Yesterday British Airways announced a new Avios "Subscription" service
There are four different levels - and two different ways to pay - either an Annual payment or Monthly payments
Whilst it's clearly better value to make a one off Annual payment - I wanted to see just how big a difference it made ... so I ran the numbers ...
Wow - the difference really is huge - roughly 20% extra to pay by monthly instalments at each level
But the real shocker is that paying monthly for 200,000 Avios is 16% more expensive than making a one off payment for 20,000 Avios
So the moral of the story - if you do need some extra Avios, make a one off payment ... even though the Avios will still arrive month by month into your account
