Your guide to Household Accounts
Mar 20, 2015, 1:47 pm
#91
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 371
Feasible?
Could not locate a similar question, thanks for any input!
(assume we're at the same address and flight/upgrade availability isn't an issue)
My in-laws have amex MR's that we'd like to utilize.
Plan is
- create BA EC accounts for us and in-laws
- create a HHA (I will be the head)
- book US-LHR economy flights for wife & I
- figure out avios points y needed for upgrade to business
- transfer in-law's y MR points to their BA EC account in avios
- utilize y avios for upgrades for wife & I
That should work, right?
(assume we're at the same address and flight/upgrade availability isn't an issue)
My in-laws have amex MR's that we'd like to utilize.
Plan is
- create BA EC accounts for us and in-laws
- create a HHA (I will be the head)
- book US-LHR economy flights for wife & I
- figure out avios points y needed for upgrade to business
- transfer in-law's y MR points to their BA EC account in avios
- utilize y avios for upgrades for wife & I
That should work, right?
Mar 20, 2015, 2:02 pm
#92
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You can't upgrade long-haul economy tickets to business class.
You can only upgrade economy tickets to World Traveller Plus. (At the moment, there's also a limitation in that only the most expensive tickets can be upgraded, although this will change at the end of next month.)
If you want to upgrade to business class on a long-haul flight, you have to buy a WT+ ticket and upgrade that.
Mar 26, 2015, 3:32 pm
#94
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 3
I have had a houseold account in BA Exec for a few months. i can see my balance and I can see the joint just below mine, but when i search for reward flights i can only see what is avaliable with my own balance.
I can clicking here:
My Household Account Avios: -> Manage my Household Account -> Explore and check reward flight availability.
What am I doing wrong?
When the other member of the household logs in they can see their balance and we are both at the same address.
Thanks for your help
Geoff
I can clicking here:
My Household Account Avios: -> Manage my Household Account -> Explore and check reward flight availability.
What am I doing wrong?
When the other member of the household logs in they can see their balance and we are both at the same address.
Thanks for your help
Geoff
Mar 26, 2015, 4:02 pm
#95
Join Date: Jul 2009
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I couldn't find the exact route through that you identified, but if you've ended up at the "Reward Flights Map" to Explore with Avios then yes - the default number of avios option only shows your own. You can increase the "avios slider" to the total household account (or beyond for a target) to see where you can go.
Once you click through to specific flights you should get the total household account number to book with.
Once you click through to specific flights you should get the total household account number to book with.
Jun 12, 2015, 2:14 am
#97
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 84
I have a household account with my wife, daughter and son.
My son has just got married and has his own house now and wants his own household account with his wife (who has her own account individually)
He currently has 25000 points....If I remove him from my account what happens to his points?
My son has just got married and has his own house now and wants his own household account with his wife (who has her own account individually)
He currently has 25000 points....If I remove him from my account what happens to his points?
Jun 12, 2015, 2:17 am
#98
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Jul 20, 2015, 8:01 am
#100
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If two people are in an HHA account, but one of them has a Tesco registered address that does not match the HHA household address, and the idea is to get that person's Tesco points converted into their BA.com account so as they become part of the pooled Avios, will it work to:-
1) Do a transfer from Tesco-> avios.com ( the Tesco and Avios.com addresses are the same)
2) Switch the Avios.com address to match the BA.com household address
3) Combine the Avios.com with the BA.com (I assume the address need to match for a combine to work ?)
The obvious solution would be to switch the Tesco address to match the HHA address, but it advantageous to have two different tesco addresses.
1) Do a transfer from Tesco-> avios.com ( the Tesco and Avios.com addresses are the same)
2) Switch the Avios.com address to match the BA.com household address
3) Combine the Avios.com with the BA.com (I assume the address need to match for a combine to work ?)
The obvious solution would be to switch the Tesco address to match the HHA address, but it advantageous to have two different tesco addresses.
Last edited by tangey; Jul 20, 2015 at 8:06 am
Jul 29, 2015, 3:29 pm
#101
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Here is a tricky one (or maybe not ?). ,
Mrs FF99 has a couple of Amex 2-4-1s and I have a couple of GUF2's, all due to expire within a matter of a few months. If I were to set up a household account, would we be able to use a voucher from each account (Amex 2-4-1 from hers and GUF2 from mine) on a single booking ??
Mrs FF99 has a couple of Amex 2-4-1s and I have a couple of GUF2's, all due to expire within a matter of a few months. If I were to set up a household account, would we be able to use a voucher from each account (Amex 2-4-1 from hers and GUF2 from mine) on a single booking ??
Jul 29, 2015, 3:55 pm
#102
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Here is a tricky one (or maybe not ?). ,
Mrs FF99 has a couple of Amex 2-4-1s and I have a couple of GUF2's, all due to expire within a matter of a few months. If I were to set up a household account, would we be able to use a voucher from each account (Amex 2-4-1 from hers and GUF2 from mine) on a single booking ??
Mrs FF99 has a couple of Amex 2-4-1s and I have a couple of GUF2's, all due to expire within a matter of a few months. If I were to set up a household account, would we be able to use a voucher from each account (Amex 2-4-1 from hers and GUF2 from mine) on a single booking ??
Someone asked a very similar question in the following thread with the only clear answer being to call BAEC. See:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...fes-241-a.html
Aug 4, 2015, 4:55 am
#103
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Yes this works, however for adults in the household, BA doesn't allow that. So I had to use dummy addresses for them. Which is kind of a flaw in the system. BA allows all the accounts to use my mobile number, but not the same email address. Why?
Aug 31, 2015, 3:07 am
#104
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Is there really no way to see the transactions of the household members? I have to log into each account separately? I can see the total Avios from my account, but not the individual transactions. Am I missing something?