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Today I want to look at which airlines you can earn Avios from.
You know about British Airways, of course. But there are actually 36 airlines which let you earn Avios for some or all of their flights.
With Oman Air becoming an Avios partner earlier this month following its move into the oneworld alliance, I thought it was worth updating this article.
Juneyao Air has been removed from the list since it was last updated because its partnership with Finnair ended on 15th April 2025.
Earning with Fiji Airways is extended to all oneworld Avios partners after it moved to full oneworld membership on 1st April 2025.
Which airlines let you earn Avios?
The list below is alphabetical. In brackets, I have added the programmes which let you earn Avios from that airline:
BA for British Airways Club
IB for Iberia Club
AC for AerClub
VC for Vueling Club
QR for Qatar Airways Privilege Club
FI for Finnair Plus
LO for Loganair
Note that in some cases only certain ticket types will earn. Heavily discounted Aer Lingus tickets do not earn Avios in The British Airways Club, for example. You need to credit such flights to an Aer Lingus AerClub account and then transfer the Avios to your BA account.
Here we go:
Aer Lingus (AC, BA)
Air Nostrum / Iberia Regional (BA, FI, IB)
Airlink (QR)
Alaska Airlines (BA, FI, IB, QR)
American Airlines (AC, BA, FI, IB, QR)
Avianca (IB, selected routes only)
Bangkok Airways (QR)
Binter Canarias (IB)
British Airways (AC, BA, FI, IB, QR)
Cathay Pacific (BA, FI, IB, QR)
China Southern (BA)
Fiji Airways (BA, FI, IB, QR)
Finnair (BA, FI, IB, QR)
Garuda Indonesia (QR)
Iberia (AC, BA, FI, IB, QR, VC)
Iberia Express (BA, FI, IB, QR, VC)
Japan Airlines (BA, FI, IB, QR)
JetBlue (QR)
Jetconnect (BA – potentially FI, IB, QR – with a QF flight number)
LATAM (BA, FI, IB, QR)
LEVEL (IB)
Loganair (LO)
Malaysia Airlines (BA, FI, IB, QR)
Middle East Airlines (QR)
Oman Air (BA, FI, IB, QR)
Qantas (BA, FI, IB, QR)
QantasLink (BA – potentially FI, IB, QR – with a QF flight number)
Qatar Airways (BA, FI, IB, QR)
Royal Air Maroc (BA, FI, IB, QR)
Royal Jordanian (BA, FI, IB, QR)
RwandAir (QR)
S7 Airlines (QR still available despite oneworld suspension)
SriLankan Airlines (BA, FI, IB, QR)
Virgin Australia (QR)
Vueling (IB, VC)
United Airlines (AC)
Find out more
Details of The British Airways Club partners can be found on ba.com here.
Details of the Aer Lingus / United Airlines partnership can be found on aerlingus.com here.
I have been emailing BA for several months to have Avios credited for a Latem flight last year, not one reply to my request, I’ve given up, sometimes it’s just not worth the time and effort.
In the Aer Lingus lounge last week in T2 in DUB and the lady behind the desk said to the guy in front of me, sorry we’re not part of oneworld so you can’t access the lounge. Not sure which airline he was trying to gain access with. Then asked about priority pass. Nope. Then on the counter it’s printed out Aer Lingus welcomes BA Silver and Gold. And in I go.
I won’t cry tears for him as the refurbished Dublin Airport T2 lounge is next door to the Aer Lingus one and takes Priority Pass.
Heathrow is Aer Lingus’s flagship lounge anyway. The Dublin one has p**s poor food selection. What they have is good, it’s just minimal. If in Dublin on an early 4am arrival from the US, I sit like a zombie in the Aer Lingus lounge till 04.30 when the T1 DAA lounge opens. That lounge has hot food galore at breakfast. Meanwhile Aer Lingus has fruit, yogurt and bread.
Good to know, never managed to get into the DAA T1 Lounge, last time I tried with PP, they said sorry full (with the family). Maybe I’ll try next time when I’m on my own.
Barista coffee service is now available on request in the EI lounge at LHR. I tried it last week not bad at all.
I rarely get to the EI Dublin lounge maybe once or twice a year though hear it suffers from chronic overcrowding.
I asked OpenAI to give a rating of this article, this was the reply:
5 / 10
Why not higher?
• The headline number (“36 airlines”) is inflated unless you count subsidiaries and partners very creatively.
• Several data points are already out-of-date (China Southern accrual, S7 suspension, Fiji entry date) or lack the vital caveats that determine whether Avios actually credit.
• Practical information a reader really needs – booking-class tables, tier-point eligibility, codeshare quirks – is absent.
Why not lower?
• It’s still a handy reminder that Avios earning extends well beyond oneworld.
• The writing is clear and accessible, and the inclusion of Aer Lingus exceptions shows an attempt at nuance.
• With a quick fact-check and a structured table the piece could be rescued easily, so the core concept is sound.
Subsidiaries are, legally, separate airlines with their own IATA codes.
S7 accrual is still possible by QAPC as it clearly stated.
You can literally see China Southern is still an earn partner by clicking the BA link at the bottom.
Don’t want to suggest that you are making bad life choices but trusting AI over what we write (or, more worryingly, what you can check yourself with a single click on a link we provide) is not smart.
I am not sure what point you are making, but as a counterpoint other AI tools are available…
Ratings given as follows:
Claude AI gives 7.5 / 10
Chat GPT-4o mini gives 8/10
Llama Scout 4 gives 8/10
Claude Haiku 3.5 gives 8/10
o4-mini gives 4/5
Mistral Small 3 gives 4/5 overall and 4/5 on each of content quality, clarity, usefulness, accuracy, structure.
So perhaps OpenAI is less discerning?
Although…for full disclosure, some of these tools did rate your comment as 8/10 (albeit without any context).
You might technically be able to earn Avios o some of these airlines but it’s next to impossible to actually buy a ticket that does this. If you buy the most flexible Economy ticket that Malaysian will sell you, it doesn’t generate a single Avios or Tier point. I don’t think it is Malaysian’s fault, I think it is BA trashing the One World Ecosystem.
Even if I could have got any benefit, I think at the next level up, it would have been 2% of mileage flown, so a hop from KUL to PEN would generate 4 tier points.
Still waiting for Cathay Pacific flights London – Hong Kong – Tokyo and Seoul – HKG – London in March to be credited to Qatar Privilege Club. It also took ages for the Sri Lanka flight from London – Colombo to get added, whereas the return flight was credited just a normal two weeks later. Something wrong with the One World system at Heathrow? It must cost the airlines quite some money dealing with all these missing Avios claims
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