Household account complication - help needed
Mar 27, 2023, 3:51 pm
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2014
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Household account complication - help needed
Hi all
Am in a bit of a pickle for the next month or so and need some advice.
I have a household account that I need to split up, but we cannot do it for another month when the 6 months runs out.
I hold the majority of the avios in the account which means that if someone else uses avios it takes a lot out of mine and not much out of theirs.
In order to allow them to book a trip I have suggested a method:
1. I book a flight with a space release or whatever instrument I can use to get my avios held in a booking 3-6 months ahead.
2. They book their trip immediately with the remaining avios in the household account
3. We close the household account in a month
4. I then cancel my avios flight from step 1 and it refunds the amount just into my account.
Will this work? If not I don’t think I can recover the avios they spend that they would owe me.
Household accounts are good and bad..!
Thanks in advance for your advice!
Am in a bit of a pickle for the next month or so and need some advice.
I have a household account that I need to split up, but we cannot do it for another month when the 6 months runs out.
I hold the majority of the avios in the account which means that if someone else uses avios it takes a lot out of mine and not much out of theirs.
In order to allow them to book a trip I have suggested a method:
1. I book a flight with a space release or whatever instrument I can use to get my avios held in a booking 3-6 months ahead.
2. They book their trip immediately with the remaining avios in the household account
3. We close the household account in a month
4. I then cancel my avios flight from step 1 and it refunds the amount just into my account.
Will this work? If not I don’t think I can recover the avios they spend that they would owe me.
Household accounts are good and bad..!
Thanks in advance for your advice!
Mar 27, 2023, 5:13 pm
#3
Join Date: Sep 2022
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 10
Have you considered the following? Do you have a QR Privilege Club account? If so, move your Avios over to that. Booking will then use the avios left in the HHA and you can transfer back to your BA account.
I’m sure someone will confirm that points in QRPC are not available to be used for HHA purchases.
I’m sure someone will confirm that points in QRPC are not available to be used for HHA purchases.
Mar 30, 2023, 6:56 am
#4
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Manchester, UK
Programs: BA Silver, Amex Platinum, IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 333
Just to add to this in case its useful to others
Before making any major redemptions I always move exactly the right amount from my personal BA account to my account at QR/IB/EI (via Combine My Avios) so that the HHA balance only has enough to cover the redemptions 100%, which has the effect of zeroing the kid's accounts in the HHA when the Avios are debitted, and effectively pooling the Avios to me, after I've transferred back (Combine my Avios again) from my QR/IB/EI account.
It's a handy way of indirectly transfering Avios from family members who aren't going to use them.
It also works the opposite way as the OP needs to do to move someone else's Avios out to protect them, and I've also done it this way round to protect a travelling companion family member's balance who is in our HHA, when I wanted to make a redemption booking that they weren't going to be travelling on.
It's a handy way of indirectly transfering Avios from family members who aren't going to use them.
It also works the opposite way as the OP needs to do to move someone else's Avios out to protect them, and I've also done it this way round to protect a travelling companion family member's balance who is in our HHA, when I wanted to make a redemption booking that they weren't going to be travelling on.
Mar 30, 2023, 7:31 am
#5
Join Date: Jun 2019
Programs: BA Gold, EI, VS
Posts: 145
Before making any major redemptions I always move exactly the right amount from my personal BA account to my account at QR/IB/EI (via Combine My Avios) so that the HHA balance only has enough to cover the redemptions 100%, which has the effect of zeroing the kid's accounts in the HHA when the Avios are debitted, and effectively pooling the Avios to me, after I've transferred back (Combine my Avios again) from my QR/IB/EI account.
It's a handy way of indirectly transfering Avios from family members who aren't going to use them.
It also works the opposite way as the OP needs to do to move someone else's Avios out to protect them, and I've also done it this way round to protect a travelling companion family member's balance who is in our HHA, when I wanted to make a redemption booking that they weren't going to be travelling on.
It's a handy way of indirectly transfering Avios from family members who aren't going to use them.
It also works the opposite way as the OP needs to do to move someone else's Avios out to protect them, and I've also done it this way round to protect a travelling companion family member's balance who is in our HHA, when I wanted to make a redemption booking that they weren't going to be travelling on.