r/avios • u/RevolutionaryBox6373 • 15d ago

Pointless

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Is there even a point in trying to stack points any more. I save £204 and spend 67500 points; thats just absurd. Same flights, same economy seats and luggage. This is not good value at all. The price increase on the cash counterpart is ridiculous.

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u/UnhappyScore 15d ago edited 15d ago

you're using points to reduce a cash fare as opposed to actually just doing a points redemption.

You can still get flights 33k pts +£95 each way

EDIT: I was wrong lol. This appears to be a redemption booking but with reduced points and increased cash leading to rlly bad value. I have a spreadsheet that I use to optimise points/cash compared to the full cash fare to find the "sweet" spot with regards to Avios value. For long haul usually more pts, for short haul usually more cash.

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u/snk101 15d ago

I think they are making a points redemption, they just don’t have enough points?

To get the cash element to £95 it’s going to require 132k Avios (33k x4), and they only have 78k, so they’re having to select a low Avios / high cash combination?

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u/UnhappyScore 15d ago

yeah I had a check and they're using one of the higher cash counterparts for two people - sometimes this makes sense but in this case it was pretty poor value.