Can I earn Avios from Hertz / Avis / Europcar / SIXT or other car rental companies?

Can you earn Avios from Hertz, Avis, Europcar, SIXT or other car rental companies?

Rental cars offer an additional way of earning Avios. In this article we’ll look at which car rental companies allow you to earn Avios.

Earning Avios with Avis

British Airways has a significant partnership with rental car company Avis. This partnership includes more than just an Avios earning rate. If booking an Avis rental car with a British Airways Executive Club number, you will get a free additional driver

You will earn five Avios per £ spent with Avis, with minimum of 500 Avios per rental.  You can get an additional 1,000 Avios on your first rental after joining ‘Avis Preferred’ for free.

In addition, if you are a British Airways Gold card holder, you are entitled to “Avis Priority Rental Service”, which allows you to pick your rental up from right outside the arrivals hall at Heathrow Terminal 5 instead of taking the shuttle bus.

Earning Avios with Budget

You can collect two Avios per £1 spent when you rent a car with Budget.  Budget is a sister company to Avis and they share the same parent.

Earning Avios with Maggiore

You can collect two Avios per €1 spent with European rental group Maggiore.  Again, this is a business under the same ownership as Avis and Budget.

Earning Avios with other car rental companies

In 2022, Qatar Airways officially adopted Avios as its frequent flyer currency.

You can now link your British Airways Executive Club account with your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account and move Avios back and forth at a 1:1 ratio. Our ‘how to’ guide to account linking is here.

Qatar Airways has Avios-earning partnerships with Europcar, Hertz and Sixt. You can open a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account, credit your Europcar, Hertz or Sixt rental to it, and then transfer the Avios over to British Airways Executive Club.

Here are the deals:

Europcar

Europcar was not previously an Avios partner, although you could earn Nectar points – at a terrible rate – and convert them. We wrote this article on how you could earn points and miles in other loyalty schemes with Europcar.

You can now earn Avios with Europcar via Qatar Airways Privilege Club. You will earn 500 Avios on all rentals.

The Europcar website is here.

Hertz

Hertz is arguably ‘the big one’ in terms of opening up new ways of earning Avios from Qatar Airways Privilege Club.

As a Privilege Club member you receive:

• Up to 10% off Hertz car rental rates
• 500 Avios for standard rentals 
• 250 Avios for contract rentals 

The Hertz website is here.

SIXT

You can earn 500 Avios for every SIXT rental when you credit it to Qatar Airways Privilege Club. The SIXT website is here.

Rentalcars.com

Finally, Qatar Airways Privilege Club has an interesting deal with Rentalcars.com. This is a consolidator, allowing you to book cars from every major rental company in virtually all major markets.

You need to book via the special link on the Qatar Airways website (click on ‘Car Rentals’ and then ‘Rentalcars.com’) which takes you to a dedicated co-branded booking page. You will receive 3 Avios in Privilege Club for every $1 you spend.

(This article is part of our ‘BA Q&A’ series which explains how British Airways Executive Club works.  You can see all of our ‘BA Q&A’ articles here. )

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.