How Many Avios Does A Flight Cost In 2021?

If you haven’t already noticed, British Airways has quietly increased the cost of short-haul Avios redemptions. And let’s face it… you may not have noticed given there isn’t much flying happening at the moment! So with that increase in mind… how many Avios does a flight cost in 2021? Let’s take a look!

So How Many Avios Does A Flight Cost?

Here is the current award chart

What locations are in each zone?

Zones

Zone 1

Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Basel, Belfast, Bergerac, Berlin, Bilbao, Billund, Bordeaux, Brussels, Chambery, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Geneva, Genoa, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Grenoble, Hamburg, Hannover, Innsbruck, Inverness, Jersey, Leeds Bradford, Limoges, Luxembourg, Lyon, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Munich, Nantes, Newcastle, Nice, Paris, Prague, Quimper, Rotterdam, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Toulouse, Turin & Zurich

Zone 2

Algiers, Alicante, Almeria, Barcelona, Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Budapest, Cagliari, Dubrovnik, Faro, Figari, Florence, Gibraltar, Granada, Helsinki, Ibiza, Krakow, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Naples, Olbia, Oslo, Palermo, Palma, Pisa, Porto, Pula, Rome, Seville, Split, Stockholm, Valencia, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw & Zagreb

Zone 3

Athens, Bucharest, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Istanbul, Kalamata, Kefalonia, Kiev, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Malta, Marrakech, Moscow, Mykonos, Paphos, Reykjavik, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos, Sofia, St Petersburg, Teneriffe, Thessaloniki, Tirana & Zakynthos

Zone 4

Abuja, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Jeddah, Kuwait & Tel Aviv

Zone 5

Abu Dhabi, Accra, Bahrain, Baltimore, Bermuda, Boston, Chicago, Doha, Dubai, Islamabad, Lagos, Montreal, Muscat, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Riyadh, Toronto & Washington

Zone 6

Antigua, Atlanta, Austin, Barbados, Beijing, Bengalaru, Calgary, Cancun, Cape Town, Charleston, Chennai, Dallas, Delhi, Denver, Durban, Fort Lauderdale, Grand Cayman, Grenada, Houston, Hyderabad, Johannesburg, Kingston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Mahe (Seychelles), Male, Mexico City, Miami, Mumbai, Nairobi, Nashville, Nassau, New Orleans, Orlando, Phoenix, Port of Spain, Punta Cana, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose (CA), San Jose (C’Rica), Seattle, St Kitts, St Lucia, Tampa, Tobago, Turks and Caicos & Vancouver

Zone 7

Bangkok, Hong Kong, Lima, Mauritius, Narita, Osaka, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai & Tokyo

Zone 8

Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Santiago & Singapore

Zone 9

Sydney.

How Has It Changed From Before?

Below is the award chart from before the latest changes…

As you might be able to see the increase is 750 Avios each way on flights Zone 3 and below, so 1,500 Avios for a return flight.

Conclusion

Whilst not a lot, it does seem rather counterintuitive with cash rates currently quite low due to the ongoing COVID pandemic. It’s also rather odd decreasing the value of Avios for flights when you can now convert out to Nectar points. What do you make of the price changes?

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