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

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• Dominic Barrington says:

  23 Mar23 March 15:41

  Well – I had a problem nobody else seems to have had, due to being currently resident in the USA. Qatar made me fill in the date using the US format mm/dd – but then read it the other way around, and as a result has my dob incorrectly logged. And thus it does not match with BA! And it will not allow any editing of my details. So that was a total waste of my time!

  • Rob says:

    23 Mar23 March 15:43

    Delete your account (there is a delete button in your profile) and do it again!

    • Cambus says:

      23 Mar23 March 17:17

      I have an old dormant account, or at least it says the email address is already registered. When I try to delete, nothing happens. It just takes me back to the same screen.

      • Alex W says:

        23 Mar23 March 19:24

        Use a different email address. Try creating an alias.

    • Ali M says:

      23 Mar23 March 21:23

      won’t deletion result in losing points?:(

      • Rob says:

        23 Mar23 March 21:30

        If your Qatar account has any, yes.

• AFKAE says:

  23 Mar23 March 16:10

  I seem to have an even more basic problem of not receiving the text code required

  • AFKAE says:

    23 Mar23 March 16:20

    Solved it by using the wifes phone number! But it seems to have linked me to the total household avios-not just mine……sigh.
    When I now try to link the wifes account it says maximum number of simultaneous links achieved?!

• JRC says:

  23 Mar23 March 16:18

  Seems like a few people, including my wife have issues with the hyphen in the surname. Can I still book Avios redemptions on Qatar for my wife using my acccount, which I have been able to successfully link?

• can says:

  23 Mar23 March 16:19

  for those of you who had a problem with the name-mismatch whilst linking accounts. Player2 has a middle name, but for some reason, BA registered it as a second first name. So, for QR we left the middle name section empty and added the middle name to first name section.
  then it worked.

• James says:

  23 Mar23 March 17:15

  I am wondering is there a risk here that you then cant buy a cash flight with Qatar and use your BAEC number – and as such get BA tier points? Will it “lock” you into using your privilege club number so to speak?

  • Alex W says:

    23 Mar23 March 19:23

    I think there is a trick to change your frequent flyer number using the Finnair website?
    Alternatively you can ask at the airport to change your FF number.

    • Mark says:

      23 Mar23 March 22:07

      Using the Finnair site doesn’t work any more. The Royal Jordanian site did let me change the FF number on a BA booking earlier in the year. The option was greyed out after we’d taken the outbound – I was trying to use OneWorld Ruby status from another airline to do free seat selection 7 days out, but still credit avios and tier points to BA. However if you only want to change the associated FF membership before you fly any of the sectors in a booking it’s worth trying.

    • manilabay says:

      24 Mar24 March 08:51

      I’ve found that the Finnair website seems to work in the sense that it loses any Frequent Flyer completely. A recent booking made with Avios, went on Finnair website to add my Finnair Plus number and had an error but then returned to BA.com where it showed no FF number – and then I could add it in there. Likely a glitch on their system, but one that worked for me recently.

  • John says:

    24 Mar24 March 07:47

    You can buy flights without being logged in, can’t you?

• Judy says:

  23 Mar23 March 19:53

  Where is the page on Qatar to link with BA?

  • Mark says:

    23 Mar23 March 22:11

    I kept going round in circles using Rob’s instructions as following the “Link my accounts” link took me to a page with no option to link the accounts. In the end I followed the “View My Avios” link from my dashboard, which gave me the option to link account.

• Stu says:

  23 Mar23 March 19:58

  When I click the link accounts link it takes me back to Qatar where I have to log in again and then it takes me to my avois page. No further link to get to BA?

  • toomanylogins says:

    23 Mar23 March 21:44

    Hmm – it worked fine for me when I set up my account earlier. However, I just set up an account for my wife and now get the behaviour that you describe…

• Mark says:

  23 Mar23 March 22:24

  I’m all signed up – 2,500 avios deposited, accounts linked and the bonus transferred to my BA Exec Club account. Thanks Rob 🙂

  My wife, however, is going to hit the hyphenated surname issue. I’m assuming that will be fixed one way or another so it presumably still makes sense for her to sign up with the bonus before the end of the month. I guess ultimately she could ask BA to change her surname to match on her Exec Club account (i.e. correct surname but minus the hyphen) but hopefully it won’t come to that…. Rob, are you able to feed this back as an issue to Qatar? In an ideal world they’d fix it to allow hyphens before the sign-up deadline.

  I suspect this is an (unintentional and indirect) sex discrimination issue based on the assumption (and anecdotal reports here) that is affecting more women than men.

  • Mark says:

    23 Mar23 March 22:40

    And just realised it is Rhys’s article…. so thank you Rhys 🙂

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