Use your BACompanion Voucher and Reward Flight Saver together for a real deal

If you earn BACompanion Vouchers through anAmerican Express credit card, the new Reward Flight Saver options will be especially valuable because the vouchers will let you get the same deal twice.

Companion vouchers effectively operate as a buy-one-get-one-free on reward flights. With a regular reward flight, both parties still have to pay all the fees, taxes, and surcharges in cash. But by booking a Reward Flight Saver fare in conjunction with a Companion Voucher, the lead passenger gets to reduce the add-on fees by using extraAvios, and the ‘free’companion passenger pays the same reduced cash amount for those extra charges.

Using BA’s London to NewYork route, one of our top reward seat searches, as an example, you typically need to pay 100,000Avios points, plus 2 x £850 in fees, taxes, and surcharges for your business class booking.Atotal of £1,706 in cash. However, by utilising a Reward Flight Saver alongside a BACompanion Voucher you can pay 60,000 additionalAvios and save £1,000 in cash.

With a standard BAAmex card, your Companion Voucher will entitle you to get the BOGOF discount on economy Reward Flight seats. If you pay an annual fee to have the BritishAirwaysAmerican Express Premium Plus Card then your Companion Voucher can be redeemed for all classes of seats. With either credit card, you’ll only earn an annual Companion Voucher if you’ve spent a certain amount within that membership year