Has IAG suspended 'Combine My Avios'?
Jul 4, 2018, 8:59 am
#16
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: England - UK
Posts: 512
I'm not understanding why some want to transfer the points over to BA? What has the exec club got that you can't get with Iberia?
Jul 4, 2018, 9:13 am
#18
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, HHonors Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,546
Jul 4, 2018, 9:15 am
#19
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: SYD
Programs: QF Plat, BA GGL, VA Silver, SQ Gold, IHG Gold, HH Diamond, Accor Plat, Hertz Pres Circle
Posts: 406
If you earn avios into IB, from say crediting a flight, does that raise the transfer cap from the pre-bonus balance amount?
Jul 4, 2018, 12:53 pm
#20
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
Programs: BA Silver, TK E+, AA PP, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LT Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 13,048
If IAG gets really aggressive they'll claw the Avios back from BAEC. It's a relatively risky travel hack - it will be easy for IB+ to audit any accounts that end up negative, and they will know exactly where the Avios were transferred to - so mostly relevant for those who can live with being kicked out of Avios.
Jul 4, 2018, 1:38 pm
#21
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: England - UK
Posts: 512
Really? Don't think I'd want to upset Iberia too much given their low fees on awards plus, they may run further generous offers. I did very well out of their Avis promotion a few years back.
Jul 4, 2018, 6:03 pm
#22
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 500
Also wanna transfer 4000 points i got over in my BA account to top up my IB+ but cant
Jul 5, 2018, 1:18 am
#23
Join Date: Nov 2013
Programs: BA Silver, TK ElitePlus
Posts: 74
Have you tried doing this from your IB account? When I login on my BAEC account I get an error message, but not so from my IB account. Need to add that I didn't actually transfer anything (yet) but still was able to logon to IB and link my BAEC account...
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Jul 5, 2018, 2:12 am
#24
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: SIN
Posts: 61
Error 404--Not Found
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.5 404 Not Found
The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.
Jul 6, 2018, 4:27 am
#25
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Programs: Junior Jet Club, Nando's Card 1 Red Chilli, Tesco Clubcard, BAEC Gold, TK M&S Elite
Posts: 520
Godsavethepoints is reporting that this may have been suspended permanently .
Jul 6, 2018, 5:15 am
#27
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Programs: Junior Jet Club, Nando's Card 1 Red Chilli, Tesco Clubcard, BAEC Gold, TK M&S Elite
Posts: 520
Fair point.
Jul 6, 2018, 5:34 am
#28
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Nottingham
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 1,326
Yeh it's absolute codswallop! Just transferred some Avios from Iberia Plus to BAEC. Wasn't bonus Avios, but other already in my account.
Jul 6, 2018, 5:37 am
#29
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: South London
Programs: British Airways Executive Club
Posts: 215
I tried to do this yesterday with no success so the issue should be resolved, or soon will be.
Jul 6, 2018, 6:08 am
#30
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: SIN
Posts: 61
I just managed to transfer 10k from BA to IB.
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