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What can Avios be exchanged for?

Avios is the reward currency of the Club And when you've collected enough, you can spend your Avios for rewards such as flights, upgrades, hotel stays, car hire and more. Watch our video to learn more about the everyday ways you collect Avios, from earning nectar points to filling your car up with petrol.



Avios, the loyalty currency for British Airways, Iberia, and Qatar Airways, can be exchanged for a wide variety of travel and lifestyle rewards. The most valuable use is for Reward Flights and cabin upgrades across the OneWorld alliance, including partners like American Airlines and Qantas. You can also use Avios for "Part Payment," where you reduce the cash cost of a standard flight booking. Beyond air travel, Avios can be redeemed for over 300,000 hotels worldwide, car rentals via Avis or Budget, and "LeShuttle" crossings to Europe. For non-travelers, they can be exchanged for shopping at the Avios eStore (including brands like Apple), wine through "The Wine Flyer," or even converted into Nectar points for use at Sainsbury’s and Argos in the UK. They can also be donated to various charities, such as the Red Cross or UNICEF, through the airline's portal.

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Convert your points You can choose to convert Nectar points into Avios or Avios into Nectar points. Either way, the choice of great rewards is yours.

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The value of British Airways Avios is 1.83 cents per avios, on average. That means 10,000 British Airways Avios have a value of roughly $183. British Airways Avios are more valuable than the average airline miles, which are worth 1.32 cents each, as a result.

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When transferring Avios, for Gold Tier members the transaction will always be free. British Airways Executive Club Gold Tier members can transfer 200,00 Avios for free, in a calendar year, with a maximum of 60,000 Avios per transaction. These caps automatically reset every 1st January.

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Use Avios with hotel and lifestyle partners. To give our members more ways to use the Avios they have earned in addition to flights, excess baggage and upgrades, members can now choose to spend their Avios with hotel and lifestyle partners.

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If you really want to treat yourself, you can get a one-way flight in Aer Lingus' business class on the same routes from just 50,000 Avios (off-peak) or 60,000 Avios (peak). In other words, your 100,000 bonus Avios would be enough for a return flight in business class to Ireland on off-peak dates.

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London is calling your name, and you can use 1 million Avios to book 76 one-way economy tickets from New York-JFK to London-Heathrow (LHR) on off-peak dates. This low price is thanks to British Airways' distance-based award chart, which provides great deals on shorter off-peak flights.

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