Have you tried IB to BA transfer?

I am wondering the route - redeem Iberia then transfer Iberia to BA. The only obstacle is, it cannot be done with household account at BA. So one must dismantle the household account first before trying this mechanism.

Hasn't been worth it to me yet but it's on my list to try out someday. I hear you have to have both accounts open 90 days before you can do the transfer.

It can be done via an avios.com account. The physical address in the UK does not to be real. But you have to wait 90 days after opening your IB account.

Also both BA and Iberia accounts should have some activity.

So the route is IB to Avios.com to BA but the BA account can be inside the Household Account? Both IB and Avios accounts would be new since we only have BA accounts.

I understand the rule of 90 days existence before transfer.

BA account is relatively easy to do but how to generate activity in IB account?

The avios you earn through e-rewards are posted to your Iberia account. Is that what you were asking? All of the avios in my Iberia Plus account were earned through e-rewards, then transferred to avios.com, and then transferred to by BAEC Household Account. It is very easy, once the 90-day period is finished.

I am leaning towards 2K United miles for $100 ...

Thank you for the info. Your comment gives me incentive to set up the 2 accounts for this purpose. So the Avios.com account can start from 0 but still able to receive the transfer from IB?

I quite like Avios now for its excellent value for short haul flights, esp now it seems BA does not charge YQ on AB flights.

Correct. My avios.com account has never earned any avios points. It is simply a conduit. It has never had any avios points in it, except for a few minutes during a transfer.

I ended redeeming $100 for 2000 AA miles....not much, but oh well, better than the new Hilton honors exchange rate... And it is good to have AA back @ E-rewards as an option :rolleyes:

Yes, BA account can be part of a household (If it is not, you can transfer directly from Iberia). The transfer of e-rewards to IB will activate it, nothing to do more here. Not sure if you can transfer to Avios.com without it being active, if you take the avios out immediately afterwards, I had bought something from Ebay and had some activity (this is now closed).

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where do you see AA @ E-rewards?

If your e-reward account is sponsored by an airline, you would only see THAT airline as your transfer option for airline. Ditto for hotels.

If your e-reward account is not from either airline or hotel sponsorship, you then will see ALL available options for airlines and hotels.

I thought that was the case with e-Miles while e-Rewards has many program options regardless of who sponsored you.

My spouse and I each have an e-rewards account, and we have many reward options in common, but we have different airline reward options. For example, I can do Iberia Avios (which can be transferred to British Airways) but not AA. Conversely, my spouse can only do AA, not Avios.

what do I have to do to have AA my sponsored airline ?

Click here for your answer — and you can earn 250 American Airlines AAdvantage points in the process as well.

DH's account is not from either airline or hotel - dont remember how he has gotten it - he can see ALL airlines and ALL hotels options. My account does not see HHonor and I am told because my account is from Priority Club.

I just checked this morning and Hilton still offers 7,000 points for $100. Since Hilton is my only hotel choice, I assume that Hilton is the company that invited me to E-rewards. Maybe that makes a difference.

Or maybe E-rewards is doing A/B testing, testing different mixes of redemption offers. Or maybe they are (as a previous poster theorized) changing the Hilton offer in tranches. But why would E-rewards need to make the change one batch at a time instead of all at once, IF E-rewards had already decided that 7,000 points for $100 was too generous? If they are doing A/B testing then I am in the lucky group that has not (so far) been changed. And, if they are testing, and the change shows that the change is not achieving the metrics that E-rewards thought it would meet, then maybe it will be rolled back globally. (Until E-rewards thinks of another A/B test to run ...)

Just my 2cents. I obviously have no real knowledge about what E-rewards is doing. But I work at an E-commerce company, and we are doing A/B testing of one kind or another almost constantly. So that is why my thoughts went that direction.

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thanks,,that worked out great

Same here. I don't remember - it was years ago - but that would probably explain why I have all the airlines and no other hotels. So maybe there is a reward for being their invitee - or as speculated maybe it's just testing what people will buy.

Either way the low reward level is wasted on me as I prefer airline miles!

FTF

I noticed that 7,000 Hilton went up to $125 for me recently. Anyone else? Also, none of my other redemption options have gone above the $100 threshhold.

Been discussed for quite some time by many. Search and ye shall find.

Took one flight on Spirit about 10 years ago but got an e-rewards invitation from Spirit Airlines as one of their valued customers.

I wonder if it was a mailing list sale, rather than direct solicitation by Spirit. Even though they're the sponsor, and the one that will reward the mileage, I'm wondering if there is a conduit in the middle.

When redeeming to DL it shows up instantly in your DL account.
Why not with UA. Why should they be any different?
It has been days now and nothing. I am sure it will get there in time, but if they can do it instantly to DL, why not to all partners?

I just noticed it as well. I crossed the $100 mark and went to redeem. Now I may redeem it for something else. I am not happy.

I have an e-rewards account through HH and I still have $100 for 7 K redemption. So u may want to subscribe to HH offers and hope that they send u an e-rewards invitation.

I would have to close my E Rewards account before HH would even think of giving me an offer to join E Rewards HH. You cannot have two E Rrewards accounts.

U can have more than 1 e-r account. They should be in different names though. It is very easy to change the name on e-r and can be done frequently. At the time of redemption just change it to match the name on your FF/Hotel account.

e-rewards?
 

I'm Canadian - any idea how I can get an invite to e-rewards?

Me neither. Pushed my award to Priority Club instead.

No, you don't have to close, they don't check that when sending invitations. If you have an invitation and want to play by the rules, close the existing account first, but it's not necessary.
I've had HH account for 6-7 years and haven't received an invitation to join e-rewards through them yet, so it may be a long wait.

Either I'm getting old or there's something strange going on.... can someone please remind me where to see when my $ will expire and how much as I can't find the relevant screen. Thanks.

Seems like they've removed it.
Was under My Account -> Review Account Statement.

Excellent. I'm not going crazy after all.

I only saw one other reference to it in this thread but I have a $145 redemption option for a $50 iTunes giftcard. It's only redeemable once every 180 days but I have a hard time seeing how you can accumulate award money that fast anyway. I figure it's better than another random 7000 Hilton or 4000 PC points.

I accumulate very consistently $50 erewards currency each month, but I also take part in every single survey :)

The T&C appear to have an updated interpretation of currency expiration: