catharsis

thanks for the re-assurance - I had always assumed that would happen but had a sudden panic attack :-)

TheFrankFlyer

i am posting this questions as I could not find the answer with search.

I added our nephew to our HHA as he was travelling with us and wanted to keep the Avios for the ticket we paid for.

According to a post from 2016 on HfP, when removing his account, the head if the household gets his Avios. However, when atempting this, the pop up says his account and avios will be cancelled. Is this a change?

thanks.

neuromancer

I remember seeing this change announced somewhere...

nacho

I have been trying to see if anyone actually tried it - I got exactly the same message and I don't dare to do it because I don't want to lose all the avios from the kids.

TheFrankFlyer

Don't want to try and waste 16K Avios.....

nacho

You could redeem something for very little and just "waste" those, or go to an online shop and buy something using all the accounts in the HHA.

Iamnotlost

I removed my son from my HHA earlier this year (Feb I think). Our plan was that all the avios would stay with me as I thought I'd read you had to actually write in through the post if you wanted them split any other way.
But no - his share went with him.

Iamnotlost

In the current version of the BA T&Cs it says

"18.1.14. If a participant dies, ceases to reside at the Household Account address or ceases to be a Member of the British Airways Executive Club, the unredeemed Avios points held by that person will be removed from the Household Account balance."

Doesn't actually say where the unredeemed avios go to. Though in our case they were still in my son's BAEC account.

RaysMD

guys and gals,


I need some help with transferring some British Airways AVIOS to my wife's Iberia Plus account.

As I understand it, I need to do the following

1. create avios.com (Aer Club) accounts for my wife and myself
2. xfer my BA avios to avios.com
3. create a head of household account with the avios.com accounts
4. break up #3 via a form allocating all the avios to my wife
5. Now xfer to Iberia via combine account

Problem is, I'm in the USA and cannot figure out how to create a HH account for avios.com

any thoughts?

rapidex

I dont think you can create a household account for avios.com.We have a BAEC household account,and to transfer to Iberia I transfer from our household account to my avios.com account,then transfer again to IB.

David buick

I'd like to move my Avios from my IB+ to BAEC.
As I have an household account isn't possible If I don't remove my wife and two kids for six month.
As we would like to travel during this winter holiday would my kids accrue mile if they aren't in an household account ?
I will not need any Avios before July for a reward travel next summer.
I have also read that for June all Avios account held whiten one individual will be merged into one. "Single group points bank by June 2018"
So i'ts not better to wait until next June ?

1nfrequent

Could do with some advice. My parents are each BAEC silver thanks to an ex-EU trip I booked for them in 2016 and some follow-on CE trips. They're now winding up their travel - mostly EU trips, which they'll do in economy and which they're planning to do via Avios redemptions. They've already used some of my mum's Avios for some redemptions next year. Result is that my mum now has circa 3k Avios, my dad 27,000. Their BAEC collection year ends in June 2018 and they'll soft land to bronze.

From an Avios point of view, am I better off combining them into a household account now or should they keep their own individual accounts?

(My gut tells me to combine but I can't work out if I'm missing something that might hurt their redemption plan).

1F

neuromancer

If the kids are under 18 they cannot have accounts outside the household, and they will lose all their avios if you remove them. For persons above 18, yes, they can accrue Avios with standalone accounts.

Is your address in the UK? You can create avios.com accounts and use them as intermediary and transfer IB+ -> avios.com -> BAEC

Where did you read this? I'm not so sure this will happen in time even if the info is official. And not even sure this is what it means...

Paxing

Question related to HHA. My girlfriend is about to join BAEC and join the HHA I am setting up. I seem to recall, that there was an incentive for new sign ups? In that I would invite her to join BAEC and, on her first flight, she and I would get a bonus. I cannot find any reference to this, searches only show the incentive for BA AmEx.
Thanks.

David buick

No, my adress in not UK. I already have an Avios account with Avios stuck on it...
Don't want to loose my kids Avios and statut !