Avios Travel Rewards Programme to close
Avios Group Limited (AGL) is to close its UK Avios Travel Rewards Programme and transfer members into the British Airways Executive Club.
Through the BA Executive Club, current UK Avios Travel Rewards Programme members will be able to collect and spend Avios with more partners, including flights with BA, Iberia and an additional 11 Oneworld and partner airlines.
Transferring members will also be able to spend Avios with 60,000 additional partner hotels and on 50,000 extra sight-seeing experiences.
Members can also collect Avios on everyday spending with more household-name partners across retail, travel and credit cards and continue to collect with hundreds of popular retailers on the British Airways Avios eStore.
Avios commercial director Chris Treadwell said: "This move is good news for members.
"Outwardly there will be very little change for them other than their Avios will have a new home.
"However, they will also enjoy all the advantages that being a British Airways Executive Club Member offers including a smoother online experience, even more ways to collect and spend Avios, plus the tier benefits."
Members of both the Avios Travel Reward programme and the British Airways Executive Club will benefit from having all their Avios in one account, which they can easily manage online.
Sole members of the British Airways Executive Club are unaffected.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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