UK Avios Travel Rewards Programme Changes
Apr 9, 2018, 8:22 pm
#46
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: South East England
Programs: Status with BA Exec Club; KrisFlyer; Hilton Honors; IHG One; Marriott Bonvoy
Posts: 543
If I’m able to call up once and use an Amex 2-4-1 and a Lloyds upgrade on one booking I’d see it as an improvement. One of my kids has their own PNR on a flight back from the states next year because we can’t use both in one transaction.
Apr 10, 2018, 1:37 am
#47
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 4,477
I am confused.
If you have a Lloyds Avios credit card, and the avios is transferred to your Avios account monthly, then you should have an Avios account (standard). In this case, your Lloyds avios will be transferred to a BA executive account in future.
If you have an AerClub account, but your Lloyds Avios credit card is issued in UK and your billing address is in UK, then theoretically you will have a new BA executive club account for future use.
If you have a log-in username and password for Avios.com in UK then you are a member of Avios travel rewards UK regardless whether you have an AerClub account or not.
Otherwise you will have to call Avios.
If you have a Lloyds Avios credit card, and the avios is transferred to your Avios account monthly, then you should have an Avios account (standard). In this case, your Lloyds avios will be transferred to a BA executive account in future.
If you have an AerClub account, but your Lloyds Avios credit card is issued in UK and your billing address is in UK, then theoretically you will have a new BA executive club account for future use.
If you have a log-in username and password for Avios.com in UK then you are a member of Avios travel rewards UK regardless whether you have an AerClub account or not.
Otherwise you will have to call Avios.
Apr 10, 2018, 1:46 am
#48
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,021
Family member wants Avios from avios.com transferred to the new flybe avios scheme, whenever that opens.
They also want the soon-to-expire Avios in their BAEC to be transferred to Avios now then flybe or direct to flybe.
Anyone know if either is possible?
They also want the soon-to-expire Avios in their BAEC to be transferred to Avios now then flybe or direct to flybe.
Anyone know if either is possible?
Apr 10, 2018, 1:46 am
#49
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
I am confused.
If you have a Lloyds Avios credit card, and the avios is transferred to your Avios account monthly, then you should have an Avios account (standard). In this case, your Lloyds avios will be transferred to a BA executive account in future.
If you have an AerClub account, but your Lloyds Avios credit card is issued in UK and your billing address is in UK, then theoretically you will have a new BA executive club account for future use.
If you have a log-in username and password for Avios.com in UK then you are a member of Avios travel rewards UK regardless whether you have an AerClub account or not.
Otherwise you will have to call Avios.
If you have a Lloyds Avios credit card, and the avios is transferred to your Avios account monthly, then you should have an Avios account (standard). In this case, your Lloyds avios will be transferred to a BA executive account in future.
If you have an AerClub account, but your Lloyds Avios credit card is issued in UK and your billing address is in UK, then theoretically you will have a new BA executive club account for future use.
If you have a log-in username and password for Avios.com in UK then you are a member of Avios travel rewards UK regardless whether you have an AerClub account or not.
Otherwise you will have to call Avios.
I think that at some point I perhaps had two different accounts but, if I remember correctly, they were merged together.
Apr 10, 2018, 1:54 am
#50
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,706
Perhaps my previous message wasn’t clear. I only have one Avios.com account. When I log in, it says I am an AerClub member. This is the same account on which I receive the Avios from my Lloyd cards. This is also the same account in which my Lloyd upgrade voucher was sitting. This is also the account I use for the estore.
I think that at some point I perhaps had two different accounts but, if I remember correctly, they were merged together.
Apr 10, 2018, 1:55 am
#51
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London. Edinburgh, Cornwall
Programs: BA GGL, British Midland Lifetime* Loser
Posts: 7,941
I'm in the same position. At some point they combined by Aer Club with my standalone Avios account. It hasn't mattered so far but presumably we'll have to tell them to combine it with BA and not leave it to EI (unless we will be able to combine to/from Aer Club).
Sounds like there will also be a strange period when we're giving our Executive Club numbers when booking on Flybe.
Glad it's all being simplifed
Sounds like there will also be a strange period when we're giving our Executive Club numbers when booking on Flybe.
Glad it's all being simplifed
Apr 10, 2018, 3:03 am
#53
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: GLA
Programs: BAEC: Silver. Nothing else as TopCashBack trumps all hotel programs
Posts: 801
So what about Pending Avios?? I have about 70k of Avios pending in booking.com transactions and Trainline and they wont go through until 120 days after I complete my stays/journeys. (I have bookings all the way through to December)
I will be beyond furious if that 70k Avios just disappears. I could have chosen to use top cashback instead and would be sitting on several hundred pounds.
I will be beyond furious if that 70k Avios just disappears. I could have chosen to use top cashback instead and would be sitting on several hundred pounds.
Apr 10, 2018, 3:04 am
#54
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,706
I'm in the same position. At some point they combined by Aer Club with my standalone Avios account. It hasn't mattered so far but presumably we'll have to tell them to combine it with BA and not leave it to EI (unless we will be able to combine to/from Aer Club).
Sounds like there will also be a strange period when we're giving our Executive Club numbers when booking on Flybe.
Glad it's all being simplifed
Sounds like there will also be a strange period when we're giving our Executive Club numbers when booking on Flybe.
Glad it's all being simplifed
Apr 10, 2018, 3:16 am
#55
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: South East, UK
Programs: BA Gold / GfL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,431
There is currently a technical issue affecting the transfer of points from Avios to BA. I just tried. The points left my Avios account (now 0 balance) but I got a message saying they could not be credited to my BA account and that I needed to contact Avios to have them credited back to my Avios account! I did that, but the agent said:
"There is currently a problem with the transfer function. It has been reported to the BA and Avios online teams who are working on it. If points have left your account they will roll back within 24 hours."
So be cautious about trying to transfer points until this problem is fixed. It is apparently "being investigated as high priority". But this is BA IT we're talking about, so that could mean anything!
"There is currently a problem with the transfer function. It has been reported to the BA and Avios online teams who are working on it. If points have left your account they will roll back within 24 hours."
So be cautious about trying to transfer points until this problem is fixed. It is apparently "being investigated as high priority". But this is BA IT we're talking about, so that could mean anything!
Apr 10, 2018, 3:17 am
#57
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
So what about Pending Avios?? I have about 70k of Avios pending in booking.com transactions and Trainline and they wont go through until 120 days after I complete my stays/journeys. (I have bookings all the way through to December)
I will be beyond furious if that 70k Avios just disappears. I could have chosen to use top cashback instead and would be sitting on several hundred pounds.
I will be beyond furious if that 70k Avios just disappears. I could have chosen to use top cashback instead and would be sitting on several hundred pounds.
Apr 10, 2018, 3:46 am
#58
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
No. It needs a separate HQ anyway given the number of employees and, as it works arms-length with BA anyway keeping it separate makes sense. The old Avios CEO told me that he had to have a standard commercial negotiation with Cruz, when he was running Vueling, over the terms of Vueling Club.
Apr 10, 2018, 3:46 am
#59
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: GLA
Programs: BAEC: Silver. Nothing else as TopCashBack trumps all hotel programs
Posts: 801
But that Avios doesn't exists. Not until I complete my stay (in the case of booking.com). So I don't actually have that Avios. It is pending and wont appear until say December for some of them.
If they move everything smoothly over to BA, I am pretty sure that pending Avios will be lost, as it's not in my account.
If they move everything smoothly over to BA, I am pretty sure that pending Avios will be lost, as it's not in my account.
Apr 10, 2018, 3:52 am
#60
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 935
No. It needs a separate HQ anyway given the number of employees and, as it works arms-length with BA anyway keeping it separate makes sense. The old Avios CEO told me that he had to have a standard commercial negotiation with Cruz, when he was running Vueling, over the terms of Vueling Club.