Iberia prices its own flights between 3,0014,000 miles roundtrip offpeak business class at 68,000 miles. You can take reward flights with british airways, iberia and our oneworld and other partner airlines, wherever theres availability. Follow the onscreen prompts and select the iberia express flight you wish to use your avios points on. From your account dashboard, near the top, click book with avios enter your from and to airports. Jul 23, 2018 for example you cant book oneway award flights on partner airlines with iberia avios points. I did that and the reply was we must inform you that we are not allowed to process cancellations through this email and gave me a number to call. On all flights with an ib code operated by iberia, iberia express or iberia regional air nostrum. Nov 14, 2018 if you earned up to 90,000 iberia avios during that iberia deal of the year back in summer and havent spent them yet, you might want to step on it because you only have until december 1.
Jan 02, 2019 the process is identical to booking a ba flight with points. Spending avios pay with avios to get money off the cost of any aer lingus flight when you book through. The british airways avios program 2016 canadian edition. Congratulations, you just redeemed avios for a flight with iberia or its partners.
How you can still book short haul flights with avios points. For several months last year, booking aa flights via iberia wasnt available. On twitter and confirmed on ft i was told to contact my ibplus centre by email email protected, put only the ibplus number as email subject or phone. Collecting avios and tier points on flights executive. Vouchers can be used for any direct flight or a connecting flight where at least one of the segments is operated by iberia, iberia express or iberia regional air nostrum. How to transfer avios between aer lingus, ba, and iberia. To book, simply login to your executive club account. This will take you to the main search page for award flights, where you can start inputting your search criteria. Cleartrip facilitates easy, fast and reliable air tickets booking platform for the iberia airlines. Since they are partners, its often possible to book the same flights with any one of these programs, but your cost will vary both in.
Earlier this week i booked a vueling flight using avios and thought it would be a good idea to share some details about the booking process as there doesnt seem to be a whole lot of information out there about this i didnt want to book this flight. You pay with your avios plus a cash amount for taxes, fees and carrier charges. Apr 17, 2020 this article explains how to book avios flight redemptions via iberia plus, and how you can save hundreds of pounds in taxes by doing so. You can book to any worldwide destination, where theres availability, with british airways and our oneworld partners. How to book reward flight saver flights with avios points. Or use them on iberia flights to upgrade from flexible economy fares y, b or h to business class. Iberia requires you to book roundtrip american airlines flights so keep this in mind before booking your flight.
Combine avios and money to book more than 20,000 hotels all over the world, hire cars, and choose from more than 30,000 tours and attractions for the. Pay for the flights using your avios you just need to pay the taxes fees and charges with cash. If youd like to piece together your flight itinerary. Enjoy your avios and use them to get a discount when you book your tickets. If youre flying a partner airline, make sure to credit that. Using the card on the chase iberia portal, you get a 10% discount on iberia flights. How to avoid high taxes on your next avios redemption.
You pay avios plus a cash amount to cover the taxes, fees and carrier charges. Feb 04, 2016 transferring british airways avios to iberia avios. Offpeak madrid to shanghai in business for 51,000 avios iberia madrid to shanghai is a band 7 award, pricing in at 51,000 avios oneway in business. And the price of the award varies depending on the total distance of all flight segments, whereas british airways charges based on the distance of each segment. Book your iberia deal of the year flight before your avios. Best value with flat tax rates on eligible bookings. The cancellation and change fee rules are the same as if you had booked a ba flight.
If a flight has milesaaver availability as shown by the american airlines awardsearch engine, it is available for booking with british airways avios and should but doesnt always display on the british airways website. How to book iberia flights with ultimate rewards points. Being able to book us airways flights with british airways avios has opened up some great possibilities. The iberia plus program is free to join and with a membership, youll have the ability to both earn and redeem iberia avios for a number of activities including award flights. Fly with us 40 times a year, or book 20 return flights, to be eligible for your premium card and get double the below collection rates. If youve used any airline website ever, you would think that after logging in to your iberia account, you would simply click on the link under your profile that says book flights with avios. You can book non oneworld member royal air marocoperated flights using iberia avios. Under the book with avios tab you can enter your flight details including the cities, dates, class of travel, and the number of passengers. There are some very simple rules to upgrading with flights using avios and, if you. Use iberia avios to book american airlines award flights for. If youve found a suitable return flight, select return. All flights have a minimum number of guaranteed seats for purchase with avios. Using the iberia avios award chart, the short flights within north america are still pricing at the lower level, with some restrictions.
If your avios are sitting in a british airways executive club account, the obvious thing to do is to book your longhaul iberia redemption flight via. More interestingly, if you try to book the identical iberia madrid to new york flight on using ba avios, it will charge you. You cant use iberia miles to book american airlines. Though you should be able to search and book flights on american, british airways, cathay pacific, qantas, qatar, royal jordanian, sri lankan, etc. Book cheap national and international flights with iberia express, the most punctual low cost airline. You can only collect avios for travel on eligible sectors, booking classes and flights with selected airlines.
You can even use your avios for hotel nights, car hires and leisure options, and when you shop at the more than 90 partners you. On the iberia website, you then want to hover over iberia plus and you will see book flights with avios. How to find award availability with iberia avios one. How to book vueling flights using avios tricks of the trade. Bottom line this is a great chance to book a trip to europe in some serious style on the cheap. Jun 27, 2019 second, you need to find milesaaver availability on the american airlines website in order for that flight to be eligible to book with avios. Avios in the iberia plus or aer lingus aerclub program must be moved to executive club before they can be used for fiji airways flights. How to find award availability with iberia avios one mile. Find offers you can enjoy with your points using iberias avios calculator. For reference, i recently booked a delta one business class flight that required 80,000 korean air miles korean and delta are both skyteam members allowing you to book delta flights with korean air miles. Weve tried to compile and simplify airways information to help you in booking your air tickets and plan your complete trip. How to upgrade your flight using avios traveling for miles.
The best ways to use 90,000 iberia avios the points guy. This will bring you to a dialog box that lets you input your desired airports, dates, class of service, etc. Go to, log in to the british airways executive club section and then go to the avios booking page. One way to do this is to transfer your british airways avios to iberia avios so you can access their award chart. You can also spend your avios on reward flights on, on hotels, car hire, experiences and business class upgrades to and from the us and canada. Minimum avios are the guaranteed avios amounts you get according to the booking class for less than 500 airmiles flights. Flights that you book using avios are called reward flights. And by using iberia avios which can be transferred 1. After logging in, youll want to mouse over the book option in the menu on the homepage and then click book a flight with avios. Once logged in to an account, searching for avios award flights is as simple as checking a box on the homepage. Starwood preferred guest starpoints also can transfer to iberia, with a 5,000mile bonus for every 20,000 starpoints converted.
To book flights online with ba avios, you must log into your british airways executive club account at, then hover over the book menu item and click book a flight with avios. Nov 26, 2019 and by using iberia avios which can be transferred 1. My last experience of booking a vueling flight, about a year ago, was a bit of a horror story. If the third child or more is over 5 years old you may continue. You can pay for your flights with a combination of avios and cash, whether you book through iberia. You do it exactly the same way that you would when booking avios redemption flights on british airways. If the flight is operated by iberia, the amount of avios you collect depends on how far you fly. You must find milesaaver american space in order to be able to book the american flight with avios.
One of the cheapest ways to book a domestic flight in the u. I find the iberia website not very userfriendly until you actually find the page you want. Aug 07, 2019 to book flights online with ba avios, you must log into your british airways executive club account at, then hover over the book menu item and click book a flight with avios. The sector distance is 1,235 miles which places this as a zone 3 flight, at 11,000 avios in economy class or 22,000 avios in first class flight 2. Use iberia avios to book american airlines award flights if you arent familiar with iberia avios, they are pretty similar to british airways avios, if that helps give some context. Reward flight saver allows anyone who has earned one avios in the last year to book a shorthaul economy reward flight with a subsidised level of taxes and charges. Like british airways, iberia also utilizes avios and a distance based award chart. Iberia is also a member of oneworld, and they are actually owned by the same parent company as british airways. The 8 best ways to redeem iberia plus avios for max value 2020. Redeeming avios on iberia the why and the how turning. But if you flew to madrid first classified by united as europe and then used avios to hop to morocco, it would only cost 30k57.
It can save thousands of miles compared to using american aadvantage miles for the exact same flights. American express membership rewards can be transferred to iberia plus at a 11 ratio. Get the full details of applicable airlines and booking classes at the time of booking. Book us airways flights with british airways avios. Use our ba avios calculator for british airways points. Booking partner award flights using british airways avios. A roundtrip through phoenix would be 2,717 miles, which would require 23,000 iberia avios in economy. Jan 20, 2020 iberia uses a distancebased award chart, which means the savings are typically best with shorter flights. Apr 04, 2017 you are dependent upon saver level american airlines award availability to book with iberia avios, but when you can find that availability and the flights you need are short to midrange distance flight that requires connections, iberia may end up having the most favorable award charteven if they dont have the most favorable cancellation. On ba flights booked through executive club, it would cost the following. Use iberia avios to book american airlines award flights. Flights with any airline other than british airways, aer lingus and iberia will always price at the peak rate.
Find offers you can enjoy with your points using iberia s avios calculator. You can book flights with iberia for yourself or for whoever you want in exchange for your avios. Then click get flights to continue to the next page. Jan 30, 2018 thats because british airways charges a minimum of 15,000 british airways avios points for a short roundtrip flight within north america, while iberia charges 11,000 iberia avios points for flights 600 miles or less. A free iberia plus account is required to search for available mileage awards. That page takes you to the pretty, yet useless, calculator page. The 8 best ways to redeem iberia plus avios for max value.
British airways do not offer a company travel loyalty programme in spain but our partner iberia. You can credit a flight on iberia or its oneworld partners to your account. If you are using iberia avios to book an iberia flight, peak and off peak pricing is determined by iberia. Using iberia avios as an alternative to british airways one. Sep 28, 2018 aer lingus, british airways, and iberia share a common rewards currency. You can transfer chase ultimate rewards or amex membership rewards to british airways or iberia at a 1. Looking across all frequent flyer schemes except avios, short haul redemptions are a waste of time unless you need flexibility or are travelling at short notice. The sector distance is 1,121 miles, therefore a zone 2 flight priced at 9,000 avios in economy, or 18,000 avios in first class. How to book iberia with american express points point me. Other partner airlines while most people would think of british airways as the default program using avios, it is also the currency of iberia, and aer lingus. Both british airways and iberia use avios points in their programs, but transferring to the latter. Book a reward flight upgrade with avios you can use your avios to upgrade a regular cash booking to the next cabin, where theres availability, on selected fares with british airways, iberia and american airlines.
Spending avios executive club british airways book. I am flying from barcelona to split on 817 on the 11. For further details, visit the applicable avios loyalty programme website. If the flight is booked through and operated by vueling, you can collect avios for the price of the ticket. Youll need to click the one way only box if you want to book a oneway flight. Iberia uses a distancebased award chart, which means the savings are typically best with shorter flights. To exchange your avios points for iberia express flights, please visit. A return business class avios flight to new york costs just. By collecting avios you can turn your flights and everyday spending into exciting travel rewards. Advantages and avios with iberia plus iberia express. However there is one function that i used to regularly recommend to readers the ba avios calculator map. The avios you collect depends on the class of your booking and the distance you fly, the more you fly, the more you collect. Iberia airlines iberia plus book vueling flight with avios barcelona to split is the iberia site buggy when it comes to searching flights on vueling. May 04, 2019 you can move your avios from executive club to iberia plus and book the same flights with much lower fees and taxes.
Your guide to spending avios 2020 edition flyertalk forums. Every time you fly with iberia and the associated airlines you earn avios. What are the cancellation rules on iberia flights booked with avios. The process is identical to booking a ba flight with points. How to book award flights using british airways avios.
This offer may be amended or withdrawn at any time. Flights up to 2,000 miles cost just 17,000 iberia avios, which still gives you some solid savings. To collect avios, customers must be a member of the british airways executive club baec or iberia plus programme. After that, the carriage turns into a pumpkin, and your 90,000 avios into one fat zero, and thats gonna hurt. Flying on iberia or one of its partner airline flights is the first way that you can earn iberia avios. There is a second british airways avios redemption pricing chart for trips which use two or more oneworld carriers apart from british airways. Strangely, despite sharing a currency, each program has its own loyalty program with different award charts and rules. Meanwhile, connecting in dallas instead puts the roundtrip at. Using iberia avios as an alternative to british airways. Iberia also uses avios as its loyalty currency in its iberia plus programme.
Excludes flights operated by level on behalf of iberia. If you use british airways or iberia to book other partner flights, there are no offpeak dates. This combined payment option is valid on flights operated by iberia, iberia express, air nostrum and vueling british airways only available via call centres. Consider a london to new york return businessclass redemption. How to find award availability with iberia avios one mile at a time. Remember to present your card whenever you book a flight so that you can collect avios. Choose your preferred pay with avios discount from the options displayed on the payment page get money off the cost of your flight while still earning tier credits and avios. This is a much better option than british airways avios, which would require 30,000 avios for the foursegment routing. Login british airways book flights, holidays, city. If you didnt burn through all of your british airways avios, there is still an option to use avios on shorthaul flights. Book flights directly with any of our airline partners and use your avios to discount the. Oct 23, 2017 congratulations, you just redeemed avios for a flight with iberia or its partners. Thats a sizable amount of both avios and fees and taxes.
Iberia avios points for business class million mile secrets. With routes to more than 119 destinations in 43 countries, and to 254 destinations thanks to codeshare agreements, youll be able to access all the exclusiveness of business class, an excellent service and the best price with premium economy, or the convenience of economy. Mar 04, 2020 the ba avios flight calculator map how many avios for a flight lets face it, the closure of the programme in july 2018 to british airways executive club members has had limited impact on those who collect avios points. You can cancel your flight up to 24 hours before departure, either online or by calling ba.
How to book award flights using british airways avios the. And this iberia workaround to book aa flights has been lucrative. Book flights with one of our airline partners and collect avios towards your next trip. With vueling you can add avios to your iberia plus balance and use them to get discounts on flights and other benefits offered through the programme. Enjoy a unique flight experience with iberia and collect avios in your vueling club account. The ba avios flight calculator map how many avios for a flight lets face it, the closure of the avios.
Flights under 600 miles roundtrip price at just 11,000 avios, while journeys between 601 and 1,000 miles come in at just 12,000 iberia avios. Discover where you can get to with iberia, vueling and british airways. Vueling takes you to more than destinations, including the principal cities in spain, europe, north africa and the middle east. If you are using iberia avios to book a british airways flight, peak and off peak pricing is determined by british airways. You can collect avios on the class of travel you booked and paid for that appears on your ticket. Theres dozens of examples of times that it makes sense to book american airlines award flights with british airways avios. Jun 15, 2016 on monday i discussed how its possible to upgrade american airlines, british airways and even iberia flights using aadvantage miles and, in this post, im going to take a look at how you can upgrade flights using avios. With this many opportunities to build up a stash of iberia avios, it shouldnt be too hard to get the 68,000 you need for a roundtrip flight to europe in business class. Options for any eligible flight will be shown automatically as long as you are logged in and have a sufficient avios balance. Iberia cleartrip brings you the latest flight schedule for iberia airlines. Yes 25% extra for bronze, 50% extra for silver and 100% extra for gold members.