 6,000 Mile Registration Bonus
- Collect miles WITH EACH PURCHASE
- Your miles with no expiration*
- No fees for ATM withdrawals and foreign purchases
- Without having to change banks
- Autonomous card activation
- Multi-function mobile application
- Free travel insurance
- Free credit for up to 7 weeks
- Contactless Payment
- Mastercard® SecureCode
- 20€ discount directly in your statement by spending €60 in one or more transactions with Carta on Italotreno.it
- Free fee the 1st year. From the 2nd €5.50 per month
- You can choose to pay in full or in installments
- Premium level of the Italo Più program
- 4 Vouchers per year for access to Italo Club Lounges
- Preferential Access to Italo's Fast Track at the station
- For every 5 purchases of Italo ticketing and/or onboard services made with Italo American Express Credit Card you will receive 1 voucher for room upgrade
- Welcome bonus of 100,000 Volare points upon reaching 6 thousand in spending in the first 3 months after card issuance
- Accumulate 1.5 qualifying Volare points for every euro spent, accumulate an additional 3 non-qualifying Volare points ( for a total of 4.5 Volare points) for every euro spent on ticketing purchases and other services offered by ITA Airways
- Access to the Premium Club of ITA Airways' Volare program.
- ITA Airways Lounge Access
- Free excess baggage
- Points Back