Loganair will launch Avios on 31st March – but details are still sketchy

It was announced at Christmas that Loganair, the Scottish regional carrier, would adopt Avios as its loyalty currency in 2025.

This makes it the seventh airline to issue Avios.

Loganair confirmed this week that the switch from Clan Points to Avios will take place on 31st March.

Loganair is the UK’s largest regional airline and carries over 1.5 million passengers per year.

It operates almost 70 routes from hubs in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness and Newcastle, including a handful from London Heathrow. The airline has been a British Airways codeshare partner for some years with flights bookable on ba.com.

How will the Avios conversion work?

We don’t know.

This is not ideal. Loganair told its members this week that:

“Your existing Clan Points will be automatically converted to Avios on 31 March. Your points balance will increase as we convert to Avios  – aligning the value of your Avios with other airlines.”

The conversion ratio is not known. You have no way of knowing if you should redeem your Clan Points now or wait for them to convert to Avios.

At present, you need 4,000 Clan Points for a one way ticket and 8,000 Clan Points for a return ticket to anywhere on the Loganair network. Full taxes and charges are payable on top.

What will the Avios earn rate be?

We also don’t know what the Avios earning rate will be. The Aer Lingus rate is 4 Avios per £1 spent and I suspect Loganair will match this.

Loganair flights booked via ba.com under a BA flight number will presumably continue to earn at the higher British Airways earning rate, including a tier bonus.

We don’t know how redemptions will work but we can guess

The airline is promising to make ‘1 million seats’ available for redemption each year.

As Loganair only carries 1.5 million passengers per year, it looks very unlikely that there will be a reward chart and a guaranteed number of Avios seats. This isn’t unreasonable given the VERY small aircraft that Loganair runs on some routes, especially those connecting the Scottish islands.

I suspect that Loganair will allow redemptions via its own website on a cash discount basis (0.5p per Avios or similar).

If you want to redeem your British Airways Club Avios on Loganair, I imagine that you will have to link your British Airways Club and Loganair Loyalty accounts and transfer Avios across.

If this was the case, however, you wouldn’t be able to book connecting British Airways / Loganair reward flights on a single ticket. You would lose protection from missed connections and couldn’t check luggage through. Let’s see if BA allows Loganair redemptions on its own platform.

At present, Clan Points redemptions are non-refundable and non-changeable. I assume that this rule will be removed from 31st March in line with other Avios partners.

There is also currently a cap of three round-trip redemptions per year per account. Again, I suspect that this rule will be removed.

The most expensive Avios redemption in the world ….

You may not know that the Loganair route from Westray to Papa Westray is the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world.

The scheduled flight time is 90 seconds but in reality it can take a minute. The record is apparently 53 seconds.

This means that Westray to Papa Westray will probably become the most expensive Avios flight in the system on a ‘points per mile flown’ basis.

The best value Avios flight on that basis, on a British Airways aircraft, is London to Sydney as this HfP article shows. A business class seat requires 13.6 Avios per mile.

My review of a Loganair flight from Glasgow to Barra – the only scheduled flight in the world that lands on a beach – is here. This will be a great way for any avgeek to burn Avios.

Where does Loganair fly?

This route list was correct in January. We will do an updated version next week when we have the official details of how the partnership will work.

Aberdeen — Belfast City
Aberdeen — Birmingham
Aberdeen — Bristol
Aberdeen — Dublin
Aberdeen — Esbjerg
Aberdeen — Kirkwall
Aberdeen — Sumburgh
Aberdeen — Manchester
Aberdeen — Teesside
Aberdeen — Newcastle
Aberdeen — Norwich
Benbecula — Glasgow
Benbecula — Stornoway
Bergen — Edinburgh
Bergen — Sumburgh
Bergen — Newcastle
Belfast City — Aberdeen
Belfast City — Inverness
Belfast City — Isle of Man
Birmingham — Aberdeen
Birmingham — Isle of Man
Barra — Glasgow
Bristol — Aberdeen
Campbeltown — Glasgow
Donegal — Glasgow
Cardiff — Edinburgh
Dundee — Kirkwall
Dundee — London Heathrow
Dundee — Sumburgh
Dublin — Aberdeen
Esbjerg — Aberdeen
Edinburgh — Bergen
Edinburgh — Cardiff
Edinburgh — Exeter
Edinburgh — Inverness
Edinburgh — Isle of Man
Edinburgh — Kirkwall
Edinburgh — Sumburgh
Edinburgh — Newquay
Edinburgh — Southampton
Edinburgh — Stornoway
Exeter — Edinburgh
Exeter — Glasgow
Exeter — Newcastle
Glasgow — Benbecula
Glasgow — Barra
Glasgow — Campbeltown
Glasgow — Donegal
Glasgow — Exeter
Glasgow — Islay
Glasgow — Kirkwall
Glasgow — Derry
Glasgow — Sumburgh
Glasgow — Southampton
Glasgow — Stornoway
Glasgow — Tiree
Islay — Glasgow
Inverness — Belfast City
Inverness — Edinburgh
Inverness — Kirkwall
Inverness — Manchester
Inverness — Stornoway
Isle of Man — Belfast City
Isle of Man — Birmingham
Isle of Man — Edinburgh
Isle of Man — London City
Isle of Man — London Heathrow
Isle of Man — Liverpool
Isle of Man — Manchester
Kirkwall — Aberdeen
Kirkwall — Dundee
Kirkwall — Edinburgh
Kirkwall — Glasgow
Kirkwall — Inverness
Kirkwall — Sumburgh
London City — Isle of Man
Derry — Glasgow
Derry — London Heathrow
London Heathrow — Dundee
London Heathrow — Isle of Man
London Heathrow — Derry
Liverpool — Isle of Man
Sumburgh — Aberdeen
Sumburgh — Bergen
Sumburgh — Dundee
Sumburgh — Edinburgh
Sumburgh — Glasgow
Sumburgh — Kirkwall
Manchester — Aberdeen
Manchester — Inverness
Manchester — Isle of Man
Manchester — Newquay
Teesside — Aberdeen
Newcastle — Aberdeen
Newcastle — Bergen
Newcastle — Exeter
Newcastle — Newquay
Newcastle — Southampton
Newcastle — Stavangar
Newquay — Edinburgh
Newquay — Manchester
Newquay — Newcastle
Norwich — Aberdeen
Southampton — Edinburgh
Southampton — Glasgow
Southampton — Newcastle
Stavangar — Newcastle
Stornoway — Benbecula
Stornoway — Edinburgh
Stornoway — Glasgow
Stornoway — Inverness
Tiree — Glasgow

PS. By coincidence, or perhaps not, Loganair has just started to accept American Express on its website!

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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.