BA Tier Point Planner

This tool helps you estimate how many Tier Points you could earn from BA Holidays in different cabins and how that compares with the Tier Point requirements for Silver and Gold. Enter the typical holiday prices you're seeing, and the planner will show how many trips might be needed - or whether you're already on track.

✈️ How BA Holidays earn Tier Points ▼

For BA Holidays, Tier Points are made up of two parts:

  • 1 Tier Point per £1 of the BA Holiday price (flights + hotel/car)
  • A fixed Bonus Tier Point amount for each flight sector, based on cabin

That means a £3,300 BA Holiday in First with 1,100 bonus Tier Points would earn about 4,400 Tier Points in total. A more expensive holiday earns more Tier Points, but the value depends on how many Tier Points you get per pound spent.

💡 Which destinations usually give the best Tier Point value? ▼

Bonus Tier Points do not increase with distance, so a shorter, cheaper long-haul trip in the same cabin can give much better Tier Point value than a very long, very expensive one. The table below shows some illustrative examples for 3-night BA Holidays travelling in First and Club World:

Destination Cabin Typical BA Holiday Bonus TP Total TP
(spend + bonus)		 TP per £1

💡 Higher is better.

In these examples, East Coast USA (Boston, New York, Washington DC) delivers more Tier Points per pound than ultra-long-haul destinations like Singapore, Tokyo or Sydney — even though the ultra-long-haul trips earn more total Tier Points.

🏝️ Why starting in Jersey can be even better value ▼

Holidays that start in Jersey (JER) avoid UK Air Passenger Duty (APD) on the long-haul flight out of London. You can also pick up extra Club Europe sectors between Jersey and the UK when repostioning, which can earn you additional Bonus Tier Points, if booked with BA.

When suggesting a holiday starting in Jersey, the planner removes the current APD for the outbound legs which makes these BA Holidays in premium cabins considerabbly cheaper overall for the same long-haul routing — and can therefore give even better Tier Point value, especially if your repositioning flights are with BA, and you include the tier points for these extra legs.

1. Tell us where you are now

For each cabin, enter roughly the best prices you can actually see for BA Holidays (or equivalent BA flight prices). A good way to do this is to use the BA Low Price Finder to find the lowest First / Club World / Club Europe fares on routes you’d genuinely consider (e.g. Boston, New York, Washington DC), then adjust if your BA Holiday package is slightly higher.

🔍 How to use BA Low Price Finder with this planner ▼

To get the most realistic results, it helps to base your prices on what BA is actually selling now. You can use the BA Low Price Finder as a guide:

  1. Select your nearest airport (e.g. LHR, LGW, MAN, EDI).
  2. Choose your cabin (Business for Club World, First for First).
  3. Scan the calendar for the lowest prices on routes you’d realistically fly (BOS/JFK/IAD often give good value).
  4. Use those lowest realistic fares as the basis for the First / Club World prices above, or enter the BA Holidays package price if you already have a holiday in mind.

The planner assumes the prices you enter are already “good” prices. It won’t invent unrealistically cheap First or Club World holidays below what you’ve found – it just explores how many such trips, and in which mix, might get you to Silver or Gold most efficiently.

4. Assumptions