The family and friends account of British Airways Club
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All about the British Airways Club family and friends account
There are three components to know about your British Airways Club Household Account:
- My family account (7 people)
- My family and friends (5 people)
- My travel companions
My British Airways Club Household Account
British Airways Club allows you to create a household account in which up to 7 British Airways Club members (including you) can pool their Avios miles.
You will be able to group your partner/spouse into your account, but also your children. By creating this account, you will become“The Head of Household”.
This is particularly interesting for casual travellers: let’s say that a family takes a long-haul flight with a Oneworld airline like British Airways. Family members will earn Avios miles on their individual British Airways Club accounts. Individually, it will be few miles and that will be dispersed.
On the other hand, by putting them all together in a family account, it can be closer to a Reward flight ticket for at least one person!
How to create a British Airways Club Household account
To create a British Airways Club Household Account,visit this page. It is important for your family to designate “the head of Household”: this person will have to complete the registration.
Once the account is created, the head of the Household will invite the other members who will each receive an email asking if they would like to join the Household account.
The pros and cons of the Household Account
In addition to being able to use Avios miles in common, the family account has other advantages… but has some drawbacks.
- Benefits:
- Bringing all family members together in one account allows you to make bookings easier online… and on the phone
- To keep active Avios miles in the account, there will have to be an activity in any Avios account of family members over a 36-month period.
Disadvantages:
- it is only possible to change your household account address every 6 months
- Once a person with a British Airways Club account joins a household account, they can no longer book an airfare ONLY for them or a household account member. It is therefore impossible for him to book a ticket for someone else (but there is a way around this through the “Friends” form).
- If you wish to transfer Avios miles from the British Airways Club Program to Iberia Plus, you will not be able to do so by being a member of a household account
The collection of Avios miles when booking
When using Avios miles from the household account, it’s not possible to choose which account to take the miles from!
The debit is proportional depending on the different balances available on each account. Thus, for a flight reward worth 10,000 miles, the debit will be done in this way:
| Account 1 | Account 2 | Account 3 | |
| miles Avios available in the account | 50 000 | 30 000 | 20 000 |
| miles Avios taken | 5 000 | 3 000 | 2 000 |
My family and friends at British Airways Club
The head of the household can create and manage the list “Family and Friends”.
Within this list, you can add up to 5 people who don’t need to live at your address! However, you will not be able to remove/add members regularly: the person must have been in your account for at least 6 months to be able to replace them with another.
In addition these people do not need to be a member of the British Airways Club,so you can decide to add a friend only for a specific trip, book their plane ticket with your Avios miles and remove it 6 months later, without having need to register with British Airways Club.
My travel companions
Finally, the last aspect of the household account is to be able to add regular travel companions.
This list will be particularly useful if you need to book tickets by phone: all information about your travel companions will be immediately accessible to the agent: no need to spell the letters of each person’s names and surnames. or remember their dates of birth!
However, you cannot use Avios miles to book reward tickets for “travel companions” (these travel companions will also need to be on your family or friends list).
Conclusion
The Family and Friends account of British Airways Club is an excellent advantage compared to other programs like Aeroplan. If you travel occasionally or regularly on Oneworld airlines, plus with family or friends, it may be worth opening a family account!
- Annual fee
- $799
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