Qatar Air Privilege Club Restricts Redemption Nominees

[Hunter4vr]

Bit of a PSA that deserves a post. These changes will impact people that do not credit any of their flights to Qatar.

Qatar PC has implemented changes which from what I can see have come into effect yesterday, under these changes you will only be able to redeem Avios via Qatar Airways Privilege Club for:

• people on a Family & Friends list (up to six people) - these people cannot be PC members and cannot be on any other F&F list
• people on ‘My List’, a separate list of up to four Privilege Club members

They are also restricting adding people to either the F&F or My List to accounts that are:

1. Older than 30 days.
2. Have credited a flight to Qatar or have converted points from a co-branded Qatar Airways card (none in Australia).

 

[tassie6]

Painful, luckily not planning any bookings soon.

Looks like need to credit upcoming Virgin flight to Qatar for both my and my partner to open us up to be eligible, then the kids can be added via Family & Friends

At least partner airlines do count for the qualification:

3.2.2 the Main Member must have completed at least one qualifying activity, being either:

(a) a flown flight accrual with Qatar Airways or any partner airline; or

(b) at least one eligible co-branded credit card accrual transaction.

Along with the account being 30 days old requirement

 

[markis10]

Must be dealing with significant fraud issues!

 

[levelnine]

Must be dealing with significant fraud issues!

Points brokers, mostly.