{"id":828,"date":"2014-01-09T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevaluetraveler.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2014-09-03T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:30:10","slug":"why-british-airways-avios-miles-are-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/2014\/01\/09\/why-british-airways-avios-miles-are-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Why British Airways Avios Miles Are Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best uses of British Airways miles is to use them to fly Alaska Airlines to Southern California.\u00a0 My brother had accumulated a boatload (or should I say a plane-load HAR HAR) of them during the <a href=\"https:\/\/creditcards.chase.com\/credit-cards\/british-airways-credit-card.aspx?fcsplit=2\" target=\"_blank\">Chase British Airways 100,000 miles promotion<\/a>, as well as my sister in law. One of the beauties of the Avios program is the ability to &#8216;merge&#8217; family accounts. Therefore, the family account was 200,000!! This is a lot of miles and if you know how to use them, they can be very lucrative.<br \/>\nI helped him find availability on Alaska using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aa.com\/homePage.do\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>American Airlines website<\/strong><\/a>, as British Airways does not show you Alaska flights (yet).\u00a0 Plug in your dates and check <strong>Redeem Miles<\/strong>, and whatever it shows at the 12,500 mile saver award, should be available to you using your British Airways miles on Alaska, as well.\u00a0 That will be your indicator flights are available on Alaska Airlines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/files\/2014\/01\/AA_login.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-836 aligncenter\" alt=\"AA_login\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/files\/2014\/01\/AA_login.png\" width=\"572\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_login.png 802w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_login-300x80.png 300w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_login-560x150.png 560w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_login-260x70.png 260w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_login-160x43.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/files\/2014\/01\/AA_chart.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-833\" alt=\"AA_chart\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/files\/2014\/01\/AA_chart.png\" width=\"602\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_chart.png 650w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_chart-300x136.png 300w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_chart-560x254.png 560w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_chart-260x118.png 260w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/thevaluetraveler\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/\/sites\/64\/2014\/01\/AA_chart-160x72.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After you find, the flights you want, you must call British Airways call<em> centre<\/em> in the U.K. at 1-800-247-9297 to book it.\u00a0 There will be a $25.00 charge for EACH reservation made, so if 3 people are flying, you will be charged $75.\u00a0 Once in awhile you will get a kind and gentle rep who will waive the fees, but don&#8217;t count on it. Their call center is full of obnoxious, and somewhat rude agents.\u00a0 They will then book the tickets, and give you a British Airways confirmation code&#8230;..which can be useless since you are flying Alaska Airlines, so ask them for the Alaska Airlines confirmation code.\u00a0 I was able to book 3 tickets <strong>PDX- BUR<\/strong> for 45,000 miles + $90 in taxes\/fees. He charged the taxes\/fees onto his <a title=\"Barclaycard Arrival World Mastercard Bonus 40,000 points \/ $89 Annual Fee waived for 1st Year \/ 2x Miles on all purchases \/ No Foreign Txn fee \/ 0% Apr for 12months\" href=\"http:\/\/thevaluetraveler.com\/barclaycard-arrival-world-mastercard-bonus-40000-points-89-annual-fee-waived-for-1st-year-2x-miles-on-all-purchases-no-foreign-txn-fee-0-apr-for-12months\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barclays Arrivals World Mastercard<\/a>, so he could redeem his points to pay off the $90.00. Zero out of pocket! Not bad&#8230; If you think about it, this is actually a steal! Usually it costs 25,000 miles PER ticket.\u00a0 You can also use the Avios points to book your hotel and car as well, though I got other plans for those.<br \/>\nI highly recommend anyone getting British Airways Avios points, because even with them devalued, they can still be awesome for domestic and short haul trips.\u00a0 Also, there are so many ways to get them, that&#8217;s its almost impossible NOT to get any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best uses of British Airways miles is to use them to fly Alaska Airlines to Southern California.\u00a0 My brother had accumulated a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[77],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why British Airways Avios Miles Are Awesome! 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