British Airways Avios reward seat availability – First class to US and Half term 2024

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. 

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

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

• 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.

In our previous availability article TLFL reader Chris asked for information about BA reward seat availability for the school holidays in February 2024. 

We’ve pulled that information to help inspire travellers for Spring 2024.  Keep checking Reward Flight Finder for the latest availability. 

Short-haul

London – Athens

Athens has good availability in both Economy and Business Class throughout February 2024 for outbound flights, but there is less available for the return. 

London – Faro

Availability is looking excellent across both Economy and Business Class for half term 2o24 outbound, but only economy is available for the return. However, given the high prices of cash fares during this time, it can still be a good value redemption and gives better flexibility than cash. 

London – Bordeaux 

Availability is looking great across both Economy and Business Class seats with +2 seats available almost every day. 

Malaga

Malaga is lacking in economy seats available, but there are 2+ business class seats available almost every day during February. 

Long-haul – half term

London – Hong Kong

There’s great Premium Economy availability throughout February, and some days still have Business Class availability up for grabs too. 

London – New York

There’s loads of availability in Premium Economy outbound, but generally only one seat coming back. 

London – San Francisco 

There are a lot of reward seats available in Premium Economy outbound but only business class for the way back. In some ways, this is a good way to do it as you get the flatbed on the long overnight flight home.

Long-haul – First class 2023

Extra availablity seems to have been added for first class flights to the US. Here are the cities that have the most availablity:

• • New York – outbound only 2+ seats between now and end of August
  • Boston – April, May and August have the best availablity but there is less inbound availablity
  • Philadelphia – outbound only 2+ seats between now and end of August
  • Dallas – a smattering in July and August

You can check further availablity using Reward Flight Finder.