Finally: Qatar Airways Drops Harsh Rules On Redeeming Avios For Others

Finally: Qatar Airways Drops Harsh Rules On Redeeming Avios For Others

Qatar Airways has quietly reversed its extreme Privilege Club restrictions on redeeming Avios for others, dropping the co-brand card and flight-crediting requirements.

Qatar Airways backtracks (again) on harsh changes to Avios redemption rules (still not a free-for-all)

Qatar Airways has quietly updated the rules surrounding the use of Privilege Club Avios and it looks like the harsh restrictions we saw imposed earlier this year have been removed. It's still not a free-for-all (as I'll show), but this will be good news for a lot of Avios collectors.

Qatar Airways Reverses Strict Avios Booking Restrictions

Qatar Airways has reversed some of the most restrictive changes it introduced to its Privilege Club loyalty program a few months ago. These changes provide significant flexibility for members who want to redeem Avios to book flights for others. Here’s...

Qatar Airways removes restrictions that limited ability to redeem Avios for other people

Update 9/15/26: A few months ago, Qatar Airways imposed stringent requirements for the ability to redeem Avios for other people. They subsequently lessened the impact for those who have Gold or Platinum status in Qatar’s own loyalty program, but that carveout was of little use for most members. It seems like they must’ve received a lot of pushback from other Privilege Club members for how customer-unfriendly their policy was and, thankfully, the…

Qatar Airways Has a Change of Heart on Avios Redemptions for Others

Qatar Airways undid one of their latest imposition on customers of a rule that required customers to be activated on the airline before they could redeem their miles for tickets.