How to link Qatar Airways Privilege Club and British Airways Executive Club Avios accounts

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• Sam says:

  25 Mar25 March 21:14

  Link My Account is now a 404 error?

• Matthew Wearmouth says:

  26 Mar26 March 07:49

  I’m having the same issue where Qatar website says details don’t match. We don’t have any hyphens and I’ve used the same names as BA accounts. My wife has a middle name on her BA so I included on Qatar but still doesn’t work!

• Matthew Wearmouth says:

  26 Mar26 March 07:54

  Follow up to my previous message above. Looks like my wife’s BA account says ‘first name(s): Rebecca Jane’ all in one box/field. Does this mean Qatar first name field should be the two as well rather than her middle name in the middle name box when signing up?

• trient says:

  26 Mar26 March 21:31

  I wrote them and explained I had a double barrelled first name which they could only record incorrectly, and included a scan of my passport for evidence. They replied apologising profusely for the situation and asked again for my name details, along with a second piece of ID “for authentication purposes”.

  After I sent them everything they asked, they marked the case as resolved with the following note:

  “In reference to your email, we regret to inform you that due to system limitations, we are unable to update any special characters i.e. tick , quote , forward/backward slash (/), full stop (.), underscore (_) and roman numbers etc. in your membership profile name.
  However, you can check with British Airways to update your profile name as per your Privilege Club account.
  We appreciate your understanding and co-operation.
  Do let us know if we can assist you further.”

  You can’t make this up.

• Anthony says:

  27 Mar27 March 11:38

  The Qatar Airways page appears to have been removed?

• CarolineF says:

  27 Mar27 March 16:59

  Stuck like everybody else. If it is the middle name issue I can’t find a way in Qatar to change the name – seems you are stuck with what you put. If it is more than that, then I need to change stuff in BA and they are asking me to send extra ID to do that. Thinking life is too short right now.

• DeanK says:

  29 Mar29 March 16:49

  Seems like this has stopped working now. I have registered and linked two accounts and neither of them are showing the sign-up bonus. I made a mess of the first sign-up and deleted that account and started over. Now I cannot link that BA account as it states there are too many links. The other half’s account has linked OK, but there are no Avios showing for the sign-up. Any idea how I sort out the ‘too many links’ issue, assuming I can get the sign-up?

  • Rob says:

    29 Mar29 March 18:56

    You can’t. The small print says that there is a 50 years (not a typo) time period required before you can link your BA account to another account. Just pop it on the list for 2072.

• Louie says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:23

  Is FLYQR3 no longer working? I’ve just signed up using the linked page with the code embedded and no bonus Avios for me or hubby. Does it take a while or have the scumbags ended the offer before they said they would?

  Fortunately didn’t try to link to our BAEC accounts….

  • IanG says:

    30 Mar30 March 09:02

    It would seem not – I signed up this morning and found the same. No points…

    • Louie says:

      30 Mar30 March 09:38

      Have to say I am rather miffed about this. If the offer is advertised to end on 31 March, that is when it should end.

      Rob, you need to update the text so people leaving it late don’t get caught out like us.

      If anyone finds a new code applicable from 1 April in due course, please could you publish it here.

      • Louie says:

        30 Mar30 March 09:40

        Actually I see that the article has been updated (at the top of the page rather than in the relevant text). Thank you.

        • Rob says:

          30 Mar30 March 09:59

          I don’t Qatar expected around 20,000 people to take up the offer (costing them £20 or so each) which is my best guess of numbers ….

          I’m sure there are some people who opened hundreds of accounts. As BA allows six in a HHA, you could essentially get 15,000 free Avios into one pot and then redeem them for £120 of Nectar or Nectar Hotels credit or a flight.

        • Louie says:

          30 Mar30 March 12:17

          If that’s supposed to be justification for pulling an advertised offer, it’s a pretty poor one in my view.

          Now we know, we can’t trust Qatar.

        • Rob says:

          30 Mar30 March 12:26

          Once it was all over HotUKDeals the writing was on the wall. After all it is a free £20 to spend at Sainsbury’s for anyone, even if they’ve never been near an aircraft, yet alone a Qatar one. Why go to your £10 per hour job if you can sit at home and make £200 per hour opening multiple Nectar, BA and Qatar accounts and then linking them together? If this was your business costing you money you wouldn’t hesitate to pull an offer that was being abused.

        • Louie says:

          30 Mar30 March 12:41

          Actually when I ran a business I stuck with my promises, whether it cost me to do so or not. Other than the morality of it, it would have damaged my reputation to do otherwise, just as it has damaged Qatar’s in my eyes and no doubt many others.

          Qatar should have foreseen the potential abuse, it’s hardly new that news travels fast on the internet.

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