What Would You Do With 100,000 British Air Frequent Flyer Miles?

I might buy them from you. Am going to the US in two weeks’ time.

Cheers, Franco

i was probably one of the few people to apply for the card and my friend also applied we both got approved got the 50,000 miles purchased tickets from orlando fl to london the fees were higher than we expected to pay for the tickets we paid 332.00 and the 50,000 miles each the normal price for a ticket is 930.00 even with the 75.00 it was still 50 percent less we had a great time its not that bad some cities r higher than others thats all

Earn 40k more miles and fly First Class to Europe. I just flew from LAX to Warsaw then out of Prague back.

BA First Class service is unbelievably great and the lay flat beds are awesome. I slept almost 8 hours straight on the flight and woke up refreshed 40 minutes before landing at Heathrow.

My suggestions:
1) Use for Club World to Europe. Don’t waste on First Class or Coach.

2) Use for American or other partners. BA charges hefty taxes/fees. It can be a $700 fee + 100k miles to fly (club world) from LAX to LHR. Other partners charge a small fee. Maybe fly to Asia instead of Europe.

I signed up for this card.. actually i signed up for two, one for me and one for my wife. We live in the Tampa, Florida, area, and fly to London fairly regularly. BA is currently the only airline offering direct Tampa-London (Gatwick) flights, so it seemed like a good idea. Having fulfilled all the conditions, we duly received our 100,000+ points, good for 4 round-trip tickets. My wife recently flew on a one-way 25,000 lgw->tpa points ticket, and has a return one-way 25,000 tpa->lgw points ticket. The whole online experience was excellent, and as a seasoned award traveler, i give BA top marks for the whole program. Absolutely no issues whatsoever, and not overly expensive either, in this age of added fees/taxes. For the one way lgw->tpa segment it was $214 and $144 for the return leg. Best of all, if you cancel more than 24 hours ahead of the flight, you receive a full refund of fees/taxes and pay just a $20-25 admin fee. Doesn’t get much better than that.

I used them for travel from NY to Hawaii on AA. Booked on line with BA which switched me to AA (code share) then told me to call. I called BA and the dates I wanted were not available but we were flexible so, bottom line, we’re booked.

$10 tax per ticket. They wanted an additional $20 per ticket for calling (not booking on line) but they waived the fee because they told me to call. Round trip Hawaii (JFK/HNL and out of OGG/JFK)for 70K + $20 bucks…not bad at all! What should I do with the other 30K?

I WOULD USE THE MILES TO TAKE MY FRIENDS, WHO HAVE JUST LOST THEIR HOMES AND WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO AFFORD A TRIP, TO A DESTINATION OF THEIR CHOICE

The fees for travel to Europe are ridiculous. Over $300 per round trip ticket. So flights within USA are minimal as are fees to central america. I was planning a trip to Amsterdam from that same promotion untill I found the fees to be about 700 bucks for my wife and I. Choke, gag, faint. So much for free flight to Europe. Booked on US Airways with fees of about $150 for both of us. Checked into flying to Belize and fees were reasonable.

I would like to use them to fly Club World roundtrip between the U.S. and Munich, Germany. Does anyone know what the taxes/fees might be? Routing would most likely be LFT-DFW-LHR-MUC and return. Thanks! Jeff

fly business class to asia, but then … I think, 100K miles is not enough miles

I SIGNED UP FOR THIS RECIEVED 100000 CREDIT AS PROMISED. WAS ABLE TO USE ON AA FROM BNA TO SJO 3 TICKETS PAID ABOUT $5O TAXES WELL SATISFIED BA VERY HELPFULL AS WAS AA

In Canada we have a program called “Air Miles” and I recently flew from Miami to Heathrow (2 coach tickets) for 12,000 miles. Generally one accumulates 1 mile for each $15 to $20 spent…but it is MILES not POINTS.

But….they charge fees,taxes,fuel,travel agents fee, and other. Nearly $1,000 for my “free” flight MIA-LHR-YVR AND no non stop flights both ways via Newark and Chicago….Yeccccch!

So, it pays, on any so called “free” plan, to check which company screws their loyal clients the least.

Well I got the BA credit card in december it got the lesser promotion of 25,000 plus 25,000 but convinced a friend who got the card last month, BA/Chase will backdate this current promotion for 3 billing cycles but not for Dec.

I guess that if one uses 100,000 BA miles for a flight from S.F. or L.A to London in business class, one is stuck with the fuel taxes or is their another way to use the BA miles to visit London from the U.S.? How much are the fuel fees for this RT flight.?

MY WIFE AND I EACH APPLIED FOR BA VISA CARDS WITH A PROMISE OF 100,000 MI BONUS EACH. AFTER COMPLYING WITH THE RULES, MY WIFE GOT HER 100,000 MILES; I DID NOT. WHEN I CALLED CHASE BANK, THEY TOLD ME THAT I DID NOT QUALIFY FOR THE BONUS. I TOLD THEM THAT I WAS SPECIFICALLY ASSURED THAT I DID QUALIFY. THEY DENIED IT UNTIL I TOLD THEM THAT I HAD RECORDED THE CONVERSATION AND THE PROMISE. WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THEY GAVE ME THE MILES.

I CHECKED THE FEDERAL LAW WHICH PERMITS ANYONE TO TAPE A CONVERSATION ON THEIR OWN TELEPHONE WITHOU GETTING PERMISSION OF THE OTHER PARTY. (I ONLY TAPE CALLS MADE FROM MY OWN PHONE WHEN I SPEAK WITH AIRLINES AND BANKS).

BA Executive Club is simply an unfair and “rip-off” program. This summer went round trip from Baltimore to Brussels using Continental Onepass program miles for $56.00 total.
Shortly going to Baltimore to London roundtrip on BA using Executive Club miles for $400 RT… this $$ discrepancy led me to Google and then to this site to see what is going on… BA fees are unreasonable and unnecessary, the program is clearly deceptive. From now on I will use only my Continental Onepass MC for all purchases… think I will Cc this BA…

Ya similar crap. I actually got 50k, of which 25k doesnt post until the end of the month. So, i proceed to buy 24000k for 700 dollars thinking it’s still cheaper to use 25k miles from the card, and pay 350 each to fly to vietnam from lax. No go, the fuel surcharges on our two flights came to 700 dollars. So to fly to asia from lax one way… 1400 dollars for the two. I ended up spending 1200 on eva air, and saved my miles, and got a refund on the 24k I purchased. I learned that it’s only long cross pacific or atlantic flights that carry the hefty fuel/tax. To fly domestically, or to central or south america, isnt so bad. tax wise. We will save them for when we get back from vietnam by flying to central and south america. RIPP OFF BA… and their customer service is crap…

Just asked about booking BA mileage on a partner airline for trip to Spain, e.g. American or Iberia. We were told that same huge fee $400 per ticket fuel surcharge would apply. Clearly a scam. The fuel surcharge is actually part of the ticket fare. They should not charge this for award tickets. They are guilty of very deceptive practice especially given their recent credit card promotions. US carriers cannot legally separate out fuel charges from fares this way.