{"id":20395,"date":"2024-08-18T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T10:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=20395"},"modified":"2024-08-18T18:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T17:53:26","slug":"save-on-avios-tickets-to-egypt-and-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/08\/18\/save-on-avios-tickets-to-egypt-and-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Save \u00a3\u00a3\u00a3 on Avios tickets to Egypt and Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is interesting – if you want to redeem BA’s Avios ticket between London and Egypt \/ Jordan \/ Israel, you might be notably better off with an account address outside the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s some background: British Airways have a handful of medium-haul<\/em> destinations that are outside Europe but still operated by the (pathetic) narrow-body aircrafts, e.g. Cairo, Hurghada, Amman and Tel Aviv. Although none of them are in Europe, their cabins follow the same Euro Traveller and Club Europe convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are looking to book a reward flight from\/to these destinations, a one-way redemption in economy and business will have \u00a340.5 and \u00a3 102.5 in fees respectively, with the Most Avios Least Money<\/em> option.<\/p>\n\n\n

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However, for those with an account address outside UK, the ticket will be priced in USD and significantly cheaper, as flagged by our reader @Dzzz.<\/p>\n\n\n

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He successfully booked the ticket at the shown price so it’s not a display error. It seems that such medium-haul destinations are treated like Europe when fees are calculated, but for USD only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a couple’s return flight in business class, being able to pay USD will save you more than \u00a3300! Warning: changing your account address may have complications, especially if you hold the BA Amex card as I heard your Avios might not deposit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is interesting – if you want to redeem BA’s Avios ticket between London and Egypt \/ Jordan \/ Israel, you might be notably better off...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,43,39],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-20395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-airways","category-middle-east","category-uk","tag-points-trick"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20395"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20419,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions\/20419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}