Aerlingus AerClub/Avios

Cathay don't do Avios so you can't transfer. But for any future One World flight, you can credit to BA, Iberia or Qatar and earn Avios.

So could use some help with this - concierge due to work and plenty of points but always thought avios was crap because the website was rubbish and trying to get flights on points was next to impossible. But - when you did it was 8,000 to 10,000 one way for a European leg. With the new aerlingus.com setup you can burn avios to get money off a flight - but to fully cover a similar one way flight anywhere 50,000 to 80,000 avios. Anybody else try to do this with the new system?

Seperate issue: I use Qatar 2/3 times a year. Early March I got an email saying I cud buy Qpoints to upgrade-pay before 28th March at a reduced rate.27th March got an email reducing my Qpoints because last flights was 6 mths previously.If I had paid it would have been money down the drain-sneaky move by Qatar.Fee for upgrade was worth it.Waste of time complaining-just lucky I didn't bite.All airlines becoming more aggressive with qualifying terms

Hi all, does anyone know of a contact email address for AerClub. I tried WhatsApp and website but no response. I want to register my disappointment with the mid year change of conditions for AerClub and how I personally suffered.

Thanks in advance

There is a person on Flyertalk that wrote a letter based on the Consumer Rights Directive:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36162833-post187.html

Maybe that gives more than a copy/paste answer!

Nothing will happen.

They view the Avios/AerClub program as a necessary evil, or as an itch that you have to scratch now and again, as opposed to a genuine engine for growth.

Which is, needless to say, idiotic if your primary market is transatlantic. Delta are now pulling in something like 20% of revenue from their credit card tie up with Amex. Obviously different lending environment, but the US carriers are properly leaning into their ability to market more than flights to customers.

But I'm sure it'll be grand in Shamrock House.

you make a good point that staying loyal to aer Lingus for business travel in a lot of the bigger companies who use travel agents requires sacrifices and this may be the final straw that breaks the camel back for a lot of frequent fliers.

in my place we use cwt for our bookings, if you book aer Lingus you can’t manage your booking full stop, you can view it but can’t change anything. You can’t change your seat (even when checking in online, you have to go to the airport), even to add advance passenger information requires a phone call to the sh1t show that is aer Lingus’s Bulgarian call centre. Not the case with delta, aa nor American.

I was in line to get to platinum by November but won’t now so my loyalty is gone.

If you are stuck with CWT make sure your company has the travelfusion API enabled for Aer Lingus, if that is enabled you can get bookings which are basically booked via EI directly and can be fully managed via the website etc

Works out cheaper as well in most cases. Learned my lesson a long time ago and thankfully when I was able to show significant savings it put my travel folks in a corner

Yes, assuming you use the same email address for both your BA and EI accounts (at least I can see a recent booking in both and I do use the same email address). You can't do much with it in the EI app though. My first leg is on EI metal and can't even pay for a seat through either.

23kg checked

10kg carry on

Log into your BA account, scroll down to where you see your Avios balance and click on Go to my account.

I then click on view transactions to bring up the menu i need - it is on the left for me, click on manage my account, scroll down to combine my avios and select AerClub.

If you've done it before you'll know your 2 accounts must match 100%

May be a shorter way but, this is how I do it - failed for me when I tried at the weekend though and I know have a ticket raised with BA/Avios to make the transfer for me.

That's what the guides online say, and if I recall correctly the way I used to do it, but now I only get Iberia and Qatar options…

Move Avios between your accounts

You can combine Avios from an Iberia Plus or Qatar Airways Privilege Club account. The value of your Avios will be the same, moving them means you can choose how you spend them. It’s easy to move Avios when and where it suits you, simply choose the amount you’d like to move.

By finding the combine option through the top menu, I do get option for Aer Club as well. I get an error when I try to combine though, and private browsing doesn't help :(

Just to note that I have heard nothing back, not even the cookie cutter response.