30 March 2021

British Airways Avios Peak calendar 2022 analysis

Like many frequent flyer programmes, Avios charges you different number of points to fly on different days - unpopular parts of the year less points, school holidays more points.

Head for Points recently published the Peak / Off Peak dates for 2022, so I thought it would be interesting to see how things have changed over the last few years.


This analysis is just based on the British Airways Peak / Off Peak calendar - there are different calendars for Iberia and Aer Lingus


Firstly the total number of Peak days in each of the three years


2020  137

2021  138

2022  140


Only a small increase in the number of Peak days each year - but as always, the devil is in the detail.



If you’re able to fly midweek, the number of peak days has reduced (2020, 2021, 2022)


Tuesday  12, 13, 11

Wednesday  15, 15, 5

Thursday  17, 15, 17


If you’re looking to have a long weekend, then Fridays and Mondays are pretty similar too


Friday  22, 24, 23

Monday  21, 23, 19


The big change is on weekends with a jump in the number of Peak days

64% of Saturdays and 60% of Sundays in 2022 counted as Peak


Saturday  25, 23, 34

Sunday  25, 25, 31




The other way the changes can impact you is if you like to use your Avios in particular months.  As Easter changes date each year, there’s often a shift between March and April, but this is how the whole year pans out across 2020, 2021, 2022


January  5, 6, 11

February  8, 8, 10

March  5, 6, 6

April  18, 18, 13

May  10, 5, 5

June  0, 3, 13

July  27, 27, 20

August  29, 29, 19

September  6, 6, 12

October  10, 11, 11

November  0, 0, 0

December  19, 19, 20


The months with the big increase in Peak dates are June (from 0 to 13), September (from 6 to 12) and January (from 5 to 11)


The big winners are July (from 27 to 20) and August (from 29 to 19)




CORRECTION: November has ZERO peak dates.  "Nov" is actually December in this table!  Apologies.


So if you can fly midweek in the Summer, you should be happy with the 2022 British Airways Avios calendar


But if you like weekend flights, or getting away in June, then you need to budget for some extra Avios in 2022.