Originally Posted by
InFF
My wife and I regularly book tickets using Avios for my mother in law to come to the Uk to look after our son whilst we travel. We all have different surnames. I never even considered it might look dodgy to BA. Now I’m a bit anxious as we also rely on avios for Mrs InFF’s weekly trip to Europe for work - (for us, BAEC is a fantastic scheme and saves us thousands of pounds).
do you think I should worry? Or even contact BAEC proactively?
Surnames are not likely to be the primary criteria for flagging transactions as fraud. In your case, you are managing the account of 1 other person, and gifting flights to 1 person. It's normal, and what the Third Party Nominee is intended for.
In the OP's story, the "travel agent" is Nominee for multiple unrelated BAEC accounts, and someone managing flights for 25 families with millions of Avios more unusual. Not that it's automatically suspicious, since I'm sure BA has plenty of well off customers with large extended familes who use someone to manage their travel.