Avios points: An interesting guide to Buy, Transfer or exchange Avios!

 Have you collected Avios points? Are you eager to spend your Avios but you don’t have quite enough to reach to your destination? So, do you want to buy Avios points or would like to gift those to one of your loved ones? If you have a membership account then you can easily buy BA Avios miles, can transfer those to someone else and can exchange those for tier points to achieve the next one. 

The Avios is a miles currency of British Airways, Qatar Airways, Aer Lingus, Iberia and Finnair. Although all these programs have single miles currency but the programs are different and you can opt for a frequent flyer program according to your choice by considering your preferences and advantages. 

• Buy Avios and travel farther and faster.

Now, you don’t have to wait to travel more to collect Avios points. You can simply buy Avios points and can spend them according to your choice whether to upgrade your flight or to buy a new one. If you want to increase your miles account balance then undoubtedly this is the best way to upgrade your balance.

In a calendar year, you can buy a maximum of 200,000 Avios points for yourself. One can easily buy Asia miles online by logging into the website and by checking the prices of the miles. Once you purchase the miles, these miles will be easily added to your account within 1 to 3 days. 

• Buy Avios for someone else. 

If you want to gift Avios points to someone else to help them in travelling then you can easily purchase additional Avios points for them so they can be qualified for the award flight. Just by being a member, you can easily gift Avios points to your loved ones. 

Transfer Avios points to other people 

Points to know before you transfer Avios between accounts: 

• The first thing is that you have to ensure that the personal information between the airlines is the same. The personal information can be the name and date of birth. If there is any mismatch in the personal information then you won’t be able to transfer Avios successfully. 

• If you are planning to transfer Avios to and from Iberia then your Iberia account should not be older than 90 days else you won’t be able to transfer your points. 

• The minimum Avios that you can transfer between the accounts is 1. 

• Only British Airways is the airline that allow you to transfer Avios to and from all the airlines so to transfer between other airlines, the Avios points should be routed via British Airways only. 

One can also transfer Avios to other people. Now, the transferred Avios won’t be counted towards your tier point balance to qualify for a specific valuable reward. However, you need to pay a service charge to transfer your Avios points. One can transfer up to 60,000 Avios in one go by paying a specific change and up to 200,000 Avios points in a year. If you are a gold member then you can transfer the Avios points without paying any additional charge.