aceman

I booked the mrs a wt+ ticket and uua'd the outbound.

Seeing upgrade space on the return, she logged into HER exec club account and upgraded with avios, paying the cash component on her Amex.

Avios were deducted.

Logging into my account there's weird activity, 25k avios deducted, with an immediate 12.5k redeposit.

I call in, and am told, that because I UUA'd her outbound, all further UUA activity will automatically be taken from my account, regardless of her being logged in and trying to use her avios.

Very odd, and potentially a nuisance if you upgrade family and friends, since they could quite innocently plunder your avios while attempting to upgrade themselves later on.

Strangely, exec club could see no deduction of avios in her account, and on refresh she was back up to her pre-deduction level.

I didn't ask if they could have used her avios if she'd called in, and would be interested to know!

A P Yu

I think one of the features of the Household Account is that your avios become hers and vice versa.

darthlemsip

From my reading, this is two separate accounts?

KARFA

I think if you pay for the ticket the avios are taken from the payer's account when doing a UuA. I have paid for someone elses WT+ ticket in the past and when subsequently processing the UuA on the phone the avios came from my account.

Globaliser

This isn't correct. Even when accounts are linked in a HHA, they remain individual accounts which will earn Avios and have Avios deducted from them. When a redemption is made, Avios are deducted pro-rata from all of the accounts in the HHA. But that is not the same as "your avios become hers and vice versa".This isn't necessarily the case. The person paying for the underlying ticket may not even be a BAEC member, but it would be odd if that meant that the passenger (who might be a Gold) was completely unable to UUA.

In fact, the last UUA I did was for someone else who's a Gold and whose ticket I paid for. When subsequently doing a UUA online, I logged into the passenger's account and the Avios have come from there.