The British Airways Visa Signature Card is one of the more useful co-branded airline credit cards out there. In this post I wanted to focus on one specific benefit of the card, which makes award redemptions with British Airways Executive Club more affordable. When you combine this with British Airways’ Reward Flight Saver scheme, you…
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P2 and I both had BA cards last year, so when we flew BA to LHR last year (in economy), we used these credits. It was a royal pain to use them on the kids, we had to call in to add them, one by one. The upside was that we got 4 credits (so $400) for our family. The downside was that we therefore had 4 ticket locators - and BA doesn't let you pick a seat. So we ultimately had to pay a bit for seats for at least some of us, to ensure the kids wouldn't be far away from us on a transatlantic itinerary.
The other thing to say about BA is that its off-peak days are happily not aligned perfectly with when Americans want to travel. We flew nonstop to LHR in summer for 13K avios and ~$75. The availability at least in economy is much better than anyone else.
We have two bookings in August in order to get the credit for both of us. The flight has already been cancelled so they put us on different flights (since we weren't on the same booking). Took over an hour on the phone to get us put together again. What a pain. Would be nice if they changed it to per person even if multiple on the same booking.
Do the credits work if taking an award flight booked through BA but on a partner airline e.g. Aer Lingus ? Thank you