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Last Updated: 20 Feb 2024

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Reward Flight Finder Can Help You Fly Further For Less

Avios points for flights, think of them as money: Money you can use to fly for free…ok, not quite free, you still have to pay the taxes and surcharges, but certainly for far less than the cash price.

The problem is, Avios are easy to earn but much harder to spend on British Airways Reward Flights. Why? Because BA only guarantees 14 reward seats per flight - 8 seats in Economy (Euro Traveller and World Traveller), 2 in Premium Economy (World Traveller Plus) and 4 in Business (Club Europe and Club World). On flights to and from London City, the airline guarantees 2 reward seats in both business (Club Europe) and economy (Euro Traveller). More tickets could be released at any time until the flight is due to depart. Unfortunately, British Airways doesn’t guarantee any First Class seats will be released on any flight, but they pop up all the time, it’s just a case of finding them. 

 

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Reward seats are officially released by BA every night at midnight Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and are bookable online, on your mobile or by calling British Airways. If you are keen and call at night, you will probably speak with a call centre in America, since the UK call centre is shut at midnight. Oh, note that we said GMT. During British Summer Time, that’s 1 am!  As time goes on, more reward flight seats sneak their way onto the website, giving you the opportunity to avail the latest British Airways upgrade with Avios. Keep in mind that they can appear anytime, day or night, then promptly disappear.

So, for popular destinations at peak times, for family groups and for those who can’t be online when the vampires roam, it can feel like an impossible task to capture those elusive reward seats.

 

 

How you can use your Avios

Find out all the possible options you have to get a British Airways upgrade with Avios:

Avios Part Payment

With as little as 1000 Avios points you can reduce the overall cash price of your ticket by paying for part of it with Avios. You can do this on the BA website when you’re logged in to your BA Executive Club account.

 

 

Reward Flight Saver

For your next BA redemption flight, you can pay as little as £1 and 18,500 Avios for flights to Europe using a Reward Flight Saver fare or from £100 and 50,000 Avios for mid- to long-haul destinations. Reward Flight Savers have a fixed cash cost that includes taxes, fees, and carrier costs, as well as an Avios value. This means you can opt to use more cash and less Avios, or visa versa. British Airways used to limit the routes you could use Reward Flight Savers on, but now you can utilise this option on any BA route with reward seat availability.

 

Reward Flights

Use your Avios points for your BA redemption and fly in style, paying only taxes, fees, and carrier costs, and having complete flexibility with your ticket.

 

Using Avios to upgrade seats

Upgrade to a more luxurious flying experience with reward flights with your points. You can also use the points to get the best out of your situation by booking Avios hotels.  Cash bookings can also be upgraded if available.

Please note that you can only upgrade by one class. Economy to Premium Economy, or Business to First Class.

 

Picture These Scenarios. Do They Sound Familiar?

    • You know you have enough Avios for a Club World flight from London to Cape Town. You book Avios hotels and plan a long weekend there. You have some flexibility around your dates and in your mind, you’re already planning the restaurants to book there. But despite checking the BA site 4 times daily for 4 days, there is no availability on your chosen dates.
    • Casually browsing the British Airways website you find a seat. You know you have enough Avios in your BA Executive Club account, but you just don’t have the time to book then and there. You tell yourself you will book it when you get home. But, later, the seat has gone.

 

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  • You have collected thousands of BA Avios. You know you can use them for free flights but the one time you tried, it was all too confusing and time-consuming. The BA site was not user-friendly and when you finally did the search, there were no available seats. So, you ended up paying cash for the flights and increasing your BA Avios even more.

 

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Reward Flight Finder is the Solution

Reward Flight Finder is a simple concept. It checks reward seat availability constantly and alerts you when your chosen seats become available. You then book directly with the airline.

 

There are 3 key features:

 

1. At a Glance Seat Availability for any BA Route

Avios are great, especially for a trip you couldn’t otherwise afford. You may know where you want to go and can be flexible with dates. With one search, Reward Flight Finder will give you available reward flight dates for the next 355 days.

 

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2. Set up Flight Alerts for any BA Route

If none of the dates shown is suitable, then you can sign up to RFF and then set up a flight alert. Reward Flight Finder will constantly search ba.com, so you don’t have to. As seats are released at any time, this gives you the best chance of finding the reward seat you are after. If and when seats are released, you will receive an alert. For a small monthly fee, cancellable at any time, paying members to get hourly alerts, when BA releases seats, putting you ahead of the hordes.

 

 

Create your first alert today.

 

3. See Where You Can Fly on Any Date

You know when you can fly but can’t decide where to go. How exciting! On ba.com, you would literally have to input every destination separately, in order to narrow down your options. With Reward Flight Finder, Elite Members can access a simple global map, giving you plenty of destination ideas for your Avios budget and full visibility of available reward seats.

 

Download the RFF Mobile App

Simplify your reward flight finding journey.

Our app helps you find reward seats with the touch of a button!

 

So there you have it.  Don’t waste your time, collect Avios points for flights.  Make both more productive with Rewardflightfinder.com and you’ll soon be flying further for less.

 

NB: Reward Flight Finder is the new name for BA Redemption Finder.

 

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