Bucharest to London in BA Business for €388: Cheap Seat, Cheap Points — Literally
Markus Neubauer · 2025-03-29
Under revenue-based earning, BA’s €388 OTP–LHR business round trip yields roughly 250–300 tier points plus bonus. The fare is still good; the old run logic around it is gone.
Bucharest–London in Club Europe at €388 return is the kind of fare that used to anchor a whole weekend-run culture. The fare survives; the culture doesn’t. Since the 2025 revamp, what you pay is what you earn — precisely.
The numbers
€388 is roughly £330 gross. BA earns one tier point per pound of fare and carrier charges, taxes excluded, so expect around 250–300 tier points plus the Club Europe cabin bonus from BA’s 2026 table. Against thresholds of 3,500 for Bronze and 7,500 for Silver, that is a polite contribution. The pre-2025 version of this piece called 280 points “a real dent” — against a 600-point Silver it was; against 7,500 it is a scratch.
What it is still good for
Exactly what it looks like: a comfortable hop on a genuinely cheap premium fare, with lounge access at both ends and points in strict proportion to the modest price. Book it when you need Bucharest or need London. For deliberate status earning, put the same weekend budget toward a long-haul distance-based partner sale — one Doha–Manila style fare out-earns eight of these.
Bucharest, briefly
If the ticket is doing the work of getting you there rather than back, Bucharest rewards a wander. The Old Town (Lipscani) is a dense grid of cobbled streets between grand Belle Époque façades and communist-era gaps, most of it rebuilt as bars and terraces rather than preserved as a museum piece. Caru’ cu Bere, all stained glass and painted ceiling beams, has been serving heavy Romanian food since 1879 and is worth the tourist crowd it draws. It is a short taxi from Henri Coandă, not a detour.