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?

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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?

<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. :eek:

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.

You certainly can. But, you may not.

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.:rolleyes:

OT: And everyone that had a go at BA's IT systems. :D
@bklgafly: Household accounts are only available to passengers living in one household.

“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.

You may want to note BA's T&C:-If your parents-in-law qualify to be part of a household account with you, then it is in effect a type of pooling arrangement in relation to your existing individual accounts, which you will still have.

A handful of Avios is not worth having to move in with the in-laws :eek:

I was of the belief that it could be done if someone temporarily resides at your address too, but evidently the rules have changed to permanent residency being the key element.

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That isn't what you said, you openly advocated a deception:

'...albeit you may have to claim he lives at your address.'

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!

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.