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Transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards Points to British Airways Avios (also Iberia Avios and Aer Lingus Aer Club) with a 30% Transfer Bonus, reducing the cost of frequent flyer award tickets booked with Avios. The Chase transfer bonuses and great category bonuses in travel, dining, and rotating categories such as hotels, grocery stores, and restaurants are why we put more total spend on our Chase Sapphire Reserve, Ink Business, and Chase Freedom Flex cards than on our AMEX cards.
Here are the offer details, followed by an example of award flights we recently booked thanks to this transfer bonus.
- Must first link your Chase Ultimate Rewards account with your British Airways Executive Club account
- Complete the transfer from Chase Ultimate Rewards to British Airways Executive Club no later than 11:59pm ET on 10/31/24
- Minimum transfer is 1000 Ultimate Rewards points, which will become 1300 Avios
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Best and Worst Uses of British Airways Avios
Because British Airways Executive Club has a distance based award chart, and charges hefty premiums for first class and business class (as well as hefty fuel surcharges on British Airways awards), it's not ideal for long haul first class awards, especially on British Airways metal. That said, the British Airways Executive Club award calendar opens 354 days in advance while the Alaska Mileage Plan calendar opens just 330 days in advance, so using Avios to reserve award flights does give you a 24 day lead in securing award seats.
Avios, with the transfer bonus, can provide a good value for Iberia Business Class awards. We've reserved Iberia Business Class for clients to Europe from Dallas DFW for 62,500 Avios + $132 per ticket. With the 30% transfer bonus, it works out to 49,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points, an excellent deal for transatlantic business class, particularly when you consider how much easier it is to earn Chase Ultimate Rewards points from credit card spend, with 2X, 3X and 5X category bonuses from various Chase cards, compared to earning other miles via credit card spend.
Other good uses of Avios are using them to fly Qatar Qsuites Business Class to Doha, Qatar First Class from Doha to the Maldives, JetBlue Mint to London, Paris or Amsterdam for 78K Qatar Avios (transfer your BA Avios to Qatar Avios), short haul economy flights in the U.S. or from the U.S. to the Caribbean on American, intra-Europe on British Airways, intra-Japan on JAL, and intra-Asia on Cathay Pacific or JAL.
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