Buy Qatar Airways Avios with a 50% Bonus

Qatar Airways occasionally puts on promotions for buying points with its buy, gift, or transfer Avios feature.

While buying points speculatively might not be the best idea, promotions such as this can be useful for topping up your account for an upcoming redemption or strategically scoring premium cabins at a bargain compared to the cash price.

For a short time, Qatar Airways is selling Avios with a 50% bonus, which can be a great way to score a flight on the renowned Qsuites product at a steep discount.

Buy Qatar Airways Avios with a 50% Bonus

From now until 8:59pm GMT on May 11, 2023, Qatar Airways is offering a 50% bonus on purchased Avios.

This time, you’ll receive a bonus when purchasing any amount of Avios, and the same 50% bonus applies to any number of purchased points.

Normally, Qatar Airways sells points with a base price that ranges from 2.8–3.7 US cents per point (cpp), depending on how many Avios you buy. As is the case with purchased British Airways Avios, the price lowers as you buy more points, but flattens out after around 25,000 points.

If you were to take advantage of this promotion, you’re reducing the acquisition cost from 3.7 to 2.47 cents per point on the high end, and from 2.8 to 1.87 cents per point on the low end.

Naturally, you’ll squeeze the most value out of the promotion by buying points at the lowest price, which results in an effective 33% discount on purchasing Avios.

It’s worth noting that you need to have at least 1,000 Avios in your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account before you’re eligible for any of the buy, gift, or transfer points features on offer.

We value Qatar Airways Avios at 1.5 cents per point (USD). Therefore, the cost of acquisition through this promotion at the lowest rate is above our target valuation; however, there are still situations in which purchasing Avios can make sense.

Looking back at previous offers, a 50% bonus is as it has ever been, so if you’ve been holding out, now would be as good a time as any time to capitalize on this promotion.

It’s worth noting that you can also transfer Avios from British Airways to Qatar Airways at a 1:1 ratio. British Airways tends to put on more transfer bonus promotions than Qatar Airways, but if you’re a really big fan of the Oneworld alliance, you can take advantage of promotions from both programs to circumvent annual caps on purchased Avios.

As with all loyalty…