Avios Guide: 5 New Ways to Boost Your Avios

Avios Guide: 5 New Ways to Boost Your Avios | Month by Month Guide

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Looking to boost your Avios points? Check out this month-by-month guide for 5 new ways to collect British Airways Avios points! Start earning and start traveling.
Learn how to boost your Avios balance with these 12 tips from British Airways. From credit card rewards to shopping portals, let me show you how to earn more Avios and maximize your travel rewards.
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British Airways Twelve Ways to Collect Avios, with 4 new ways, plus one bonus way of collecting Avios!
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
0:43 January
1:37 February
3:00 March
3:29 April
4:26 May
5:26 June
6:27 July
7:21 August
8:15 September
9:09 October
10:04 November
11:05 December
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I hope you’ve enjoyed the video, thank you for watching and joining me on my Grey Gap Year.
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Пікірлер: 65

@adamingleton8529 Ай бұрын

Talking about BP points, I didnt go for a while, and then they just sent me a voucher through for 800 points saying "we miss you" so i filled up with £5, to get 800 points 😂

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Interesting, a targeted promotion, thank you for letting me know.

@HaiderAlDelfi Ай бұрын

Yay new video drop, best way to start the weekend 🥰

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Thank you as always for your wonderful support 😊

@richardsmith7181 Ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks Phil 👍

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you.

@PaulGodfrey 27 күн бұрын

The Avios for Thoughts is now 40 points for a 20 minute survey. Big BUT. You can be dismissed from a survey after 5 to 10 mins if you are not the type of person they want. In which case you only get 2 points.

@mygreygapyear 27 күн бұрын

Thanks for your comment and support, the Avios for Thoughts idea just seems to get worse and worse. Thanks for letting me know.

@samfernandes50 Ай бұрын

Good video, quite a thorough analysis.

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Thank you Sam, much appreciated.

@NatsGlobalTravels Ай бұрын

Loving the Pathe News accent Phil!! Some of these a good ideas, but quite a few are more faff than they are worth, including Avios for THoughts, alas.

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind comments, it is a faff, I agree but may be useful one day

@r12004rewy Ай бұрын

Interesting vid Phil didn't know about the survey so will get on to that, something for nowt is worth doing.

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment, the survey is a good one.

@MorgansWorld760 Ай бұрын

Another good video. Thanks!

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment and support, glad you enjoyed it.

@faithg9766 Ай бұрын

That was fairly mind boggling, but well presented, thanks for clarifying it.

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

My absolute pleasure, thank you for your comment.

@macca555 Ай бұрын

Great video as usual Phil, love the new "voice"

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment, glad you enjoyed it, 😊

@charliebrown5 Ай бұрын

Thank You ✈️

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

You're very welcome, Charlie. Thank you for your continued support.

@JetsetJase Ай бұрын

Re: trains. Recommend UBER over Trainline as they have been offering a 10% discount via account cregits. The downside is no split ticketing for now. Great video btw.

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment and support, I'll have to look into that, if I can effectively get about 10% off tickets, can't be bad.

@adamingleton8529 Ай бұрын

My best avios deal from this last 12 months was avios with uber. They offered 10% back in uber credits and then 500 bonus avios per booking if you booked uber premium or a train booking, this was up to 6,000 points. The cost of obtaining those points was £40, using normal travel I would anyhow. I did need to buy an imaginary ticket though to gain the last 500 points and booked a £2.34 fair from stoke to stone to get those points.

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

What a deal, is that still running? Book a £2.34 ticket that they can't possibly check if you used and get 500 bonus avios? Well done mate, that is stunning.

@adamingleton8529 Ай бұрын

@mygreygapyear sadly not, it was when they introduced uber for trains to get people to use uber more

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

@@adamingleton8529 drat!!!!

@adamingleton8529 Ай бұрын

I also got the BA premium amex when it was 70,000 avios sign up, and then have just got 5,000 retention offer for renewing the card

@rickreid8572 Ай бұрын

Good video Phil. In some instances there is a markup on the shopping portal from, for instance, an app. IHG is an example where the rooms are cheaper on the app than on the BA site.... you need to weigh up if you want the avios etc...

@abusasha478 Ай бұрын

I’ve noticed that too! Sometimes it feels like a scam 😅

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Great tip @rickreid8572, I didn't know that, thank you and @abusasha478 thank you for confirming, always good to have that. I'm going to do some research I think. Thank you both, Phil

@scottstravel6179 Ай бұрын

Travel Insurance is one thing I've noticed that may have a mark-up of £20-£30 over booking direct. Suppose if you were paying the extra £20 for 4k Avios bonus, and could use that effectively for say a £200 flight from LHR-BER, then it's worth it. 3 Avios per £, yielding around 300 Avios, probably not. I do tend to check the website of the company, BAEC, Virgin, TCB etc. before diving in. Hotels do vary. Looking at the Crowne Plaza Times Square, Manhattan, Fri 26th July. Non-refundable king room. IHG direct: £277 (ignoring any status benefits, earnings etc.) BA Avios hotels: £261.16 with 3925 Avios. Same night, Grand Hyatt, San Francisco airport. A chain I have zero status with. Pretty much the same price direct or via the BA app at £288 (bonus Avios until tomorrow to make things perhaps a bit sweeter)

@rickreid8572 Ай бұрын

@@mygreygapyear Not to diss the scheme- you are right you can get some good points from it- but you need to be careful- Trainline for instance mark up on their train tickets- but you do get avios- but you have to pay for it...then again, if you don't go through BA then its the same price...but without the Avios.....

@BLACKMAGIC54 Ай бұрын

Be aware that there can be some bargains in the airport in the liquor section as some are not available on the high street and also be aware of the size of the bottle as there tends to be a lot of litre bottles as opposed to 70cl

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

You make an excellent point re: duty free, there is often an outlier price hiding in plain sight, Stoly vodka at £15 per litre in Istanbul is probably my best bargain (didn't video it though). Thanks for your comment, Phil

@olly7673 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this Phil, though as a single traveller how did you manage to get 2 litres through LHR? 😉 It was useful to know about the haggling as I often dont bother for the reason you mention. I also had two BA Holidays to the Iberostar Palmeraie last year with the missus and would of had a go in the duty free had I known. As for the 500 survey points, if it is anything like the e-rewards I used to do 5 or six years ago I won't bother, as the vsurveys took for ever to complete and e-Rewards were very slow to pay up, sometimes not paying at all.

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

Thank for your question Olly, the limit for duty free spirits coming into the UK is 4 litres per person, so no issue there, www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use/arriving-in-Great-Britain Thanks for the heads up on survey points, I was tempted to try it for research purposes, but I suspected it would be a long survey.

@olly7673 Ай бұрын

@@mygreygapyear of course it is, how silly of me to forget that. So...... Why didn't you buy 4 bottles???? 🤣

@mygreygapyear Ай бұрын

@@olly7673 I have no idea 😂😂😂

@olly7673 Ай бұрын

@@mygreygapyear 🤣🤣🤣

@NatzCoverz 15 күн бұрын

Hiii...Thia ia probably a stupid question but how do u make sure that if u go to Boots for example, that u get the avios? How do u link stuff?

@mygreygapyear 14 күн бұрын

There are two methods, the first is to link your credit cards on the BA Shopping Portal, but I don't trust this. I'm sure that if I went through my spend there would be missing points, so instead I start at the BA Shopping Portal, log in, and then follow the link to Boots from there. Without closing the web browser I make my purchases. If I'm buying things from somewhere else I close all the browser windows and then go back to the shopping portal and log in again and follow the link to the next store.

@NatzCoverz 14 күн бұрын

@@mygreygapyear thank uuu

@user-ob1oi7kn2w 15 күн бұрын

You lucky b.......ard😮

@mygreygapyear 14 күн бұрын

I'm starting to see a pattern, and yes I am 😂😂😂

@user-ob1oi7kn2w 14 күн бұрын

@@mygreygapyear i love your channel❤❤ oh you lucky lucky b

@NatzCoverz 15 күн бұрын

I HAVE 62,581 POINTS...WHATS THAT WORTH?

@mygreygapyear 14 күн бұрын

There's the long correct answer and the short answer (feel free to skip to the short answer). Long: They're actually worth nothing because they're not a currency and they belong to BA 😀, but more than that they are worth the value you assign them. If you use them to buy wine or convert them to Nectar then they're worth 0.5p each or £312.90. If you use all of them to book a flight in business that would have cost you £3000 (for example) then they just saved you £3,000 Short Answer: However, I assign a value of 1p because I can (and sometimes do) buy them at about 1p each, I always aim to get more than 1p in value out of them, and the maths is easy to do if they're each one penny. The Answer: 😊 So you're 62581 points are worth 62581 pennies or £628.81 And I've laid it out like this because you've said you struggle with maths but in text it sounds a bit like I'm being a knob, but I'm not meaning to. All the best, Phil

@NatzCoverz 14 күн бұрын

@@mygreygapyear awww...Phil... you are not a knob at all....I'm soooo impressed with the way u have worked all this stuff out! Well done 👍