Originally Posted by
intuition
But BAEC and QRPC accounts are linked. Any avios in my BAEC account is visible in my QRPC account so there is no need to tranfer to QR anyway. But that is just the technical side of it, I was thinking about why would they bother with trying to limit AY to only transfer to BA? There is something fisjy with that.
Might be a technical limitation. Airlines are not particularly known for their great IT systems. Combine my avios is instant between programs. Once they are in BAEC, there is nothing that stops you from transferring them elsewhere.