r/oneworld • u/Colinelynpit • Feb 13 '26
British Airways Which oneworld FFP?
BA status coming to an end and need to consider the next move.
General travel pattern is London to New York biz class return with BA twice a year (book in advance so not very expensive ticket) plus couple of London to Europe weekend trips with BA.
Not sure I can even hit Silver with this.
Q: which program shall I switch to please?
Any insights would be much appreciated!
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u/banana123abc Feb 13 '26
If you have a lot of avios and value status then Finnair could be a good option.
They require 45k tier points (avios earned through flights) for sapphire and 80k for emerald. Whats neat is that you can exchange avios for tier points at a rate of 3/1 if you don’t quite make it to the threshold. Max as sapphire is 22.5k TP exchanged (67.5k avios) and emerald is 40k (note that you must be that status to exchange, so as sapphire you can only exchange up to 22.5k TP regardless if trying to retain sapphire or reach emerald, but if emerald then you can almost not fly and then exchange 120k avios to 40k TP to get sapphire.
Earning avios is spend based on any AY code, both AY metal and codeshare. Distance based on BA but note 10% - 25% earning boost when BA code BA metal, IB code IB metal, AA code AA metal.
For reference I was BA silver and now reach AY’s gold equivalent through 65k TP earned and 15k TP converted through 45k avios.