Qatar Airways Privilege Club has just launched a lucrative transfer promotion, for points transfers from select bank partners. This has the potential to be quite a good deal, and it can also be an opportunity to earn other “flavors” of Avios at an advantageous rate.
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Transfer Citi points to Privilege Club with 30% bonus
Through Friday, May 31, 2024, Qatar Airways is offering a 30% bonus when you convert select bank points to Privilege Club Avios.
Participating transfer partners include the following:
Ahli United Bank (Bahrain, Kuwait), Ahlibank (Qatar), Bank of Maldives (Maldives), Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand), Banque Saudi Fransi (Saudi Arabia), Chinabank (Philippines), CIMB (Malaysia), Citibank (Australia, Hong Kong, India, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United States of America) , Commercial Bank (Qatar), CTBC Bank (Taiwan), Doha Bank (Qatar), Dukhan Bank (Qatar), Emirates Islamic (United Arab Emirates), HSBC Hong Kong, HSBC Singapore, HSBC Sri Lanka, Hyundai Card (South Korea), Kasikorn Bank (Thailand), Kuwait Finance House (Kuwait), Mashreq (United Arab Emirates), National Bank of Kuwait (Kuwait), Qatar International Islamic Bank (Qatar), QNB (Qatar), Ping An E-Wallet (China)
Of the partners, Citi ThankYou is the only major program in the United States that’s eligible for this offer. This bonus is being offered on Qatar Airways’ end, meaning you won’t see the bonus reflected directly with partners. Bonus Avios will post to eligible Privilege Club accounts by June 15, 2024, though hopefully earlier than that.
Is this transfer bonus offer worth it?
I’d argue that the Qatar Airways Privilege Club program is pretty lucrative nowadays. For one, keep in mind that Qatar Airways uses Avios as its rewards currency, so it’s possible to transfer Avios at a 1:1 ratio between the various programs that earn Avios. That includes Aer Lingus AerClub, British Airways Executive Club, and Iberia Plus.
This means that you could use this offer to indirectly convert Citi ThankYou points into British Airways Avios with a 30% bonus as well. That’s something that will no doubt interest some, but just keep in mind that the bonus won’t post instantly.
However, there’s also huge value directly with the Qatar Airways Privilege Club program. Privilege Club has decent award pricing on Qatar Airways flights, and also has access to more business class award availability than partner programs. Privilege Club also has several unique airline partners, ranging from JetBlue, to RwandAir, to Virgin Australia, opening up valuable redemption opportunities.
Bottom line
Qatar Airways Privilege Club is offering a 30% bonus when you transfer Citi ThankYou points. A 30% bonus is pretty significant, so this is an opportunity to get a good deal converting your Citi ThankYou points into Avios with Qatar Airways, British Airways, etc.
Do you plan on taking advantage of this Privilege Club transfer bonus?
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Bonus is instantly posting! Major improvement from past transfer periods from Amex or Citi and bonuses posting 1+ month later.
Just did a transfer from Citi. Transfer and bonus from Qatar posted instantly
if you have the citi Rewards + card, you get an extra 10% points back. So if you transfer 10,000 citi points to Qatar Avios, you are only spending 9,000 for 13,000 points, which is equivalent to a 44% bonus! Enough for me to do a speculative transfer given it's not hard to keep these points alive.
Dang!! give me a heart attack. I just finished transferring a bunch of points over from AMEX... which isn't part of the deal.
Phew...