The beginnings of something quite mad… (well BCN)

I like to fare hunt – it’s almost a sport in itself. When I fare hunt, mad ideas start to form, and gel (the like of which normally ends with me having a bad back for weeks after walking around cities for hours).

But anyway, I did a bit of hunting and digging and found a little gem for the mid-end of hundreds of Euros (and it’s still live from the looks of it – fiddle with the dates in November and see what happens on BA.com)

The breakdown:

• 90 Tier Points (10 + 35 + 35 + 10)
• 26784 Avios (1434 + 11958 + 11958 + 1434)

Considering buying 24,000 Avios is £399, and I’ve paid just over that for 26,000+ Avios, this is an Avios run rather than a full-on TP run. So this a rare case of flying is easier than collecting Avios via another way.

Not bad, but most of you know this map is nowhere near complete – least of all I have to position to/from Barcelona.

There’s also another issue on the table: Taipei has been on my eyeball list for sometime – least of all, there is Taipei 101 which could mean EVA Air if I sort out that part of the trip.

And with EVA Air comes… Hello Kitty Jet.

Let it never be said that I don’t like variety in my trips :).

And booking tickets at 2am in the morning probably leads to lots of ideas I really shouldn’t think of 😉

Tune in November/December for Hong Kong 3: The BA Way