Head for Points has an interesting post today about the number of Avios required for all British Airways long haul destinations compared to the number of miles flown.
HfP are using one way Club Class flights for this analysis.
I thought it would be interesting to graph the results to see what jumps out.
While Sydney is obviously in a league of its own - many of us don't have 145,000 Avios sitting around, or plan our travel 355 days in advance to grab a redemption flight to Australia.
Whilst Cape Town and Santiago are clearly the next best alternatives it's after that where it gets more interesting.
Yes the 110,000 and 100,000 redemptions offer good value, but actually the 90,000 redemptions are almost as good, and obviously more achievable for those of us with smaller Avios balances.
At the other end of the scale, the best redemption of 70,000 Avios (Abuja) is worse value than the worst redemption of 90,000 Avios (Charleston). And Cincinnati is the only 80,000 redemption that stands out as being half decent value.
For me, the moral of the story is not to waste my Avios on 70k or 80k redemptions - longer is better when it comes to redeeming on long haul.
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