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The 90,000 Iberia Avios start to drop into accounts

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We interrupt the England v Colombia game with this important announcement ….

Avios from the Iberia ‘9,000 Avios for booking any flight (up to 90,000 Avios)’ promotion last weekend have started to drop in.

Here is a screenshot courtesy of Flyertalk:

Now we need to see how convertible etc they are  …..

If you missed the deal, you can read the details in this HfP article.

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Iberia and Iberia Plus

Comments (126)

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  • Lee says:
    3 Jul3 July 21:31

    All 90k dropped here, too. It wasn’t all a dream, after all!

  • Ciaran says:
    3 Jul3 July 21:36

    Me too ! 90k ! Happy days !

  • jek says:
    3 Jul3 July 21:43

    All 180,000 for me and my wife have posted and the planned trip is already booked (MAD->LIM, LIM->MAD->LHR)! Machu Picchu here we come!

    Rob, thanks so much for your calm and well-informed reporting on this! Other blogs were doing so much click baiting.

  • Mark says:
    3 Jul3 July 21:43

    I got my 90K. None for my wife as yet despite her Iberia Plus number showing on all the booking confirmations.

    Presumably still a work in progress….

    • Leigh says:
      3 Jul3 July 22:09

      Is your account an active account by any chance? My husband received most of his (9k short) but I haven’t received any. We booked almost at the same time. The only difference is that his account is an active one while my account is an old one with no activity for a few years.

      • Mark says:
        3 Jul3 July 22:25

        Last activity on her account was December 2016. Last activity on mine was November 2017. So not that long ago in either case really, but hers was longer ago.

        I made all bookings for both of us together. If it doesn’t apply tomorrow we’ll email them.

      • JK says:
        3 Jul3 July 22:53

        Same – my 90 in, none for wife. 10 bookings each for the 2 of us. Not sure if her account ever ‘activated’ but is a few years old.

  • Choons says:
    3 Jul3 July 21:49

    Cheers, got them through.
    While I am aware of what they can be spent on, I still don’t have any clear idea of what I will do with them.

    • the real harry1 says:
      3 Jul3 July 22:06

      That’s OK, Raffles will produce a guide on HFP

      ’90K on Iberia – what next?’

      • marcw says:
        3 Jul3 July 22:13

        Availability is dropping…. very fast… on some routes…

      • James says:
        3 Jul3 July 23:43

        Not too soon though hopefully to let those who do the legwork themselves take the best prizes 😉

  • James says:
    3 Jul3 July 22:06

    Thinking I’ll use them for a trip to Columbia so I can kick & thump everyone I meet and then plead innocence when they complain !!!!!!!!!!!
    #HaveSomeOfYourOwnMedicine

  • neil says:
    3 Jul3 July 22:19

    Mine arrived as well. Unfortunately combine my avios will not work, im trying to transfer IN to the IB account, but every combination of Avios, IB, BAEC does not work. i need to top my balance up to book 2 redemptions. Any ideas?

    • Chang says:
      3 Jul3 July 23:37

      Yeah same here – have booked one leg and was trying to combine Avios from BA INTO the Iberia account but it doesn’t work 🙁

      • Chang says:
        4 Jul4 July 08:50

        Oh actually I managed to get it to work this morning – transferred from BA into Avios.com and then onward into Iberia.

        So booked myself tickets to Santiago and Buenos Aires on Iberia Business! 🙂

  • AndyR says:
    3 Jul3 July 22:19

    Mine and my partner have old accounts but nothing posted at all yet.

    • Andrew says:
      3 Jul3 July 22:21

      Glad I’m not the only one. In for the full 90K with an old account (but no activity) – nothing showing yet.

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