Greece Using Points and Miles

[upbeat music] This one came to us from Scott this week.

He said that he and his wife each have 15,000 Avios that are trapped...

Well, not trapped, but they're with British Airways, but they have a, an expiration date coming up, and so he wants to keep those Avios alive.

He doesn't have any other fle- uh, flexible currencies to transfer in.

That would be the easiest way maybe to transfer 1,000 miles in from any of the other flexible currencies to transfer to Avios, but he does not have that luxury.

So he was seeking some advice.

He could buy 2,000 Avios each for him and his partner at $65 to do so.

That would be one way to keep them alive, but again, he was soliciting advice, and got a lot of responses on this.

Several people said they would do it for sure.

I mean, even 15,000 Avios could get you to the Caribbean on, uh, American Airlines flights, so it's, it's not worth getting rid of.

But although other people said that, you know, if you just don't use Avios at all or they're just really sitting there, then just let 'em go.

It's not a huge amount of points.

But several, uh, examples of ways to keep them alive other than the buying points that Scott wanted to do is that, uh, you could buy two screws from Home Depot for $2, which somebody suggested, through the British Airways shopping portal.

That's kinda being a little facetious about it.

But any sh- any shopping activity will keep those, uh, those Avios alive, so that would be a good one.

You could transfer to a different Avios program and then back.

That was suggested.

So perhaps you could transfer from British Airways to Qatar and back, and maybe that would, th- that should, uh, uh, help the expiration date.

Then they also have these Avios for thoughts, like opinion things that you can do that are like surveys you can do for a minuscule amount of points that should keep them going.

So good examples, and so maybe not necessarily have to spend the $65 each.

There are other ways around it.

What about you, April? Would you, if you, I'm sure you use Avios enough that you would wanna keep 'em alive, but what would be your strategy?

It sounds like the simplest and cheapest method is just to buy the $2 item for Home Depot and then get a trip to Caribbean.

That's easy enough to plan.

Exactly.

[upbeat music] This one came to us from Scott this week.

He said that he and his wife each have 15,000 Avios that are trapped...

Well, not trapped, but they're with British Airways, but they have a, an expiration date coming up, and so he wants to keep those Avios alive.

He doesn't have any other fle- uh, flexible currencies to transfer in.

That would be the easiest way maybe to transfer 1,000 miles in from any of the other flexible currencies to transfer to Avios, but he does not have that luxury.

So he was seeking some advice.

He could buy 2,000 Avios each for him and his partner at $65 to do so.

That would be one way to keep them alive, but again, he was soliciting advice, and got a lot of responses on this.

Several people said they would do it for sure.

I mean, even 15,000 Avios could get you to the Caribbean on, uh, American Airlines flights, so it's, it's not worth getting rid of.

But although other people said that, you know, if you just don't use Avios at all or they're just really sitting there, then just let 'em go.

It's not a huge amount of points.

But several, uh, examples of ways to keep them alive other than the buying points that Scott wanted to do is that, uh, you could buy two screws from Home Depot for $2, which somebody suggested, through the British Airways shopping portal.

That's kinda being a little facetious about it.

But any sh- any shopping activity will keep those, uh, those Avios alive, so that would be a good one.

You could transfer to a different Avios program and then back.

That was suggested.

So perhaps you could transfer from British Airways to Qatar and back, and maybe that would, th- that should, uh, uh, help the expiration date.

Then they also have these Avios for thoughts, like opinion things that you can do that are like surveys you can do for a minuscule amount of points that should keep them going.

So good examples, and so maybe not necessarily have to spend the $65 each.

There are other ways around it.

What about you, April? Would you, if you, I'm sure you use Avios enough that you would wanna keep 'em alive, but what would be your strategy?

It sounds like the simplest and cheapest method is just to buy the $2 item for Home Depot and then get a trip to Caribbean.

That's easy enough to plan.

Exactly.