NEW: Avios transfers from Amex Membership Rewards are now INSTANT if ….

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• Mick says:

  27 Apr27 April 12:57

  I do wish Qatar would do a credit card with 2-4-1 Voucher: . do you think it’s likely ?

  • Rob says:

    27 Apr27 April 13:01

    Not short term, but they are about to launch a US credit card and everything is under consideration for the medium term.

    • BJ says:

      27 Apr27 April 20:05

      Surely BA has an exclusive deal with amex that is locking out other airlines otherwise some other carrier cards would already be available. Thus, any QA mastercard would be of limited value unless a premium variant with a hefty fee added extras.

• Erico1875 says:

  27 Apr27 April 14:44

  I can’t really get excited about this.
  1 MR point = 1 Avios. Even if you got the odd bonus it would only be 1.33.
  Where as BAPP gives 1.5 per £1 and these are then up to 3x boostable
  Throw in an AMEX 2 for 1 or Barclays upgrade voucher and for me , it’s hard to even justify collecting MR points

  • BJ says:

    27 Apr27 April 20:00

    It’s because QAPC offers value throughout their owm network, and with their partners. By contrast BAEC, even in conjunction with BAPP and 241, has become a niche product offering value only in limited circumstances when compared to the game board just three years ago.

  • Jonathan says:

    27 Apr27 April 20:50

    You’re points are ringfenced to Avios redemptions only if you avoid credit card (or charge) cards that offer points with flexibility, MR points can go in loads of different directions, there’s plenty of choice for airline and hotel options alone, even if you don’t consider the other MR redemption options.
    Plus you can withdraw only as much needed at any one time with MR points, you’ll never save up any Avios points in other secure places, and if you’re dreadfully unlucky for BAEC to suspect fraud on your account, you can easily lose all your Avios points held with them. Sadly the same is true with Amex in worst case scenarios…

  • FatherOfFour says:

    27 Apr27 April 22:14

    You don’t need to get excited about it, but it’s another useful tool to be armed with. The earn rate on the golf matches the BAPP when you take the bonus points into account. Add in the flexibility to transfer to any scheme, we’ve accrued a decent amount now. It’s useful to know that we can convert them.to Avios instantly if the perfect redemption lands. If my strategy was for Avios only, then yes, I’d probably have already converted them and thus, shuffling through QAPC is an extra step I don’t need to use.

• Akhil says:

  28 Apr28 April 19:56

  I have clicked onto combine my avios in BAEC to link my qatar and BA accounts, I click to login to qatar and then chrome comes up with an error – “too many redirects, try clearing your cookies”. Cleared my cookies, same error. Tried another browser too. Anyone else having this issue?

• Kevin says:

  29 Apr29 April 10:11

  I could have done with this last year when I had to make an urgent trip in which the cash price was over £5k but had plenty of Avios seats. I did get a full row to myself in economy though.

  MR points is my only way to gain AA points so I probably will leave them sitting in Amex for now then.

• Supersub says:

  2 May2 May 17:29

  I would echo Rob’s advice about potential security delays if doing this for the first time…
  Enthused by this article (and needing some urgent Avios for a booking) I transferred 100k MR points into my Qatar account. Nothing has appeared for 4 days but I’ve now had an email saying it’s pending.
  So it’s maybe worth doing a small dummy transfer to satisfy the security checks, otherwise you might be disappointed if needed in a hurry one day.

• Ben says:

  4 May4 May 07:56

  I don’t see Qatar airways in the list on the rewards site for Amex platinum! 😦

  • Barry says:

    4 May4 May 17:26

    I’m experiencing the same issue, Ben; a number of airlines come up, but no Qatar?

    • Rob says:

      4 May4 May 17:27

      It’s been temporarily removed due to ‘issues’ ….

• JK says:

  4 May4 May 16:57

  Did this get pulled already? Qatar are missing when I log in.

• Supersub says:

  6 May6 May 10:53

  Well, after a week of floating in the ether, my 100k MR points have now landed back in my AmEx account – they were “rejected” by Qatar apparently (who told me to take it up with AmEx!).
  So maybe a few teething troubles here…

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