Spending Avios can sometimes be tricky. We now regularly bring you a look every fortnight at what routes have the best Avios availability, thanks to Reward Flight Finder.
If there is a particular focus you would like in an article for Avios, let us know in the comments below.
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What is Reward Flight Finder?
Reward Flight Finder offers a free and paid service to find Avios seats for a whole year’s worth of flights at a glance. One of the most useful features is available on the paid plan where you can set alerts when Avios seats are released on the flights you want. You can also use the map feature which shows you all the Avios destinations available on a particular date.
RFF offer monthly and yearly plans. Here are the options:
Silver membership – from £3.99 monthly or Silver Annual £39.99 (current offer for 2 months free)
Silver membership includes:
- Unlimited reward seat searches
- Get reward seat Alerts within 1 hour
- Worldwide Map tool
- Set up to 5 Alerts at once
- Get email Alerts
Gold membership – from £6.99 monthly or Annual £69.99 (current offer gives 2 months free)
- Unlimited reward seat searches
- Get instant reward seat Alerts
- Worldwide Map tool
- Set up to 20 Alerts at once
- Get email Alerts
- Get SMS Alerts
You can find out more and sign up here.
Latest Avios flight availability
London – Bahrain
If you can travel on relatively short notice, there’s a really good level of Business Class seats available across October and November, with lots of dates having 6 seats up for grabs. You’ll also find patches of First Class availability in October, with some dates having up to 3 seats to book.
London – Beijing
London – Barbados
Without setting RFF Alerts, you’ll be hard-pressed to get Business Class seats to Barbados throughout much of 2024 at the moment. However, there’s an excellent patch of Business Class availability that’s open in November 2023, with a few dates having up to 6 seats.
London – Dubai
As always, seats are getting booked up pretty quickly for Dubai. But January 2024 has a few dates with Business Class availability. Considering the flight lasts just under 7 hours, and there are plenty of daytime flights, we’d suggest this is one of the routes where booking Premium Economy reward seats might represent good value for Avios spend. If you’re happy to fly Premium Economy, there’s strong availability right from September to December.
London – Trinidad and Tobago
One of RFF’s top 10 searches for a number of years now. There’s a chance to book Business Class reward seats to Trinidad and Tobago in October and November. There are only a few days of availability in each month though so you’ll need to act fast.
7 comments
Very informative and helpful as usual Michelle, thank you! Do you think they’ll be a chance of reward seats to either Dallas or Austin for next year? I’ve never found any for Austin particularly.
I see Dallas come up quite regularly, Austin is more tricky. I find the seats vary day to day and I personally have a subscription for seat alerts as often thats the only way to grab them before someone else snaps them up!
Can you try and book 355 days out (I.e., on the date released). Other maybe try a RFF subscription? I was a bit sceptical but it helped me get business class tickets the Maldives next year and first class to South Africa so I’m happy.
How about a feature on spending Avios on Aer Lingus out of Dublin? I’m sure you have plenty of Irish viewers and there seem to be a fair few people who fly to Dublin to use Aer Lingus’s direct flights to the US.
Thanks Lauren. We have covered that in the past but I’ll update it and republish it soon.
I’m new to TLFL & spending points generally; I’m finding your articles really helpful thank you!
Something I would like to see & have more explanation about is using points (Avios specifically) to upgrade seats on flights paid for in cash, rather than splashing lots of Avios on “paying” for flights (which seems to be quite restricted anyway).
Are upgrades included in the reward seats availability or is it a different system please?
Thanks Laura. It is the same availablity so you need to search for the flight class you want to upgrade into. I’ll see if I can out something together about it.
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