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 a bonus
Through Thursday, October 31, 2024, Qatar Airways is offering a bonus when you convert select bank points to Privilege Club Avios. While the standard offer is for a 25% bonus, you can receive 10,000 bonus Avios for every 100,000 Avios converted from partners in a single transaction.
In other words, 100,000 points with a partner could convert into 135,000 Avios with Qatar Airways Privilege Club, for a maximum of a 35% bonus, in the right increments. This accounts for the 25% bonus, plus the 10,000 bonus Avios.
Participating transfer partners include the following:
ALL – Accor Live Limitless (Global), Ahlibank (Qatar), Bank of Maldives (Maldives), Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand), BSF Jana (Saudi Arabia), Cathay United Bank (Taiwan), Chinabank (Philippines), CIMB (Malaysia), Citibank (Australia, Hong Kong, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United States of America), CTBC Bank (Taiwan), Doha Bank (Qatar), Dukhan Bank (Qatar), Emirates Islamic (United Arab Emirates), EVERY Rewards (Malaysia), heymax.ai (Australia, Singapore), HSBC (Mexico, Singapore, Sri Lanka, US, Vietnam), Hyundai Card (South Korea), Kasikornbank (Thailand), Kuwait Finance House (Kuwait), Mashreq Vantage (United Arab Emirates), mokafaa (Saudi Arabia), National Bank of Kuwait (Kuwait), Ooredoo (Qatar), pay.com.au (Australia), Ping An E-Wallet (China), QIIB (Qatar), QNB (Qatar), Ramp (United States of America), Shangri-La Circle (Global), Truss (United States of America), UnionBank (Philippines), UOB Thailand (Thailand)
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 November 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, Finnair Plus, and Iberia Plus.
This means that you could use this offer to indirectly convert Citi ThankYou points into British Airways Avios with a 25-35% 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 25% bonus when you transfer Citi ThankYou points. Furthermore, you can get 10,000 additional bonus Avios when you convert 100,000 points with this offer, and you can take advantage of that multiple times. A 25-35% 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?
Want to provide my DP
Created Qatar air account. Wanted to have 160k Avios so I transferred 120k from Citi and transfer was instant! Also, got credited with 30k points points + 10k added bonus all at same time!
It is suspicious to me how many bonus offers going on with Avios and partners. I smell devaluation.
they've already devalued like crazy this year so it's not surprising.
But recently Qatar added some BS redemption fees bringing it in line with British Airways BS fees.
@Ben - HSBC (US) is listed as one of the eligible banks on the promotion T&Cs. Which HSBC card issued in the US earns transferable points?
I'm not in the US but based on their offering in Australia I searched their US site, and the HSBC Premier Card does (it requires an HSBC checking account to open). The rewards program site currently features transfer bonuses to IAG Avios accounts and Flying Blue, so I assume they also offer transfers to Qatar.