Originally Posted by
Traveller 935
If you link your QR and BA accounts you can freely move your Avios between them. Allowing you to temporarily shift enough Avios to QR to do award searches (assuming you have the amount of Avios required in your BA account of course).
There is another way to search for QR avios flights, without shifting the total required over to QR beforehand. I just leave a few in my QR account for searching purposes.
Providing you are registered as a QR frequent flyer and have a few avios in your QR account - you search first for the cash flight you want and once you have identified that (while logged in to QR) an option using avios pops up and away you go! You can then continue searching for QR avios flights for different routes/dates etc.
You can get total avios and cash costs even if you have nothing like the number of required avios.