British Airways Introduces Avios-Only Flights

The Geneva flights are timed with ski holiday peak season around school / college vacation dates in the UK, and these flights typically sell for $$$ so I can only assume these are to address a specific complaint about booking Avios seats for ski trips. Hopefully some more longer haul routes will follow for the summer vacation!

In December 2022, BA introduced a points-and-cash sliding scale feature for award redemptions. At the same time, BA introduced a change to its Gold Upgrade Certificates. Previously, there had to be award availability in the target cabin class in order to use the GUC. Now, there is no such requirement. It might be that this is another step towards a no-fuel-fee award option across the board. And, dare I say, dynamic point pricing.

I think the reason this promotion is a lot less exciting than the way Qantas did it is because reward flights are meant to be aspirstional.
Making 12 A380 first class award seats available is aspirational.
5 hours on an A320 in short-haul European business class is not aspirational.

" “these flights will be as hot as a Jordan 1 ‘Chicago’ drop,” and while I’m not exactly sure what that means "

It means a large group of people wasting money on some subculture propaganda under the idea of investment.
Basically an era of bitcoins before bitcoins.

Didn't you learn from your parents that their pet rock never reached a million, or your grandparent who has the 1 out of 200 rare baseball card along with the other 100,000 people who also had the same card.

You're better off investing with Bernie Madoff, then all these subculture scams.

One of the full GVA rotations has already sold out. The rest will follow.

Don’t like it. Make more seats available on all flights. I recently flew TPA-LGW and there were plenty of Premium Economy Seats vacant…yet my daughter was told I got the last seat?

Dumb. It will fail but for sake of argument, if it would be wildly successful, we'd have a problem. Avios becomea a currency, albeit tiny. Again, it won't succeed and it's just dumb.

British Airways isn't an airline that I trust. They are NOTORIOUS for putting their own ASS first in every scenario. The voucher saga during covid was one of many examples that prove this point. The bottom line is, it's a step in the right direction, but time will tell if it's actually something to get hyped up about. I wouldn't hold my breath.

This is nothing new, In the past I use to book flights from South Africa to the UK using my avios, but sadly, that is no longer the case. Now you can only use your avios to book hired cars and hotels. What is the point of that?

Why not a flight to Sydney?

I can hardly wait for HS to London flights. There’s never any award flights available now so I’m hoping I’ll be able to use my points finally.

Avios only flight is commendable. However, I've noticed it's restricted to certain airports and cities. I cant wait for it to go across countries.