NEW: Use your Avios for O2 concert tickets, rugby tickets, football tickets and much more!

Here’s an exciting development to start 2024. You can now use your Avios to get VIP tickets for concerts at the O2 in London, rugby matches, European football games and much more. Formula 1 tickets will hopefully follow next year.

We even have a HfP semi-exclusive on the first ever item – two VIP tickets to see Depeche Mode at the O2, including access to new astonishing new The Walkway that hangs over the arena floor.

This is not a British Airways Executive Club promotion. It is being organised by Qatar Airways Privilege Club, and is called ‘Privilege Club Collection’.

The Privilege Club Collection website is here.

The site is currently in a soft launch before the official roll-out in early January. One auction item – VIP tickets to see Depeche Mode at the O2 – is semi-exclusive to HfP because the auction will close before the official launch.

What you can buy via Privilege Club Collection?

Privilege Club Collection is designed to feed off some of the major global Qatar Airways sponsorship deals, such as Formula 1 (Qatar Airways is the official airline of F1) and the Paris Saint-Germain football team.

This is what is available for bidding during the beta phase:

O2, London

• Depeche Mode, 22nd January
• Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live, 18th February
• John Mayer, 18th March

Coming soon: Liam Gallagher, Jonas Brothers

United Rugby Championship

• Leinster Rugby vs Vodacom Bulls, 29th March in Dublin (Presidents Suite tickets)

Paris Saint-Germain

A mix of signed shirts, general admission and VIP tickets for upcoming games

FC Internazionale Milano

• vs Juventus, 4th February (Club l’Orologio VIP tickets)
• vs SCC Napoli, 17th March (Club l’Orologio VIP tickets)

Brooklyn Nets (image above)

• vs Golden State Warriors, 5th February (VIP suite tickets)
• vs New Orleans Pelicans, 19th March (VIP suite tickets)

Barclays Center, New York

Coming soon: Bad Bunny (VIP suite tickets)

The O2 tickets include The Walkway …..

If you get tickets for any of the O2 concerts in London, you are in for a special treat.

The O2 has just unveiled The Walkway. This is a suspended walkway that you can access before the show, literally standing above the other guests in the arena!

Tickets bought for Avios via Privilege Club Collection come with a three course meal with drinks, VIP fast-track entry, use of The Walkway AND “pre-bookable VIP drop off and collection by car” (whatever that means!).

Even if you’re not a Depeche Mode, John Mayer or Hot Wheels Monster Trucks fan, it is still a unique experience.

How can you bid for Privilege Club Collection experiences?

Privilege Club Collection will eventually have a mix of ‘buy it now’ and auction experiences. During this launch period, everything is being auctioned.

Here are two very important points to note:

You must have Avios in a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account before you can bid. It is NOT good enough to have Avios in a British Airways Executive Club account which is linked to your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account. You must have physically moved Avios across to Qatar Airways.

(One snag here is that you can’t use the entire balance of a British Airways Executive Club household account to bid. The only Avios you can move into a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account are those in your own personal account. If you have 100,000 Avios and your partner has 50,000 Avios to give you a household balance of 150,000 Avios, the most you could use to bid for a single Privilege Club Collection auction is 100,000 – ie your own balance.)

Your must have enough Avios in your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account to match your maximum bid. You cannot bid more than your current Avios balance, and you cannot set a future auto-bid which is higher than your balance.

This Head for Points article explains how to link your BA and Qatar Airways accounts and transfer Avios between them. Transfers are free, instant and can be reversed at any time.

HfP readers have a clear run at the Depeche Mode tickets

The first auction item to close on Privilege Club Collection is two VIP tickets for the Depeche Mode concert at the O2 on 22nd January.

This includes access to The Walkway, three course meal with drinks etc.

Bids close on 8th January. The current plan is that Qatar Airways will not be widely publicising Privilege Club Collection until early January, so very few people will know it exists until the Depeche Mode auction has closed.

If you’re interested, jump in and place a bid. At the time of writing there are no bids, so the minimum bid of 11 Avios will get you the top spot!

Conclusion

Privilege Club Collection looks like it will be an excellent new opportunity for spending Avios, especially for people who want an alternative to flight redemptions. I’m especially keen to see if they can get packages for the British Grand Prix in 2024.

If you don’t have a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account, it may be worth setting one up now and linking it to your British Airways Executive Club account. This will allow you to jump in quickly if any good ‘buy it now’ ticket deals come up. I’m hoping our links to the Qatar Airways Privilege Club team will get us tip-offs about upcoming deals.

You can check out the auctions currently available by clicking here.

You’ve got until 8th January to bid on the two VIP Depeche Mode tickets. Good luck!

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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.