LAST DAY: Save 25,000 Avios on a Business Class redemption with Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways is running an impressive offer for anyone looking to get away over the next three months, but it ends today.

You can save 25,000 Avios on a return Business Class Avios redemption.

Redemptions in Economy Class are reduced by 10,000 Avios return.

This is an excellent deal, given that most destinations already require fewer Avios if you fly Qatar Airways than if you fly on British Airways.

How good a deal? Doha, for example, would be just 61,000 Avios return in Business Class. The rate if you fly British Airways on a peak date is 180,000 Avios return ….

Full details of the offer are on this page of the Qatar Airways website.

Here are the key points – please read them carefully before booking:

• your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account must be registered to a UK address

• you MUST register for this offer via the Qatar Airways website before booking (click ‘Offers’ under the ‘Privilege Club’ tab)

• this means that existing bookings do not count – you would need to register and then cancel and rebook any existing reward travel

• your booking must be made via the Qatar Airways website and not the British Airways website

• the rebate only applies to the Qatar Airways Privilege Club member

• redemption flights must start in the UK

• redemption flights must be return trips, not one way

• you must book by today, Monday 15th April

• you must travel by 30th June

• you can earn the bonus multiple times

You will need a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account

In order to book, you will need to transfer your Avios (free, reversible) into a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account if you don’t already have one.

This HfP article explains how to transfer your Avios to Qatar Airways Privilege Club.

There is one snag to note. Qatar Airways does not have household accounts. This means that you can only transfer across Avios in your own BA account. If you have a BA Household Account containing 100,000 Avios (60,000 of yours, 40,000 from your partner) then the most you can transfer to your Qatar Airways account is 60,000 Avios. You won’t be able to make a booking for more than this.

The 25,000 Avios discount is paid as a rebate

The way the offer works is that you pay the full Avios price now, as shown in the table below.

Once your travel is completed, you will receive a rebate of 25,000 Avios for a Business Class redemption and 10,000 Avios for an Economy redemption.

The rebate will arrive within 30 days of completing your trip.

(Be aware that, for a mixed cabin redemption, you will only receive 10,000 Avios back if any leg of the trip is in Economy. This is a problem if flying to Dubai or elsewhere in the Middle East where you only have Economy and First for the connecting flight. You might as well book into First and get the higher 25,000 Avios rebate.)

This means that you will need the full Avios amount in your account in order to book, and not the reduced amount. For Doha, for example, you will need to have the full 86,000 Avios in your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account in order to book and will receive 25,000 Avios back after you travel.

Only the Privilege Club account holder receives the rebate

Irrespective of how many people are on the booking, it is only the named account holder who will receive the 10,000 Avios or 25,000 Avios rebate.

To maximise the Avios you get back, each adult passenger should make a separate booking from their own Qatar Airways Privilege Club account.

Obviously, in order to do this, each passenger needs enough Avios in their own British Airways Executive Club account in order to move them to their own Qatar Airways Privilege Club account. If you and your partner are in a Household Account but 90% of the Avios are in your name, you won’t be able to do this.

How much are Qatar Airways redemption flights?

Here is a table showing key routes from the UK to the Middle East, Asia and Australasia. I have ignored Europe and the US as this would make no sense due to backtracking.

Remember that Qatar Airways flies from Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh, plus Dublin.

Qatar Airways uses ‘married segment availability’, which is a process aimed at sharing Avios availability across different starting points. This means that if you can’t see seats from Doha to Bangkok when starting in London, they may show when starting in Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh ….

You can’t use a British Airways American Express 2-4-1 Companion Voucher on Qatar Airways redemptions. However, with this discount, it will be cheaper on some routes to fly with Qatar Airways than use a 2-4-1 on British Airways …..

We have not included First Class flights in this chart. First Class is only available on the A380 fleet which only operates on selected routes, and Qatar Airways does not guarantee to make any First Class reward space available.

A word about ‘Flexi’ seats

Qatar Airways opens up additional seats on some flights where the standard Avios availability has gone. These are clearly marked as ‘Flexi’ during the booking process. These cost double the standard Avios cost.

A word about peak pricing

Qatar Airways is currently trialling peak and off-peak pricing on some (not all) routes.

The peak and off-peak dates have not been published, and there is also no list of which routes are currently covered. The numbers below represent off-peak pricing, where peak and off-peak is being used.

You may see pricing which is roughly 20% higher than the numbers below. This would mean that you were booking on a peak date.

Happy booking!

Return Avios price from UK (before promo rebate)	Economy	Business
Abidjan	75,000	150,000
Abu Dhabi	45,000	90,000
Abuja	75,000	150,000
Accra	75,000	150,000
Addis Ababa	55,000	110,000
Adelaide	90,000	180,000
Ahmedabad	55,000	110,000
Alexandria	55,000	110,000
Algiers	75,000	150,000
Amman	55,000	110,000
Amritsar	55,000	110,000
Asmara	55,000	110,000
Auckland	90,000	180,000
Baghdad	45,000	90,000
Bali (DPS)	80,000	160,000
Bangalore	65,000	130,000
Bangkok	75,000	150,000
Basra	45,000	90,000
Beijing	75,000	150,000
Beirut	55,000	110,000
Brisbane	90,000	180,000
Cairo	55,000	110,000
Cape Town	75,000	150,000
Casablanca	75,000	150,000
Cebu	80,000	160,000
Chengdu	75,000	150,000
Chennai	65,000	130,000
Chiang Mai	75,000	150,000
Chongqing	75,000	150,000
Clark	80,000	160,000
Colombo	65,000	130,000
Da Nang	75,000	150,000
Dammam	45,000	90,000
Dar es Salaam	65,000	130,000
Davao	80,000	160,000
Delhi	55,000	110,000
Dhaka	65,000	130,000
Djibiouti	55,000	110,000
Doha	43,000	86,000
Dubai	45,000	90,000
Durban	75,000	150,000
Entebbe	65,000	130,000
Erbil	45,000	90,000
Faisalabad	55,000	110,000
Gaborone	75,000	150,000
Goa	55,000	110,000
Guangzhou	75,000	150,000
Hangzhou	80,000	160,000
Hanoi	75,000	150,000
Harare	75,000	150,000
Ho Chi Minh (Saigon)	75,000	150,000
Hong Kong	75,000	150,000
Hyderabad	65,000	130,000
Isfahan	45,000	90,000
Islamabad	55,000	110,000
Jakarta	80,000	160,000
Jeddah	45,000	90,000
Johannesburg	75,000	150,000
Kano	75,000	150,000
Karachi	55,000	110,000
Kathmandu	65,000	130,000
Khartoum	55,000	110,000
Kigali	65,000	130,000
Kilimanjaro	65,000	130,000
Kochi	65,000	130,000
Kolkata	65,000	130,000
Kozhikode	65,000	130,000
Krabi	75,000	150,000
Kuala Lumpur	75,000	150,000
Kuwait	45,000	90,000
Lagos	75,000	150,000
Lahore	55,000	110,000
Langkawi	75,000	150,000
Luanda	75,000	150,000
Lusaka	75,000	150,000
Madinah	45,000	90,000
Male	65,000	130,000
Manila	80,000	160,000
Maputo	75,000	150,000
Marrakesh	75,000	150,000
Mashhad	45,000	90,000
Melbourne	90,000	180,000
Mogadishu	55,000	110,000
Mombasa	65,000	130,000
Multan	55,000	110,000
Mumbai	55,000	110,000
Muscat	45,000	90,000
Nagpur	65,000	130,000
Nairobi	65,000	130,000
Najaf	45,000	90,000
Pattaya	75,000	150,000
Penang	75,000	150,000
Perth	90,000	180,000
Peshawar	55,000	110,000
Phnom Penh	75,000	150,000
Phuket	75,000	150,000
Port Harcourt	75,000	150,000
Rabat	75,000	150,000
Riyadh	45,000	90,000
Salalah	45,000	90,000
Seoul	80,000	160,000
Seychelles	65,000	130,000
Shanghai	80,000	160,000
Sharjah	45,000	90,000
Shiraz	45,000	90,000
Sialkot	55,000	110,000
Singapore	75,000	150,000
Sohar	45,000	90,000
Sulaymaniyah	45,000	90,000
Sydney	90,000	180,000
Tehran	45,000	90,000
Tokyo (HND)	80,000	160,000
Tokyo (NRT)	80,000	160,000
Trivandrum	65,000	130,000
Tunis	65,000	130,000
Windhoek	75,000	150,000
Zanzibar	65,000	130,000

You can find out more on the Qatar Airways website here. Remember that you MUST register before booking and book today.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2025)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, and the standard card is FREE. Capital on Tap cards also have no FX fees.

There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.