The current sale for Avios tickets reduces the fee from £35 to £1 but is ONLY available on the following BA routes:
Amsterdam
Barcelona
Dublin
Jersey
Lisbon
Madrid
Nice
Avios is name the air-miles currency of British Airways
What is a British Airways Companion Voucher?
Companion vouchers are earned by the traveller by meeting minimum spend targets on Amex credit cards
The companion voucher is accessible online as an e-voucher via the travellers BA executive club account.
So you’ll need the exec number and password. When you log-in you’ll see the companion voucher and its expiry date.
How to use a companion voucher
The Companion Voucher allows the main British Airways American Express account holder, when making a flight booking using Avios, to book another seat on the journey for a Companion without having to pay the Avios flight price for that Companion.
If the member has 2 vouchers they can take 2 people at the same price!
The account holder will have to pay the tax and fuel surcharges etc which can, for a long haul business class ticket cost typically £500+
Both travellers have to travel in the same cabin (class) and travel together.
The BA site does not allow you to book Avios tickets out to one city and back from another. You’ll need to call BA. (example: If you want London to Shanghai and Beijing to London) In travel speak this is called an open jaw ticket.
British Airways and American airlines are offering double reward Avios points for return bookings and travel before 30th April 2013
But the offer only applies to “premium classes” i.e. First and Business Class. And the double points only apply to the higher fare types, for example, with British Airways, in F, A, J, C, D class
You need to register here, before making your booking.
The offer applies to the following destinations:
USA
Chicago O’Hare
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
San Diego
Seattle
OTHER
Bangkok
Beijing
Cairo
Delhi
Dubai
Hong Kong
Johannesburg
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo
Sydney
Tel Aviv
Within a week of KLM announcing that customers are to be given “more choice”, by charging separately for check-in bags, British Airways launches “hand baggage only” fares.
This is a different way of introducing a charge for baggage. It’s promoted as a saving, because hand baggage only fare is lower than their normal price by approximately £10 to £12
So we now have two-tier pricing, ‘with bags’ and ‘without bags’ which, after the introductory period amounts to paying more for taking baggage on your trip.
Which we think is a shame. Up to now, you could trust the BA fare to include everything whilst you knew that the easyJet and other no-frills airlines would charge extra fees.
The BA hand baggage fares apply only to Gatwick departures, for departures from 26th February.
To begin with, baggage only fares are available to the following destinations: Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Jersey, Tunis and Turin.
The carry on allowance on BA is relatively generous: 56cm x 45cm x 25cm plus a handbag or laptop bag
Remember that the lowest BA fares are only available directly from ba.com
Please visit the British Airways tab above.
Here at Booking Business Travel we focus on helping you to book business travel online.
But we all like to holiday too, and I am frequently asked for inspirational holiday ideas.
And what used to take hours of search can now be offered immediately.
For example;
You want to fly no more than 6 hours, to a destination with a temperature of between 21-25 degrees, are content to fly out on Christmas Day and to stay for 6 nights.
And you prefer a 4* hotel.
Enter this information on the new British Airways Holiday Finder and you’ll be surprised by the last-minute options available.
You can also tailor the results by your budget range.
There are two ways to search:
British Airways Holiday Finder provides concise details
And British Airways Trip Seeker offers a more graphical view with a world map