We’re currently seeing two bonuses when moving rewards from transferable points currencies to Qatar Airways Privilege Club. One has been around for roughly a week, while one is brand new, so let’s go over the details. This is also an opportunity to earn other “flavors” of Avios at an advantageous rate.
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Transfer Citi points to Privilege Club with a bonus
Between February 16 and March 15, 2025, the Citi ThankYou program in the United States is offering a 20% bonus on points transfers to Qatar Airways Privilege Club.
Ordinarily points transfer at a 1:1 ratio (in 1,000 point increments), while through this promotion you’d get 1,200 Avios for every 1,000 Citi ThankYou points transferred.
Transfer Amex points to Privilege Club with a bonus
Between February 24 and March 31, 2025, the Amex Membership Rewards program in the United States is offering a 20% bonus on points transfers to Qatar Airways Privilege Club.
Ordinarily points transfer at a 1:1 ratio (in 1,000 point increments), while through this promotion you’d get 1,200 Avios for every 1,000 Amex Membership Rewards points transferred.
Are these transfer bonuses 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, Finnair Plus, and Iberia Plus.
This means that you could use this offer to indirectly convert Amex Membership Rewards or Citi ThankYou points into British Airways Avios with a 20% bonus as well. That’s something that will no doubt interest some.
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
At the moment, we’re seeing two transfer bonuses to Qatar Airways Privilege Club. Through March 15, 2025, Citi ThankYou is offering a 20% bonus, while through March 31, 2025, Amex Membership Rewards is offering a 20% bonus. A 20% bonus is pretty significant, so this is an opportunity to get a good deal converting your points into Avios with Qatar Airways, British Airways, etc.
Do you plan on taking advantage of this Privilege Club transfer bonus?
Qatar Devaluation ahead.
Where'd you get that from? They've done plenty of bonuses, even higher ones at 30% without deval's.
Privilege Club has quietly added Airlink in South Africa as an earn/burn partner in recent weeks (no announcement about it but redemptions are available). I'm gonna see if earnings work on my Airlink flight next week, but they have an earnings table up now on the website so I presume its official.
Earnings work (flew JNB-CPT on Friday).