Move over, antiquated Combine My Avios tool, there’s a new kid on the block! Avios have just launched a new Transfer Avios tool. It’s slick, modern – and actually works!
Frequent flyers with British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling, Loganair, Finnair and Qatar Airways accounts can rejoice. Now you can move your Avios between each programme with ease.
Avios Transfers Made Easy!
Moving Avios from British Airways to Qatar Airways and Finnair has always been easy, as these came in relatively recently. Trying to transfer Avios from BA to Aer Lingus or Iberia has been hitherto an awful experience. It hasn’t worked for me for years and I’ve had to telephone to do it on the odd occasion when I’ve needed to.
Why Transfer Avios?
Two reasons spring to mind. If you’re a member of the British Airways Club, you will be slogged for some huge surcharges on award flights. The exact same flights will probably have lower taxes booked via Aer Lingus AerClub. You can save real cash by checking both programmes each time.
Overall Thoughts
About time the ability to transfer Avios was simplified. 2025 has finally knocked on the door of the Avios IT Department – it is long overdue and very welcome.
From being a real pain in the arse, this is now unbelievably simple. I am really pleased that this all worked for me first go without any issues whatsoever.
Do you transfer Avios when you need to? Have you any other tips or reasons why you do it that might be of interest? Thank you for reading and if you have any comments or questions, please leave them below.
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Interesting. IAG in general and BA specifically are not know for quality IT.
Well, they did say they were putting a huge amount of money into IT, so perhaps it’s now bearing fruit!
It refuses to work for me even though all details match on both accounts 🙁
Sorry to hear that, something must be different somewhere. What’s the error? It should ask you to log in to both accounts, and it’ll do the two factor thing as well (I found text message worked best), then it just worked. It did kinda wobble a bit during the IB transfer but it did go through and I got both confirmation e-mails. I don’t know what else you can check there.
Still no luck , the only think I can see that is different is BA still have my old address on file , website never changes it when I update it , tired doing so on the avios website and it had updated it to a mis-mash of my old and new address thinking I have to call them at this point
Yes, the addresses need to match as far as I am aware, so definitely call BA to update your Club address. Good luck!