355 days in advance is BA's booking window, but this isn't an Avios rule. Seven airlines now use Avios (being BA, Qatar, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Finnair, Loganair, and Vueling), but each opens bookings on its own schedule, with a few opening earlier than BA's window. This isn't a trick for getting BA seats early. BA opens at 355 days, and that's that. It's that Qatar, Finnair and Iberia start selling their own seats before BA's window even opens. Here's what you need to know. The

If you have any Avios, which I think the vast majority of you do, you're probably going to want to read this. Qatar Airways has rolled out a new up to 25% off monthly discount scheme on Avios redemptions. This is different to our usual coverage which is usually around Qatar sales to do with purchasing Avios. The first round of deals has already gone live, so here is everything you need to know about this Qatar Airways Avios sale before this booking window closes. What exactly

If you missed it last week, Qatar Airways is currently throwing the kitchen sink at you, with up to 24,000 bonus Avios on flights to Australia, buy Avios sales, and now Qatar Airways are offering you up to 10% off your fare and double Avios on top. I wonder why... Who it's for Two groups of people qualify for this deal, and neither can have an active Qatar booking. They are: Privilege Club members with no collecting or spending activity in the last 24 months Privilege Club me

If Australia has been sitting on your travel list, Qatar Airways has just given you up to 24,000 reasons to move it up. If you book a flight between Doha and Australia during the promo window below, you'll get up to 24,000 bonus Avios on top of whatever you'd normally earn. It's a short booking window, so worth acting on quickly if the numbers work for you, but you have quite a while before you have to have completed your flight. So if this is the winter (or summer in Austral

Yesterday, the Foreign Office decided to lift their travel warnings for much of the Middle East with the agreement of a memorandum of understanding towards lasting peace between the US and Iran. This effectively reopens travel to, or via, the region for many of you who heed the Foreign Office warnings for "all but essential travel". This change in advice also re-validates your travel insurance policy, as a standard restriction within a travel insurance policy is that if the F

After rightly updating their policies to crack down on fraud within Avios, Qatar Airways have snuck in a new change that could render Avios flights on Qatar virtually unobtainable if you want to book for friends and family. Thank you Marcus (@m.aspell) for tipping us off to this one on Instagram. What changes did Qatar make? First, let's briefly recap the initial batch of changes that were prompted by a wave of Avios thefts (you can read Helena's full write up here), whereby

Two quick ones for you here! Hilton and Qatar Airways are giving away 1,000 Avios if you complete a Hilton stay between 1 June and 31 August 2026. Register, stay, wait for the points to turn up. It pays out once, on your first qualifying stay in that window. Not per night, not per stay. What you need Two memberships: Hilton Honors and Qatar Airways Privilege Club. If you've only got the Hilton side, you can make a Privilege Club account here for free. Then three things have t

Qatar Airways has launched two (and a half) offers at once, and they stack. Up to 20% off flights from Europe (and yes, that does include the UK), and up to 10,000 bonus Avios, with both offers running until 17 June. And they're continuing to offer 2,000 bonus Avios for your first Qatar Airways booking, so that's stacking bonus Avios, on top of bonus Avios, on top of a discount, and you'll still get all the Avios you'd usually earn from flying too. Kept up with that? The Qsui

Qatar Airways and Finnair have both launched buy Avios sales, each with a top bonus of 50%, with Qatar's running until 25 May, and Finnair's running until 1 June, but the 50% rate only lasts until 22 May. So its a 50% bonus in both cases, but the price per Avios isn't the same. Here's how each offer works. Qatar Airways buy Avios offer Promotion period: 18 May to 25 May 2026 (23:59 Doha time) Where to buy: qatarairways.com Eligibility: Privilege Club members with at least 1 A

How many Avios do you actually need for a flight? It depends. British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Finnair, Qatar Airways and Loganair all use the Avios, but they charge wildly different amounts for the same route. Comparing them properly has, until now, meant clicking through different award charts and hoping you've worked it out correctly. So we built a tool that does it for you. The Avios Calculator: All Six Airlines, One Search compares how many Avios you need, across eve