Win 5,000 Heathrow Rewards points with ‘Green Points’ – virtually no entries so far

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• Mario says:

  23 Feb23 February 08:32

  Hi

  Re difficulty transferring out of Avios to BA if you have a household account. I had this problem which I understand only occurs if you have a household account both in Avios and with BA. Hope this helps.

  • Rob says:

    23 Feb23 February 10:00

    There’s no such thing as an avios.com (ie Aer Lingus or Vueling) HHA though ….

• Dawn says:

  23 Feb23 February 08:36

  I’ve also not been able to transfer out of Avios to BA and I have a household account with BA only.

  • Rob says:

    23 Feb23 February 09:59

    Thanks. This is the scenario which is now causing a few people issues where it didn’t before.

    • Stu N says:

      23 Feb23 February 15:50

      I moved some Avios from Aer Lingus flights over to BAEC last week without any issues.

      • Rob says:

        23 Feb23 February 19:02

        Into a HHA?

        • Shoestring says:

          23 Feb23 February 19:06

          user error as usual

• memesweeper says:

  23 Feb23 February 08:36

  I’m not knocking you for covering it @rob but a ‘green’ competition you can only enter by flying three times and using a new plastic bag? Someone didn’t think that through… surely there has to be a better way to promote bag reuse?

  • Peter K says:

    23 Feb23 February 08:56

    I suppose from LHR’s point of view, they are aiming it at frequent flyers who will likely make those 3 trips on that time span ands also use the most clear bags.
    It’s not a good enough prize to tempt anyone to fly extra to enter it I suspect.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      23 Feb23 February 09:12

      Though even better when no one can find bags with a QR code on them.

    • Doug M says:

      23 Feb23 February 10:14

      I’d guess frequent flyers are the least likely to be messing abut at the airport loading a plastic bag. They’re the ones that come prepared and don’t create queues whilst they organise themselves at the last minute.

  • Lady London says:

    23 Feb23 February 10:22

    It’s just a promo apparently designed purely to make them look ‘green’. Or even just to tick some KPI box. Otherwise the promotion would be realistically achievable and it would be better publicised.

• Anup says:

  23 Feb23 February 08:47

  Not seen this mentioned before (apologies if old news). New Citigold investment accounts get up to 100k Avios. 50k Avios for £150k investment balance or 100k Avios for £650k investment balance. Probs not for most but thought worth mentioning in case helpful to anyone

  • Rob says:

    23 Feb23 February 09:59

    It’s been running for a couple of years, we do the occasional article on it. Never heard of anyone who did it though!

  • Doug M says:

    23 Feb23 February 10:08

    Anecdotally Citi have a habit of closing accounts they don’t make money from. Often dressed up as security reasons. YMMV.

• ScienceTeacher says:

  23 Feb23 February 09:07

  Went through T5 this morning and checked at both normal and fast track security for the bags, both at North and South. Nobody had heard of them!

• Melonsr Bige says:

  23 Feb23 February 09:47

  Not a chance of getting 3 points by next month

• L Allen says:

  23 Feb23 February 09:56

  Scan the bag QR code with what? The Heathrow Rewards app or any QR code scanning app? The info in the HR app is typically obtuse and useless!

  • Rob says:

    23 Feb23 February 09:57

    Dunno! Just telling you what the HR website says 🙂

• David says:

  23 Feb23 February 09:59

  Change IB to the Spanish site to buy the Avios in Euros. Alternatively try using a VPN.

  • Shoestring says:

    23 Feb23 February 10:28

    yep – Espana-Espanol

    • Darren says:

      23 Feb23 February 11:15

      Do you have to have any avios in the Iberia Plus acc already? Just opened an acc and have zero in it, but the purchase avios option in the menu takes me back to the Iberia front page?

      • Shoestring says:

        23 Feb23 February 11:17

        I don’t think so – but you should definitely change the settings to Espana-Espanol

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        23 Feb23 February 13:00

        Aslong as your IB account is atleast 3x months old, you do not need any points to start with.

        • Darren says:

          23 Feb23 February 13:17

          I thought it was 90 days to transfer. So its 90 days before you can purchase?

        • Secret Squirrel says:

          23 Feb23 February 13:39

          @Darren,
          No, I’m sure you can purchase on a new account but like you said 90x days until transfer.

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