British Airways has announced it is to double the number of
seats on every flight that can be booked with its loyalty scheme currency Avios. More than 250,000 additional reward seats are to be made available for
travel from 28 July.
The airline has always guaranteed that at least a certain
number of reward seats will be available on each flight and this has now been
doubled. The carrier is also guaranteeing availability of reward seats in World
Traveller Plus, British Airways’ long-haul premium economy cabin, for the first
time. Between two and eight seats are now guaranteed on each flight, depending on class of
travel.
Tom Stevens, director of brand and customer experience at
British Airways, said, “The feedback we hear is that people would like us to
make it easier to book flights using Avios. We have listened and acted on this,
and today’s announcement directly addresses this feedback, opening up six extra
reward seats on a short-haul flight, and eight on a long-haul flight.”