Save £130 (!) by booking short-haul Aer Lingus Avios flights at aerlingus.com

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• Cuchlainn says:

  24 Jan24 January 09:58

  Brian,
  The “old” Avios.com website made no mention of HBO allowance in their confirmation email for Aer Lingus redemptions – I am using my last old Avios.com / ISS numbered redemption @ half-term in February. In DUB we have never been able to use the new automatic check-in machines and must check-in F2F.

  For info the new Aer Lingus Rewards page ( which replaced the Avios.com page above ) spits out a comprehensive email, which details out ALL your baggage allowances for your redemption flight(s) with the additional HBO caveat “”Drop odd at airport check-in desk”.

  • Brian says:

    24 Jan24 January 10:17

    “In DUB we have never been able to use the new automatic check-in machines and must check-in F2F.”

    We have no problems using the machines to dispatch luggage in Dublin, check in would have been done online in advance.

    “For info the new Aer Lingus Rewards page ( which replaced the Avios.com page above ) spits out a comprehensive email, which details out ALL your baggage allowances for your redemption flight(s) with the additional HBO caveat “”Drop odd at airport check-in desk”.”

    Yes, it’s all clearly documented but as I said, when it’s not explicitly stated on your boarding pass you are reliant on whomever is at the check in desk being willing to amend your boarding pass. I last attempted to do this at LHR in November with printed out emails and web page terms and conditions to prove I was entitled (and actually obligated) to bring my hand luggage on board but I was flat out refused in a very disrespectful manner. I feared that pushing the matter further could result in not being permitted to fly so I had to drop it and re-organise my hand luggage.

    I’m aware of people having the opposite experience where boarding passes are amended but as I said, you’re completely dependent on the knowledge and mood of whoever is operating the desk at the time.

    In December I just brought 2 x 20KG luggage to avoid the need to play cabin luggage roulette at the check in desk.

• Paul says:

  24 Jan24 January 10:46

  This article was very timely as I was looking to book today. BAs avios pricing is all over the place and I have a price of 18000 avios and £341 for 2 people flying EI booked via BA. I have also had 38000 avios plus £2 and 18000 and £70 after a third attempt. EI booked via Aero club only offers EI flights but the costs was 18000 plus £84. It’s a mess and its BA IT all over again.
  Oh I keep getting you are seeing more reward seats as a Gold Card Benefit. If I log out and try again with my sons account he gets flight that I don’t. Its a complete mucking ……dle

• ADS says:

  24 Jan24 January 10:57

  “There is a bug with ba.com which stops you booking Aer Lingus flights to Dublin from some regional airports”

  I assumed it was just the usual lousy lack of reward flight availability that meant I could never find GLA-DUB reward flights on BA website!

• janolabs says:

  24 Jan24 January 12:38

  I need to move Avios from Vueling to BA. Has anybody done this successfully recently? Neither the BA website, nor the Vueling website has such a functionality. Avios.com seems to be an extension of the BA website. The only way that I can think of is a 2-step solution of moving Vueling to Iberia and then onwards to BA. Can I avoid this intermediary somehow? Thanks

  • JAXBA says:

    24 Jan24 January 13:21

    Use BA.com to ‘Combine my Avios’ and when selecting the other programme, choose ‘Avios Partners’ just as described at the end of this article.

    Both EI and VY use the same Avios.com backend, in fact their activity would be pooled and in the same Avios account, visible on aerlingus.com should you happen to have an EI login too.

    • janolabs says:

      24 Jan24 January 13:56

      When I do that, I get the following error message:
      Combine my Avios was unsuccessful
      Combine my Avios is not available at the moment. Please try again later
      Any ideas?

      • bobby says:

        24 Jan24 January 14:14

        What device and browser are you using?

• jamesellis says:

  24 Jan24 January 21:36

  Booked a return flight for two before Christmas for 7248 avios + £140.14. Surcharges for exactly the same flights are now £400.94. Seems like an IT issue?

• Cinn says:

  24 Jan24 January 22:57

  OFF-TOPIC: My BA avios are going to expire soon. I know that spending some will extend their validity. Will it work if I transfer avios from my BA account to my Finnair account and book a flight on Finnair’s website? Will it extend the life of my remaining avios sitting on my BA account?

  • Rob says:

    25 Jan25 January 09:04

    No. Just buy 1,000 Avios via shopping.ba.com and be done with it.

    Although, frankly, taking an Uber ride is easier if you’re in the UK. Points post within 30 seconds of the ride ending.

• Danny Kearney says:

  11 Feb11 February 13:46

  Try combining BA Avios with Aer Club – Its a nightmare! – BA Website does not even mention Aer Lingus, – Finnair, Qatar and Iberia is listed

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