Can I claim my in-laws avios?
#1
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Can I claim my in-laws avios?
My father in law flew with BA from ny to eu and back. In econ so granted we aren't talking a lot of miles but... can I claim them? he doesn't care...
If I can, how?
If I can, how?
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You can’t, he can and then could transfer them to you for a transfer fee, given it’s only a. Few unlikely to be worth it.
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#4
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Great! Thank you!
Then I can do it for both my father in law and mother in law? Household will be part my existing or is it separate?
Then I can do it for both my father in law and mother in law? Household will be part my existing or is it separate?
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<ahem!> A large slice of inappropriate behaviour involved in doing that. I’m surprised and sorry to see a Moderator here proposing a blatant breach of BAEC T&C.
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Yes you meet some people who simply don't care about avios and TPs.
Shocking I know.
But it is up to them to claim them not you to create an account on your in laws behalf simply so you can benefit.
Shocking I know.
But it is up to them to claim them not you to create an account on your in laws behalf simply so you can benefit.
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Will be interesting to see how BA reacts to tickets which may have been purchased in the US with a US address and US APIS information on a US credit card, all of which is sitting in BA's handy little data base.
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“Friends and Family” offers a transfer of Avios option, but it is only free to Golds and, in the case, transferring the wrong way.
My work-around was to transfer Avios to both my BiL and SiL (registered properly as Friends and Family) to boost their (Blue) HHA to prevent their small balance expiring ... to subsequently let them do a booking for us using their meagre holding (either as a Reward or to abate the cash cost of a flight. Complicated and inconvenient, of course.
My work-around was to transfer Avios to both my BiL and SiL (registered properly as Friends and Family) to boost their (Blue) HHA to prevent their small balance expiring ... to subsequently let them do a booking for us using their meagre holding (either as a Reward or to abate the cash cost of a flight. Complicated and inconvenient, of course.
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18.1.2 ... All Household Account members must permanently reside at the same residential address. ...
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A handful of Avios is not worth having to move in with the in-laws
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'...albeit you may have to claim he lives at your address.'
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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!
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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!
BA may not have the most sophisticated IT known to humankind, but this stuff is relatively easy to find.