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Feb 9, 2025 | 3:58 pm

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Originally Posted by mikmort

I transferred a healthy amount of miles to Finnair Avios to book two Business class award tickets from Copenhagen<>Tokyo. Unfortunately a change a plans has required that I cancel the tickets and the Avios have returned to my Finnair account.

Since I'm not sure on when I might use the miles in the future, I was thinking it would be wise to transfer the miles to BA given the 36 month expiry vs. Finnair's 18th month. Is there any downside to transferring the miles from Finnair to British Airways? BA also has easier way to keep the account active.

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Originally Posted by coolpoker

Sould not occassinal transfer AY<->BA prevent from Avios expiration?

Avios transfers between airlines do not reset the expiration. I’m going to assume OP has transferable CC points which does push forward the 36 months in BAEC hence why I suggest you transfer the AY Adios there. I don’t see any downsides as of now.

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