Can I claim my in-laws avios?
Sep 19, 2018, 10:01 am
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Why would you suggest that BA won't care. There are any number of threads here from people who did roughly what you advocate and suggest BA won't care about and then found out that BA did.
BA may not have the most sophisticated IT known to humankind, but this stuff is relatively easy to find.
BA may not have the most sophisticated IT known to humankind, but this stuff is relatively easy to find.
Sep 19, 2018, 10:04 am
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As a non Moderator, I would suggest doing what was suggested have your in-laws 'move in' with you, at least in a BAEC basis and hten create a household account.
BA are not going to care and I suspect if Uncle T did not HATE CHILDREN
and had a couple of his own who flew irregularly, they would all still be living in Jersey!
BA are not going to care and I suspect if Uncle T did not HATE CHILDREN
and had a couple of his own who flew irregularly, they would all still be living in Jersey!
The T&C are clear enough for even the semi-literate to understand, and I have ZERO (as capitals seem to be in fashion) sympathy for anyone who gets caught by BAEC and has their account terminated.
BTW, my children are hard-working Company Executives in UK (one a Vice-President of a global entity, and the other the MD of a UK Company). Thank you for inappropriately bringing my family into the debate. And, yes, they fly, with my grand-children, from time to time. Your attempted humour misses its target badly on this occasion.
Sep 19, 2018, 10:36 am
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I think it’s safe to say that ‘permanent’ in this case is a minimum of 6 months. If your parents do not currently have BAEC accounts, create them under your address and add them to your household account. You’ll be fine.
Sep 19, 2018, 10:40 am
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Yes, you can pretend you and your in-laws share an address, creating a household account - or adding them to your existing one (under your address). But this is definitely not permitted in the Ts & Cs. There are, however, no reliable statistics on how likely BA is to notice, just the odd anecdote. Personally, it would not worry me. But for others it would.
Keep in mind that Avios redemptions are depleted proportionally. So if your personal account has 500k avios in it, and your father-in-law's has 5k avios. If you make a 100k avios redemption, roughly 99k avios will come from your account and only 1k from theirs, so it might take a while to get through their avios and you might have to do something to keep your in-laws' accounts 'alive' (unless someone in your household account has status with BAEC).
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Sep 19, 2018, 11:15 am
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As a non Moderator, I would suggest doing what was suggested have your in-laws 'move in' with you, at least in a BAEC basis and hten create a household account.
BA are not going to care and I suspect if Uncle T did not HATE CHILDREN and had a couple of his own who flew irregularly, they would all still be living in Jersey!
BA are not going to care and I suspect if Uncle T did not HATE CHILDREN
and had a couple of his own who flew irregularly, they would all still be living in Jersey!
Sep 19, 2018, 11:28 am
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Yes, you can pretend you and your in-laws share an address, creating a household account - or adding them to your existing one (under your address). But this is definitely not permitted in the Ts & Cs. There are, however, no reliable statistics on how likely BA is to notice, just the odd anecdote. Personally, it would not worry me. But for others it would.
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I don't approve of that and BA would take a dim view of it as well.
Sep 19, 2018, 11:30 am
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Indeed there was a thread in August about someone who had reward flights cancelled (whilst they were abroad) because of some shenanigans with a HHA account involving lodgers and protestations that they had done nothing wrong (despite their own explanation indicating otherwise). Not sure how that was resolved though.
Sep 19, 2018, 11:34 am
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I found the thread I mentioned earlier Desperately seeking help! Flights cancelled [Account in Audit]
The OP never came back to tell us what happened.
The OP never came back to tell us what happened.
Sep 19, 2018, 11:52 am
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Why would you suggest that BA won't care. There are any number of threads here from people who did roughly what you advocate and suggest BA won't care about and then found out that BA did.
BA may not have the most sophisticated IT known to humankind, but this stuff is relatively easy to find.
BA may not have the most sophisticated IT known to humankind, but this stuff is relatively easy to find.
Sep 19, 2018, 11:54 am
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Well found, UKtravelbear! I remember the Thread.
Of course, rather than put individual accounts into Audit, BA might identify a growing tendency to abuse their T&C and close down HHA and F&F programmes. Oh, imagine the howls of grief and anger here if that happened ... caused by a small number of individuals taking the pi$$ out of the T&C.
Play a straight bat, chaps.
Of course, rather than put individual accounts into Audit, BA might identify a growing tendency to abuse their T&C and close down HHA and F&F programmes. Oh, imagine the howls of grief and anger here if that happened ... caused by a small number of individuals taking the pi$$ out of the T&C.
Play a straight bat, chaps.
Sep 19, 2018, 1:50 pm
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Absolutely. And it's good for a forum like this to provide a range of opinions.
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Sep 19, 2018, 5:27 pm
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Well found, UKtravelbear! I remember the Thread.
Of course, rather than put individual accounts into Audit, BA might identify a growing tendency to abuse their T&C and close down HHA and F&F programmes. Oh, imagine the howls of grief and anger here if that happened ... caused by a small number of individuals taking the pi$$ out of the T&C.
Play a straight bat, chaps.
Of course, rather than put individual accounts into Audit, BA might identify a growing tendency to abuse their T&C and close down HHA and F&F programmes. Oh, imagine the howls of grief and anger here if that happened ... caused by a small number of individuals taking the pi$$ out of the T&C.
Play a straight bat, chaps.
I suspect your admirable desire to always follow T&C's to the letter is somewhat clouding your judgement there.
Sep 19, 2018, 10:22 pm
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The OP's question has been answered, and the thread has perhaps reached its sell-by-date.
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