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The British Avios award program is one of my favorite niche programs for one-way redemption for short flights within the US. All major US carriers typically require 12,500 miles for economy flights within the United States. However, since British Airways uses a distance based formula, you could save a considerable amount of miles by using British Avios.
In addition, British Airways doesn’t charge a close in booking fee and you can cancel your British Airways Avios tickets for free for the first 24 hours.
Unfortunately, this month British Airways has increased the amount of miles for the short flights between 0 to 650 miles within North America from 4500 Avios to 7500 Avios. All other mileage redemption remain the same.
We have updated our database to reflect the higher amount of miles needed.
Overall, while it’s not ideal that the number of Avios have increased, 7500 avios for a last minute flight can sometimes be an extremely valuable redemption.
