Until February 1, 2024, you can buy Avios from the Qatar Airways Privilege Club program with a bonus of up to 40%.

The promotion works in levels. The more points you buy, the higher the bonus points percentage.

Here are the points purchase levels and associated bonuses:

So if you buy 32,000 Avios, you get a total of 44,800 Avios. The cost is 736 USD, or 1.64 US cents per mile (or 2.2 Canadian cents per mile).

Buying Avios could help you in case you run out of Avios to book an airline award, if you’ve exhausted all other options for obtaining Avios via credit cards.

Don’t forget, you can combine your Qatar Airways Privilege Club and British Airways Executive Club Avios by linking your accounts.

Since the purchase of Avios miles is billed in US dollars, we recommend using a credit card with no FX fees for foreign currency transactions. Here are three of them:

Before buying Avios miles, you should look at other options available to you in Canada:

• American Express Membership Rewards
• RBC Avion Rewards
• Marriott Bonvoy

All these programs are transfer partners with British Airways Executive Club or Qatar Airways Privilege Club. So you can easily transfer your points into Avios.

Here are the best credit card offers from these different programs:

And you can even get them directly with the RBC British Airways Visa Infinite Card!

Is it worth buying Avios? As with any purchase of points and miles, this will depend on your objective, and it’s important to remember that you can use them with both Qatar Airways and British Airways.

For example, if you want to experience the Qsuite, the cost of buying the missing Avios could be much cheaper than the cash price of the Qsuite. Discover our Qsuite reviews on board the A350 and the B777-300ER.

You’ll need to decide based on the reward flights you plan to book soon.

However, we have recently observed a low availability of low-rate premiums, suggesting that there may be a silent devaluation of the program.

Find out everything you need to know about the Qatar Airways Privilege Club program in this article. Now that you can combine your British Airways Executive Club Avios miles, check out the ultimate guide to this program. Not to be overlooked are the sweetspots of the program:

• With American Airlines in North America
• With Aer Lingus between North America and Dublin
• With Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong
• With Japan Airlines to travel in Japan
• With Qantas in Australia or New Zealand
• With Qatar Airways – read our ultimate guide to Qatar Airways Privilege Club