Until April 4, 2025, you can buy Avios from the British Airways Club program with a 40% bonus.
This is a promotion that comes once or twice a year. The last one offered a 40% bonus and ended in September 2024.
So if you buy 100,000 Avios, you get a total of 140,000 Avios. It will cost you 2,315 USD, or 1.65 cents USD per mile (or about 2.36 cents Canadian per mile).
Considering that we value this currency at 1.7 Canadian cents per mile, this is not a great deal. Anything below 1.7 cents per Avios would be a bargain. Anything higher than 1.7 cents is not very profitable.
But this kind of promotion is rare, so you might want to take advantage of it! What’s more, members can usually buy a maximum of 100,000 Avios. During this promotion, the ceiling is raised to 200,000 Avios.
In any case: buying Avios could help you in case you run out of Avios to book an airline award (and you’ve exhausted all other possibilities for obtaining Avios via credit cards).
Since Avios purchases are billed in US dollars, we recommend using a credit card with no conversion fees for foreign currency transactions. Here are two of them:
Before buying Avios, you should take a look at the other options available to you in Canada at:
All these programs are transfer partners with British Airways Club . So you can easily transfer your points into Avios.
Here are the best credit card offers from these different programs:
And you can even get Avios directly with the RBC British Airways Visa Infinite Card (there is a great welcome offer right now for this Card)!
Is it worth buying Avios? As with any miles and points purchase, this will depend on the circumstances. You’ll need to decide based on the reward flights you plan to book soon.
Find out everything you need to know about the British Airways Club program, including the sweetspots of the program:
Savings are here (if you don’t see the sign-up form, please click here):
