{"id":16149,"date":"2023-07-28T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=16149"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:31:54","slug":"avios-balance-booster-offer-ending-and-a-useful-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/07\/28\/avios-balance-booster-offer-ending-and-a-useful-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Avios Balance Booster offer ending and a useful trick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

British Airways launched a new feature called Balance Booster<\/a> in June that introduced a new way of purchasing Avios at a lower cost. There is an ongoing 10% bonus that will end on Monday, so don’t miss out if you need to top up your account.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The annoying part is that you can only purchase maximum triple the amount that you’ve earned in the last 30 days, which may not be enough. Interestingly, a reader has shared a trick \/ loophole that allows you to work around that cap and buy more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you land on the Balance Booster page, the frontend <\/em>will only load past transactions that haven’t been boosted. When you complete a purchase, the backend <\/em>will update the record to mark that transaction as “boosted”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there’s a delay before the frontend <\/em>is notified of that change. It means that you have a short time window to boost the transaction again (and more) if you are quick enough.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I tried it once and it worked out. The delay was approximately five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beware that it is a loophole so there’s some risk associated, although I think it’s fairly low. At the end of day you are paying money to BA, and there’s the 250,000 Avios cap which prevents unlimited boosting, so it should be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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